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How UCLA’s Black Enrollment Rebounded

Community leaders and Black alumni stepped up to help boost Black enrollment at the University of California, Los Angeles this year. The number of Black students who said they plan to enroll as freshmen in the fall doubled from 103 to 203, bringing the percentage of Black UCLA freshmen to 4.5 percent, up from 2.2 percent a year ago.

African-American

Old Problem, New Approach

Jackie Johnson, an instructor of computer education at Wake Technical Community College in North Carolina, has developed an educational Web site with the goal of making science “cool” for Black youth.

In Fairness

Tribal college leaders criticize proposal to fund nontribal institutions with 10 percent American Indian student enrollment.

Faculty & Staff

A Tenure Not Soon Forgotten

After 34 years on the Wellesley College faculty, Dr. Tony Martin’s teachings have at times been controversial, but his mentoring of Black women is what his students will remember most.

HBCUs Have A Responsibility To LGBT (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender) Students

Campus silence is read as lack of support.

Native Americans

And North Dakota Makes Four

It seems that the long battle for state support of tribal colleges is beginning to slowly pay off for American Indian leaders and supporters.

University panel says student parody “harassed” blacks

BOSTON A judicial panel at Tufts University on Thursday ruled that a conservative campus journal “harassed” blacks by publishing a Christmas carol parody called “O Come All Ye Black Folk” that many found racist.

Native Americans

We Want to be Included, Say Women Tribal Leaders

ATLANTA Four women from American Indian tribes came together in a panel organized by Spelman College on Wednesday to ask Americans not to forget about them in conversations about diversity and race.

Asian American Pacific Islander

Asian Panel Debunks “Model Minority” Myth

When early news reports about the Virginia Tech shootings indicated the alleged perpetrator was Asian, Yixin Li, a University of Maryland freshman, said he prayed the shooter, Seung Hui Cho, would be Korean or Vietnamese and not a fellow Chinese. That distinction didn’t matter to some observers because “after the incident people started calling me Cho,” Li recalled Wednesday at a forum, “The End of the Model Minority Myth: Reflections on the Virginia Tech Tragedy from Asian American Perspectives.”

The Diversity Dialogue Never Ends, But It May Get Easier

University of Missouri at Kansas City staff share their ongoing efforts to create a welcoming, inclusive environment.

Documenting American Indian Success

AIHEC says it has all the data federal officials need to determine that tribal colleges are grant-worthy.

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Native Americans

Antioch’s Seattle Campus Chooses First American Indian Woman College Head

Dr. Cassandra Manuelito-Kerkvliet of the Navajo, or Dine, tribe appears to be the first American Indian woman to be appointed president of a mainstream university outside of the tribal college system. She was named this month to lead Antioch University Seattle from a pool of more than 40 candidates. She formally begins her presidency July 15.

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