Johnson C. Smith University

Claude Saunders Dies

HBCU Sports Blog (Free subscription) | 06/02/2008

Claude Saunders, Johnson C. Smith University's first all-CIAA basketball player and a CIAA Hall of Fame member has died. He was 74.

Shaw Captures Fourth Consecutive CIAA Men's Tennis Championship

HBCU Sports Blog (Free subscription) | 04/24/2008

Courtesy: TheCIAA.com In the final day of singles competition, all six of Shaw University's number one seeds emerged as their respective singles competition champions. Shaw served for a sum of 63 team points to claim their fourth consecutive championship crown....

Finally, Ayn Rand Required Reading At College

Get Rich Slick (Free subscription) | 04/13/2008

If I could change one thing in the high school educational system it would be to require Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged to be required reading for any graduating senior. Fortunately, at least one college is now going to make it required reading, April 11 (Bloomberg) — Ayn Rand’s novels of headstrong [...]

Reading Is Fundamentalist

A Spork in the Drawer (Free subscription) | 04/12/2008

Randroids: The charitable arm of BB&T Corp., a banking company, pledged $1 million to the University of North Carolina Charlotte in 2005 and obtained an agreement that [Ayn] Rand's novel ``Atlas Shrugged'' would become required reading for students. Marshall University...

Who is John Galt?

The Conscience of a Liberal (Free subscription) | 04/12/2008

And why is a book about him being assigned in university courses? Because businesses are paying schools to teach the wisdom of Ayn Rand. Ayn Rand’s novels of headstrong entrepreneurs’ battles against convention enjoy a devoted following in business circles. While academia has failed to embrace Rand, calling her philosophy simplistic, schools have agreed to teach her [...]

Wealthy pimp Rand to college students through eager universities

Mercury Rising 鳯女 (Free subscription) | 04/12/2008

There is hardly any act more intrinsically corrupt than a college professor accepting cash to teach the writings of someone. And yet that seems to have happened, as universities have lined up to pimp right-wing novelist Ayn Rand to unsuspecting college kids. Matthew Keenan, Bloomberg: The charitable arm of BB&T Corp., a banking company, pledged [...]

Johnson C. Smith Wins CIAA Softball Western Division

HBCU Sports Blog (Free subscription) | 04/11/2008

Courtesy: Johnson C. Smith Sports Information The Johnson C. Smith University softball team said thank you and good-bye to two student-athletes, playing their last game at Biddleville Park. JCSU hosted the Lady Broncos of Fayetteville State University in a high-stakes...

I would like to thank my parents, Ayn Rand and Jesus.

Crooked Timber (Free subscription) | 04/11/2008

I am responsible for the Ayn Rand/charity beat at Crooked Timber and here’s another story on the subject. This really doesn’t look like it’s going to end up well. A large charitable foundation attached to a bank has given the University of North Carolina Charlotte, among others a donation in return for making [...]

CEO’s Gift to College Has String Attached

Never Yet Melted (Free subscription) | 03/27/2008

Charlotte Observer (3/23): As a college student in Chapel Hill, John Allison stumbled across a collection of essays by Ayn Rand and was hooked by her philosophy of self-interest and limited government. As he rose over the decades to chief executive of BB&T, one of the country’s leading regional banks, Rand remained his muse. He’s trying to [...]

Clinton, Obama invited to debate in Charlotte

NewsObserver.com - Politics (Free subscription) | 03/26/2008

The presidents of six Charlotte-area colleges and universities have invited Sens. Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama to debate at the Blumenthal Center.

Donor's Gift Requires Required Readings

The Kept-Up Academic Librarian (Free subscription) | 03/25/2008

John Allison, chief executive of BB&T, one of the country's leading regional banks, has since 1999 awarded more than $28 million to 27 colleges to support the study of capitalism from a moral perspective. But on at least 17 of...

Gifts with strings a knotty issue

NewsObserver.com - Local & State (Free subscription) | 03/23/2008

Ayn Rand reading requirement compromises independence, UNCC faculty say.

Historically black colleges struggle with funding cuts

Houston Chronicle (Free subscription) | 03/16/2008

Financially strapped historically black colleges across the country are at a crossroads.

J.C. Smith women lose to Wingate

CIAA in the Queen City (Free subscription) | 03/15/2008

From Observer News Services Wingate University sophomore forward/center Erica Crumlin (Irmo, S.C.) missed a triple-double by one block as the Bulldogs defeated Johnson C. Smith University 61-50 in the first round of the NCAA Division II South Atlantic Regional tournament Friday afternoon. The NCAA contest was held in the Smith University Center on the campus of Francis Marion University. With the victory,...

Black colleges are struggling, educators tell Congress

STLtoday.com (Free subscription) | 03/14/2008

— Financially strapped historically black colleges across the country are at a crossroads. Cutbacks in federal and state spending and competition from mainstream institutions for the best students, educators and academic programs have taken a toll on schools that were created to educate African-American students after slavery, presidents from some of the nation's top historically black colleges said...

• Historically black colleges are struggling, educators tell Congress - kansascity.com
• HBCU Presidents Ask Congress For Help - Stereohyped