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Johnetta B. Cole, the celebrated former president of Spelman College, a historically black women's institution in Atlanta, Ga., will be this year's recipient of the Radcliffe Medal...
Considering the competition-historically black colleges like Morehouse and Spelman, which topped the list-the University did relatively well. Indeed, Harvard could never hope to top this list; the magazine considered criteria such as the percen of black students in each graduating class, in which historically black colleges have an advantage a University committed to creating a diverse campus could never pursue...
...Spelman College in Atlanta was ranked first. Counter said he is pleased that Harvard was ranked among historically black colleges such as Spelman...
...mother, a divorced truck driver, was herself a good student before dropping out of all-black Spelman College. She took to "opening the window" with gusto. When teaching her kids the difference between hot and cold, for instance, she made learning fun by steaming up the sink with hot water, rather than waiting to scold a child for venturing too near a hot stove. "It's all in the presentation," she says with a twinkle...
There seems to be some hint that Ennis was anxious to get his undergraduate degree out of the way. Says Julia Bond, the daughter of civil rights leader Julian Bond and a friend of Ennis' at nearby Spelman College: "I think more than anything Ennis was trying to get the basic part done, so his parents wouldn't have too much to say." He made them proud, making the dean's list on graduation from Morehouse. He headed for graduate school in New York City to become a teacher of children with learning disabilities. Says Jasper: "This was not something...