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African-American
Bostonians squabble over headline – Dr. Henry Louis Gates, Jr
Dr. Henry Louis Gates Jr., is all over the place. He was a consultant to the movie Amistad and is a writer for New Yorker magazine, the featured guest in a BBC series on Africa, a book author, a department chairperson, and a professor. Described by many as an “intellectual superstar,” the million-dollar earner has put Harvard University’s Afro-American studies department on the map by attracting a “Dream Team” of mostly male scholars.
July 12, 2007
Leadership & Policy
Scholars say basta to Chicano/Latino president shortage – enough
Efforts are underway to create a new pipeline to reverse shrinking representation
July 12, 2007
Faculty & Staff
Professors want affirmative action back – University of California at Berkeley faculty
Berkeley, Calif. A group of University of California-Berkeley faculty members — alarmed about plunging admissions of African Americans, Native Americans, and Latinos in the aftermath of California’s Proposition 209 — are the latest group to urge passage of a new, student-authored measure called the Equal Educational Opportunity Initiative (EEOI).
July 12, 2007
Latinx
Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo under new scrutiny
As people in Mexico and the United States commemorate the 150th anniversary of the end of the Mexican American War, the Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo has come under new scrutiny from scholars in both countries. They have been examining the implications of the treaty which ended the war, and its political relevance and meaning to modern Mexico-U.S. relations.
July 12, 2007
African-American
Waiting for a Miracle: Why School Can’t Solve Our Problems and How We Can. – book reviews
James Corner, M.D., adds his name to the dozens of recent books written about the effectiveness of American schools and matters of race, culture; and intelligence. Waiting for a Miracle: Why School Can’t Solve Our Problems and How We Can is a treatise on the interconnectedness between sound child development and effective schooling, family, and community and societal networks. It also examines the historical impact of economic and social policies on the development of groups in America.
July 12, 2007
African-American
The public responsibility of Pan-African Studies
As a discipline, Pan-African studies has developed a body of expertise that should, in the future, help focus public policy regarding Africa and the African diaspora, according to scholars who participated in the Pan-African Studies Conference earlier this month.
July 12, 2007
African-American
Lift Every Voice: African American Oratory, 1787-1900. – book reviews
How is a culture — or a nation, for that matter — created? It is called into being at the aboriginal level. Sound and sign, and song, and word are deployed. And the African American experience — as Black cultural construction in the United States is now called — like all other cultures, has an oral tradition at its center.
July 12, 2007
Sports
Coaches cornered: the 1997 racial report card; the future of African American football coaches may fall victim to the assault on affirmative action
The future of African American football coaches may fall victim to the assault on affirmative action
July 12, 2007
Sports
Black scholars on sports: controversial book brings Black intellectuals together to discuss whether African Americans are preoccupied with sports – John Hoberman, ‘Darwin’s Athletes: How Sport Has Damaged Black America and Preserved the Myth of Race’
Controversial book brings Black intellectuals together to discuss whether African Americans are preoccupied with sports
July 12, 2007
African-American
In defense of diversity: videoconference examines the anti-affirmative action movement
I find it interesting that it wasn’t until the issue of race was introduced in the admission process that [preferences] became ax issue. It’s not until you talk about race that we’re seeing these kinds of legal challenges.”
July 12, 2007
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African-American
Bad news in Berkeley: 800 Black, Latino students with 4.0 grades and 1200-plus SATs denied admissions
800 Black, Latino students with 4.0 grades and 1200-plus SATs denied admissions
July 12, 2007
Students
Making mentorship count: surviving Ph.D. programs requires someone who is willing to show the way
By his own admission, Dr. Damian Rouson’s initial adjustment from Howard University to the graduate engineering program at Stanford University was difficult.
July 12, 2007
Faculty & Staff
It’s not rocket science – finding African American undergraduates for graduate study in science – includes related articles
Earlier in his career, Dr. Luther S. Williams spent nearly ten years as the only faculty member of color out of seventy in his department at Purdue University. The African American microbiologist is now assistant director of education and human resources at the National Science Foundation (NSF).
July 12, 2007
African-American
College Deciding Discipline For Hanging Black Mannequin
YELLOW SPRINGS, Ohio Antioch College officials are trying to decide whether to discipline four students who tied a noose around the neck of a Black mannequin and hung it from a tree.
July 12, 2007
African-American
Howard Weighs In on Affirmative Action Debate
WASHINGTON By organizing a high-powered symposium that includes William Gray of The College Fund, Christopher Edley Jr. of the Harvard School of Law, and Luther Williams of the National Science Foundation, Howard University has begun an examination of whether African Americans and other under-represented groups will continue to have access to graduate education.
July 12, 2007
Students
Hurdle #1: Getting in the Door
Research institutions are the primary producers of the nation’s scientific brain trust. Yet, the record of these institutions for producing African Americans in these disciplines is spotty. In this feature, Black Issues examines the experiences of three of the leading science and engineering institutions, citing examples of strategies that are yielding favorable results and those that leave senior scholars scratching their heads over why they’re not working.
July 12, 2007
Students
Washington UPDATE
ED Backs Continued Default-Rate Exemption for HBCUs
July 12, 2007
Faculty & Staff
Charting a Black research agenda – interview with H. Patrick Swygert, president of Howard University – Cover Story – Interview
President H. Patrick Swygert, 54, assumed the helm of the nation’s only historically Black Research I institution in 1995. Since his arrival at Howard University, he has been crafting a strategy to carry the institution into the twenty-first century on a more stable financial footing, from which it will be poised to lead the nation in shaping and implementing the academic and research agenda for African Americans in the next millennium.
July 11, 2007
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