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Section: Demographics
Students
Future Teachers Must Show, Not Just Tell, Skills
Standing at the edge of a pond surrounded by her class of fourth-graders, Jasmine Zeppa filled a bucket with brown water and lectured her pupils on the science of observing and recording data. Many of the children seemed more interested in nearby geese, a passing jogger and the crunchy leaves underfoot.
November 2, 2010
African-American
A Sign of Peace at Southern University
The faculty senate president at Southern University’s Baton Rouge (SUBR) campus says the SUBR faculty organization recently “accepted an olive branch” from top administration officials after months of conflict over budget cuts and fiscal priorities.
November 2, 2010
Faculty & Staff
Lincoln University President Says He Can’t Fire Professor Over Remarks
The president of Lincoln University said late last week that he cannot fire a tenured professor who has questioned the Holocaust and expressed virulent anti-Israel views because the teacher has kept his opinions out of the classroom.
November 1, 2010
African-American
Schools Step Up Efforts to Attract Adult Learners into College Programs
After traditional colleges and universities lost ground in the race to win back minority college dropouts, there is a push across academia to find innovative ways to recruit and retain adult learners.
November 1, 2010
African-American
Anti-affirmative Action Campaign Expected to Win in Arizona
Overshadowed by battle over controversial immigration law, anti-affirmative action ballot initiative in Arizona goes unchallenged.
November 1, 2010
African-American
Perspectives: Affirmative Action May be Needed — for Men
Anti-affirmative action initiatives such as the referendum before Arizona voters on Tuesday may prove harmful to men if universities cannot rely on that tool to achieve gender diversity.
October 31, 2010
African-American
Desegregation Offers Lessons for Gay Troops Debate
Though the military may now seem to lag behind America’s acceptance of gays in civilian life, the armed forces led the charge in ending racial segregation in the 1940s and ’50s.
October 31, 2010
African-American
APLU and Other Organizations Establish Partnership Between Afro-Columbian and Historically Black Land-grant Universities
The Association of Public Land-grant Universities (APLU), the AsociaciĂłn Columbiana de Universidades (ASCUN) and Phelps Stokes have established a collaborative partnership to promote educational and cultural exchange programs between Afro-Columbian serving universities and historically Black land-grant universities in the United States. The presidents of each organization signed a memorandum of understanding on Friday during a special ceremony at APLU headquarters in Washington, D.C.
October 31, 2010
Latinx
Retention Program Engages Latino Families in Helping Children Finish Community College
South Texas College orientation program demystifies higher education for Latino parents of first-generation students to improve its retention rates.
October 28, 2010
African-American
John Hope Franklin Reconciliation Park Opens in Tulsa, Okla.
Officials on Wednesday dedicated the John Hope Franklin Reconciliation Park in Tulsa, Oklahoma, marking the city’s first significant acknowledgement of the 1921 Tulsa Race Riot. (Click here to watch Dr. John Hope Franklin’s televised interview on Tulsa and racial reconciliation.)
October 27, 2010
Students
Bethune-Cookman Defends Dismissals of Professors Accused of Sexual Misconduct
Countering the claim that faculty members were denied due process prior to being fired, Bethune-Cookman University officials have defended the 2009 dismissals of four professors accused of sexual misconduct.
October 26, 2010
African-American
Fisk Rejects New Proposal Over Art Collection
Fisk University on Monday rejected a proposal to keep its Stieglitz art collection on display at the school.
October 25, 2010
African-American
Ayers Funding To Drop Off in 2012
Mississippi’s three historically Black universities will begin receiving less money from the settlement of the decades-old desegregation lawsuit in 2012.
October 25, 2010
African-American
Perspectives: Education Reform and the Access/Success Pendulum
As higher education renews its focus on college completion, we should be mindful about past failure to hold steadfast to access and success, UCLA professors urge.
October 25, 2010
Leadership & Policy
Virginia Tech To Honor School’s First Black Graduate
Virginia Tech will honor the university’s first Black graduate at an event Nov. 2.
October 24, 2010
African-American
Miss. University Conference Focuses on Civil Rights History
A University of Southern Mississippi conference late last week highlighted the role of key activists and local foot soldiers who helped change the racial landscape of the South during the civil rights movement.
October 24, 2010
Leadership & Policy
New Plans, Including One From Alumna, Presented To Keep Art Collection Intact at Fisk
A splinter group of alumni of financially troubled Fisk University, publicly asserting its opposition to the school’s plan to raise badly needed money by selling half its ownership in the Alfred Stieglitz Collection of photographs and art, has emerged with a $2.6 million plan it says will generate enough money annually to cover the costs of caring for and exhibiting the collection and give school officials time to find other ways to raise funds for the historic institution.
October 24, 2010
Faculty & Staff
Scholar Captures Stories of Undocumented Students
With the Development, Relief and Education for Alien Minors (DREAM) Act sitting on Congress’ to-do list, Dr. William Perez, assistant professor of education at Claremont Graduate University, hopes that legislative body pays close attention to the experiences of undocumented students struggling to get a higher learning.
October 24, 2010
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