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One, two, three…red light – conservative backlash derails progress in equal opportunity
The game, “One, Two, Three … Red Light,” played by elementary school children is an excellent metaphor for the state of Black progress in higher education.
June 17, 2007
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Women of the Harlem Renaissance. – book reviews
Women of the Harlem Renaissance, by Cheryl A. Wall, an associate professor of English at Rutgers University, is a welcome addition to the scholarship on women of this period. Excellently researched, this book focuses on the lives of three women writers — Jessie Redmon Faucet, Nella Larson, and Zora Neale Hurston. Together, they epitomized the voice, tone, style and vision of Black women writers in New York City during the 1920s and early ’30s — the period of the Harlem Renaissance.
June 17, 2007
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‘Savings’ on California initiative challenged – California Civil Rights Initiative – Special Report Top 100 Degree Producers
Proponents of the California Civil Rights Initiative (CCRI) tout it as a measure that will bring about substantial savings to state-house coffers by abolishing so-called state-sponsored discrimination in the form of affirmative action programs.
June 17, 2007
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UCLA ‘greater’ because of affirmative action – University of California, Los Angeles
In the past year, no issue has so touched the University of California as affirmative action and the controversy it has generated.
June 17, 2007
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Identity bank: research institute launched by College Fund/UNCF has a big job ahead of it – United Negro College Fund
Former Congressman William H. Gray III has to look no further than his battles on the floor of the U.S., House of Representatives over race-specific scholarships in justifying how key the College Fund/United Negro College Fund’s newly created Frederick D. Patterson Research Institute can be to Black America.
June 17, 2007
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Challenging racial ‘scholarship.’
Not too long ago, in the, not-so-distant past, hell had no fury like that directed at, American academics who dared to teach the lie that Blacks were genetically less intelligent than whites.
June 17, 2007
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The Selected Poems of Nikki Giovanni – book reviews
I like to bring Nikki Giovanni’s poetry into my poetry workshops, especially the “Beginning Poetry Workshop.” I have a number of good reasons. The first is what her biographer, Virginia Fowler, tells us is Giovanni’s “single most important achievement,” which is “(t)he development of a unique and distinctive voice.”
June 17, 2007
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Du Bois revisited – W.E.Burghardt Du Bois, well attended tribute features new documentary, comments on ‘Philadelphia Negro’ reissue
PHILADELPHIA Some 500 persons gathered recently at the University of Pennsylvania to celebrate the life and scholarship of William Edward Burghardt Du Bois, and to view a new film chronicling his contributions to American scholarship. Du Bois, connection to the university is a notable one. It was there, in 1896, where he was commissioned to gather data for a study that resulted in the classic work, “The Philadelphia Negro.”
June 17, 2007
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Making retention work
Since 1988’s all-time high in the college enrollment African Americans enrollment of African, American, declining high school completion figures have contributed to a slower increase in minority college participation After more than a decade of intensely examining factors that influence retention, we seem to be in a period of slippage of minority participation and success at the post-secondary level.
June 16, 2007
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Student aid plans face tough road ahead
President Bill Clinton’s new two-part approach to higher education investment–a Pell Grant increase coupled with more extensive tax credits–is drawing a mixed: response among both education advocates and Republicans in Congress.
June 16, 2007
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Clinton makes education a priority for second term
Saying that the first two years of college should be as much of a birthright as twelve years of primary and secondary school, President Bill Clinton has asked the Congress to increase federal spending on education by $51 billion.
June 16, 2007
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Student Retention Success Models in Higher Education. – book reviews
A new book edited by Dr. Clinita Ford provides unusual insight into the lessons taught by more than two decades of experience with improving educational opportunities for African American, Latino, and Native American students.
June 16, 2007
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Small schools – Where Football Is An Activity, Not a Business
In college football, the big schools win and the small schools struggle.
June 16, 2007
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Scholar and athlete: in the Arthur Ashe Jr. mold – James Brown, ex-basketball player and TV sports broadcaster – Interview
At the age of 45, Fox TV sports broadcaster James Brown’s athletic and television career has included the stuff of which dream’s are made.
June 16, 2007
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An era endangered: graduate fellowships for minorities in jeopardy
Budget cuts are drying up the flow of Department of Education funding for graduate student fellowships.
June 16, 2007
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Making of the Chicano movement revisited – lessons from the Chicano movement of 1968 – Column
Twenty-eight years ago, on March 3, 1968, more than a thousand Mexican-American students walked out of Abraham Lincoln High School and marched through the streets of East Los Angeles, California. Later in the day, several thousand more of them walked out of five other predominantly Mexican-American high schools — and, by day’s end, more than 10,000 had joined the strike.
June 16, 2007
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Building Aztlan – resurgence of Chicano activism on campus
Some Chicano scholars say the beginning of the Chicano activist movement was the defense of Tenochtitlan (now Mexico City) in 1521, which pitted the indigenous Mexican population against Spanish invaders. Others define it as the end of the Mexican-American War in 1848, when Mexico lost half of its territory to the United States and Mexican residents became, as one scholar put it, “strangers in their own land.”
June 16, 2007
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Little-known, little-recognized: historically black community colleges defy categorization, get job done
Providing a variety of college experiences and job training to thousands of Black, Hispanic and other students is a task honed to perfection by a handful of little-known and little-recognized historically Black community colleges.
June 16, 2007
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