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Women still face “chilly classroom climate.” – classroom environment in women’s education

To ensure that women are treated fairly in college classrooms it is not enough for colleges to end discriminatory behavior. They need to change a “chilly classroom climate,” says a new study by the National Association for Women in Education.

Priming the pump – University of Virginia School of Medicine program has historically Black institutions as recruitment partners – Recruitment & Retention

UVa Program Involves HBCUs in Recruiting Minority Medical Students.

2004: Maryland’s reform odyssey – educational reform – includes related article – Recruitment & retention

BALTIMORE, MD When states first began requiring students to meet minimum course requirements and pass competency tests before graduating high school, some educators worried that the new standards would cause students — especially minority and disadvantaged students — to fail at higher rates and drop out more often than was already the case.

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I Have Got the Light of Freedom: The Organizing Tradition and the Mississippi Freedom Struggle. – book reviews

I’ve Got the Light of Freedom: The Organizing Tradition and the Mississippi Freedom Struggle by Charles Payne, University of California Press, Berkeley, 1995. $28.00 (For a profile of author Payne, see Black Issues, December 14.)

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Local People: The Struggle for Civil Rights in Mississippi. – book reviews

Local People: The Struggle for Civil Rights in Mississippi by John Dittmer Univ. of Illinois Press, Urbana, Illinois, 1994. $29.95 hard, $14.95 paper.

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Race and Democracy: The Civil Rights Struggle in Louisiana. – book reviews

Race and Democracy: The Civil Rights Struggle in Louisiana by Adam Fairclough, The University of Georgia Press, Athens, GA, 1995 $34.95.

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Laying Out a Blueprint for Diversity

Community colleges at forefront of efforts to bridge yawning architecture diversity gap.

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Laying Out a Blueprint for Diversity

Community colleges at forefront of efforts to bridge yawning architecture diversity gap.

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Study: Immigrants Create Hi-Tech Firms, Not Take Jobs From Americans

In a new study, researchers from Duke University, the University of California-Berkeley, and the Kauffman Foundation show that there is a strong correlation between educational attainment in the STEM disciplines and innovation among immigrant founders of U.S.-based engineering and technology companies.

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Academy, AAUP Confronted on Low Faculty Diversity

Faculty members concerned about diversity took the academy as well as the American Association of University Professors to task for not doing enough to promote diversity at one session of AAUP’s 93rd annual meeting, “Telling the Truth at Difficult Times,” which started June 7 and concluded yesterday.

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Two MVSU Professors Fired, At Least One Claims It’s Retaliation

JACKSON, Miss. Two Mississippi Valley State University professors have been fired, and at least one of them claims it was in retaliation for serving on a panel that was critical of university president Lester Newman.

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Minority Faculty Recruitment Program Under Fire

EUGENE, Ore. The University of Oregon is taking issue with an economics professor’s claim that a program developed to recruit more minority faculty members is illegal.

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