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Section: Demographics
Students
Athletes, outcasts and partyers – films about African Americans in higher education
Films about African Americans in higher education are a relatively new phenomenon but they, like other films about Blacks, still frequently resort to stereotypes.
June 15, 2007
Students
An interview with Tim Reid – Interview
When veteran actor Tim Reid got sick and tired of being sick and tired of the negative images of African Americans he saw on the silver screen, he decided to go behind the camera and produce “positive feature films” for the African-American community.
June 15, 2007
Latinx
Efforts Underway To Thwart Controversial Upward Bound Changes
Tucked into a U.S. House of Representatives higher education bill this week is a plan to scuttle a controversial evaluation of the Upward Bound program that would require grantees to enroll twice as many students as necessary and then provide no services to some of the youth as part of a research experiment.
June 14, 2007
Sports
Chasing More Than Just Wins
Black women coaches hope to inspire the next generation of athletes.
June 13, 2007
African-American
Call Me Mister: South Carolina Program Trains Black Men to Become Schoolteachers and Role Models
Now seven years old, the Call Me Mister program has placed 20 Black male teachers in South Carolina schools. So how are they doing?
June 13, 2007
Sports
Black Women Coaches Hope to Inspire the Next Generation
Recent appointments of Black women coaches – like that of Cochese Washington at Penn State – raise the profile of African American women in Division I athletics, and provide hope and inspiration to the next generation.
June 13, 2007
Students
Broken Bonds: Are Black Greek Organizations Making Themselves Irrelevant?
It is rare that one finds a venue to advance balanced, yet critical, debate over Black Greek Letter Organizations, or BGLOs.
June 13, 2007
Latinx
House Committee Approves Increase in Pell Grant, New Funding For Black Colleges
The House education committee on Wednesday approved a higher education bill that would increase Pell Grants, cut lender subsidies and make wide-ranging changes to help low-income students and minority-serving colleges.
June 13, 2007
Latinx
MSIs, College Access Programs Gain in House Bill
Advocates for low-income students are hailing a new U.S. House of Representatives agreement that would increase funding for college access programs and minority-serving institutions in 2008.
June 10, 2007
LGBTQ+
Campus Anti-Semitism, But Not Racism, Focus of Civil Rights Commission Web Site
A new effort by the federal government to crack down on anti-Semitism against Jewish students on U.S. colleges campuses has some questioning why more isn’t being done to also monitor racist activity directed towards African-American, Hispanic and other racial minority college students.
June 4, 2007
Latinx
Low Percentage of Latino Students Transfer From Community Colleges to Four-Year Universities, UCLA Study Shows
LOS ANGELES Although a majority of Latino students in California are enrolled in the community-college system, only a handful transfer to a four-year university, according to a new report by the UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center.
May 31, 2007
Asian American Pacific Islander
Carving Out Their Own Niche
African-American cultural expression is one of the many influences fueling Asian-American artistry.
May 30, 2007
Latinx
Minority-Serving Institutions Scrambling For Quick Funds
HSIs look for increased federal funding through NSF and farm bills.
May 30, 2007
Students
Coming to Terms With the “R” Word
Colleges may boast diversity, but what does that really mean for campus climate?
May 30, 2007
Sports
The Prevalence of Black Females In College Sports: It’s Just An Illusion
If you had a chance to watch the NCAA women’s basketball championship in April, you probably noticed that 80 percent of the starters for Rutgers and Tennessee were non-White.
May 30, 2007
Native Americans
Bringing the Global Market to Native Lands
At the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota, a group of college entrepreneurs are preparing to enter the global market by launching an American Indian news service — and without ever having to step foot off the reservation.
May 23, 2007
Asian American Pacific Islander
Lawyer: Duke Cheating Case Hit Asian Students Hardest
DURHAM, N.C. Asian students involved in a cheating scandal at the Duke University business school were punished more severely than others, their attorney says.
May 21, 2007
Students
How UCLA’s Black Enrollment Rebounded
Community leaders and Black alumni stepped up to help boost Black enrollment at the University of California, Los Angeles this year. The number of Black students who said they plan to enroll as freshmen in the fall doubled from 103 to 203, bringing the percentage of Black UCLA freshmen to 4.5 percent, up from 2.2 percent a year ago.
May 21, 2007
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