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Students
American Indians Get Apology from Dartmouth College Head
HANOVER The president of Dartmouth College has apologized for a string of incidents this fall that many American Indian students viewed as racist.
November 29, 2006
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African-American
The Power of Oprah
The Power of Oprah We stand on the shoulders of giants (see “Oprah Headlines Bennett Fund-raising Event,” Nov. 16). What an honor to have her care enough to come and share her time and energy with the students of Bennett and the Triad Community. Anyone can write a check. But to give of your time […]
November 29, 2006
Women
Scholars Debate Effectiveness of Single-Sex Classes
Leah Hasty was looking to provide a male role model for Black boys enrolled in the Baltimore public elementary school where she was principal…
November 29, 2006
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Students
An Ethnic Studies Evolution
As a student in the Chicana/o studies program at the University of Texas at El Paso…
November 29, 2006
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Native Americans
Deal or No Deal?
Education at a tribal college for non-Native students is “an awfully good deal for states,” says…
November 29, 2006
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Native Americans
Photo Essay: African-Americans and American Indians, A Shared History
On April 13, 1878, an unprecedented event in American Indian education began in Virginia at the Hampton Institute
November 29, 2006
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Leadership & Policy
Florida State University Launches Seminole History Class In Effort To Keep Mascot
TALLAHASSEE Fla. Florida State University student Daniel Lee learned in fourth grade most of what he knew about the Seminole Indians, namesakes of his school’s athletic teams. It wasn’t much.
November 28, 2006
Latinx
Building Named After Civil War Hero With Possible KKK Connections Draws Controversy
MURFREESBORO, Tenn. After 205 members of the Middle Tennessee State University community signed a petition to change the name of the school’s Forrest Hall, the Student Government Association agreed.
November 27, 2006
Latinx
La Raza Program Seeks To Boost Hispanic College Student Retention
KANSAS CITY, Mo. Jafet Carrasco doesn’t know anyone who has been to college besides his teachers. He hears people talk about credit hours, but he’s not sure what they are. And he knows college costs money, but not how much.
November 21, 2006
African-American
Still Dealing AT Duke
Dr. Karla Holloway, the William R. Kenan Professor of English at Duke University
November 15, 2006
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African-American
Scholars: Slavery’s Legacy Present in Current Policies, Social Customs
Several hundred people spent a day and a half recently at Brandeis University discussing a subject that most people generally avoid: slavery…
November 15, 2006
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Leadership & Policy
ACE Report Cites Enrollment Gains, Retention Problems
The college enrollment of Hispanic students jumped nearly 70 percent between 1993-2003…
November 15, 2006
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Brown University Applauded for Examination of Its Ties to Slavery
A Brown University committee investigating the institution’s ties to slavery has recommended the school atone for its past by creating a slave trade memorial…
November 15, 2006
Students
Historians John Hope Franklin, Yu Ying-shih Named Winners of 2006 John W. Kluge Prize for the Study of Humanity
Drs. John Hope Franklin and Yu Ying-shih have been named the recipients of the third John W. Kluge Prize for lifetime achievement in the study of humanity, the Library of Congress announced Wednesday. They will share the $1 million prize.
November 14, 2006
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Students
Black Students Issue New Deadline To Indiana-Purdue Over Inequity Claims
INDIANAPOLIS Black students at Indiana University Purdue University at Indianapolis have issued a new deadline for the university administration to answer requests for a campus center for them, an African-American studies program and $78,000 to Black organizations.
November 14, 2006
Students
Ohio State Students Protest Closing of Black Studies Library
COLUMBUS, Ohio A student group has created an online petition protesting the closure of two Ohio State University campus libraries: the Black studies library and the women’s studies library.
November 13, 2006
Native Americans
A Matter of Survival
To the average ear, the words and sounds of Arapaho are from another world…
November 8, 2006
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African-American
Howard University Forges New Ties for Freedman Project
WASHINGTON, D.C. Howard University will participate in a historic collaboration with the Genealogical Society of Utah, the National Archives and Records Administration and the Black History Museum and Cultural Heritage Center of Virginia to index Virginia’s Freedmen’s Bureau records – the “genesis records” of African-American identity in the post-Civil War era.
November 7, 2006
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