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Section: Demographics
Latinx
Scholars Ask Why Latinos View Blacks Poorly
Latino immigrants often hold negative views of African-Americans, which they most likely brought with them from their more-segregated Latin American countries, a new Duke University study shows.
July 11, 2006
Faculty & Staff
Professor Named To Fill Endowed UCLA Chair On Japanese Internment
After a year-long search, the Asian American Studies Center and Department at the University of California, Los Angeles has appointed Dr. Lane Ryo Hirabayashi as the first George and Sakaye Aratani Professor of the Japanese American Internment, Redress and Community. The endowed chair is the first and only of its kind in U.S. higher education to address the historical legacy of the Japanese-American internment during World War II.
July 4, 2006
African-American
Southern University Works to Restore its Collection of African Art
Even after fetid floodwater receded from the Southern University at New Orleans campus, the soggy artifacts in its collection of African art marinated for months in dark, dank buildings.
July 4, 2006
Faculty & Staff
Black Professors Under Pressure
Three months after she was chosen to head the committee on race in response to the university’s lacrosse scandal…
June 28, 2006
LGBTQ+
Four Brigham Young Students Punished by University for Gay-rights Protest
Four Brigham Young Students Punished by University for Gay-rights Protest…
June 28, 2006
Students
Celebrating 40 Years of Activism
Armed with well-honed leadership skills, established organizational techniques and a fearless demeanor…
June 28, 2006
Students
The Current State of Black Student Unions
Diverse surveyed the leaders of 23 BSUs across the country to see how the organizations have evolved over the years…
June 28, 2006
African-American
Hampton Steps on Cultural Nerve
Hampton University stepped hard on a cultural nerve when news of the no-braids…
June 28, 2006
Students
Celebrating 40 Years of Activism
Armed with well-honed leadership skills, established organizational techniques and a fearless demeanor…
June 27, 2006
Latinx
Congress Considers Pell Grant Increase
For years, education advocates looked to a more moderate U.S. Senate to push for funding increases…
June 27, 2006
Students
New Course To Help Teachers Relate To American Indian Students
Prospective teachers at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln will soon be able to learn the subtle and sometimes striking differences between American Indian students and their classmates.
June 21, 2006
Native Americans
Tribal Colleges Beckon Members
Flexing sovereignty and economic clout spurred in some cases by Indian gambling, tribal colleges are growing around the country. Nationally, there were no tribal colleges before 1968. Today, there are more than three dozen in the U.S. and one in Canada. Oklahoma, which didn’t have a tribal college until 2002, now has four seeking accreditation and financing.
June 18, 2006
African-American
Vanderbilt Lures Black
Vanderbilt University, on a mission to transform the English department’s literary studies program…
June 14, 2006
African-American
Bite Size Briefs
Bar Association’s Affirmative Action policy; Arkansas Black Studies funding; Michigan diversity grading system; Federal panel to question law school affirmative action policy.
June 13, 2006
Women
More Single-sex Public Schools Likely Under Expected Rule Change
In Travis Brown’s sixth-grade class, they’re making robots — more than a dozen boys standing around work stations, chatting among themselves as they chop cardboard with scissors or glance at comic books for inspiration.
June 12, 2006
Faculty & Staff
Black Professors Under Pressure At Duke; Six Black Faculty Quit
Three months after she was chosen to head the committee on race in response to the university’s lacrosse scandal, Duke University Professor Karla Holloway threatened to quit yesterday citing exhaustion.
June 12, 2006
Latinx
Pell Grant Increase Considered
U.S. House Republican leaders are proposing a $100 increase in the maximum Pell Grant next year, a move that may pave the way for the first increase in program funding since 2003.
June 7, 2006
Latinx
Perspectives: Colleges Should Muster Courage To Fight Back
The attack on programs that recruit and retain Black students will have broad consequences on the economic well-being of Black America unless we fight back.
June 7, 2006
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