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Southern center aims to aid Africa

BATON ROUGE La. Victor Mbarika envisions Louisiana doctors serving the sick and needy in Africa without having to leave their American offices.

July 28, 2007

Judge turns down contempt request for school leaders in race case

LOUISVILLE Ky. A lawyer’s request that Jefferson County school officials be held in contempt and put in jail was turned down Friday, before school district lawyers even responded to the request.

July 27, 2007

African Students Trace U.S. Civil Rights

LITTLE ROCK Ark. Just a day into a tour of civil rights landmarks in the South, Nadia Samie says she already sees parallels between the Jim Crow era and the apartheid period in her country, South Africa.

July 27, 2007

Report: CUNY to raise admissions standards for senior colleges

NEW YORK The City University of New York is going to make it tougher for students to get into its senior colleges.

July 27, 2007

Wisconsin attorney general: Race can be considered in admissions

MADISON Wis. A new freshman admissions policy requiring University of Wisconsin campuses to consider an applicant’s race as one of many factors is legal, the state attorney general said Thursday.

July 26, 2007

Frat adviser: Cartoon may have prompted alleged threat

EDWARDSVILLE Ill. A Southern Illinois University student accused of writing a note threatening a “murderous rampage” similar to the April one at Virginia Tech may innocently have been mimicking what he’d seen on a cartoon, a fraternity adviser of the suspect said.

July 26, 2007

Lawyer Asks for Changes in Schools Case

LOUISVILLE Ky. An attorney who won a U.S. Supreme Court ruling that rejected the use of race in assigning students to Louisville schools asked a judge on Thursday to allow about 2,800 students to change schools immediately.

July 26, 2007

College Student Accused of Terror Threat

EDWARDSVILLE, Ill. He seemed in many ways a typical college student — president of his fraternity at Southern Illinois University, an aspiring rapper who wrote about finding a girlfriend who could cook. He said his favorite book was the Bible.

July 25, 2007

Getting to Know: Denny McAuliffe

Denny McAuliffe realized early on that traditional college recruiting wasn’t going to bring more American Indians to journalism school. As a result, “We don’t recruit,” he says. “We go to them.”

July 25, 2007

The Weight of One Man’s Opinion

While casting the deciding vote in the recent K-12 desegregation case, Justice Anthony Kennedy’s opinion left some room to maneuver.

July 25, 2007

‘Time Out’

Do the demographics of sports newsrooms contribute to the sometimes negative coverage of Black athletes?

July 25, 2007

Professional Appointments

Peter Roby has been named athletic director at Northeastern University (Mass.). He becomes only the second Black AD at a New England Division I institution. Roby was previously director of Northeastern’s Center for the Study of Sport in Society. He earned a bachelor’s from Dartmouth College. Dr. Maurice Apprey has been named dean of […]

July 25, 2007

Grants & Gifts

California State University-Northridge has received a $2 million contribution from the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors to support the university’s Performing Arts Center. The 1,700-seat center is expected to begin construction this year and should be completed by 2009. Chestnut Hill College (Pa.) has received a four-year, $799,600 grant from the U.S. Department of […]

July 25, 2007

Making the Transition From the Private Sector to Higher Education

When I moved into the higher education arena earlier this year, my family was ecstatic to see that my new position had been mentioned in Jet magazine. My mother thought I’d have three months off a year to play since I was “teaching.”

July 25, 2007

Small, Minority Student Loan Providers Cry Foul Over Subsidy Cuts

Officials at Urban Ed. Express, a minority-owned newcomer to the student loan industry, say legislation before Congress designed to make college more affordable hurts their efforts to help minority students fund their college educations.

July 24, 2007

Clark Atlanta’s New Day-to-Day Leader Hopes To Smooth Tensions

Embattled Clark Atlanta University President Walter Broadnax, who has taken heavy criticism from faculty, students and alumni over his leadership of the school, has a new right-hand man to take over day-to-day operations. Dr. Carlton Brown, former president of Savannah State University, wants to improve the relationship between the administration and faculty and students in his newly created position that frees up Broadnax to do fund-raising.

July 23, 2007

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Group Files Complaint Against UT Over Race-Conscious Admissions

AUSTIN, Texas A legal group that fights against racial preferences in schools and workplaces has filed a complaint with the U.S. Department of Education about the University of Texas at Austin’s use of race in its undergraduate admissions process.

July 23, 2007

Texas State U. Professor Teaches South African University How To Infuse ‘Multiculturalism’ in Curriculum

Texas State University-San Marcos’ Multicultural Curriculum Transformation Project, a program designed to help diversify its faculty teaching methods and course content, has caught the attention of a university a world away — in South Africa.

July 22, 2007