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Black Professors Under Pressure At Duke; Six Black Faculty Quit

Three months after she was chosen to head the committee on race in response to the university’s lacrosse scandal, Duke University Professor Karla Holloway threatened to quit yesterday citing exhaustion.

Pell Grant Increase Considered

U.S. House Republican leaders are proposing a $100 increase in the maximum Pell Grant next year, a move that may pave the way for the first increase in program funding since 2003.

Perspectives: Colleges Should Muster Courage To Fight Back

The attack on programs that recruit and retain Black students will have broad consequences on the economic well-being of Black America unless we fight back.

Study: Latin History Teaching Standards Lacking

American schools are doing a poor job of teaching history and culture of Latin America and Mexico, according to a new review of states’ world history teaching standards conducted by the Washington, D.C.,-based Thomas B. Fordham Institute.

Education Department Issues Criteria for “Rigorous” Curriculum

Students at minority-serving colleges and universities are among the primary targets of a new $4.5-billion financial aid windfall…

Use of Indian Mascots Coming to an End For College Teams

The debate over the use of American Indian imagery in college sports is coming to a head as the National Collegiate Athletic Association…

Operation Black Male

The media and scholarly literature are replete with countless reminders of the negative plight of…

African-American

Looking for a Cut Card

When a million immigrants flooded the streets of Los Angeles, and a quarter as many thronged into the customary protest space…

African-American

Howard University Trio Repeats Skins Competition Victory

Repeating their winning ways for a second consecutive year, three Howard University seniors took top honors…

Luminaries Honor Toni Morrison Before Retirement

A party for author Toni Morrison drew stars such as former President Bill Clinton and actor Morgan Freeman, as well as officials and students from Princeton University, where the author has taught for 17 years before announcing her retirement this spring.

African-American

Vanderbilt Lures Black Literary Scholars

Vanderbilt University is on a mission to transform its literary studies program, and hopes to use an interdisciplinary approach to make that happen. To achieve that end, the university is adding five leading Black literary scholars, including Drs. Houston A. Baker and Hortense Spillers, to its English department.

African-American

Oxford University Press Unveils African-American Virtual Library

Students, scholars, teachers and librarians now have instant access to more than 30 volumes of reference works on the African-American experience — all on one new online resource.

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