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New Mexico Educators Won’t Face Federal Sanctions for School Racism Project
ALBUQUERQUE N.M. School leaders in a southern New Mexico district will not face federal sanctions for allowing a high school project on racism in which students posted signs reading “Whites Only” and “People of Color” above water faucets, federal officials said.
July 17, 2007
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New Mexico School District Will Implement Policy Against Racial Harassment
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. The U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights says the Truth or Consequences school district must ensure an educational environment free of racial discrimination after a Black student complained about a high school racism project.
July 17, 2007
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Oxford Administrators Using Facebook to Monitor Students
LONDON For students at the University of Oxford, Facebook is a great way to keep posted on gossip and parties. For university authorities, it’s a way to find and fine troublemakers.
July 17, 2007
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Univ. President Fired After Cover-Up
YPSILANTI,Mich. Eastern Michigan University fired its president, months after top university officials were accused of covering up the rape and slaying of a student by publicly ruling out foul play despite evidence that later led to murder charges.
July 16, 2007
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Illegal Immigrants Find Aid for College in N.M.
FORT COLLINS Colo. At least 10 undocumented students from Colorado will get to attend classes at the University of New Mexico this fall, with many not having to pay for tuition or books.
July 15, 2007
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Journalism Scholarship Established in Memory of Mississippi Publisher Tisdale
JACKSON Miss. The Charles Tisdale Memorial Scholarship is being established by the Jackson Association of Black Journalists, the president of the organization announced Friday.
July 15, 2007
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Remote Desert College Nurtures Students’ Bodies and Minds
DEEP SPRINGS VALLEY Calif. In this remote stretch of desert near Death Valley, the young man who has to wake up early to milk the cows could have gone to Harvard or Yale or Berkeley.
July 15, 2007
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High-Tech Cheating
With dozens of online term paper mills appearing on the Internet, professors and institutions are imposing new strategies to deter students from using them
July 15, 2007
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Black Enterprise-Listed – listing of top 50 colleges for African American students
A new college ranking, designed to help students and their parents evaluate an institution’s academic and social appeal for African Americans, hits newsstands.
July 14, 2007
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In Education We Trust – The Education Trust
Kati Haycock, director of The Education Trust, has released a new report full of data that she hopes will support efforts to improve the quality of public education.
July 14, 2007
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Grants & Awards
Columbia University has been awarded $75,000 from the W.K. Kellogg Foundation for the Kellogg Jobs and Education Empowerment Program which will help more than 400 residents of upper Manhattan receive job training, education and employment through a student-based social service program at Columbia.
July 14, 2007
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Bi News Briefs
At Central State: Prosecutors Resume Investigation; Fund-Raising Drive Benefits Needy Students
July 14, 2007
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Washington Update
Student-Aid Program Begins New Era
July 14, 2007
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UNH President, Black Student Leaders Strike Agreement
CONCORD, N.H. University of New Hampshire President Joan Leitzel signed a list of demands last month from Black students who had staged a sit-in at her office.
July 14, 2007
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Cyber Diversity – online instruction
It’s not unusual that all 15 students in one of Dr. Maureen Eke’s African American literature course sections at Central Michigan University are White. What’s striking, however, is that Black students and their Black professor from a campus located hundreds of miles away are beamed onto a large television screen to join Dr. Eke and her students in class discussions and lectures.
July 14, 2007
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Sour Note for the Marching 100
New allegations of band hazing officials looking for a way to stop a problem they thought had been tamed
July 14, 2007
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Worth-Less Grants
Rising Pell grant awards are not keeping pace with rising tuition and a new report shows that they are depriving needy students of educational choice
July 14, 2007
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On Higher Education: The Academic Enterprise In An Era Of Rising Student Consumerism
ON HIGHER EDUCATION: THE ACADEMIC ENTERPRISE IN AN ERA OF RISING STUDENT CONSUMERISM
July 14, 2007
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