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LGBTQ+
Reaching Out to Diverse Students with Mental Health Services
Perspectives: Reaching diverse students with critical mental health services requires innovative and culturally competent outreach.
December 19, 2010
Students
Curriculum Reform at UT-Galveston Medical School Yields Improved Minority Student Board Results
The UT Medical Branch at Galveston has developed an approach that faculty members say have had a remarkable effect on its students’ performance on the medical board exam.
December 19, 2010
Students
College President Tackles Student Persistence, Campus Expansion
Helping students persist to graduation at Hispanic-serving New Jersey City University is a priority for Dr. Carlos Hernández.
December 16, 2010
African-American
Black Segregation in U.S. Drops to Lowest in Century
America’s neighborhoods took large strides toward racial integration in the last decade as Blacks and Whites chose to live near each other at the highest levels in a century.
December 15, 2010
Latinx
With Dream Act Shelved, Immigrants Look to 2012
The undocumented immigrants who more than a decade ago were just teens hoping to forge a legal path to citizenship are vowing to make the Dream Act a campaign issue come 2012.
December 15, 2010
Students
Keeping Latino Religion Scholars Faithful to the Classroom
The Princeton Theological Seminary’s Hispanic Theological Initiative helps Latino doctoral students launch careers as religion scholars.
December 15, 2010
African-American
Southern University System Proceeds With Streamlining Amid Budget Crunch
Ronald Mason, the new president of the Southern University System, says he’s moving forward with campus campaigns amid stiff budget reductions.
December 14, 2010
Students
Garden State Abandons Minority Doctoral Program
New Jersey Legislature defunds the Minority Academic Careers program, making financing doctoral study a heavier burden for minority students.
December 14, 2010
Sports
Jackson State’s NAACP Chapter Has First White President
The president of the Mississippi NAACP says the selection of a White man to lead one of the organization’s chapters shows its real mission to represent more than one race.
December 13, 2010
Native Americans
American Indian Museum Still Facing Criticism for Historical Inaccuracies
Native American activists, scholars lead collaborative effort to address sins of omission at the National Museum of the American Indian.
December 13, 2010
Native Americans
Book Review: Lending Credibility to the Oral Tradition
Native American scholar validates indigenous oral history as a source of academic information with book exploring the murder of a famed Ojibwe chief.
December 12, 2010
African-American
Civil Rights Commission Report Finds That HBCUs Do a Better Job of Graduating Black STEM Majors
Race-conscious admissions at elite institutions lead to academic “mismatch” for Black students, report says.
December 12, 2010
Native Americans
Native Americans Combat the Suicide Spirit
Tribal colleges are at the forefront of communitywide efforts to combat suicide with culturally relevant methods.
December 9, 2010
Latinx
Early College Planning Essential for Latino Student Success, Experts Say
To ensure better college access and success for Latino students from low-income backgrounds, institutions should help them put together college plans as early as the eighth grade, according to experts at two Washington-area education events.
December 9, 2010
African-American
Scholar Documents Historic Ties Between African-Americans and Native Americans
As an associate professor at the University of Michigan, Dr. Tiya Miles has emerged as a leading scholar of Cherokee-African American relations.
December 8, 2010
Faculty & Staff
Belmont University Faculty Wants Discussion of Sexual Identity Issues
Professors at Belmont University in Tennessee, where a gay soccer coach recently resigned, want a campus discussion of sexual identity issues.
December 7, 2010
Leadership & Policy
Ten HBCUs Get Accreditation Reaffirmed, Two Placed on Warning Status
Fisk and Tennessee State Universities were placed on warning status by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools (SACS) Commission on Colleges.
December 7, 2010
African-American
Author Spotlight: Oyeronke Oyewumi
Oyeronke Oyewumi is an associate professor of sociology at the State University of New York at Stony Brook, where she has taught courses on gender and globilization and feminist theory. The Nigerian-born scholar studied at the University of Ibadan and at the University of California at Berkeley. She is the author of African Women and Feminism: Reflecting on the Politics of Sisterhood, Africa World Press, Trenton: New Jersey (2003), available on diversebooks.net
December 6, 2010
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