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Celebrating 40 Years of Activism

Armed with well-honed leadership skills, established organizational techniques and a fearless demeanor…

Congress Considers Pell Grant Increase

For years, education advocates looked to a more moderate U.S. Senate to push for funding increases…

New Course To Help Teachers Relate To American Indian Students

Prospective teachers at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln will soon be able to learn the subtle and sometimes striking differences between American Indian students and their classmates.

Native Americans

Tribal Colleges Beckon Members

Flexing sovereignty and economic clout spurred in some cases by Indian gambling, tribal colleges are growing around the country. Nationally, there were no tribal colleges before 1968. Today, there are more than three dozen in the U.S. and one in Canada. Oklahoma, which didn’t have a tribal college until 2002, now has four seeking accreditation and financing.

African-American

Vanderbilt Lures Black

Vanderbilt University, on a mission to transform the English department’s literary studies program…

African-American

Bite Size Briefs

Bar Association’s Affirmative Action policy; Arkansas Black Studies funding; Michigan diversity grading system; Federal panel to question law school affirmative action policy.

More Single-sex Public Schools Likely Under Expected Rule Change

In Travis Brown’s sixth-grade class, they’re making robots — more than a dozen boys standing around work stations, chatting among themselves as they chop cardboard with scissors or glance at comic books for inspiration.

Faculty & Staff

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…

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