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Asian American Leaders Criticize State Rights Commission Task Force

Asian American students and community leaders are criticizing a state Human Rights Commission task force report on Washington State Story:

Asian American Pacific Islander

University of Michigan Vision Study Says Asians, Whites See World Differently

Asians and North Americans really do see the world differently, according to researchers at the University of Michigan. Story:

Leadership & Policy

Stepping Forward

As Butler University President Bobby Fong was reviewing applications a few years ago for a national fellows program that grooms future leaders of higher education Story:

Asian American Pacific Islander

Black Journalists Association Concerned About Impact

Black Journalists Association Concerned About Impact Of Downsizing on Newsroom DiversityWASHINGTON The National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ) is troubled over the impact on newsroom diversity as the news media industry continues its steady pace of layoffs, buyouts and downsizing. At least five Black journalists were among more than 60 newsroom staffers recently let go […]

Documenting the Diaspora

Documenting the DiasporaHistorian couple investigate Central Africa’s place in world history, rooting Black studies in an international contextBy Ronald RoachTraveling to the Vatican to study documents once belonging to a 17th-century central African diplomat may seem an unlikely project for professors in an African American studies program. But for Drs. John Thornton and Linda Heywood, […]

Leadership & Policy

Minority Test Takers Make Significant Gains on SAT

Minority Test Takers Make Significant Gains on SATBut achievement gap between White, minority students persists By Cassie ChewWASHINGTONAmong the record 1.4 million college-bound students in the class of 2004 who took the SAT, another record number of these SAT takers, 37 percent, were minority students, the College Board said in its annual report of SAT […]

SAJA Works to Raise Profile of South Asia, Journalism Profession

SAJA Works to Raise Profile of South Asia, Journalism ProfessionAfter several years of informal networking sessions and cocktail hours, the Asian American Journalists Association (AAJA) and the South Asian Journalists Association (SAJA) are coming together for the first time at next month’s UNITY conference to co-host a panel on media coverage of civil liberties after […]

Asian American Pacific Islander

U.S. Newsrooms Still a Long Way From Racial Parity

U.S. Newsrooms Still a Long Way From Racial ParityIn some instances small increases can signal big gains — a one or two-point increase on the ACT, a mere quarter-point increase in interest rates. Yet, in the instance of newsroom diversity, a half a percentage point boost offers little to celebrate. “It’s pitiful that we continue […]

The Best-Kept Secret: Crime on Campus

The Best-Kept Secret: Crime on CampusIn Indiana, a Ball State University student’s lifeless, bullet-riddled body is discovered at dawn, wedged between the seats of his car. A 19-year-old Iowa student is stabbed to death in plain sight in a campus-dining hall at the Maharishi University. A Fort Hays college freshman is savagely beaten just off […]

Asian American Pacific Islander

Texas A&M to Leave Race Out of Admissions Decisions

Texas A&M to Leave Race Out of Admissions Decisions University says it will step up minority recruiting, offer scholarships While many colleges nationwide are scrambling to use affirmative action in admissions, Texas A&M University has announced it won’t give race any special consideration. Instead, A&M officials are confident that efforts such as stepped-up minority recruiting […]

Faculty & Staff

Harvard’s New Chapter in Black Studies

Harvard’s New Chapter in Black StudiesA neglected African studies program finally gets a departmental home By Ronald RoachFrom afar, it seemed that Afro-American studies at Harvard had taken a nasty tumble when two of its best-known scholars announced their resignations in early 2002, and its venerable chairman, Dr. Henry Louis Gates Jr., let it be […]

Asian American Pacific Islander

Diversity Intersects With National Security

Diversity Intersects With National SecurityThe UNCF’s Institute for International Public Policy plans to engage ‘unusual suspects’ in a discussion on the global importance of a diverse work force By Cassie ChewAfter nine years of sending African American, Hispanic, Asian American and American Indian undergraduate students around the globe to study the socio-economic and political structure […]

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