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Leadership & Policy

Homeland Security and UT Brownsville Reach Accord on Campus Border Fence

The University of Texas at Brownsville and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security reached an agreement this week barring the government from condemning any university land and committing the school to beefing up security along its existing fence, according to wire reports…

Tribal Colleges Stay True to Mission

Celebrating 40 years, the tribal college movement remains committed to sustaining native culture, language and community, officials say.

House Approves HEA Bill; Senate Vote Next

The House of Representatives on Thursday overwhelmingly approved a bill to renew the Higher Education Act and make changes in a variety of programs from Pell Grants and student loans to those for minority-serving institutions.

Native Americans

New Mexico First State To Adopt Navajo Textbook

In the Navajo language, there’s no one word that translates into “go”; it’s more like a sentence.

Scholar Wants More American Indian Faculty in Business Colleges

Beau Barnes, recipient of a doctoral scholarship designed to increase faculty and student diversity in business colleges, says he wants to boost the number of American Indians teaching in Oklahoma business colleges.

Native Americans

American Indian Languages Dying

A decreasing number of American Indians can speak or understand their ancestral language, experts say.

UA Students Form Second Chapter of Journalists’ Association

Students in the University of Arizona department of journalism have formed the second student chapter of the Native American Journalists Association.

Texas Education Agency to Appeal Bilingual Ruling

The state education agency said it plans to ask Attorney General Greg Abbott to appeal a federal judge’s ruling requiring the state of Texas to improve bilingual education programs for secondary school students, according to media reports.

Leadership & Policy

New Council at UK Works to Reach More Latino Students

The University of Kansas’s newly formed Latino Vision Council is working to find ways to assist Latinos in gaining access to college.

Faculty & Staff

Delaware Professor Awarded Competitive Fellowship

Rosalie Rolon-Dow, assistant professor of education at the University of Delaware, has received a prestigious and highly competitive Ford Foundation Diversity Fellowship for next year.

African-American

Scholars Convene in Charleston to Explore the Literary Works of Toni Morrison

Nobel Laureate and Pulitzer-Prize winning author Toni Morrison read to a packed house at the College of Charleston two passages from her forthcoming novel, A Mercy (Knopf), on Friday, as part of the fifth biennial conference of the Toni Morrison Society.

African-American

Acknowledging the Gains Minorities Have Made in Classical Music

I am one who has a long awareness and who has long-been supportive of Sphinx and the efforts of Aaron Dworkin (see “Bringing Diversity to the World of Classical Music, June 26).

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