Black IssuesFaculty & StaffLabor of LoveLabor of LoveLaw professors’ study provides new weapons in fighting job discriminationBy Ben HammerRuth and Alfred “Al” Blumrosen have worked for almost 50 years to improve labor conditions in this country and around the world. And despite recently buying a beach house in Naples, Fla., the couple, law professors at Rutgers University in Newark, N.J., […]June 4, 2003StudentsSan Jose Students Want Statue Honoring Olympic SaluteSan Jose Students Want Statue Honoring Olympic SaluteSAN JOSE, Calif. Thirty-five years after sprinters Tommie Smith and John Carlos bowed their heads and raised their fists on the Olympic podium in a Black power salute, students at their alma mater want to honor their controversial gesture with a statue. The image of two athletes raising […]June 4, 2003HomeBennett Alumnae Raise $1 Million to Shrink School’s DeficitBennett Alumnae Raise $1 Million to Shrink School’s DeficitGREENSBORO, N.C.Graduates of Bennett College broke records by raising $1 million to help their alma mater out of a deficit that could threaten its accreditation. The $1,027,533 gift is the largest ever from Bennett’s National Alumnae Association to the school, one of the nation’s only two colleges […]June 4, 2003HomeMore Colleges Will Require Writing Tests of Future FreshmenMore Colleges Will Require Writing Tests of Future FreshmenSTATE COLLEGE, Pa.A growing number of colleges will require future applicants to take a standardized writing test, even though some admissions officials question the value of such tests. Penn State University, which receives 50,000 undergraduate applications each year, announced last month that it would require students applying […]June 4, 2003HomeHampton’s Pharmacy School Receives $2 Million to Study EcstasyHampton’s Pharmacy School Receives $2 Million to Study EcstasyHAMPTON, Va.The Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences in the Hampton University School of Pharmacy recently received a $2.1 million award from the National Institute on Drug Abuse at National Institutes of Health to study the causes of the symptoms associated with the drug MDMA (Ecstasy). MDMA is a […]June 4, 2003African-AmericanHarvard’s Gates to be Visiting Scholar at Princeton Think TankHarvard’s Gates to be Visiting Scholar at Princeton Think Tank TRENTON, N.J.The chairman of Harvard University’s Department of Afro-American Studies is joining a think tank in Princeton for one year as a visiting scholar. Dr. Henry Louis Gates Jr. ended a widely watched academic tug-of-war in December, announcing he would remain as head of Harvard’s […]June 4, 2003Leadership & PolicyBethune-Cookman College To Cut 90 JobsBethune-Cookman College To Cut 90 JobsDAYTONA BEACH, Fla.Bethune-Cookman College announced plans to eliminate 90 positions last month, reducing its work force by 14 percent. The board of trustees ordered the move so the small, historically Black school could “bring itself in line with peer institutions,” it said. The board hired a human resource consulting firm […]June 4, 2003HomeFormer United Negro College Fund President Dies at 75Former United Negro College Fund President Dies at 75 NEW ROCHELLE, N.Y. Christopher Fairfield Edley, who served as president emeritus of the United Negro College Fund, died of a heart attack at his home last month. He was 75. Born in Charleston, W.Va., Edley graduated magna cum laude from Howard University in 1949, then became […]June 4, 2003HomeFormer United Negro College Fund President Dies at 75undefined © Copyright 2005 by DiverseEducation.comJune 4, 2003HomeMartin Luther King Memorial Foundation Unveils Ad CampaignMartin Luther King Memorial Foundation Unveils Ad CampaignWASHINGTONImagine what America would be like if Martin Luther King Jr. never had a dream. That is what a new public service advertising (PSA) campaign asks with a series of provocative radio, print and television advertisements unveiled last month at the U.S. Capitol in Washington. The advertising campaign […]June 4, 2003Previous PagePage 146 of 431Next Page
