Associated PressHomeUniversity of Missouri-Columbia Launches Effort to Recruit Male TeachersAfter nearly a decade as an elementary school teacher, Steven Cook is a natural…October 31, 2005HomeScholars Debate Theory That Blacks Equate Academic Success With ‘Acting White’Blacks value education and good grades just as much as Whites, a Harvard University professor said last week, challenging the idea that an achievement gap between the races is caused by…October 31, 2005Faculty & StaffUniversity of North Carolina Opens Up Records About Ties to SlaveryIn the early decades of the nation’s oldest public university, students at the University of North Carolina had servants that kindled fires in their rooms and cut wood to fuel their stoves…October 30, 2005HomeUniversity of Michigan’s Black Student Enrollment at Pre-Supreme Court Ruling LevelsMinority enrollment at the University of Michigan, which dropped after the U.S. Supreme Court invalidated its undergraduate admissions policy as unconstitutionally favoring minorities, is bouncing back…October 30, 2005HomeUMass Study: Ranks Delaware First, Louisiana Last for Work EnvironmentDelaware ranked first and Louisiana last in a University of Massachusetts study that tried to measure where workers are treated best, based on factors including…October 27, 2005HomeJohn Hope Franklin Writes Memoir of a LifeThese days, Dr. John Hope Franklin spends more time in the greenhouse with his collection of 300 orchids behind his home than in library stacks…October 27, 2005StudentsStudent Looks to Open Latino Fraternity at Iowa State UniversityIs there enough interest at Iowa State University to support a multicultural fraternity aimed at Latino students? That’s the question facing Juan Guardia, a graduate student…October 26, 2005SportsAir Force Coach Under Fire for Comments on Minority PlayersAir Force coach Fisher DeBerry, expressing frustration Tuesday with the Falcons’ slumping performance, attributed the latest loss in part to No. 20 TCU’s having more Black players who “can run very, very well.”…October 26, 2005Faculty & StaffFormer N.C. State Instructor Says “Exterminate White People”North Carolina State University has distanced itself from comments made by an adjunct instructor who recently said Blacks must “exterminate White people off the face of the planet.”October 25, 2005StudentsUniversity of Arizona Gay Fraternity to Gain Official StatusDelta Lambda Phi has been around the University of Arizona campus since the early ’90s. But by the end of this year, it expects to gain official status…October 25, 2005Previous PagePage 550 of 569Next Page
