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Grant Prompts Future Special Ed Teachers to Enroll in UNH Training Program

DURHAM N.H. Thanks to several federal grants, New Hampshire soon may be seeing more special education teachers.

African-American

The Edge of Heaven – Review

The Edge of Heaven by Marita Golden, Doubleday, $22.95,288 pages.

African-American

Thirteen Ways of Looking At a Black Man – Review

Thirteen Ways of Looking At a Black Man by Henry Louis Gates Jr., Vintage Books, $12.00, 256 pages.

Bi News Briefs

At Central State: Prosecutors Resume Investigation; Fund-Raising Drive Benefits Needy Students

African-American

America in Black and White: One Nation, Indivisible – Review

America in Black and White: One Nation, Indivisible by Stephan and Abigail Thernstrom, Simon & Schuster, $32.50, 480 pages.

Leadership & Policy

Professional APPOINTMENTS

KARSTEN J.Y. CASH is the new director of the Black Culture Center at the University of Missouri-Columbia. He comes to UMC from Eastern Illinois University, where he was an academic advisor for the Gateway Program. Cash earned a bachelor’s degree in African American Studies from Wesleyan University (Conn.); and a master’s degree in social justice education from the University of Massachusetts-Amherst.

African-American

Just a Nappy-Headed Sister with the PC Blues – Review

I’ve worn my hair shorn close to my head for at least the last 10 years, from time to time letting it get a wild and wooly inch or so past my scalp. I’m a member of the “happy is nappy” school, and gleefully so. For years, I wore the T-shirt of a sister whose naps could be used as the illustration that went with a sign that said “happy is nappy.”

Cyber Diversity – online instruction

It’s not unusual that all 15 students in one of Dr. Maureen Eke’s African American literature course sections at Central Michigan University are White. What’s striking, however, is that Black students and their Black professor from a campus located hundreds of miles away are beamed onto a large television screen to join Dr. Eke and her students in class discussions and lectures.

Faculty & Staff

Alabama’s Decree Of Difficulty

Despite a court order, achieving racial parity still appears a long way off

African-American

UTC Surpasses Undergraduate Desegregation Target

CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. The Univer-sity of Tennessee-Chattanooga is the only school in the UT system to meet its court-ordered desegregation goal this fall, university administrators say.

On Higher Education: The Academic Enterprise In An Era Of Rising Student Consumerism

ON HIGHER EDUCATION: THE ACADEMIC ENTERPRISE IN AN ERA OF RISING STUDENT CONSUMERISM

Large Black Voter Turnout Helped Usher In New House Leadership

Strong voter turnout among African Americans helped Democrats pick up five U.S. House of Representatives seats and avoid any net losses in the Senate in the November 3 election.

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