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Campus Racial Flaps Dog Alabama Despite Progress

Months after the university unveiled a plaza and clock tower named for its earliest Black students, the campus was swamped with unwelcome attention after a White student was disciplined for yelling racial slurs.

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House Republicans Slash $61B in Continuing Resolution

An amendment barring the Department of Education’s proposed gainful employment regulation passed by a vote of 289-136.

House Republicans Slash $61B in Continuing Resolution

An amendment barring the Department of Education’s proposed gainful employment regulation passed by a vote of 289-136.

Lower Maryland College Tuition Sought for Undocumented Immigrant Children

To be eligible, students must attend two years of high school in Maryland, and their parents pay one year of income taxes before the student graduates from a Maryland high school.

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Census Estimates Show Blacks Moving South

The Southern U.S. region – primarily metropolitan areas such as Atlanta, Dallas, Houston, Miami and Charlotte, N.C. – accounted for roughly 75 percent of the population gains among Blacks since 2000.

Isabel Wilkerson

Georgia Tech Sees ‘Room for Progress’ After Half Century of Integration

Fifty years after its integration, Georgia Tech recommits itself to providing institutional access to underserved students.

Student Body President Steve Glickman

Study: California State Northridge Students Hit Hard by Recession

The report, “Squeezed From All Sides,” blames California’s recession and education cuts for pushing students to the breaking point, with some reporting they must forgo college.

Patricia Gandara

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Ohio Universities Defend Affirmative Action Strategies in Their Admissions

Two universities accused in a new report of giving minority students an unfair edge in the admissions process defended their practices as being legitimate strategies to expand access and enhance diversity on campus.

Shirley Wilcher

Virginia University Named in Lawsuit Alleging Poor Access for Disabled

ROANOKE Va. – An advocacy group claims in a series of lawsuits that Radford University, a half-dozen Roanoke area shopping malls and two hotels fail to provide adequate facilities for disabled people. The lawsuits were filed over the last two weeks in U.S. District Court in Roanoke by the Florida-based National Alliance for Accessibility and […]

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Slaves Hid African Charms in Maryland Greenhouse

The greenhouse on the Maryland-based Wye House plantation where famed abolitionist Frederick Douglass spent part of his childhood was not as uniquely European as once thought: Its furnace was built by slaves, who hid distinctly African touches within it to ward off bad spirits, researchers say.

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Civil Rights Activists Mark 1961 Freedom Rides

Joan Trumpauer Mulholland and the Rev. Reginald Green appeared at the University of Mary Washington to honor the Freedom Rides and their organizer, the late James Farmer.

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Yale, Peruvian University Sign Deal on Incan Artifacts

Yale University announced that it will send back to Peru thousands of Incan artifacts removed from the famed Machu Picchu citadel nearly a century ago.

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