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Budget Impasse Continues With New Threat of Cuts
Budget Impasse Continues With New Threat of Cuts By Charles Dervarics The four-month stalemate on a 2003 federal education budget could leave many higher education programs at risk of across-the-board budget cuts. Many programs would face an immediate 2.9 percent across-the-board spending cut if a plan from Senate Republican leaders becomes law. That’s because of […]
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Educators, Activists Criticize Bush’s Position on Affirmative Action
Educators, Activists Criticize Bush’s Position on Affirmative Action By Charles Dervarics Political fallout continues from the Bush administration’s recent stance on the University of Michigan affirmative action case, as groups representing African Americans and Hispanics strongly criticized the White House decision to oppose the university’s policy. The president “has decided that equalizing the field of […]
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New Black Cable Network Announced
New Black Cable Network AnnouncedBy Ronald Roach and Wire Reports PHILADELPHIAComcast Corp. and Radio One Inc. announced earlier this month an agreement to launch a new television network featuring entertainment, news, opinion and sports-related programming targeted primarily at Black viewers from 25 to 54 years of age. The network, which has not yet been named, […]
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Hispanic, Higher Education Groups Urge Bush Support of Affirmative Action
Hispanic, Higher Education Groups Urge Bush Support of Affirmative Action WASHINGTONHispanic and higher education leaders called on President George W. Bush earlier this month to demonstrate his administration’s support of the affirmative action policies currently under review by the U.S. Supreme Court. Anticipating what will be a landmark ruling on affirmative action, the leaders urged […]
Students
Sorority’s Gift to Howard Worth a Million Bucks
Sorority’s Gift to Howard Worth a Million Bucks WASHINGTONA visit to Howard University’s campus from members of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority Inc. last month was worth a million bucks to the historically Black school in Washington, D.C. The national sorority presented university officials with a $1 million check during activities on the campus marking the […]
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UCLA Report Finds Latinos, Blacks Most Likely To be Missed by Census
UCLA Report Finds Latinos, Blacks Most Likely To be Missed by Census LOS ANGELESLatinos and African Americans in Los Angeles County account for a disproportionate number of people who were not counted in Census 2000, according to a new UCLA analysis. Los Angeles County neighborhoods with the highest undercount rates also had high levels of […]
Leadership & Policy
UGA Fails to Make Recruiting Minorities a Priority, Consultants Say
UGA Fails to Make Recruiting Minorities a Priority, Consultants Say ATHENS, Ga.The University of Georgia is failing in its goal to make recruiting minority students a priority, according to consultants who visited the campus and talked with faculty, staff, administrators and students. “It is seen as an important issue but not among the first five […]
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HBCUs, HSIs on House Agenda
HBCUs, HSIs on House AgendaBy Charles Dervarics House Republicans say increased support for minority-serving colleges and universities will be one of their 10 major education goals for the new Congress. Leaders of the House Education and the Workforce Committee listed aid to Black colleges and Hispanic-serving institutions among three priorities specifically focused on higher education. […]
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Minority Groups Turn Up the Heat On Affirmative Action Opponents
Minority Groups Turn Up the Heat On Affirmative Action Opponents By Charles Dervarics Civil rights organizations and groups representing Hispanics and African Americans are turning up the heat on opponents of the University of Michigan affirmative action case even before the case gets before the U.S. Supreme Court. Advocates went on the offensive in early […]
LGBTQ+
The Key to the Closet: Making Race and Sexuality Matter
The Key to the Closet: Making Race and Sexuality Matter Black Like Us: A Century of Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual African American FictionEdited by Devon W. Carbado, Dr. Dwight A. McBride, and Donald Weise Foreword by Evelyn C. White Cleis Press, 2002, 555 pp., $29.95, Trade paper, ISBN 1-57344-108-2 Fiction by gay, lesbian and bisexual […]
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The Many Faces of Bias
The Many Faces of BiasBy Julianne Malveaux If 2002 did nothing else, it provided those who teach African American studies with scores of “teachable moments” about race, class, gender, history and intersectionality. The year-end flap about Sen. Trent Lott’s hankering back to the good old days of segregation could easily take up hours of conversation, […]
Faculty & Staff
Race and its Continuing Significance on our Campuses
Race and its Continuing Significance on our Campusesan interview with Dr. Joe R. Feagin In the fall of 2002, every college president who was a member of the American Council on Education received a copy of The Continuing Significance of Racism: U.S. Colleges and Universities. This was the first in a series of occasional papers […]
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