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The web site is also the creator of The Forever Fund, the first scholarship reward program for 8 year olds and their parents.
Oakland, CA (BlackNews.com 11/20/06 ) - ForeverHBCU.com is offering students, parents, alumni, counselors and the business community an attractive, one-stop resource in selecting and understanding the vast array of historically and predominantly black colleges and Universities and their program offerings.
Visitors will be given access to a comprehensive data base of pictures addresses, calendars, organizations and school information for all historically and predominantly black colleges, including scholarships, jobs and internships. ForeverHBCU.com has partnered with Career Builder to provide employment opportunities and resume postings.
The goal is to create an accessible tool to get more people aware and enrolled at black schools.
The administration of ForeverHBCU.com will also award college scholarships through the Forever Fund, a new concept and methodology in scholarship awards and eligibility requirements. The Forever Fund scholarship program is uniquely designed to prepare, reward and give incentives to elementary school aged children who otherwise would not consider preparing for college.
The Forever Fund scholarship is a results-based opportunity specially designed to cultivate expectations for the child and their parent or guardian relative to higher education, personal goals and social awareness throughout the child’s primary and secondary school years. During these years, the scholarship award is managed by TIAA Cref until the child attends college.
On the lighter side, ForeverHBCU.com highlights black associations, fraternities and sororities, offers trivia games and a book club. The HBCU mall offers specially selected items, including NCAA, NFL and NBA athletic apparel.
Highlights from Previous Issues . . .
KALAMAZOO, Mich., April 20 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Teaching Assistants at Western Michigan University voted overwhelmingly today for union representation, giving themselves the right to negotiate health insurance, salary, tuition waivers, and other conditions of employment with the university administration. The vote, 290 in favor, 14 against, certifies the Teaching Assistants Union (TAU) as a collective bargaining agent affiliated with AFT Michigan, AFL-CIO. Eligible to vote were approximately 700 graduate students who work teaching, grading, and tutoring on the university's Kalamazoo campus. The election was conducted yesterday and today by the Michigan Employment Relations Commission (MERC).
Teaching Assistants teach many of the introductory courses and lab sections at the university while they simultaneously pursue graduate degrees. Many supported unionization because of the poor health insurance provided by the university. "Women's health care issues have been completely ignored," said Rebecca Hayes who teaches Criminal Justice at the University. Other cited salaries and tuition waivers. Overall, however, the central issue for these workers was recognition: "My department values who I am, but we need a union to have a voice within the larger university community," said Jason Trowbridge a TA in mathematics and a member of the union's organizing committee.
Like the graduate employee unions at the University of Michigan, Michigan State University, and Wayne State University, TAU is affiliated with AFT Michigan, AFT, AFL-CIO. Graduate employees have also formed unions at the University of Wisconsin -- Madison, the University of Oregon, Oregon State University, all University of California campuses, and the University of Kansas. Currently, graduate employees at New York University, affiliated with the United Auto Workers, are on strike to protest NYU's refusal to recognize their union.
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AFT Michigan is a union of 35,000-members working in K-12 and
intermediate school districts, community colleges, universities,
and local government. The 94 locals extend as far south as Monroe
and north to Whitefish Township in the Upper Peninsula.
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5-11-03. The Reverend Jesse and his Rainbow/PUSH organization is organizing a protest rally next week in Montgomery at the state Capitol to protest the University of Alabama’s decision to hire Mike Shula. Mike Shula, a former quarterback for the University of Alabama Crimson Tide will be its new head football coach. Shula, 37, is the youngest son of NFL coaching legend Don Shula. Two other candidates for the job were former Alabama football players Sylvester Croom and Richard Williamson. Extensive background searches were conducted on the final candidates.
According to Jesse Jackson, “they chose culture and legacy over excellence, and it’s insulting.” Sylvester Croom, Green Bay Packers assistant who is African-American, was an All-American at the University of Alabama and dedicated ten years as an assistant with the Crimson Tide. Shula has worked the last fifteen years as an NFL assistant for the Miami Dolphins and Tampa Bay Buccaneers; however, he has no experience as a head coach or on a college staff.
Reportedly, Jackson was led to believe minority candidates were being considered for the position. Jackson, likening the university’s decision to Governor George C. Wallace’s attempt to block enrollment in 1963, believes this bias pervades the mindsets in Alabama and that the state has not progressed far from its segregationist history. “It’s not just in football coaches, it’s in bank lending, mortgage lending, the criminal-justice system.”
Coach Mike Price, a first-year coach, was fired after recent revelations of behavior at a Pensacola, Florida strip club. He spent hundreds of dollars at a topless bar, including $1,000 in food from room service.
5-9-03. In honor of their decades of service to the University of Alaska, three professors were honored with the Emil Usibellio Distinguished Teaching, Research, and Public Service Awards and checks for $10,000.
A geology professor, received the teaching award. He received his Ph.D from Stanford in 1980 and research interests include the genesis and characterization of all ore deposit types. He recently has published work about intrusion-hosted gold deposits. For the last ten years, he has worked with the Alaska Geological Survey creating geologic maps. Most of his students are supported by mining/exploration companies that provide thesis-oriented summer employment and follow-up analytical support.
A professor and researcher, received the research award. He received his Ph.D in glaciology and ice physics from the California Institute of Technology in 1983. His current research interests include theoretical and field studies of glacier and ice sheet dynamics, glacier-volcano interaction, and geophysical methods to glaciology and geodynamics.
A music professor, received the public service award. She teaches violin/viola and chamber music and has a Doctor of Musical Arts degree from Yale University School of Music. While attending the Julliard School, she earned her Bachelor and Master of Music degrees. Her concert credits include performances in Carnegie and Merkin Recital Halls in New York. She received the UAF College of Liberal Arts "Excellence in Teaching Award for 1999" and "1999 String Teacher of the Year" by the Alaska String Teachers Association.
5-6-03. Facing rising state deficits and budget cuts, representatives and presidents of the nation's historically black public colleges and universities are in Detroit this week to determine a course of action to meet these new challenges. The Thurgood Marshall Scholarship Fund,'s (TMSF) fourth annual "Presidents' Summit & Leadership Conference," in Detroit will also focus on strategies to build technology capacities for its 45 member institutions.
The summit, building on this year's theme, "TMSF: Advancing Excellence in Public HBCUs," includes representatives from TMSF's 45 member schools as well as a host of business, community and academic experts. It was created to focus on strategic leadership techniques that will strengthen TMSF's member public HBCUs, while enhancing their opportunities for future collaborations and strategic partnerships with corporations, organizations and other member schools. The Presidents' Summit is chaired by John Garland, Esq., president, Central State University (a TMSF member school). It is co-chaired by Dennis Dowdell, president, Landyap Square, LLC and Floyd Washington, Jr., director of civic affairs and community Development, Ford Motor Company Fund. "The Summit serves as a opportunity for participants to collectively identify solutions that will notably impact each school's competitive ability and leadership ability and enhance performance." said Dwayne Ashley, president of the Thurgood Marshall Scholarship Fund, Inc. "With the current economic climate we also felt it is critical to deal with the financial issues facing the nation's historically black public colleges."
Presidents, administrators and other participants will attend workshops on strategic topics such as Leadership Skills, Fundraising Techniques, Capacity Building and Networking. TMSF will also present its first "Presidents' Summit College Fair," to provide undergraduate college students with the opportunity to speak with recruiters from TMSF member public HBCUs. Representatives from 38 TMSF schools such as Alabama A&M University, Alabama State University, Alcorn State University, Delaware State University, Grambling State University and Tuskegee University will provide students with information about application procedures for graduate and professional programs, degree programs and financial aid. More than 300 Detroit-area students are expected to attend the College Fair and Presidents' Summit events.
"Ford Motor Company is a long-time supporter of TMSF because its mission is closely aligned with the importance our company places on higher education and ensuring that the pool of available talent graduating from public HBCUs continues to be strong," said Floyd Washington, Jr., director of civic affairs and community development, Ford Motor Company Fund. "TMSF's schools are an important source for talent acquisition for companies like Ford."
"Lanyap Squared values the unique role that TMSF serves in providing educational opportunities to future leaders and in providing much-needed capacity building support to public HBCUs, which have the critically important task of preparing young people for leadership," said Dennis Dowdell, president, Lanyap Squared, LLC. "We believe our support is an investment in the future."
Sponsors of the Presidents' Summit include the Ford Motor Company, General Motors, Miller Brewing Company, Schieffelin & Somerset Company, the UAW and the U.S. Army ROTC and several other corporate partners.
TMSF and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation also announced that during the Presidents' Summit, (May 6-7), they would hold the first Technical Assistance Meeting since announcing their high school redesign partnership in January. The two organizations will develop and implement a unique, five-year program to redesign five low-performing high schools and to create three new high schools in economically distressed communities. In January, TMSF also announced that it is the recipient of a $4.9 million grant from the Gates Foundation, which was will be used to develop and implement the project.
The new and transformed schools will follow a successful small schools model and will have populations of no more than 600 students. The meeting will bring together TMSF, representatives from TMSF member schools and officials from the Gates Foundation to conduct initial planning of the small schools formation strategy.
The Thurgood Marshall Scholarship Fund Inc., named for the late U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice, is the only national organization of its type that provides merit-based scholarships and programmatic support to students attending the nation's public Historically Black Colleges and Universities. It also provides capacity building support to its 45 member schools, which educate 215,000 students annually. Since its inception in 1987, the Fund has awarded more than $20 million in scholarships and programmatic support to more than 4,400 students. TMSF also provides internship programs and joins corporate and foundation partners in providing leadership training and support to students preparing for undergraduate and professional schools.
5-9-03. California State University, San Bernardino (CSUSB) is seeking applicants for advanced technology from government laboratories and government-sponsored technology programs. Engineers, scientists or technologists from the Department of Defense seeking work with business and industry are urged to solicit work. The deadline is May 15. The program offers specially tailored research, development, marketing and business services to channel technologies from the laboratory to the marketplace. Supported by a $2.9 million, two-year appropriation and funded by the Department of Defense, this public-private collaborative partnership includes California State University, San Bernardino, the San Diego State University Foundation, and the Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center in San Diego. For more information, visit the Web site at http://icat.csusb.edu.
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