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Q&A: As Public Policy Scholar, Bill Richardson Talks Politics

Former New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson speaks to Diverse about American politics in 2012 and his current role as a senior fellow at a Rice University public policy research institute.

Bill Richardson

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Possible Merger Among Options for Saint Paul’s College

Saint Paul’s College, a historically Black college in Lawrenceville, Va., is considering the possibility of merging with another institution as one of its options after the school’s accreditation wasn’t reaffirmed.

African-American

Survey: Nearly One in Four HBCUs Offer Full Online Degree Programs

Historically Black colleges and universities continue their modest pace of embracing online learning programs as a vehicle for reaching more potential students, especially so-called non-traditional students, those who are usually older and working, according to the 2012 HBCU Online & Blended Degree Programs study from Howard University.

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Reaching for the Stars

Dr. Mae Jemison, the first woman astronaut of color, seeks minority inclusion in space and in the classroom.

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Pioneering Black Studies Scholar Roy Bryce-Laporte Dies

Dr. Roy Bryce-Laporte, a sociologist who directed one of the first Black studies departments at an American university, died late last month in Sykesville, Md.

Dr. Roy Bryce-Laporte

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NASA Research Partnership Benefiting HBCU Students

NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center has partnered with Tuskegee University and Alabama A&M University on a three-year collaborative research project, which includes internships for HBCU students at the space flight center.

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Faculty & Staff

Tennessee State University Faculty Leader Arrested

A vocal faculty member at Tennessee State University who has opposed university leadership was taken away from a meeting in handcuffs on Monday and removed as the chair of the faculty senate.

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APLU’s Lorenzo Esters to Join Kentucky State University

At the Association for Public and Land-grant Universities, Dr. Lorenzo L. Esters applied ‘vigor and excitement” to the task of broadening higher education access and opportunities for minority and other underrepresented students.

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St. Augustine’s Change Goes Beyond Its Name

Academic changes at St. Augustine’s College prompt a rebranding.

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Activist Attorney Calls for ‘Militant’ Action Against Injustices in Public Education

Young students are best suited to wage the battle for public education—and against the expansion of charter schools—and large-scale integration of the nation’s public schools should be a paramount goal in the fight.

Schools Producing Latino STEM Graduates Highlighted in Report

Institutions that produce the most Latino graduates in the STEM fields were singled out for recognition Thursday in a report hailed as a guide for other colleges and universities that are looking to achieve similar results.

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Commentary: The Black Church – Not a Monolith

It is quite parochial and wrongheaded to purport that the Black church, as if a monolith, is responsible for a diminution of progressive social action by African-Americans, contends Illya Davis, a lecturer of philosophy and religion at Clark Atlanta University.

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