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Why We Need Diverse Books

Many fine examples of general-interest, academic, literary books from the university and small presses are overlooked when it comes time to hand out accolades. Most are never reviewed, which contributes to their invisibility. Writing about them can be a lonely enterprise. It helps if you have eclectic reading habits, a taste for the esoteric and […]

Faculty & Staff

Scholar Says Research Universities Not Serious About Faculty Diversity

To Dr. M. Cookie Newsom, director for diversity education and assessment at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, there’s no delicate way of describing the lack of commitment she believes many top research universities demonstrate as they allegedly seek to diversify their faculties.

M. Cookie Newsom

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Thurgood Marshall’s Legacy Takes Center Stage in Washington

Drawing upon an extraordinary legal career and an affiliation with Howard University, the one-man play “Thurgood”, starring actor Laurence Fishburne, has opened in the nation’s capital where much of the heroic life of the late Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall unfolded.

Solicitor General Elena Kagan

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Taking Diversity to the Next Level

With expanded management and planning responsibilities, high-ranking chief diversity officers are heading their institutions’ comprehensive approach to inclusiveness.

Shirley J. Wilcher is the executive director of the American Association for Affirmative Action.

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Charges from Racially Charged Mass. Campus Fight To Be Dropped Against Black Man

For more than two years, supporters of former University of Massachusetts student Jason Vassell have urged prosecutors to drop charges against him that stemmed from a racially charged fight and sparked protests, demonstrations and accusations of bias.

Becoming a Force for Diversity and Inclusion

Rosemary E. Kilkenny is Georgetown University’s vice president for institutional diversity and equity, a position that was created for her in 2006, and she has become the university’s most visible cheerleader for diversity and inclusion.

Rosemary Kilkenny

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Purdue Report Notes University’s Lack of Diversity

Purdue University needs to become more affordable and create additional programs to retain students to improve its campus diversity, the school’s vice provost for diversity and inclusion says in a report.

Christine Taylor

Faculty & Staff

Minority College Presidents Share Their Stories

Along with the former president of California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, Drs. Sidney Ribeau of Howard University and Tomas Morales of the College of Staten Island, CUNY, shared insights Thursday with National Conference of Race and Ethnicity in Higher Education attendees about how they positioned themselves to become college presidents.

Faculty & Staff

Symposium: Education Leaders Recommend Priorities for HBCUs

In the view of the Obama administration’s top education official, historically Black colleges and universities face two looming challenges as they look to define themselves in the 21st century – preparing students to be the next cadre of minority teachers and improving their retention and graduation rates.

U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan spoke Thursday at the North Carolina Central University Centennial HBCU Symposium in Durham, N.C. (photo by Robert E. Lawson)

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Public Policy Takes Center Stage at Race and Ethnicity Conference

Organizers of the 2010 National Conference on Race and Ethnicity in Higher Education used proximity to Washington, D.C. to invite the heads of leading education advocacy organizations and to schedule policy presentations for conference attendees.

University of Maryland System Chancellor William Kirwan

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Lost Ark or African Treasure? Relic Stirs Passions

Tudor Parfitt has spent years chasing a theory that a lost tribe of Jews wound up in Southern Africa. But his latest leap has landed him in a minefield.

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Experts Explore Black-White Divide in Youth Employment

The Urban Institute hosted a policy discussion Tuesday that examined the racial discrepancies in the time that it takes recent high school graduates and dropouts to connect to work or postsecondary learning opportunities.

Dr. William Spriggs

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