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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Dynasties like Notre Dame have to reinvent themselves at some point or disappear.
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The group of mostly small colleges that comprise the N.C.A.A.âs Division III has long been viewed as a model of the amateur ideal. But rampant growth has created divisions over money and the mission of athletics in higher education.
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Actor and writer Kwame Kwei-Armah says a focus on race is not always the best way to tackle underachievement by black pupils in schools.
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A PBS documentary seeks to enlarge our understanding of the four black freshmen whose actions led to a civil rights watershed in 1960.
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An American institution is in danger of fading away.
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The much delayed Dileep-starrer, gives us the competition, games, sports, rivalry and romance associated with a sports college.
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BRYN MAWR, Pa. -- Class reunion! We straggle onto the lush campus of Gothic buildings and giant old trees. It's been 45 years since we graduated from this small women's college with its emphasis on academic success, the Quaker tradition of public service and the oft-repeated quote from the founding...
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Gizelle Clemens' first day at Trinity College was a busy one. There were ice-breakers, and introductions to other minority students, upperclass mentors and administrators. Then came a bus tour of Hartford's ethnic neighborhoods, pointing out places students can go for a braided haircut or Latino music or a Jamaican dinner.
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TALLAHASSEE, Fla. -- A revival of sorts took place here at Doak Campbell Stadium on Saturday. The Florida State Seminoles, infected the past few years by a bad case of fall from grace, rose up against the
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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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When it comes to paying for college, cash-strapped families have had a few good tidings of late. A string of elite, private colleges have announced major boosts in financial aid.
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An education conference in London is again debating the issue of underachievement by black pupils - and encouraging them to aim higher.
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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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By Simon Usborne  In 2005, when Nicholas Negroponte of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology announced his vision, experts queued up to say it couldn't be done, and that the professor's plan was little more than a well-intentioned dream.
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Randolph-Macon Womanâs College in Lynchburg, Va., is exploring the possibility of sharing its most valuable asset: a world-class collection of American art.
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The days in his postgrad year at the Hun School in Princeton, N.J., were running short and Nate Fritsch was pondering his basketball future.