cmaadmin (EDU)Hi this is my profile and bio information.News RoundupAdvocates Say School Gun Clubs Teach Discipline, Not ViolenceDAHLONEGA, Ga. – Their classmates took to the streets to protest gun violence and to implore adults to restrict guns, seeming to forecast a generational shift in attitudes toward the Second Amendment. But at high school and college gun ranges around the country, these teens and young adults gather to practice shooting and talk about […]April 8, 2018African-AmericanDirect Engagement With Trump, GOP Pays Off for HBCUsThe Thurgood Marshall College Fund’s decision not to resist – but instead engage in a strategic way and bipartisan fashion on behalf of our nearly 300,000 HBCU students who need a voice in Congress and with the Trump administration – has borne fruit at many levels.April 8, 2018StudentsHoward University Students End Sit-In ProtestWASHINGTON — The occupation of a university administration building in Washington, D.C. by students making demands to school officials has ended. News outlets report Howard University students and officials announced Friday afternoon a deal ending the protest that began March 29. Parts of the agreement include students will be involved in reviewing the adequacy of […]April 8, 2018News RoundupShaw University Hosts Memorial Service, Luncheon for President EmeritusShaw University will host a memorial service and luncheon April 14 to celebrate Dr. Talbert O. Shaw, the university’s 12th president. Shaw, who later became president emeritus and died in January, is credited with leading the university through difficult financial times and restoring its reputation. He became president in 1987, when the university’s finances were […]April 8, 2018News RoundupCultural Diversity Highlights 2018 List of Guggenheim FellowsThe John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation announced Thursday its 2018 recipients of annual Guggenheim Fellowships, with a total of 173 being awarded in the United States and Canada across the fields of science, scholarship, writing and the arts. Among recipients is Dr. Carol C. Anderson, an African-American historian and Charles Howard Candler Professor and Chair […]April 5, 2018StudentsHoward Faculty ‘No Confidence’ Voting Ends FridayDuring a three-day balloting period that began Wednesday and ends Friday, Howard University’s full-time faculty will decide whether or not embattled university President Dr. Wayne A.I. Frederick and other top leaders at the school get a “no confidence’ vote. This comes in the midst of a student takeover of the administration building that is entering […]April 5, 2018News RoundupTurkey: 4 Staff Members Killed in Attack at UniversityANKARA, Turkey — A research assistant shot and killed four staff members at a university in central Turkey, the university’s president said Thursday. Prof. Hasan Gonen of Osmangazi University, in the city of Eskisehir, some 250 kilometers west of Ankara, told reporters that the gunman shot and killed a deputy dean, a secretary and two […]April 5, 2018Latest NewsProfessor’s Research Rejects Stereotypes of Black Women AthletesDr. Tomika Ferguson recalls the words that were the genesis of her ongoing research on women of color in college athletics. As an elite student-athlete, she was once described as a “workhorse” with “natural athletic ability.”April 5, 2018News RoundupUniversity Police Shoot Student Wielding Metal PipeCHICAGO — Officials say a University of Chicago police officer responding to a call about a burglary shot and seriously wounded a student who was wielding a metal pipe. The Chicago Tribune reports that university officials said in an email that three university officers responded just before 10:15 p.m. Tuesday in the city’s Hyde Park […]April 5, 2018News RoundupIllinois Governor Donates ‘Godfather’ Papers to DartmouthSPRINGFIELD, Ill. — Illinois Gov. Bruce Rauner has donated his collection of “The Godfather” author Mario Puzo’s papers to his alma mater, Dartmouth College. The New Hampshire school says in a news release it was “an offer they couldn’t refuse,” echoing one of the movie’s famous lines. The 50 boxes of papers donated by Rauner […]April 5, 2018Previous PagePage 367 of 3225Next Page
