cmaadmin (EDU)Hi this is my profile and bio information.Faculty & StaffFormer Prisoner Advocates for Social JusticeDwayne Betts, imprisoned for more than eight years, has turned his life around and become an author, teacher, poet and advocate for social issues.January 25, 2016News RoundupMizzou professor who blocked media at protest charged with assaultA misdemeanor simple assault charge was filed Monday against a University of Missouri assistant professor who received nationwide attention when she called for “some muscle” to help her remove a student journalist from a protest site on campus in November. The office of Columbia, Mo., prosecutor Steve Richey said that Melissa Click, who works in Missouri’s communication department, faces […]January 25, 2016StudentsDo White College Students Believe Stereotypes About Minorities?Asian American students are “cold but competent.” Latinos and blacks “need to work harder to move up.” At least, that’s how their white peers at the country’s elite colleges and universities see them, according to a new study by Baylor University researchers. The study uses data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Freshmen, a survey […]January 25, 2016StudentsFederal Program Helps Nebraska Students Stay in SchoolBy Associated Press COLUMBUS, Neb. — A federal program at Central Community College in Columbus is helping low-income, first-generation or disabled students remain in school. The Columbus Telegram reports that TRIO is an organization through the U.S. Department of Education with programs designed to identify and help those from disadvantaged backgrounds achieve their educational and […]January 25, 2016StudentsInmates study alongside Durham University undergraduates in unique criminology course“When it comes to learning, nothing can compare to real-life experience – as a group of prisoners has proved in a ground-breaking new university course. Inmates at high-security Frankland Prison in County Durham have been studying alongside undergraduates from Durham University in a unique criminology programme. And it is the prisoners who are coming top […]January 25, 2016StudentsBlack Academicians Share Advice on How to be Successful in the AcademyReaching the Mountaintop of the Academy, a new book edited by three prominent education scholars, provides readers with narratives, advice and useful strategies from Black academicians holding distinguished professorships across the nation.January 24, 2016DisabiltiesThe Infusion of Political KnowledgeThe awkwardness displayed in these recent presidential debates has attracted the youth and opened a dialogue so that relevant information may be infused.January 24, 2016StudentsDefending Test-optional Policies in Colleges and UniversitiesBoth the ACT and SAT serve as a barrier to college access for low-income, first-generation and minority students.January 24, 2016Students‘Gifted’ Black Kids Not as Likely to Get Placed in Talented ProgramsHigh-achieving, Black, elementary school students are much less likely than their White peers to receive assignments to gifted and talented programs in math and reading, according to a new study.January 24, 2016StudentsMy Sister’s Keeper Helps HBCU Women Find Their VoicesWhen you hear the words reproductive justice, combined with college campus, you might think it is a move to make affordable birth control and abortion services available. But at Howard University in Washington, D.C., and Spelman College in Atlanta, thanks to the Black Women’s Health Imperative’s My Sister’s Keeper, it means so much more. Linda […]January 24, 2016Previous PagePage 788 of 3224Next Page
