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Students
The STEM Issue Branches Out to the Funny Pages
So, with all of the strength that a child can muster, Gracie — a Hispanic little girl — charged into the STEM arena. In the July 18 Baldo comic strip, which was carried by 200 newspapers, she matter-of-factly mentioned to Tia Carmen that she would focus on a “STEM area of study” when she went to college.
October 16, 2011
Students
Thousands Gather at National Mall to Dedicate Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial
President Obama said the MLK memorial is not just a monument to pay tribute to Dr. King as an individual, but to all of the people, including the unsung heroes, who comprised the civil rights movement that Dr. King led.
October 16, 2011
Students
Most Colleges Not Ready To Ask About LGBT Status
Advocates say that, besides being a recruiting tool to help diversify campuses, openly assessing a school’s LGBT population would make colleges more aware of needs such as finding tolerant roommates.
October 13, 2011
African-American
Duke Endowment Awards $35 Million to Johnson C. Smith University
The North Carolina-based Duke Endowment announced Wednesday that it is awarding $35 million to Johnson C. Smith University, a historically Black school in Charlotte, N.C.
October 12, 2011
Asian American Pacific Islander
White House Social Outreach to Asians, Pacific Islanders Expanding
The White House Initiative on Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders plans to expand its reach into more communities in need of federal programs and protections, officials say.
October 12, 2011
Asian American Pacific Islander
Report Provides Close Look at Diversity Among Asian American, Pacific Islander Students
College and university leaders should pay greater attention to the demographics of the growing number of their Asian-American and Pacific Islander students, a national commission urges.
October 11, 2011
Disabilties
Engineering Instructor and Activist Seeks, Inspires Wheelchair Innovation
As the founder of the San Francisco State University-based Whirlwind Wheelchair International, Ralf Hotchkiss focuses on producing and distributing durable yet inexpensive chairs for people with significant disabilities in countries such as Rwanda, Indonesia and Haiti.
October 11, 2011
Students
Texas University Breaking Ties With Community College
University of Texas at Brownsville to part ways with Texas Southmost College, ending unusual 20-year partnership.
October 10, 2011
Students
‘New Orleans in the Hamptons’ Raises College Scholarship Funds
Foundation fundraiser hosted by Soledad O’Brien and husband Brad Raymond brought movers and shakers together to lend a hand to college students.
October 10, 2011
Students
U.S.-Mexico Border Journalism Project Continues To Train Hispanics in Writing and Reporting
Borderzine is approaching its fifth anniversary with much to celebrate about its efforts to train aspiring Hispanic journalists using the populations on both sides of the nation’s 2,000-mile border with Mexico as its practical classroom.
October 9, 2011
Latinx
Rhode Island Governor Blasted over Undocumented Immigrant Tuition
Some 500 critics of Gov. Lincoln Chafee and a new policy allowing in-state tuition for illegal immigrants at Rhode Island’s public colleges rallied Wednesday at the Statehouse, saying he is making the state a “sanctuary” for those who came to the United States illegally.
October 6, 2011
African-American
VCU Launches Project on Massive Resistance
Virginia Commonwealth University is launching an oral-history project that explores the Massive Resistance policy in Virginia during the 1950s and ‘60s.
October 6, 2011
Students
Pioneering Law Professor Derrick Bell Dies
Derrick Bell, the first Black professor at Harvard Law School and an uncompromising advocate for social justice, has died at age 80.
October 6, 2011
African-American
White House Black College Leader Urges Development of HBCU Online Programs
HBCUs and the online learning community need to become “more married” to reach more African-American students, said Dr. John S. Wilson, executive director of the White House Initiative on HBCUs.
October 6, 2011
Latinx
DREAM Advocates: Guarded Optimism on New Immigration Policy
A recently issued immigration directive from the Obama administration could pave the way for more undocumented students to stay in the United States but falls short of the much-discussed DREAM Act offering such youth a pathway to citizenship, experts say.
October 5, 2011
Students
Vermont Law, Long a Holdout, Lifting Military Ban
The policy barring military recruiters dated from the mid-1980s, years before the Clinton administration adopted the policy that became known as “don’t ask, don’t tell” in 1993.
October 4, 2011
African-American
Philosophy Professor Still Teaching after More than 60 Years at Texas Southern
A Texas Southern University professor of philosophy since 1949 and an educator for 66 years, 91-year old Dr. Thomas Freeman has taught and influenced generations of college students.
October 4, 2011
Latinx
Undocumented Students Face Obstacles Even After College
Many undocumented college students, and recent college graduates, have no immediate pathway to legal status and, under current federal immigration law, employers cannot legally hire them.
October 3, 2011
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