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IN MEMORIAM

What an exciting and traumatic year 2008 has been. A historic presidential campaign that ended with the election of an African-American to the U.S. presidency. An economic meltdown not seen since the Great Depression of the 1930s.

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IN MEMORIAM

Johnnie Carr: Carr joined childhood friend Rosa Parks in the historic Montgomery bus boycott and succeeded the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. as president of the Montgomery Improvement Association in 1967. It was the newly formed association that led the boycott of city buses in the Alabama capital. She was 97. Dr. Michael DeBakey: DeBakey […]

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Private Va college names first black president

FARMVILLE, Va. (AP) – Christopher B. Howard has been named president of Hampden-Sydney College. Howard will be the first African-American to serve as president of the private all-male college near Farmville. He will succeed Walter M. Borz III. Borz announced in May that he would step down June 30. Hampden-Sydney’s board of trustees appointed Howard […]

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HBCUs Question Equity of Research Partnerships

In an effort to meet critical research goals, a familiar trend among historically Black colleges and universities is to link up with larger research-intensive institutions.

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UT Regents name Cigarroa as chancellor finalist.

Francisco Cigarroa, president of the UT Health Science Center, has been named the sole finalist for chancellor of the University of Texas System, the state’s largest and most prestigious network of colleges.

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Catholic Educators Want More Latinos in Schools

A task force at the University of Notre Dame will look for strategies to get more Latino children into Catholic schools.

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Panel Sets College Completion Goals

A blue-ribbon panel of educators called Wednesday for a national effort to raise college completion rates among younger Americans, particularly students of color, to reverse a downward trend that is leaving the United States far behind other industrialized nations.

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Apology Long Overdue

Bob Jones University has apologized for racist policies, including a one-time ban on interracial dating that wasn’t lifted until nine years ago and its unwillingness to admit Black students until 1971.

‘Highly Educated Paupers’

For many young scholars, exorbitant student loan debt can mean a lifetime of hardship.

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Q&A: Lani Guinier and the Pimple on Adonis’ Nose

Lani Guinier, the Bennett Boskey Professor of Law at Harvard Law School, is among a panel of speakers participating in “The Future of Diversity and Opportunity in Higher Education: A National Forum on Innovation and Collaboration,” conference here this week.

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Shannon: Seeing Black Coach Number Fall to 3 ‘Sad’

Of the 65 coaches leading programs affiliated with the Bowl Championship Series, Miami’s Randy Shannon is about to stand alone.

CHANGING ROLES IN INDIAN COUNTRY

Women are emerging from positions of authority in traditional tribal culture to more public roles.

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