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The Department of Defense (DoD) announces the Fiscal Year 2008 competition for the Infrastructure Support Program for Historically Black Colleges and Institutions. Goals of the program include (a) enhancing programs and capabilities at these institutions in scientific and engineering disciplines critical to the national security functions of DoD and (b) increasing the number of graduates, including underrepresented minorities, in the fields of science, mathematics and/or engineering. Awards made under the Broad Agency Announcement (BAA) will be limited to HBCU/MI having an accredited, degree granting program in science, engineering, or mathematics. The BAA contains additional eligibility information, along with instructions for proposal preparation and submission. The BAA will only be available via the internet. The BAA will be available for downloading and viewing at http://www.arl.army.mil/www/default.cfm?Action=6&Page=8 on or about 05 November 2007.
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Black College campuses once served as training camps for many Negro League teams and a number of Negro League players attended those institutions. The grant supports the museum's plans to re-introduce the Negro Leagues to many of the same campuses that players once attended while introducing the story to a new generation. The exhibition will be made available at no cost for schools interested in serving as a host site.
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Only one historically black institution, North Carolina A&T, participated in the program's first year. But "infrastructure issues" nearly forced it to bail out, says Thurman N. Guy, special assistant to North Carolina A&T State's vice chancellor of information technology and telecommunications. "We had some success with eArmyU, but participation was awfully demanding on our resources."
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This book enters the current debate about the usefulness of historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs). Additionally, this book provides a historical overview and profiles major HBCUs,...reviews race relations on both predominatly Black and prodominantly White campues, and analyzes data gathered by the authors of 15 southeastern Black and White campuses.....This last section of the book should be of particular use to acedemic advisors. Acedemic advisiors at predominantly White institutions may gain insight into the feelings of Black advisiors that can inprove advising stratigies.NACADA Journal
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The complex of historically black colleges in Atlanta today forms the largest center for the higher education of blacks in the world. For many years, these institutions, their work, and the black elite that they launched offered a stark contrast to the everyday life of many black Americans.
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The primary purpose of HBCUs was to educate black Americans, which they did almost exclusively from 1865 to the 1950s. The overwhelming majority of HBCUs opened after 1865 in response to the need to have institutions to educate newly freed slaves and to avoid admitting those newly freed slaves into the existing white institutions.
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