Black IssuesHomeGM Backs U Mich. Minority AdmissionsGM Backs U Mich. Minority AdmissionsGeneral Motors Corp. is publicly supporting the University of Michigan’s minority admissions programs, the subject of two federal class-action lawsuits. Eliminating affirmative action would deprive businesses of well-trained minority candidates and reduce campus diversity, GM officials said in a friend-of-the-court brief filed last month in U.S. District Court. Two 1997 […]August 16, 2000StudentsJournalism Professor Sues Florida A&M In Tenure DisputeJournalism Professor Sues Florida A&M In Tenure DisputeTALLAHASSEE, Fla. A White female journalism professor at Florida A&M University has sued the school in a tenure dispute, claiming “Black men are favored” in promotion to top faculty jobs. Gloria Horning’s civil rights suit alleges she was hired on a tenure track in 1993 and was not […]August 16, 2000African-AmericanBlack America Status Report Finds Good and Bad NewsBlack America Status Report Finds Good and Bad NewsThe National Urban League’s annual overview on the state of Black America — a report that largely details the disparities among Blacks and Whites in this country — has some good and bad news.The bad news?One of the most troubling gaps doesn’t divide Black and White: It […]August 16, 2000StudentsWhere There is NoneWhere There is Nonettracting minority students into engineering programs is a challenge. A rural Midwestern school such as the University of Missouri-Rolla has double the difficulty, because it is a challenge to attract minority students, period. At least, that was the issue 10 years ago, when it occurred to university officials that there might be […]August 16, 2000StudentsNatural AlliesNatural AlliesBlack colleges and two-year schools try to come together to create a network of seamless education for minority students Several years ago, officials at San Francisco City College here began the African American Achievement Program, aimed at encouraging more of the school’s Black students to transfer to four-year schools.It started out pretty small. But […]August 16, 2000Community CollegesCommunity College Education…Community College Education…he telephone calls, letters and e-mail requests pour in from the four corners of the Earth — from countries where government coffers are flush with oil money, as well as from those that can barely afford to feed their populace. These days, the foreign dignitaries and education ministry bureaucrats that contact American community […]August 16, 2000Leadership & PolicyDiversity Deferred in AACC Presidential ChoiceDiversity Deferred in AACC Presidential ChoiceAfter a nine-month search for the person who will lead community colleges in the new millennium, the American Association of Community Colleges here announced last month that Dr. George R. Boggs had been tapped to fill the organization’s top spot. Boggs, 55, has been a leader in the two-year college […]August 16, 2000HomeDr. BestSellerDr. BestSellerUniversity of Iowa journalism professor and award-winning author Dr. Venise Berry is successfully balancing careers in popular and scholarly writing By Michele N-K Collison Dr. Venise T. Berry’s reading materials these days are books on African mythology, healing water, spirituality and energy and conservation issues. If this sounds like a strange summer reading list […]August 16, 2000Community CollegesHistorical Straight Talk About MathHistorical Straight Talk About MathContrary to some Eurocentric approaches to teaching mathematics, ethnomathematicians instruct their students about how people of all cultures have used math over the course of history. In his courses, Dr. Eduardo Arismendi-Pardi of California’s Orange Coast College, cites references to the Egyptians, Japanese, Chinese, Mayans, Africans, Latin Americans and Incas, all […]August 16, 2000Native AmericansCulturak References to MathCulturak References to MathDr. Jim Barta, a professor in the Elementary Education Department at Utah State University whose emphasis is ethnomathematics, especially as it relates to American Indians, cites the concept of infinity as one of his favorite examples of ethnomathematics. While he was conducting research among the Seminole Indians of Florida, he asked a […]August 16, 2000Previous PagePage 368 of 431Next Page
