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Grants & Gifts
The AMERICAN INDIAN COLLEGE FUND has received a $50,000 grant from the AT&T Foundation for student scholarship through the AICF’s Tribal College Program. The monies will benefit tribal college students studying math, science, technology and business. The CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY has received an eight-year, $24 MILLION grant from the W. M. Keck Foundation to […]
March 3, 2008
Asian American Pacific Islander
Diverse Calendar
March 13-15 Eleventh Annual Regional HBCU Summit on Retention “Improving Retention at HBCUs: Retention is a Shared Enterprise” Clarion Resort Hotel Ocean City,Md. Contact: Dr. Anne L. Gaskins-Nedd Phone: (301) 860-3687 e-mail: anedd@bowiestate.edu March 14-15 Faculty Resource Network at New York University “The Molecules of Life: A National Dissemination Conference” Grand Hyatt Atlanta Phone: (212) […]
March 3, 2008
African-American
2 South African Students Involved in Racist Video Apologize
Two students behind an alleged racist video in which five Black university workers appear to be duped into eating food tainted with urine have apologized and said they acted without malice.
March 2, 2008
African-American
Dyson: Black History Month “Living, Significant and Important”
Minister and civil rights activist Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. earned in today’s dollars nearly a quarter of a million dollars a year in the early 1960’s and gave nearly all of it to the civil rights movement, Georgetown University Professor Michael Eric Dyson said Thursday during a speech dissecting the roots of a celebration we now call Black History month.
February 28, 2008
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African-American
Princeton Releases Michelle Obama’s Senior Thesis
Princeton University has recently released Michelle Obama’s senior thesis after previously making it unavailable to the public, according to an article in The Daily Princetonian.
February 28, 2008
African-American
West Chester University Formally Apologizes For Past Discrimination
Officials at West Chester University of Pennsylvania have formally apologized for the school’s past discriminatory practices and treatment of African-American students.
February 27, 2008
Asian American Pacific Islander
Penn Program Seeks to Widen Students’ International Perspectives
Officials at the University of Pennsylvania hope that two community-oriented projects will help increase awareness among students and teachers about the diversity of the Asian culture.
February 26, 2008
Students
Nevada Higher Ed Seeks Increased American Indian Enrollment
Higher education officials have formed a coalition to try to turn around the historically low number of American Indian students who go on to college in Nevada.
February 26, 2008
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Students
Riding Into College With Your Posse
Foundation eases transition by sending students to campuses in groups.
February 26, 2008
Students
Classes Help University of Missouri Custodial Employees Communicate
Some classes being offered at the University of Missouri-Columbia are for the custodial employees, with the aim of helping them better communicate with each other.
February 26, 2008
Latinx
Louisiana Deputies Taking Spanish Lessons
university language department chair is spending time teaching sheriff’s deputies Spanish so they can handle emergencies better when immigrants who speak little or no English are involved.
February 26, 2008
Native Americans
UC-Davis Scholars Working to Preserve Native Languages
The first time Jose Freeman heard his tribe’s lost language through the crackle of a 70-year-old recording, he cried.
February 25, 2008
Latinx
New Quiz Show on Hispanic Heritage to Launch
A new TV quiz show that aims to educate and excite viewers about Hispanic history will air nationally during Hispanic History Month, and is now accepting applicants.
February 25, 2008
African-American
Ball State Professor Helps Treat Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder in Former Liberian Soldiers
Thousands of Liberian children were forced into combat during the civil war that broke out in 1996.
February 24, 2008
Leadership & Policy
CU Chancellor, Student Editors Apologize for Column on Asians
BOULDER Colo. The chancellor of the University of Colorado’s Boulder campus has apologized for a student’s satirical column poking fun at Asians. Editors of the student newspaper apologized as well. The column said Asian students “hate us all” and should be rounded up and forced to play drinking games and endure other ordeals until they […]
February 21, 2008
Native Americans
New Academic Journal Focuses on History of American Indians in South
Dr. Greg O’Brien, a University of Southern Mississippi associate professor of history, will be a founding editor of The Native South, a new academic journal that seeks to broaden and challenge the traditional study of American Indians in the South, according to a report in the Hattiesburg American.
February 21, 2008
Leadership & Policy
University of Connecticut Hopes to Start Offering Black Studies Major in Fall
Students at the state’s flagship university will be able to earn degrees in the study of Black history and culture starting this fall if a state board approves the school’s plans.
February 20, 2008
African-American
Getting to Know Dr. David Ikard
Dr. David Ikard’s recent book, Breaking the Silence:Toward a Black Male Feminist Criticism (LSU Press), has not only generated buzz within academia but has made its way onto the pop culture scene because of its insightful analysis of the writings of such literary giants as Toni Morrison, Walter Mosley and Toni Cade Bambara. But it […]
February 19, 2008
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