For Struggling Black College, Hopes of a Revival
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Wiley College is suddenly feeling the glow of celebrity with the release of a film about the schoolâs debating team.
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A football teacher chasing his dream, Robert Talley tried time and again to overcome one of the starkest racial inequities in American sports.
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The largest school board in Canada plans to launch a black-focused school to tackle the problem of high dropout rates.
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Apart from a few marquee matchups, college basketball has yet to command prime attention during the first two months of the season, and for schools in lesser leagues, the best opportunity to make a national impression is winding down.
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HAMPTON, Feb. 10 -- Beneath an oak tree on the campus of what is now Hampton University, historians say, Virginia blacks heard a reading of the Emancipation Proclamation and began to dream of a better life.
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On the campus of Amity University, pretty much everything is a work in progress.
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Bobby Cremins is hoping for an NCAA tournament bid to finish off his first season as coach at College of Charleston.
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Three years ago, Tyrone Willingham was heralded as a champion for all black football coaches after being given the responsibility of returning the Notre Dame football program to among the nationâs elite.
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As students return to the campus, a debate continues over how schools should handle students in distress
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Wanting to maintain a role as engines of social mobility, about two dozen elite schools have pushed in the past few years to diversify economically.
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Besides bringing a new method of operation to the men's basketball team at Columbia, Coach Joe Jones has also sought to energize the students, faculty and alumni.
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Fisk University, a historically black school on the brink financially, is sitting on a lottery ticket it can't cash: a remarkable collection of 19th- and 20th-century art donated by the painter Georgia O'Keeffe.
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Alumni heading for homecoming weekend at two of the Big Ten&#39;s marquee programs might recoil Saturday at what&#39;s waiting for them.
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All around the country, the quaint notion of a student athlete has been stored in a hope chest amid a foolÂs-gold pursuit of big-time football.
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A young person's life prospects improve dramatically by getting a college education, but the country's schools have room for only one in six applicants
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Newly-ranked Boston College may not be ready for prime time after all. And for Duke, surprisingly unranked for the first time in 10 years, it appears to be business as usual.
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The turning point for a struggling Brandeis University men's basketball program was not a victory on the court. It was a phone call.