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N.J. Governor Chris Christie, Education Reformer Geoffrey Canada Announce Partnership

Geoffrey Canada’s Harlem Children’s Zone engages community partners to develop a holistic, or comprehensive, approach to K-12 education that emphasizes college graduation as the students’ long-term goal.

Geoffrey Canada

Faculty & Staff

Talented Young Black Scholars Find an Open Path to Ivy League

With the influx of a new generation of highly trained Black Ph.D.s, Ivy League institutions are aggressively courting these young scholars fresh out of graduate school.

Keisha-Khan Perry

Study Looks at School Discipline in Texas

Almost 60 percent of Texas public school students received punishments ranging from expulsion to in-school suspensions at least once between seventh and 12th grades, according to a new Texas A&M study.

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Official: Luther College Student Warned of Death on Frantic Call

Authorities have declined for months to release key details about the death of Luther College student Nana Kwasi Baffour-Awuah. But Winneshiek County Attorney Andy Van Der Maaten provided the most complete account yet of the investigation during an interview with The Associated Press.

Nana Kwasi Baffour-Awuah

African-American

State Colleges Seeking More Out-of-State, International Students Amid Fiscal Crunch

For state institutions, the monetary incentive of affluent students paying higher tuition could squeeze out low-income minorities.

Barmak Nassirian

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University of Oregon Program Puts Teens on Course

Sunday marked the first day of 2011’s Oregon Young Scholars Program, a weeklong residential program for “historically underrepresented” high-school-age students from a targeted group of schools in the Portland and Eugene areas.

Harvard Training College Teachers on Black History

Two dozen college teachers from around the country are participating this month in a Harvard program aimed at training professors to integrate more Black history into their classrooms and research projects.

Patricia Sullivan

Federal Judge Dismisses Texas Southern University Reverse Discrimination Lawsuit

A federal judge has tossed out a reverse discrimination suit against Texas Southern University by a White faculty member who was terminated for his questionable handling of scholarship funds.

Faculty & Staff

Ethnic Art Falling Out of Favor?

Transnational nature of contemporary art draws in history from around the world, thus requiring the academy to change its teaching strategy.

Dr. Patricia Hills

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Black Seaman’s 1861 Heroics Recalled in New Film

Among highlights in the documentary “Search for the Jefferson Davis: Trader, Slaver, Raider” is the story of William Tillman, a Black seaman whose heroics thwarted the sale of a schooner that had been captured by the Jefferson Davis, a Southern privateer that seized several Union ships during the Civil War.

William Tillman

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Puerto Rican Scholar Ricardo Alegria Dies at 90

Dr. Ricardo Alegria, a Puerto Rican scholar known for his pioneering studies of the island’s native Taino culture and who is credited with preserving the capital’s colonial district, died Thursday.

Dr. Ricardo Alegria

Faculty & Staff

First African-American Named to Lead Lexington Theological Seminary

The flagship seminary of the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) made history last week when trustees voted to name Dr. Charisse Gillett, the 17th president of the Lexington Theological Seminary.

Charisse Gilbert

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