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The Broken Pledges of Greek Life

Videoconference searches for ways to end fraternity and sorority hazing

July 14, 2007

Washington Update

Clinton Signs Higher Education Act Reauthorization

July 14, 2007

Poll Confirms that Americans Want Diversity on Campuses

Most Americans say that college students need to know about different kinds of people and how to get along with them. There also seems to be a national consensus that colleges should have diverse student bodies and faculties, as well as courses that focus on diversity.

July 14, 2007

Oracle’s Strategic Investment In Montgomery College

Where does one of the world’s largest computer software companies go when it wants to partner with a college that has a highly diverse student body in a region that is experiencing severe high-tech labor shortages?

July 14, 2007

UCLA feeder program takes sting out of anti-affirmative action policies – University of California, Los Angeles

VALLEY GLEN, Calif. While other teenagers were chilling in malls or bronzing at the beaches this summer, 16-year-old Gloria Sanchez of Panorama City was busy going to college.

July 14, 2007

The Children. – book reviews

I approached the reading of David Halberstam’s The Children with a great deal of trepidation. Here was yet another book written by a White journalist, that focused attention on some of the most significant events in the early Civil Rights Movement. As a lifelong student of the Black struggle, and as a scholar firmly grounded in an African-centered perspective, I doubted that I could gain any new insights from this volume’s nearly 800-page retelling of the Movement. I was wrong.

July 14, 2007

Home-grown scientists; national labs scramble to produce more U.S.-born scientists of color

National labs scramble to produce more U.S.-born scientist of color

July 14, 2007

Giant steps on the road to renewal – Central State University

Central State University has accreditation renewed and is released from U.S. Department of Education penalty

July 13, 2007

Confidence in the face of controversy – Marie V. McDemmond – Cover Story – Interview

The view of Norfolk State University’s 120-acre campus, as seen from the ceiling-to-floor window in the office of the president, is deceptive. In the foreground, sit the neatly, manicured lawn and sparkling aquamarine pool of the school’s red-brick presidential residence. The scene reveals nothing to suggest this is an institution struggling to recover from a multimillion-dollar fiscal deficit.

July 13, 2007

Besieged, bothered, and bewildered: affirmative action director charges Pitt-Johnstown president with discrimination, harassment and retaliation – University of Pittsburgh-Johnstown

JOHNSTOWN, Pa. According to the University of Pittsburgh-Johnstown’s affirmative action director, the institution’s president told her that he did not believe in affirmative action and would do everything possible to avoid implementing its principles.

July 13, 2007

Teaching technology technique – computers as teaching tools in postsecondary education

Educators contemplate the appropriate use of technology in the postsecondary environment

July 13, 2007

The time is now: Dr. Ernest J. Wilson comments on the technology revolution and African American competitiveness – Interview

Dr. Ernest J. Wilson III comments on the technology revolution and African American competitiveness

July 13, 2007

The networking imperative – investment in high-technology information infrastructure – includes related article

The high cost of building and maintaining the infrastructure necessary to support information is nowhere near the price schools will play if they do not develop this strategic asset.

July 13, 2007

Is there a future for Chicano/Chicana studies?

Mexico City A thousand Chicana and Chicano scholars came to this ancient Aztec capital in June, as participants in The National Association of Chicana and Chicago Scholars’ (NACCS) annual meeting, to ponder the future of their discipline and to become reacquainted with Mexico.

July 13, 2007

Newsroom power shortage – minorities in journalism

Are students of color getting the inside scoop on what it takes to become news editors and producers?

July 13, 2007

Fundraising scandal at Bowie State – Bowie State University, Bowie, Md

Bowie, Md. A financially troubled fund-raising organization for Bowie State University (BSU) is being temporarily handed over to the University of Maryland system amidst criticism that the organization sapped its administrative funds and then dipped into other money earmarked for scholarships and campus activities to cover further operating costs.

July 12, 2007

Being honest about and to athletes

Having raised three children (a daughter and two sons) who are currently Division I student athletes (basketball), having been involved in sports practically all of my life, and having worked as an educator for the past twenty-five years, I have been intimately involved in the counseling and advising of student athletes and their parents — particularly African American students. I also have worked closely with coaches and athletic administrators at several institutions.

July 12, 2007

The new faces of college

Last year marked York College’s thirtieth anniversary. This spring, the college, which is part of the City University of New York (CUNY) system, passed yet another milestone. For the first time, it graduated more than 1,000 students, about 75 percent of whom were people of color.

July 12, 2007