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Section: Demographics
African-American
NAACP Sees Education as Key to Boosting Black Men
Education is the key to breaking Black men and youths out of a vicious cycle of crime and unemployment, African-American leaders said last week at the close of the annual NAACP convention.
July 31, 2011
African-American
Texas Higher Education Enrollment Topped 1.5 Million in 2010
Texas is in line to meet the 2015 higher education enrollment goal of 1.65 million students, but the state must work harder to encourage minorities to pursue advanced degrees, according to the state’s higher education commissioner.
July 31, 2011
Latinx
Brazil to Send 100,000 Science Students Abroad
Brazil will grant 100,000 scholarships for university students to study abroad as the rapidly developing nation tries to boost the country’s competitiveness, officials said Tuesday.
July 28, 2011
Asian American Pacific Islander
Gov. Jerry Brown Nominates Scholar Goodwin Liu to California High Court
A California law professor was nominated Tuesday for the California Supreme Court, just two months after criticism by Republicans led him to withdraw his candidacy for the second-highest court in the country.
July 27, 2011
African-American
Ohio Educator Frank Hale Dies
Longtime educator and civil rights activist Dr. Frank W. Hale Jr., vice president emeritus at Ohio State University, died Wednesday at 84, according to The Columbus Dispatch.
July 27, 2011
African-American
Making the Work of Black Scientists Accessible to the Public
With compelling video interviews of the nation’s top African-American scientists telling their life stories, the ScienceMakers website helps further the mission of increasing African-Americans, women, and other minorities in STEM professions.
July 27, 2011
African-American
Wealth Gap Widens Between Whites, Minorities
The wealth gaps between Whites and minorities have grown to their widest levels in a quarter-century.
July 26, 2011
Latinx
Forum: Digital Divide Could Leave Latinos Further Behind in Education, Jobs
Panelists at a Tuesday forum held by the National Council of La Raza (NCLR) suggested that lack of broadband Internet access could hinder the progress of Latinos living in the U.S.
July 26, 2011
Students
UDC to Study Monument Proposal for African-American Military Hero
The University of the District of Columbia is studying the cost of erecting a monument to honor Col. Charles Young — a pioneering Black military leader who supporters say is often overlooked.
July 26, 2011
Latinx
Legal Eagle Helps Florida International Law Grads Soar
Law school dean Alex Acosta has not hesitated to call upon some of the many attorneys he knew in his pre-FIU years to ask them to seriously consider his Florida International University students for opportunities.
July 25, 2011
Latinx
Sweeping New Immigration Laws in Georgia and Alabama Impact Migrant Labor Trends
Among findings from Dr. Cesar Escalante’s studies is that as the foreign labor supply, chiefly undocumented Latinos, has declined, 67 percent of surveyed Southern state farmers reported having difficulty finding workers.
July 24, 2011
African-American
Tavis Smiley and Cornel West Take Obama Critique on the Road
Black activists Cornel West and Tavis Smiley are planning a 15-city “Poverty Tour” to bring attention to the needy and to what they say are the failings of President Barack Obama.
July 24, 2011
African-American
Models of Success at Minority-serving Institutions
University of Wisconsin and University of Pennsylvania are identifying best practices for retention at nine minority-serving institutions.
July 24, 2011
Latinx
Births, Not New immigrants, Push U.S. Latino Growth
With immigration slowing, babies born in the U.S. rather than newly arrived Mexican immigrants are now driving most of the fast growth in the Latino population.
July 21, 2011
Asian American Pacific Islander
Blood Detective
University of California, Irvine hematologist Dr. Jae Chang specializes in blood cell analysis to diagnose obscure, complex disorders that stymie or get missed by many physicians.
July 21, 2011
African-American
N.J. Governor Chris Christie, Education Reformer Geoffrey Canada Announce Partnership
Geoffrey Canada’s Harlem Children’s Zone engages community partners to develop a holistic, or comprehensive, approach to K-12 education that emphasizes college graduation as the students’ long-term goal.
July 20, 2011
Faculty & Staff
Talented Young Black Scholars Find an Open Path to Ivy League
With the influx of a new generation of highly trained Black Ph.D.s, Ivy League institutions are aggressively courting these young scholars fresh out of graduate school.
July 20, 2011
Students
Study Looks at School Discipline in Texas
Almost 60 percent of Texas public school students received punishments ranging from expulsion to in-school suspensions at least once between seventh and 12th grades, according to a new Texas A&M study.
July 19, 2011
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