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April 21, 2004

Grants & Awards

Brown University (R.I.) received a $5.5 million gift from Brown alumnus and trustee emeritus Charles M. Royce to fund six professorships designed to honor Brown faculty for excellence in teaching. The Royce Family Professorships in Teaching Excellence will be awarded for terms of three years each.Edward Waters College (Fla.) is the recipient of $500,000 from […]

April 21, 2004

Events

EventsAPRILApril 25-27Symposium for the Recruitment and Retention of Students of Color7th Annual Symposium“Connecting the Circle: Recruitment, Retention and Graduation”Embassy Suites KCI HotelKansas City, Mo. Contact: Robert N. Page Jr.Phone: (785) 864-4351Web: www.ku.edu/~oma/symposiumApril 29-May 2National Multicultural Institute Annual National Conference“Diversity and Coalition Building in Times of Crisis: At Home and Abroad”Hyatt Regency BethesdaBethesda, Md.Web: www.nmci.orgMAYMay 4NACME […]

April 21, 2004

Youth Should Get Cyber Ethics at Home, Survey Says

Youth Should Get Cyber Ethics at Home, Survey SaysWASHINGTONIt’s the parents’ primary responsibility to teach kids respect for copyrighted works, according to a new survey on Internet downloading ethics commissioned by the Business Software Alliance (BSA).The survey reveals that 4 out of 5 (78 percent) respondents say parents bear the most responsibility in teaching the […]

April 21, 2004

Students Use Internet To Help With Laundry

Students Use Internet To Help With Laundry PITTSBURGHThrough May 15, Carnegie Mellon University is piloting eSuds, a Web-based laundry system, in three residence halls. If all goes well with the pilot, the system will be installed campuswide this August, just in time for the 2004-05 school year. eSuds, which was developed by USA Technologies Inc., […]

April 21, 2004

When it Pays to Pay for Research

When it Pays to Pay for ResearchThere comes a time when one asks even of Yahoo, even of Google, “Is this all?” Yahoo and Google do an admirable job of categorizing the Internet and making its contents more accessible. But ultimately they’re search tools, not research tools. There’s a great deal of information not on […]

April 21, 2004

Study: College Men, Women Share Similar Habits

Study: College Men, Women Share Similar HabitsIn Technology Use, OwnershipROCHESTER, N.Y.In contrast to the perspective that women lag behind men in adopting computer technology, a national survey has revealed that college women share more similarities with college men over information technology ownership and use than ever. The annual 360 Youth College Explorer study that polled […]

April 21, 2004

Reading the Notes for Hip-Hop, Popular Culture

Reading the Notes for Hip-Hop, Popular CultureCheck It While I Wreck It: Black Womanhood, Hip-Hop Culture, and the Public SphereBy Dr. Gwendolyn D. PoughNortheastern University Press, June 2004, 256 pages, $50.00 cloth, ISBN 1555536085; $20.00 paper, ISBN 1555536077 In this book, Dr. Gwendolyn D. Pough explores the complex relationship between Black women, hip-hop and feminism. […]

April 21, 2004

Judge Rules Against Petition Drive Aimed at Ending Affirmative Action

Judge Rules Against Petition Drive Aimed at Ending Affirmative ActionLANSING, Mich.A state board should not have approved a petition circulated by a group trying to end affirmative action at Michigan public universities and other public agencies, a judge ruled. The decision, handed down in late March by Ingham County Circuit Court Judge Paula Manderfield, could […]

April 21, 2004

Making Some Noise: The Academy’s Hip-Hop Generation

Making Some Noise: The Academy’s Hip-Hop GenerationScholarship on the genre moves beyond a project of legitimization into a more self-critical, challenging realmA hip-hop archive at Harvard University? Classes at Berkeley, Stanford, Michigan, Yale and MIT? Panel discussions on Jay-Z and Nas sandwiched between Milton and the Harlem Renaissance at the Modern Language Association conference?The congressmen’s […]

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