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UCLA Pediatrician Assists in Continuing Relief Efforts in Japan

Because the earthquake, tsunami and subsequent fires consumed many hospitals, Dr. Kozue Shimabukuro and her peers labored in makeshift spaces to bring medical help to injured victims.

Kozue Shimabukuro

Leadership & Policy

Debate Over Relevance of HBCUs Opens 37th NAFEO Conference

The president of Morgan State University uses NAFEO luncheon discussion to announce the school has won a contract to help manage research at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, signaling how one historically Black university competes at the highest levels in science.

Report: Study of gay, transgender health needed

Scientists only recently learned how certain diseases affect women differently than men, and blacks differently than whites. Now a major new report says it’s time to study the unique health needs of gay and transgender people, too.

Federal Effort Seeks to Help Colleges, Schools Prevent Sexual Violence

A nation that prides itself on fighting the abuse of power has an obligation to prevent sexual violence in schools and on college campuses, Vice President Joe Biden said as he kicked off a nationwide awareness campaign on schools’ responsibilities and victims’ rights.

African-American

Manning Marable Remembered as Public Intellectual and Activist

At the time of his death, Marable held the M. Moran Weston and Black Alumni Council Professorship of African American Studies at Columbia University.

Manning Marable

Look Broadly for Funds, Fed Official Urges

Hispanic-serving institutions must think beyond programs targeted just at HSIs, or minority-serving colleges, and look toward broader competitive federal grants open to all of higher education, says an Obama administration official.

African-American

HBCUs Must Embrace Online Education

Black college leaders recognize the importance of distance learning but remain hesitant to take the online leap, writes online education expert.

Michael Hill, Lincoln University’s executive vice president, said the school recently upgraded its distance learning facilities and hopes to offer at least one online program within a year.

African-American

Malcolm X Scholar Manning Marable Dies at 60

Dr. Manning Marable, an influential historian whose forthcoming Malcolm X biography could revise perceptions of the slain civil rights leader, died just days before the book described as his life’s work was to be released.

Obama Woos Hispanic Vote on Education

President Barack Obama, aware of news that the U.S. Hispanic population has hit 50 million, is turning his attention on issues key to Hispanics, including education.

Student Body President Steve Glickman

African-American

Teen Girls Discover Digital Technology as ‘COMPUGIRLS’

Dr. Kimberly Scott, an associate professor in women and gender studies at Arizona State University, the digital divide is not just about “who has access to computers, but what happens during that access.”

Leadership & Policy

Southern University’s Chancellor Candidates Narrowed Down

The top 10 applicants for the chancellor’s job at Southern University – Baton Rouge include Philander Smith College’s “hip-hop prez” and a former LSU administrator.

Criminal Justice Think Tank Exits Medgar Evers Campus

The Brooklyn District Attorney’s office will now partner with Medgar Evers on a Community Justice Program for formerly incarcerated students that will involve professors and students from the college’s departments of social work and education and include student internships in the DA’s office.

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