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Just the Stats: The Hard Facts on Texas’ Public Universities

The online version of Diverse last month ran a story about Black enrollment at the University of Texas at Austin exceeding pre-Hopwood levels for the first time in the decade since the race-neutral admissions mandate was decided by the federal courts. Upon reading the story, a professor from Texas questioned the significance of the statistics used in the story by the Associated Press.

Hispanic Students Struggle to Pay for College, Says Report

WASHINGTON College is becoming increasingly unaffordable for more and more Latino students, according to a new report released yesterday by the Campaign for America’s Future.

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HBCU and NASA Launch Middle Passage Project

BALTIMORE, Coppin State University students will work with NASA to bring African-American history to life during a year-long geographical research project, federal and university officials announced yesterday.

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Perspectives: Disentangling The Paradox of Black Male Initiatives

In his book, Inequality Reexamined, Dr. Amartya Sen argues that there must be agreement on the core set of items to be equally distributed among people before any discussion of inequality can take place. This is mandatory because equality in this core set is used to justify inequality in peripheral areas.

Districts Start Indian Education For All Implementation

HELENA, Mont. Indian Education for All is a state law passed in 1999 that requires Montana schools to teach all students about the state’s American Indian tribes and reservations.

North Dakota Officials Sue NCAA Over Fighting Sioux Nickname

FARGO, N.D. State officials filed a lawsuit Friday against the NCAA to challenge its restrictions on the University of North Dakota’s Fighting Sioux nickname.

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Racial Awareness

This article points to some interesting and important issues for those of us who study race and its impact on U.S. history and culture…

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Perceptions and Realities

Tension may exist between Blacks and Hispanics over jobs and political power in the United States…

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Issues of Access and Affordability

For all the dour reports about the lack of access to U.S. higher education…

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Asian Americans Aren’t White Folks’ ‘Racial Mascots’

Affirmative action has almost always been framed as a Black and White issue…

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Perspectives: Asian Americans Aren’t White Folks’ ‘Racial Mascots’

Although usually excluded from discussions about civil rights, Asian Americans are increasingly introduced as an argument against racial diversity. Yet like all Americans, Asian immigrants and their native-born children benefit from the modest efforts to include everyone in the American Dream.

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Native American Studies Program Expands at Columbia

Spurred on by fierce student activism a decade ago, Columbia University is now pushing forward with plans to create an American Indian studies program, making it one of only three Ivy League colleges to offer such a curriculum.

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