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Course Watch: Expanding Offerings in Less Commonly Taught Languages

This semester, the University of Pittsburgh is offering a course in Xhosa, the second most widely spoken language in South Africa, through its linguistics and African studies departments.

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REVISITING A CLASSIC

Things Fall Apar t is being brought back to center stage after 50 years for its role in shaping modern African literature.

University of California Makes Room for Record 60,000 Freshmen

The University of California has accepted a record 60,008 California residents as freshmen for the coming fall despite worries that cuts in state funding could lead to overcrowded campuses and tuition increases, officials said Monday.

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Philadelphia Mayor Takes Part in Community College Black Male Summit

Numerous organizations intent on reversing alarming disparities in high school and college drop out and incarceration rates among Black males gathered in Philadelphia this week for a Call to Action Summit, sponsored by the Presidents’ Round Table of African-American CEOs, a group of Black community college presidents.

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Blacks in Higher Education Meet

“I really feel good” was Dr. Roland Smith’s reaction to a question about the recently held meeting of the American Association of Blacks in Higher Education.

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Thousands Flock to Memphis to Reflect on King’s Legacy

After their four-hour meeting concluded on the afternoon of April 4, 1968, Jesse Epps extended a dinner invitation to the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., who had arrived in Memphis with other civil rights leaders to rally on behalf of the city’s striking Black sanitation workers.

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Perspectives: Black Churches Are Unfairly Under Attack

From where I sit Black churches are under attack. Cable news shows have over zealously played the sound bites of a few of Rev. Jeremiah Wright’s sermons to a point where I believe it damages the positive role that Black churches play in the community.

North Dakota State Probes Bawdy Campus Skit

North Dakota State University is investigating complaints about a campus skit in which a White student in blackface portrayed Barack Obama receiving a lap dance.

Leadership & Policy

Letters

INCLUSION IS JUST PART OF THE STORY “Perspectives: Tradition of Inclusion Left Out of William & Mary President’s Story,” Feb. 26, 2008 Inclusion is indeed part of [President Gene] Nichol’s story, but it is a minor issue in the chaos that Nichol created at W&M. And diversity of intellectual thought was not on his agenda. […]

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Telling Her Story

The roles of women then and now make appealing subjects.

NASPA Session Tackles Hazing Problem Among Black Greeks

Black Greek fraternity members feel hazing solidifies their loyalty to their organization and builds “character and discipline,” according to study results presented to a packed session at the 90th annual NASPA, Student Affairs Administrators in Higher Education conference.

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2 South African Students Involved in Racist Video Apologize

Two students behind an alleged racist video in which five Black university workers appear to be duped into eating food tainted with urine have apologized and said they acted without malice.

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