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New Report Says Oklahoma’s Anti-illegal-immigrant Bill to Cost State $1.3B

A new study estimates that Oklahoma’s anti-illegal immigration law will cause $1.8 billion in economic losses as foreign-born workers flee the state.

Sorority Party at UND Prompts Discrimination Complaint

A group of American Indian students is upset about a University of North Dakota sorority party last fall in which students dressed up in Indian costumes and wore red makeup on their faces and bodies.

Leadership & Policy

State Board Says No Time for Hispanic Input on New Curriculum

The chairman of the State Board of Education said there is insufficient time to seek input from Hispanic experts before new reading and writing curriculum standards for Texas public school students are adopted.

Significant Increase in College-bound Hispanics Projected For The South

The current number of Hispanic high school graduates in the 16 states that constitute the Southern Regional Education Board is projected to more than double by 2022, outpacing national projections, according to a new report released by Denver-based Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education.

Leadership & Policy

Letters

INCLUSION IS JUST PART OF THE STORY “Perspectives: Tradition of Inclusion Left Out of William & Mary President’s Story,” Feb. 26, 2008 Inclusion is indeed part of [President Gene] Nichol’s story, but it is a minor issue in the chaos that Nichol created at W&M. And diversity of intellectual thought was not on his agenda. […]

Asian American Pacific Islander

Getting to Know Dr. Purnima Mankekar

Ask Dr. Purnima Mankekar about family meals during her childhood in India, and she immediately recalls table conversation always revolving around feminist politics and social justice issues.

African-American

Telling Her Story

The roles of women then and now make appealing subjects.

Asian American Pacific Islander

Diverse Calendar

March 27-30 MELUS — Society for the Study of Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States 22nd Annual MELUS Conference “Towards a Confluence of Multi-Ethnic Arts and the University” The Blackwell Hotel and Conference Center The Ohio State University Columbus, Ohio Web: http://webspace.ship.edu/kmlong/melus March 29-April 2 American College Personnel Association83rd Annual Convention “Professionalism with Purpose: Advancing […]

Leadership & Policy

Divinity School at TCU Still Plans to Honor Obama Pastor

Controversy surrounding the longtime minister of Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama is not deterring a Texas divinity school from honoring the Rev. Jeremiah Wright at a ceremony later this month.

Celebrating a Ripe Audience: A New Publishing Imprint Highlights Hispanic Celebrities

With the recent launch of the Celebra publishing imprint, Raymond Garcia hopes to tap into the emergent Hispanic book-buying market.

Justice and Immigration Clinic Opens at California’s University of La Verne College of Law

The University of La Verne (ULV) College of Law has announced the opening of its Justice & Immigration Clinic (JIC).

From South America to Europe, Scholars Discuss Equity

While affirmative action programs are being challenged in the United States, Brazil is readily adopting these admissions policies in their colleges and universities as the morally correct thing to do to address the socioeconomic exclusion of Blacks, according to research done by Fulbright New Century scholar, Dr. Michele S. Moses.

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