Associated PressLatinxWoman’s Mission: Keep Hispanic Youths in SchoolMaria Gonzalez spends Friday evenings in a church basement, surrounded by 30 teens chattering in a mix of English and Spanish, because she has assigned herself a mission: to improve graduation rates and college attendance of Torrington and Winsted’s Hispanic youth.September 9, 2008HomeJustice Thomas Says Constitution Forbids Racial PreferenceSupreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas said Tuesday that African-Americans are better served by colorblind programs than affirmative action.September 9, 2008Community CollegesStudent GOP Leader Resigns Over Obama RemarkThe leader of a statewide group of college Republicans has been forced to resign after posting racially insensitive comments about Sen. Barack Obama on the Internet.September 9, 2008HomeShots Fired on Pa. University Campus; Nobody HurtOfficials at Indiana University of Pennsylvania say someone fired gunshots into the air on the school’s campus early Monday but no one was hurt.September 7, 2008HomeTSU Plans Layoffs to Offset Possible $6M DeficitTennessee State University officials say they may have to lay off employees, combine classes and drop students from school rolls, largely because of a weak economy and fewer out-of-state students.September 7, 2008HomeHarvard Officer on Leave Denies ProfilingA Harvard University police officer involved in an incident that sparked a review of possible racial profiling by campus police says she has done nothing wrong.September 7, 2008SportsNo Athletic Dept at Vandy, But Much SuccessAs president of Vanderbilt University and four other prominent schools before that, Gordon Gee perceived an unhappy trend: Student-athletes were drifting away from the core of university life. They lived, ate and studied in a jock bubble.September 7, 2008Native AmericansTribal College Expanding CampusUnited Tribes Technical College in Bismarck is officially marking the start of a campus expansion with a ceremony Friday at a 135-acre tract of land immediately south of the current campus.September 7, 2008HomeLawyer: Neb. May Have to Adjust to Preferences BanThe former dean of the University of Washington School of Law said Friday that Nebraska universities must be ready to adjust if voters approve a measure to ban most types of affirmative action in the state.September 7, 2008LatinxArkansas Project Highlights Migrant Labor HistoryArkansas State University is participating in a history research project on the “braceros” guest-worker program that brought Mexican laborers to the United States to address a labor shortage, beginning in World War II.September 2, 2008Previous PagePage 299 of 569Next Page
