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Western Illinois Fraternity Suspended
Western Illinois Fraternity SuspendedMACOMB, Ill. A fraternity at Western Illinois University was suspended after school officials deemed inappropriate a rush advertisement that appeared in the campus newspaper, the university said recently. The ad pictured Delta Tau Delta brothers gathered in front of the fraternity house with a Black lawn jockey ornament that had handcuffs hanging […]
October 11, 2000
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Five Specific Steps to Improving Hispanic Achievement
Five Specific Steps to Improving Hispanic AchievementOne of the things I have learned traveling across America is just how diverse Hispanic America is, something that a lot of Americans really don’t know yet. I think there is a common core of values around family and community and work and faith, but Hispanic America is growing […]
September 27, 2000
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Professional Appointments
Professional AppointmentsDr. Hortense Hinton has been named dean of student development at Northern Virginia Community College’s Alexandria campus. Hinton earned a bachelor’s in psychology from the State University of New York, a master’s in counseling from the University of the District of Columbia and a doctorate in counselor education from the University of Virginia. Dr. […]
September 27, 2000
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Chicano Studies
Chicano StudiesAs America’s Latino diaspora evolves, so does the fieldBy Roberto RodriguezFounded some 30 years ago and at one time believed to be on the verge of extinction, the field of Chicano studies is constantly expanding. As Puerto Rican and Cuban communities grew in the United States in the 1960s and ’70s, so did the […]
September 27, 2000
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Wyoming Seeks to Boost Numbers of Minority Students
Wyoming Seeks to Boost Numbers of Minority Students LARAMIE, Wyo. A new committee has been formed at the University of Wyoming to help boost enrollment of minorities. The Multicultural Campus Visit Committee is aiming to increase ethnic enrollment to 1,400 students by 2005. “Our committee’s goals right now are to increase the number of minority […]
September 27, 2000
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Valedictorians Suing State of Arkansas
Valedictorians Suing State of ArkansasOnly Four Blacks Among 808 Scholarship RecipientsLITTLE ROCK, Ark. Two high school valedictorians claim in a federal lawsuit that the state of Arkansas is practicing racial discrimination in the way it chooses elite students for scholarships. The lawsuit says only four Black students are among the 808 recipients since 1997 under […]
September 27, 2000
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Bowdoin Uses Scholarships to Increase Racial and Ethnic Student Diversity
Bowdoin Uses Scholarships to Increase Racial and Ethnic Student Diversity BRUNSWICK, Maine The racial and ethnic makeup of the student body at Bowdoin College will be more diverse this fall because of two scholarship programs that are counteracting the state’s disadvantages in attracting minority students.Scholarships from the Posse Foundation, along with the Chamberlain Leadership Scholarship, […]
September 27, 2000
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UGA Sorority Suspended During Discrimination Investigation
UGA Sorority Suspended During Discrimination InvestigationATHENS, Ga.University of Georgia officials have temporarily suspended a sorority while they investigate claims that an African American student was denied membership because of her race. University officials say a member of Alpha Gamma Delta filed a complaint against the sorority, which led officials to conduct a preliminary investigation.“Discrimination is […]
September 27, 2000
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Florida, Michigan, California Colleges Have Yet to Agree to D.C. Tuition Plan
Florida, Michigan, California Colleges Have Yet to Agree to D.C. Tuition PlanThe District of Columbia’s new tuition assistance program, which gives the city’s high school graduates up to $10,000 a year to attend public colleges and universities across the country, is being criticized by a handful of schools who are refusing to participate. Calling some […]
September 27, 2000
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Thirteen-year-old Prodigy Headed to Jackson State
Thirteen-year-old Prodigy Headed to Jackson State JACKSON, Miss.  A 13-year-old prodigy from Jackson is the youngest person to be admitted to Jackson State University’s honors college. Shayon Ghosh from Jackson Preparatory School had a perfect score on the ACT college entrance exam. His father, Kunal Ghosh, is chairman of the university’s department of physics, atmospheric […]
September 13, 2000
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California Agrees to Grow Need-Based Student-Aid Program
California Agrees to Grow Need-Based Student-Aid ProgramSACRAMENTO, Calif.California Gov. Gray Davis and state legislators have agreed to nearly double the size of the state’s need-based student-aid program, increasing spending on it to nearly $1.2 billion a year. The agreement came after lawmakers decided to support the governor’s proposal to put an additional $118 million toward […]
September 13, 2000
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Disseminating the Truth About Affirmative Action
Disseminating the Truth About Affirmative ActionA recent preliminary study conducted at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln showed disturbing trends in the perceptions of prospective graduate students toward affirmative action and minority students. This investigation entailed in-depth interviews with self-identified Caucasian female undergraduates applying to graduate programs  in psychology and psychology-related fields. Respondents attributed a variety of […]
September 13, 2000
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Excerpts from Dr. Arthur E. Levine’s Diversity on Campus
Excerpts from Dr. Arthur E. Levine’s Diversity on CampusThe Meaning of DiversityThe academy does not agree on what diversity means or how it should be achieved. To be more precise, over the past four decades, the term has taken on a number of different, competing, even conflicting meanings, often on the same campuses. Several years […]
August 30, 2000
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The Art of Diversity
The Art of Diversity Dr. Arthur E. Levine is in a pretty enviable position. As president of Columbia University’s Teachers College, he sits at the helm of a Harlem, N.Y.-based institution steeped in its legacy of inclusion. Back in the 1940s, ’50s and ’60s, Southern states burdened with the shackles of segregation readily paid for […]
August 30, 2000
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GEAR UP Facing Criticism
GEAR UP Facing CriticismCongressional sponsors of the 2-year-old Gaining Early Awareness and Readiness for Undergraduate Programs have beaten back attempts to terminate the initiative, but prospects for future funding growth may be dimming.House and Senate negotiators in late July rejected White House recommendations to increase funding for the program from $200 million to $325 million. […]
August 30, 2000
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Campus Cops Try To Fill Role As Cyber Superheroes
Campus Cops Try To Fill Role As Cyber SuperheroesMinority students here at the University of Iowa’s College of Dentistry received a series of threatening e-mail messages last March warning them to “be afraid, not only for their future careers but for their lives.“If firearms need to be used. Then they will,” said the message, which […]
August 16, 2000
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James Farmer Rests in Peace, But Mary Washington College Still Wrestles with Multicultural Issues
James Farmer Rests in Peace, But Mary Washington College Still Wrestles with Multicultural IssuesA plan at Mary Washington College to relocate the school’s James Farmer Multicultural Center and divert resources to “cultural” programming has provoked angry protests from faculty and others.Faculty at the liberal arts college say the changes belie the administration’s stated commitment to […]
August 16, 2000
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Federal Judge Rules That Georgia has No Compelling Interest in Promoting Diversity
Federal Judge Rules That Georgia has No Compelling Interest in Promoting DiversityA federal district judge ruled late last month that three White female applicants denied admission to the University of Georgia in 1999 should be offered admission to the institution this fall, effectively ending the university’s policy of giving special consideration to minority applicants.In his […]
August 16, 2000
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