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African-American
A Question of Academic Integrity
A Question of Academic Integrity One scholar challenges the scholarship of Dr. Michael Eric DysonBy Dr. Paul R. Griffin After reading Ronald Roach’s interview (see Black Issues In Higher Education, Aug. 11, 2005) with Dr. Michael Dyson concerning Dyson’s latest book — Is Bill Cosby Right? (Or Has The Black Middle Class Lost Its Mind?) […]
November 2, 2005
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Students
Professional Appointments
Miguel Cairol has been named vice president for administration and finance at New York City College of Technology/CUNY. Previously, he served as acting dean for planning and special assistant to the president. Cairol holds a bachelor’s from California State University, Los Angeles, master’s degrees from The CUNY Graduate Center and from Baruch College/ CUNY and […]
November 2, 2005
Students
Student Looks to Open Latino Fraternity at Iowa State University
Is there enough interest at Iowa State University to support a multicultural fraternity aimed at Latino students? That’s the question facing Juan Guardia, a graduate student…
October 26, 2005
African-American
Michigan State Professor Wins $25,000 Frederick Douglass Book Prize
Yale University’s Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance and Abolition recently announced that it has awarded the Seventh Annual Frederick Douglass Book Prize to Dr. Laurent Dubois for his study…
October 26, 2005
Students
University of Arizona Gay Fraternity to Gain Official Status
Delta Lambda Phi has been around the University of Arizona campus since the early ’90s. But by the end of this year, it expects to gain official status…
October 25, 2005
African-American
Civil Rights Pioneer, First Black University of Alabama Graduate Remembered
More than 500 mourners gave Vivian Malone Jones one last standing ovation at her funeral Wednesday, honoring the quiet courage of a civil rights icon…
October 23, 2005
African-American
Black Activists Upset Over King Tut Portraits
Black activists say the computer-generated portraits of King Tut that are scheduled to go on display at a museum
October 19, 2005
Faculty & Staff
University of Michigan Faculty Seek Help After Asian Students Harassed
Several University of Michigan faculty members have asked school president Dr. Mary Sue Coleman to
October 19, 2005
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Students
Against All Odds
While a graduate student at Stanford University, Veronica Mendoza conducted research on six Latino students
October 19, 2005
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Latinx
Project Puente
Concerned about the low percentage of Latino and Mexican American community college students who transferred
October 18, 2005
African-American
Vivian Malone Jones, First Black to Graduate from University of Alabama, Dies at 63
Vivian Malone Jones, one of two Black students whose effort to enroll at the University of Alabama led to former Gov. George Wallace’s infamous…
October 13, 2005
African-American
Exhibit Explores History of Slavery in New York
Most Americans think of slavery as a Southern institution, but for close to 200 years, New York City served as a centerpiece in the African slave trade…
October 9, 2005
Asian American Pacific Islander
Blacks, Hispanics Trail Whites, Asians in Colorado schools
Black and Hispanic schoolchildren don’t fare as well as White and Asian classmates in math, reading, writing and science…
October 9, 2005
African-American
Todd Meets With Lawmakers Over University of Kentucky’s Drop in Diversity
University of Kentucky President Lee Todd met with a group state lawmakers last week and said he apologized to the…
October 9, 2005
Native Americans
Congressional Conference Committee Approves Funding for Tribal College
A House-Senate conference committee has approved a Department of the Interior appropriations bill that would include
October 5, 2005
African-American
Blacks Remain an Extreme Minority At University of California Campuses
James Marshall didn’t expect it would be easy, being one of just a handful of Black students at the University of California
October 5, 2005
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Students
Asian American Leaders Criticize Handling of Student Complaint by Washington Human Rights Commission
Asian American students and community leaders are criticizing a state Human Rights Commission task force report
October 5, 2005
African-American
Book Casts Doubts on Parts of 18th-Century Slave Narrative
Olaudah Equiano wrote with vivid detail of life as human cargo — the foul smells aboard the slave ship that
October 5, 2005
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