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Section: Demographics
Latinx
U.S.-Cuban Relations on Higher Ed Level Continue to Grow
Exchange students from the communist island nation are slowly trickling in to U.S. universities.
July 2, 2014
Faculty & Staff
Napolitano Aims to Grow University of California Role in Fighting Hunger
University of California President Janet Napolitano said Tuesday that she plans to leverage the state’s role in agriculture and research to tackle one of the world’s most pressing problems: food.
July 1, 2014
Students
Booker T. Washington Descendant: Fight for Quality Education Constant
Amanda Washington, Booker T. Washington’s great-great granddaughter, assesses the state of education 50 years after the signing of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
July 1, 2014
African-American
Diverse Conversations: Is a 4.0 at an HBCU the Same as a 4.0 at a PWI?
One of the biggest struggles, perhaps, is the equalizing of values, of recognition and importance.
June 30, 2014
Students
Expert Sees AAPI Churches, Elders as Keys to LGBT Inclusion in Higher Ed
A former evangelical minister, Jess Delegencia led a conference session last week examining the intersections—and historical lack thereof—among Asian American and Pacific Islanders (AAPI), Christianity and lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people.
June 30, 2014
African-American
Freedom Summer Conference: Black Vote Still an Issue in Mississippi
Last week’s Freedom Summer 50th Anniversary Conference at Tougaloo College brought national attention to the fight for Black voting rights in Mississippi just as a pivotal Republican Senate primary runoff election likely was decided by African-American Democrats.
June 30, 2014
African-American
Freedom Summer Conference: Black Vote Still an Issue in Mississippi
Last week’s Freedom Summer 50th Anniversary Conference at Tougaloo College brought national attention to the fight for Black voting rights in Mississippi just as a pivotal Republican Senate primary runoff election likely was decided by African-American Democrats.
June 29, 2014
African-American
Confrontation Between Campus Security, Professor Puts Arizona State in Spotlight
Physical encounter involving Dr. Ersula Ore reignites an age-old discussion among academics about how minorities — including minority faculty — are policed by campus officers who are charged with safeguarding the university and its surrounding areas.
June 29, 2014
African-American
In Case You Missed It…
Course Correction Uncertain for Increasing Black Enrollment in Higher Ed Financial Help Not Likely on Horizon for Tribal Colleges Panel: Community-Based Programs Vital for Black Male Educational Achievement Help for the Armchair Athletic Director
June 26, 2014
Faculty & Staff
Education Department Official: Some Campuses Hostile to Victims
Some colleges and universities are still failing students by inadequately responding to campus sexual assault, a senior Education Department official testified Thursday.
June 26, 2014
Students
Cornell University Alumni Endow First Africana Studies Center Lectureship
Cornell University alumni Reuben A. Munday and Cheryl Casselberry Munday have created an endowment that will allow the university’s Africana Studies and Research Center to bring in a leading scholar of African and African-American studies to the Ithaca campus for an annual lecture.
June 25, 2014
African-American
Freedom Summer 50th Anniversary Highlights Tougaloo College’s Civil Rights Role
The Freedom 50 conference on the Tougaloo campus commemorates the 50th anniversary of the bloody 1964 Freedom Summer in Mississippi.
June 25, 2014
Leadership & Policy
Alum Donates School-Record $3M to Huston-Tillotson University
Huston-Tillotson University alum Ada Cecilia Collins Anderson donated $3 million to her alma mater Monday.
June 24, 2014
African-American
Black Achievement Stats Belie South Africa’s Post-Apartheid Success Story
Though overall Black enrollment in South Africa’s colleges and universities is up, one leading scholar says the raw numbers mask a series of other disparities that plague the nation’s institutions of higher learning.
June 24, 2014
Students
Corinthian Colleges, Education Dept. Reach Tentative Agreement
The for-profit education company will receive an immediate $16 million in federal student aid funds and keep operating.
June 23, 2014
African-American
The Redskins Fight and the Legacy of Richard Oakes
It’s amazing how even some young people at the school, and even some regular folks in the city I asked at random, had no idea who Oakes was.
June 23, 2014
African-American
Experts Cite Strides, Struggles for Blacks in Higher Education Since Juneteenth
The program commemorated one of the oldest known celebrations for the end of slavery in the U.S. by highlighting the overarching HBCU significance since 1865 and the fight for equal education post-Brown v. Board of Education.
June 23, 2014
African-American
Panel: Community-Based Programs Vital for Black Male Educational Achievement
In a series of back-to-back panels, the experts argued that too often young Black men are held back by a series of factors that are often beyond their control, such as poverty, poor school systems and chaotic family lives.
June 23, 2014
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