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Former Colorado Governor Criticized For Comments On Racial Minorities

DENVER U.S. Sen. Ken Salazar of Colorado on Friday distanced himself from comments by fellow Democrat and former Gov. Dick Lamm, who said racial minorities use racism and discrimination as pretexts for academic underachievement.

Native Americans

Federal Help Sought To Save Native Languages

BISMARCK, N.D. Federal grants can help keep some rarely spoken American Indian languages from disappearing, tribal and Indian education officials say.

A Dark History Revealed

Fascinating, interesting and disturbing is how I’d characterize our cover story, “The Secrets of St. Agnes”…

Solving the Funding Riddle

When Leola Tsinnajinnie decided to pursue a major in educational thought and sociocultural studies at the…

Minority-Serving Groups to Manage Two New NASA Programs

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration has partnered with three minority-serving organizations…

African-American

Students, Alumni Lament the Closing of Columbia’s African Studies Institute

Dozens of current and former students of Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA) are expressing outrage over a decision by the Ivy League institution to temporarily shut down its Institute of African Studies.

African-American

Project Aims To Identify Blacks Who Fought In U.S. Revolutionary War

Thousands of Black men fought in George Washington’s army during the Revolutionary War, or American War of Independence, yet their contributions rarely appear in modern history books.

Program Prepares Disabled For College

The college classroom scene is a familiar one: young adults in flip-flops and baseball caps, some scribbling notes, others napping. Evelyn Scruggs, a student sitting near the front, is among the more attentive, filling an entire page with notes. But, by the time she leaves, she likely won’t remember the lecture topic or one word she wrote.

African-American

Cosby, Scholars and Youth Seek Answers to the Problems of Black Men

A forum held yesterday in Washington, D.C. sought solutions to problems faced by Black men from a diverse panel that included Dr. Bill Cosby, former gang members working against gang violence, educators, scholars and two Black men who graduated at the top of their high school class.

African-American

Civil Rights Group President Pushes Self-Reliance

Black Americans should end “victim-like thinking” and seize opportunities to help close gaps between the nation’s rich and poor, NAACP President Bruce S. Gordon said Monday.

Faculty & Staff

Transgendered Professor Raises Awareness About Bias Against Women Scientists

As someone who studies brain development and regeneration, Stanford University neurobiologist Dr. Ben Barres feels qualified to comment on whether nature or nurture explains the shortage of women working in the sciences.

Faculty & Staff

Franklin Symposium: Black Achievement Suffers

In this city, now unfortunately infamous for an elite university’s lacrosse team party that may have gotten out of hand…

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