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Congress returns to work this month facing a litany of major education issues affecting African Americans and other students of color.
Latinx
March planned to support affirmative action: Latino law students and professors confront threat of limited access
Albequerque, N.M. A gathering here last month of organizations representing Latino law students agreed to form a national organization to support a pro-affirmative action march, scheduled for January in San Francisco, being organized by legal educators.
Latinx
Higher education expresses concerns with multiple-choice census
Now that the debate is over about whether the U.S. Census should add a multiracial category to its data collecting and the decision has been made to allow respondents to choose as many racial and ethnic classifications as they feel apply to them, the time has come to figure out how this new and confusing information will be tabulated.
Students
Senate clears student aid, HBCU funding bill – historically Black colleges and universities
Six weeks into fiscal year 1998, Congress has finally completed action on legislation that will boost funding for historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs), TRIO, and many student-aid programs through next year.
Latinx
Can a rift be avoided? Historically Black and Hispanic-serving institutions are all vying for the same federal funds – includes related article on the US Dept. of Education’s proposed changes in the Title III – Cover Story
Historically Blak and Hispanic-Serving Institutions Are All Vying for the Same Federal Funds.
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Black/Brown coalition fights back – University of Texas minority students
Austin In a recent speech at the University of Texas, the Rev. Jesse Jackson counseled a spirited crowd of several thousand chanting students to “turn a minus into a plus” as they thought about how to respond to the comments of UT law professor Lino Graglia who said blacks and Hispanics come from cultures where “failure is not considered a disaster.”
Faculty & Staff
Shattering the Silences: The Case for Minority Faculty. – movie reviews
I am associated with [the] Chicano Studies [department], where many people on this campus assume that we do second-rate scholarship and third-rate research, and that most of us are-fourth-rate teachers…. It is a continuous process of having to prove myself, including to students.” – Dr. Alex M. Saragoza, University of California Berkeley.
Latinx
Who speaks for you? – representatives of colored people in government’s higher education policy
The White House Initiative on Educational Excellence for Hispanic Americans has a new director, but who is speaking for other underrepresented groups?
Students
Robbing Peter to pay Paul – reauthorizing the higher education act
Reauthorizing the higher education act amid the new political reality means some programs may lose so that others might gain.
Leadership & Policy
You say tomato, I say tomate – bilingual controversy at City University of New York’s Eugenio Maria de Hostos Community College in Bronx, NY
BRONX, NY A controversy that erupted this spring over bilingual education at Eugenio Maria de Hostos Community College, which is part of the City University of New York (CUNY), has languished in the courts and turned into a war of words in the media.
Students
House Approves Funding For Minority-Serving Colleges, Pell Grant Over Veto Threat
Defying a veto threat from President Bush, the House of Representatives on Wednesday approved a bill to cut subsidies to student loan providers and use the proceeds to reduce interest rates and provide more money for Pell Grants and minority-serving colleges.
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Education Department, Congress Has Sights Trained
For low-income students, paying for college is hard enough without having to repeat courses.
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