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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.

African-American

Getting to Know Dr. David Ikard

Dr. David Ikard’s recent book, Breaking the Silence:Toward a Black Male Feminist Criticism (LSU Press), has not only generated buzz within academia but has made its way onto the pop culture scene because of its insightful analysis of the writings of such literary giants as Toni Morrison, Walter Mosley and Toni Cade Bambara. But it […]

Suffering the Borrowing Blues

Proprietary schools likely to be most affected by lenders’ retreat from high-risk student loans, officials say.

Faculty & Staff

Descendant of University of Missouri Founder Creates Slavery Atonement Fund

Endowment will help support research into the impact, effects of slavery in the United States.

Native Americans

Stalemate Persists Over American Indian Remains at UC Museum

Native groups want more control over repatriation process.

African-American

A Month of Discoveries

Black History Month brings out the best publishers have to offer.

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