Associated PressSportsStudy: Schools in Top Bowl Games Have Disparate Graduation Rates For Black, White PlayersORLANDO, Fla. The disparity between graduation rates for White and Black college football players in this season’s five major bowls was nearly twice as large as those for less successful schools, according to a study released Monday.December 4, 2006StudentsAmerican Indians Get Apology from Dartmouth College HeadHANOVER The president of Dartmouth College has apologized for a string of incidents this fall that many American Indian students viewed as racist.November 29, 2006Leadership & PolicyFlorida State University Launches Seminole History Class In Effort To Keep MascotTALLAHASSEE Fla. Florida State University student Daniel Lee learned in fourth grade most of what he knew about the Seminole Indians, namesakes of his school’s athletic teams. It wasn’t much.November 28, 2006LatinxBuilding Named After Civil War Hero With Possible KKK Connections Draws ControversyMURFREESBORO, Tenn. After 205 members of the Middle Tennessee State University community signed a petition to change the name of the school’s Forrest Hall, the Student Government Association agreed.November 27, 2006StudentsGrowing Number of Colleges Offering Majors in Homeland SecurityATLANTA Next year, Justan Holloway’s class schedule will look like the plot of an action movie: The college student will study international terrorism, disaster planning, criminology, social psychology and Arabic.November 21, 2006LatinxLa Raza Program Seeks To Boost Hispanic College Student RetentionKANSAS CITY, Mo. Jafet Carrasco doesn’t know anyone who has been to college besides his teachers. He hears people talk about credit hours, but he’s not sure what they are. And he knows college costs money, but not how much.November 21, 2006StudentsUCLA to Review Taser Use on Minority StudentLOS ANGELES An attorney who was part of a review of excessive force complaints following the Rodney King beating will investigate a UCLA police officer’s use of a Taser on an Iranian-American student, the school said Friday.November 19, 2006StudentsIndiana-Purdue To Hire Diversity Officer In Response To Bias ClaimsINDIANAPOLIS Administrators plan to establish a new multicultural center and hire a full-time campus diversity officer at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis in response to a Black student group’s claims of bias.November 14, 2006HomeRace Disparities in Education, Income, and Home Ownership PersistWASHINGTON Decades after the civil rights movement, racial disparities in income, education and home ownership persist and, by some measurements, are growing.November 14, 2006StudentsBlack Students Issue New Deadline To Indiana-Purdue Over Inequity ClaimsINDIANAPOLIS Black students at Indiana University Purdue University at Indianapolis have issued a new deadline for the university administration to answer requests for a campus center for them, an African-American studies program and $78,000 to Black organizations.November 14, 2006Previous PagePage 499 of 569Next Page
