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Students
Black Colleges Diversifying By Recruiting More Hispanics
ATLANTA Squeezed by stiff competition for their traditional students, historically Black colleges are making a push to recruit Hispanics.
August 2, 2006
Students
Solving the Funding Riddle
When Leola Tsinnajinnie decided to pursue a major in educational thought and sociocultural studies at the University of New Mexico…
August 2, 2006
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Latinx
Former Colorado Governor Criticized For Comments On Racial Minorities
DENVER U.S. Sen. Ken Salazar of Colorado on Friday distanced himself from comments by fellow Democrat and former Gov. Dick Lamm, who said racial minorities use racism and discrimination as pretexts for academic underachievement.
July 30, 2006
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Native Americans
Federal Help Sought To Save Native Languages
BISMARCK, N.D. Federal grants can help keep some rarely spoken American Indian languages from disappearing, tribal and Indian education officials say.
July 29, 2006
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Students
A Dark History Revealed
Fascinating, interesting and disturbing is how I’d characterize our cover story, “The Secrets of St. Agnes”…
July 26, 2006
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Students
Solving the Funding Riddle
When Leola Tsinnajinnie decided to pursue a major in educational thought and sociocultural studies at the…
July 26, 2006
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Latinx
Minority-Serving Groups to Manage Two New NASA Programs
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration has partnered with three minority-serving organizations…
July 26, 2006
African-American
Students, Alumni Lament the Closing of Columbia’s African Studies Institute
Dozens of current and former students of Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA) are expressing outrage over a decision by the Ivy League institution to temporarily shut down its Institute of African Studies.
July 23, 2006
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African-American
Project Aims To Identify Blacks Who Fought In U.S. Revolutionary War
Thousands of Black men fought in George Washington’s army during the Revolutionary War, or American War of Independence, yet their contributions rarely appear in modern history books.
July 23, 2006
Students
Program Prepares Disabled For College
The college classroom scene is a familiar one: young adults in flip-flops and baseball caps, some scribbling notes, others napping. Evelyn Scruggs, a student sitting near the front, is among the more attentive, filling an entire page with notes. But, by the time she leaves, she likely won’t remember the lecture topic or one word she wrote.
July 18, 2006
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African-American
Cosby, Scholars and Youth Seek Answers to the Problems of Black Men
A forum held yesterday in Washington, D.C. sought solutions to problems faced by Black men from a diverse panel that included Dr. Bill Cosby, former gang members working against gang violence, educators, scholars and two Black men who graduated at the top of their high school class.
July 17, 2006
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African-American
Civil Rights Group President Pushes Self-Reliance
Black Americans should end “victim-like thinking” and seize opportunities to help close gaps between the nation’s rich and poor, NAACP President Bruce S. Gordon said Monday.
July 17, 2006
Faculty & Staff
Transgendered Professor Raises Awareness About Bias Against Women Scientists
As someone who studies brain development and regeneration, Stanford University neurobiologist Dr. Ben Barres feels qualified to comment on whether nature or nurture explains the shortage of women working in the sciences.
July 13, 2006
Faculty & Staff
Franklin Symposium: Black Achievement Suffers
In this city, now unfortunately infamous for an elite university’s lacrosse team party that may have gotten out of hand…
July 12, 2006
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Students
New Course to Help Teachers
Prospective teachers at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln will soon be able to learn the subtle and…
July 12, 2006
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African-American
SUNO Works to Restore its Collection of African Art
Even after fetid floodwater receded from the Southern University at New Orleans’ campus…
July 12, 2006
Students
Emory Brings Slave Trade
Emory University scholars were recently awarded grants to make accessible and free on the Internet a mammoth …
July 12, 2006
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African-American
Perspectives: A View of the ‘N-Word’ from Sociolinguistics
During his hate crime trial, a White defendant said he used the N-word to “greet” a Black man, and not as a racial slur. He would later beat the man with a bat. Dr. Arthur K. Spears, an expert in sociolinguistics, says some words have complex histories and patterns of use.
July 11, 2006
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