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Plotting the assassination of little red Sambo: psychologists join war against racist campus mascots – Native American mascots
Psychologists Join War Against Racist Campus Mascots
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Blues for blacks at Bluefield State: African Americans awkwardly strive to regain a presence at the nation’s whitest HBCU – historically black colleges and universities
More than one hundred years after the founding of Bluefield State College, the main campus remains poised high upon a hill above railroad tracks and overlooking the town’s business district. For generations, the children of Black families living largely in southern West Virginia earned college degrees from this small teacher’s college.
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New partnerships with minority-serving institutions are designed to improve the count while training young scientists
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Professors want affirmative action back – University of California at Berkeley faculty
Berkeley, Calif. A group of University of California-Berkeley faculty members — alarmed about plunging admissions of African Americans, Native Americans, and Latinos in the aftermath of California’s Proposition 209 — are the latest group to urge passage of a new, student-authored measure called the Equal Educational Opportunity Initiative (EEOI).
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Sharing expertise – Xavier University’s partnership with Tulane University on public housing – Interview
What strengths does Xavier University bring to this partnership with Tulane University?
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Public housing smarts: two universities discover a trove of opportunity in New Orleans’s public housing system – Cover Story
New Orleans At night, from the third floor landing of her three-bedroom apartment, Keywanda Wiggins has a view of the glittering New Orleans skyline. Visible from her window are the bulbous Superdome, most of the city’s modern high-rises, and a slice of the Mississippi River.
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Winning to lose – academy losses of Black faculty to industry
When thirty-year-old Dr. Damian Rouson completed his Ph.D. last April, the Stanford University graduate took a job at Failure Analysis Associates, a prestigious Silicon Valley engineering firm.
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Making mentorship count: surviving Ph.D. programs requires someone who is willing to show the way
By his own admission, Dr. Damian Rouson’s initial adjustment from Howard University to the graduate engineering program at Stanford University was difficult.
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Gems of wisdom: avoiding derailment on the doctorate track
Dr. Howard Adams has been engaged in the struggle to attract more African American students into graduate education in science and engineering for more than twenty years. In that time, he has witnessed measurable improvement in the academic caliber, motivation, and preparedness of African American undergraduates.
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It’s not rocket science – finding African American undergraduates for graduate study in science – includes related articles
Earlier in his career, Dr. Luther S. Williams spent nearly ten years as the only faculty member of color out of seventy in his department at Purdue University. The African American microbiologist is now assistant director of education and human resources at the National Science Foundation (NSF).
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Leading from Behind
Two historically Black colleges aspire to become more than just feeder schools
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Hurdle #1: Getting in the Door
Research institutions are the primary producers of the nation’s scientific brain trust. Yet, the record of these institutions for producing African Americans in these disciplines is spotty. In this feature, Black Issues examines the experiences of three of the leading science and engineering institutions, citing examples of strategies that are yielding favorable results and those that leave senior scholars scratching their heads over why they’re not working.
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