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Section: Demographics
Latinx
Study: Latin History Teaching Standards Lacking
American schools are doing a poor job of teaching history and culture of Latin America and Mexico, according to a new review of states’ world history teaching standards conducted by the Washington, D.C.,-based Thomas B. Fordham Institute.
June 5, 2006
Latinx
Education Department Issues Criteria for “Rigorous” Curriculum
Students at minority-serving colleges and universities are among the primary targets of a new $4.5-billion financial aid windfall…
May 31, 2006
Sports
Use of Indian Mascots Coming to an End For College Teams
The debate over the use of American Indian imagery in college sports is coming to a head as the National Collegiate Athletic Association…
May 31, 2006
Students
Operation Black Male
The media and scholarly literature are replete with countless reminders of the negative plight of…
May 31, 2006
African-American
Looking for a Cut Card
When a million immigrants flooded the streets of Los Angeles, and a quarter as many thronged into the customary protest space…
May 31, 2006
African-American
Howard University Trio Repeats Skins Competition Victory
Repeating their winning ways for a second consecutive year, three Howard University seniors took top honors…
May 31, 2006
Students
Luminaries Honor Toni Morrison Before Retirement
A party for author Toni Morrison drew stars such as former President Bill Clinton and actor Morgan Freeman, as well as officials and students from Princeton University, where the author has taught for 17 years before announcing her retirement this spring.
May 29, 2006
African-American
Vanderbilt Lures Black Literary Scholars
Vanderbilt University is on a mission to transform its literary studies program, and hopes to use an interdisciplinary approach to make that happen. To achieve that end, the university is adding five leading Black literary scholars, including Drs. Houston A. Baker and Hortense Spillers, to its English department.
May 24, 2006
African-American
Oxford University Press Unveils African-American Virtual Library
Students, scholars, teachers and librarians now have instant access to more than 30 volumes of reference works on the African-American experience — all on one new online resource.
May 17, 2006
Faculty & Staff
Auditor: University of Missouri-Kansas City Faculty Diversity Is ‘Worst’ He’s Seen
The University of Missouri-Kansas City has a serious problem with its racial climate and a serious lack of diversity in its faculty…
May 17, 2006
African-American
What Gives With The Covenant With Black America?
Not only was the book nowhere to be found at a major bookstore in New Orleans — which has long carried a “Chocolate City” designation — but the clerk had never even heard of it….
May 17, 2006
Latinx
Intellectual Expansion Through International Learning
I can remember seeing a large paper map of the world in grade school. It showed the United States as a large body of land that seemed to…
May 17, 2006
Latinx
New Mexico State Hopes to Draw Students from Minority-Serving Institutions
New Mexico State University regents, seeking to boost enrollment, have approved three programs involving out-of-state tuition waivers — including a pilot project to analyze the elimination of nonresident tuition.
May 15, 2006
Native Americans
Yale Secret Society May Have Stolen Apache Leader Skull, Says Researcher
A Yale University historian has uncovered a 1918 letter that seems to lend validity to the lore that Yale University’s ultra-secret Skull and Bones society swiped the skull of American Indian leader Geronimo.
May 9, 2006
Faculty & Staff
Professors’ Salaries at Minority-serving Institutions Lag Counterparts
A recent study, “The Devaluing of Higher Education: The Annual Report on the Economic Status of the Profession, 2005-06,” found that overall average salaries for professors declined for the second year in a row…
May 8, 2006
Latinx
House Votes to Reauthorize Higher Education Act
After years of partisan bickering, the House of Representatives has passed a measure reauthorizing the Higher Education Act for six years on a 221-199 near-party line vote…
May 3, 2006
Students
For Missing Civil Rights Hero, A Degree at Last
If Lloyd Gaines is alive, his law degree is waiting for him. The University of Missouri-Columbia School of Law has decided to award an honorary degree to Gaines 68 years after…
May 3, 2006
Latinx
Study Details How U.S. Can Lessen
By taking the right measures, the United States could end its dependence on oil imported from the Middle East by 2025, says a recent study by a team of researchers at the University of California, Berkeley…
May 3, 2006
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