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African-American

West Chester University Formally Apologizes For Past Discrimination

Officials at West Chester University of Pennsylvania have formally apologized for the school’s past discriminatory practices and treatment of African-American students.

Asian American Pacific Islander

Penn Program Seeks to Widen Students’ International Perspectives

Officials at the University of Pennsylvania hope that two community-oriented projects will help increase awareness among students and teachers about the diversity of the Asian culture.

Nevada Higher Ed Seeks Increased American Indian Enrollment

Higher education officials have formed a coalition to try to turn around the historically low number of American Indian students who go on to college in Nevada.

Riding Into College With Your Posse

Foundation eases transition by sending students to campuses in groups.

Classes Help University of Missouri Custodial Employees Communicate

Some classes being offered at the University of Missouri-Columbia are for the custodial employees, with the aim of helping them better communicate with each other.

Louisiana Deputies Taking Spanish Lessons

university language department chair is spending time teaching sheriff’s deputies Spanish so they can handle emergencies better when immigrants who speak little or no English are involved.

Native Americans

UC-Davis Scholars Working to Preserve Native Languages

The first time Jose Freeman heard his tribe’s lost language through the crackle of a 70-year-old recording, he cried.

New Quiz Show on Hispanic Heritage to Launch

A new TV quiz show that aims to educate and excite viewers about Hispanic history will air nationally during Hispanic History Month, and is now accepting applicants.

African-American

Ball State Professor Helps Treat Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder in Former Liberian Soldiers

Thousands of Liberian children were forced into combat during the civil war that broke out in 1996.

Leadership & Policy

CU Chancellor, Student Editors Apologize for Column on Asians

BOULDER Colo. The chancellor of the University of Colorado’s Boulder campus has apologized for a student’s satirical column poking fun at Asians. Editors of the student newspaper apologized as well. The column said Asian students “hate us all” and should be rounded up and forced to play drinking games and endure other ordeals until they […]

Native Americans

New Academic Journal Focuses on History of American Indians in South

Dr. Greg O’Brien, a University of Southern Mississippi associate professor of history, will be a founding editor of The Native South, a new academic journal that seeks to broaden and challenge the traditional study of American Indians in the South, according to a report in the Hattiesburg American.

Leadership & Policy

University of Connecticut Hopes to Start Offering Black Studies Major in Fall

Students at the state’s flagship university will be able to earn degrees in the study of Black history and culture starting this fall if a state board approves the school’s plans.

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