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UT-Austin Professor Works To Close Latino Gender Gap in Higher Ed

Dr. Victor Saenz, an assistant professor of higher education administration at The University of Texas at Austin, has been at the forefront of the Latino male student achievement issue and on a crusade to move policymakers to action before it’s too late.

Ex-Obama Adviser Will Become Princeton Fellow

President Barack Obama’s former “green jobs” adviser will teach at Princeton University.

African-American

Black History Month Special: Oberlin’s Celebrated, But Difficult History

In his new book, the Oberlin emeritus archivist and professor of history talks about how his book painstakingly unravels clues of how the college faced the challenges of establishing a racially and culturally diverse institution from 1835 up to 2007.

Dr. Roland M. Baumann’s book

Caribbeans Urged to Write in Ancestry on U.S. Census

Identify yourself as being of “Hispanic, Latino or Spanish origin” on the 2010 U.S. Census questionnaire and you will get to be more specific about your ancestry. But check the box for “Black, African-American or Negro” and there will be no place to mark your identity.

Felicia Persaud, chairwoman of CaribID 2010

Univision, Feds Launch Hispanic Education Campaign

Univision, in partnership with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and the U.S. Department of Education, launched a three-year media campaign to encourage and support Latino families and their children’s academic achievement. Many other civil rights, educational and community organizations will be involved in strengthening coalitions to promote college readiness and decrease the drop-out rate for Hispanic high school students.

Decades in the Making, Ellison’s Unfinished Second Novel Emerges as Essential Read

Edited by scholars and published by Random House, Ralph Ellison’s Three Days Before the Shooting…The Unfinished Second Novel is a stirring, 1,000-plus page testimony to a process the brilliant author began soon after his masterpiece Invisible Man was written.

Three Days Before The Shooting

HBCU Case Study Documents How Schools Can Help Students Pay Back Loans

A new report released Tuesday called “Lowering Student Loan Default Rates: What One Consortium of Historically Black Institutions Did to Succeed,” argues that institutions can work proactively to reduce default rates among former students.

UC-San Diego Condemns Party Mocking Black History

The chancellor of the University of California, San Diego, is condemning a ghetto-themed party organized by fraternity students to mock Black History Month, but officials say no one is likely to be disciplined.

High School Graduation Rates Low Where Most American Indians, Alaska Natives Live, Report Says

A new national report has found that fewer than 50 percent of Native American Indian and Alaska Native students from the Pacific and Northwest regions of the U. S. graduate from high school.

Native Americans

African-American

Racially-Targeted Billboard Campaign Links African-Americans, Abortion

Among African-American leaders opposing a racially-targeted pro-life billboard campaign, Spelman College professor Beverly Guy-Sheftall called the effort a gimmick to “bait Black people” into becoming anti-abortion.

Beverly Guy-Sheftall

Faculty & Staff

Black Professor Denied Tenure at Emerson Vindicated by Report

Emerson College has released a report produced by an independent panel that has found fault with the institution’s tenure process.

Leaders Mark 50th Anniversary of Nashville Sit-ins

Civil rights leaders observing Saturday’s 50th anniversary of the sit-in movement that would integrate Nashville’s lunch counters said that pivotal group of college students went on to become leaders in the civil rights movement across the South.

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