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Students
Riding Into College With Your Posse
Foundation eases transition by sending students to campuses in groups.
February 26, 2008
Students
Classes Help University of Missouri Custodial Employees Communicate
Some classes being offered at the University of Missouri-Columbia are for the custodial employees, with the aim of helping them better communicate with each other.
February 26, 2008
Latinx
Louisiana Deputies Taking Spanish Lessons
university language department chair is spending time teaching sheriff’s deputies Spanish so they can handle emergencies better when immigrants who speak little or no English are involved.
February 26, 2008
Native Americans
UC-Davis Scholars Working to Preserve Native Languages
The first time Jose Freeman heard his tribe’s lost language through the crackle of a 70-year-old recording, he cried.
February 25, 2008
Latinx
New Quiz Show on Hispanic Heritage to Launch
A new TV quiz show that aims to educate and excite viewers about Hispanic history will air nationally during Hispanic History Month, and is now accepting applicants.
February 25, 2008
African-American
Ball State Professor Helps Treat Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder in Former Liberian Soldiers
Thousands of Liberian children were forced into combat during the civil war that broke out in 1996.
February 24, 2008
Leadership & Policy
CU Chancellor, Student Editors Apologize for Column on Asians
BOULDER Colo. The chancellor of the University of Colorado’s Boulder campus has apologized for a student’s satirical column poking fun at Asians. Editors of the student newspaper apologized as well. The column said Asian students “hate us all” and should be rounded up and forced to play drinking games and endure other ordeals until they […]
February 21, 2008
Native Americans
New Academic Journal Focuses on History of American Indians in South
Dr. Greg O’Brien, a University of Southern Mississippi associate professor of history, will be a founding editor of The Native South, a new academic journal that seeks to broaden and challenge the traditional study of American Indians in the South, according to a report in the Hattiesburg American.
February 21, 2008
Leadership & Policy
University of Connecticut Hopes to Start Offering Black Studies Major in Fall
Students at the state’s flagship university will be able to earn degrees in the study of Black history and culture starting this fall if a state board approves the school’s plans.
February 20, 2008
African-American
Getting to Know Dr. David Ikard
Dr. David Ikard’s recent book, Breaking the Silence:Toward a Black Male Feminist Criticism (LSU Press), has not only generated buzz within academia but has made its way onto the pop culture scene because of its insightful analysis of the writings of such literary giants as Toni Morrison, Walter Mosley and Toni Cade Bambara. But it […]
February 19, 2008
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Students
Suffering the Borrowing Blues
Proprietary schools likely to be most affected by lenders’ retreat from high-risk student loans, officials say.
February 19, 2008
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Faculty & Staff
Descendant of University of Missouri Founder Creates Slavery Atonement Fund
Endowment will help support research into the impact, effects of slavery in the United States.
February 19, 2008
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Native Americans
Stalemate Persists Over American Indian Remains at UC Museum
Native groups want more control over repatriation process.
February 19, 2008
African-American
A Month of Discoveries
Black History Month brings out the best publishers have to offer.
February 19, 2008
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Native Americans
Study Reveals Low Retention Rates for Nevada’s American Indian Students
A study presented to the Nevada System of Higher Education Board of Regents shows that only 57 percent of American Indian freshmen at Nevada colleges and universities continue on to their sophomore year, according to an article in University of Nevada, Las Vegas’s student newspaper, The Rebel Yell. The rest either transfer to an out-of-state […]
February 19, 2008
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African-American
Diverse Calendar
March 12-16 The National Black Graduate Student Association 20th Annual Conference “Brilliance in Black”Four Points Sheraton at O’Hare HotelChicagoWeb: www.nbgsa.org March 13- 15Eleventh Annual Regional HBCUSummit on Retention“Improving Retention at HBCUs:Retention is a Shared Enterprise”Clarion Resort HotelOcean City, Md.Contact: Dr. Anne L. Gaskins-NeddPhone: (301) 860-3687e-mail: anedd@bowiestate.edu March 14-15Faculty Resource Network at New York University“The Molecules […]
February 19, 2008
Native Americans
Congress May Apologize to American Indians
WASHINGTON  A resolution that formally apologizes to American Indians for years of government mistreatment and abuse will be part of an Indian health care bill expected to pass the Senate later this month. Kansas Sen. Sam Brownback, who has pushed the measure since 2004, said he hopes the measure “helps heal the wounds that have […]
February 19, 2008
Leadership & Policy
University of Connecticut Hopes to Start Offering Black Studies Major in Fall
STORRS, Conn. Students at the state’s flagship university will be able to earn degrees in the study of Black history and culture starting this fall if a state board approves the school’s plans. The University of Connecticut is asking the state Board of Higher Education to approve an interdisciplinary major it will call African-American Studies. […]
February 19, 2008
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