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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

African-American

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 […]

African-American

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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African-American

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.

Green and Mulholland

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.

New Federal Data Show Rising Student Loan Default Rates

The federal government’s new system to calculate student loan default rates – while highlighting the problems of many for-profit colleges – also may pose risks for some minority-serving institutions that are seeing their rates increase as well.

Leadership & Policy

Diverse Special Feature: A Revolution in Understanding

To Dr. Edward Ayers, a recognized expert on Southern history and president of the University of Richmond, 2011 marks the start of the sesquicentennial of the Civil War and the emancipation of African-Americans.

African-American

CIAA Commissioner Remains Bullish on Charlotte

CIAA Commissioner Leon Kerry remains bullish on Charlotte despite the city being the target of protests and criticism from Black leaders.

HBCU President Brings Sex and Health Education to the Campus

Sex Week, Philander Smith’s first-ever campus wide sexual education forum, brought students together with medical, religious, health, and relationship experts.

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African-American

Diverse Special Feature: The Unending Civil War

As America turns to commemorate the Civil War’s sesquicentennial, many myths and distortions still shape the popular understanding of the war’s legacy, writes the Smithsonian National African American History and Culture Museum founding director.

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