Welcome to The EDU Ledger.com! We’ve moved from Diverse.

Welcome to The EDU Ledger! We’ve moved from Diverse: Issues In Higher Education.

Demographics: Page 491

Leadership & Policy

Ten HBCUs Get Accreditation Reaffirmed, Two Placed on Warning Status

Fisk and Tennessee State Universities were placed on warning status by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools (SACS) Commission on Colleges.

African-American

Author Spotlight: Oyeronke Oyewumi

Oyeronke Oyewumi is an associate professor of sociology at the State University of New York at Stony Brook, where she has taught courses on gender and globilization and feminist theory. The Nigerian-born scholar studied at the University of Ibadan and at the University of California at Berkeley. She is the author of African Women and Feminism: Reflecting on the Politics of Sisterhood, Africa World Press, Trenton: New Jersey (2003), available on diversebooks.net

African-American

U.S. Civil Rights Commission Announces Reports on HBCU Effectiveness, Minority STEM Pursuit

The commission announced Monday that it has released The Educational Effectiveness of Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) and Encouraging Minority Students to Pursue Science, Technology, Engineering and Math Careers (STEM) briefing reports.

Gerald Reynolds

Immigrant Students Give Blood To Show Citizenship

As Congress gets closer to a possible vote on the DREAM Act, college-aged undocumented immigrants are literally shedding blood for the cause.

African-American

Experts Recommend Improved Strategies for Getting Minority Males into Graduate School

The Council of Graduate Schools’ annual conference that wrapped up in Washington, D.C., over the weekend focused on the challenges associated with positioning students to pursue more than just a bachelor’s degree.

NAFEO, AT&T Launch Effort To Help Students With Disabilities Attend HBCUs, PBIs

The National Association for Equal Opportunity in Higher Education and the AT&T telecommunications giant have launched an initiative to provide scholarships to students with disabilities attending Historically Black Colleges and Universities and Predominantly Black Institutions.

Lezli Baskerville

African-American

Fisk, Angry Over Judge’s Art Ruling, Says It Will Fight On

Financially strapped Fisk University says it will appeal a Tennessee judge’s decision to deny the school access to all the sale proceeds of a proposed ownership sharing agreement involving the school’s valuable Stieglitz art and photograph collection.

‘The Radiator Building—Night, New York’ by Georgia O’Keeffe is part of the Fisk University art collection.

Asian American Pacific Islander

Report: Asian American Academic Achievement in California Lags Heavily Within Certain Subgroups

Despite the pervasive nature of the “model minority” myth, members of certain Asian ethnicities in California have disproportionate rates of never finishing high school, especially if they’re poor or speak limited English, University of California researchers say.

African-American

Mississippi Still Lacks Civil Rights Museum

Mississippi bred some of the worst violence of the civil rights era, yet nearly a half-century after a barrage of atrocities pricked the conscience of America, it’s one of the few civil rights battleground states with no museum to commemorate the era.

Leadership & Policy

Christopher Brown Named New President of Alcorn State

Fisk University provost has been named president of Alcorn State University in Mississippi.

Leonard Sandridge

African-American

The Unreported Economic Depression in Black America

This is a classic Depression for Black America, and few appear to be paying attention. Just look at the numbers.

Native Americans

Pennsylvania Museum Ordered to Return Alaskan Tribal Artifacts

For the first time, the federal repatriation review committee must resolve a bitter ownership dispute between museum, Native Alaskan tribe.

Shakee.at headdress

Page 491 of 721

The trusted source for all job seekers

We have an extensive variety of listings for both academic and non-academic positions at postsecondary institutions.

The trusted source for all job seekers