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Section: Demographics

Iowa colleges reach out to Hispanics

DES MOINES Iowa Several universities and colleges in Iowa are ready to add Spanish-language pages to their Web sites and buying Spanish radio ads to help recruit more Hispanic students.

July 4, 2007

African-American

Patterson Research Institute reports on educational profile of African Americans

Late last month, as part of a highly ambitious research effort on African American education, the first volume in a series of reports on the state of education in Black America was released.

July 4, 2007

African-American

An educational edge?: A women’s history month meditation

Do African American women enjoy an educational advantage over African American men? According to the Frederick D. Patterson Research Institute of The College Fund/UNCF, Black women are at least earning more degrees.

July 4, 2007

African-American

Breeder and Other Stories. – book reviews

Reviewed by Opal J. Moore Breeder and Other Stories by Dr. Eugenia Collier Black Classic Press, 1994 Baltimore, Maryland 188 pages Hardback: $11.95 I have stored up tales for you, my children My favorite children, my only children; Of shackles and slaves and a bill of rights.

July 4, 2007

African-American

What’s in a name? African American or multiracial? – defining one’s self

The most important thing any oppressed people can do for themselves is to define who they are. Identity begins with naming yourself, in finding your own voice. This is the reason that names have always been significant to African Americans.

July 4, 2007

Faculty & Staff

From the ivory tower to the White House … and back again – African American public servants who came from, and came back, to the academe – Cover Story

Shortly after resigning as associate director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) in February 1995, Christopher Edley Jr. prepared to resume teaching duties at Harvard Law School, where he had been tenured since 1986. But before he could leave the government, Edley was approached by White House officials who wanted him to chair a high-profile, interagency working group on affirmative action.

July 4, 2007

An organization by any other name… – controversial name change of Hispanic Student Services at the University of New Mexico to “Centro de la Raza – includes related article

Controversy Flares Over University of New Mexico’s Centro de la Raza

July 4, 2007

African-American

The Ebonics debate: separating fact from fallacy

For the past several weeks, the nation — and its news media — have been engrossed in an on going and highly emotional debate on the subject of “Ebonics,” a term used by some to define a linguistic system used by many — but certainly by no means all — African Americans.

July 4, 2007

African-American

Free education for students of African descent

For decades, there have been discussions on how to properly compensate people of African descent for the hundreds of years of free labor provided during slavery in America. Models have already been established. Indigenous Americans (incorrectly called Indians because Columbus thought he landed in India) were forced onto reservations but are now courageously fighting in the courts to regain their land. The American Japanese are being financially compensated for being imprisoned during World War II in American internment camps. European Jews are being financially compensated by the German government for the atrocities they experienced in Nazi prison camps during the Second World War. Yet people of African descent have not been compensated for the massive tragedy they experienced here in America.

July 4, 2007

HBCU leaders urge expansion of Title III and TRIO programs – Historically Black colleges and universities – Washington Update

Expansion of Title III aid to minority institutions and TRIO programs for disadvantaged youth emerged as top priorities at a December 17 public hearing on Higher Education Act (MEA) reauthorization in Washington, D.C.

July 4, 2007

African-American

Black studies comes to power? – importance of a series of conferences to African American Studies

Four conferences important to African American Studies were held this fall. Columbia University’s Institute for Research in African-American Studies hosted “The Future of African-American Studies Theory, Pedagogy, and Research;” New York University’s Africana Studies Program and Institute of Afro-American Affairs sponsored “Finding Fanon: Critical Genealogies;” Temple University held the Eighth Annual Cheikh Anta Diop Conference with the theme “The Impact and Significance of the Works of Dr. Maulana Ndabezitha Karenga;” and the National Council for Black Studies held its annual meeting at Gallaudet University, this year titled “Celebrating Thirty Years of Black Studies/Africana Studies: A Legacy of Leadership, Learning and Change.”

July 4, 2007

Latino movement: a target for harassment? – student movement charges school administrations for deliberate harassment

Albuquerque–Members of Movimiento Estudiantil Chicano de Aztlan (MEChA)–which translates to Chicano Student Movement of Aztlan– say their organization is being unfairly targeted by school administrations across the country. The harassment they are facing, says one student, “is like the 1960s, but with a 1990s twist.”

July 4, 2007

Blind people march in Atlanta to call for better access to jobs and education

ATLANTA Hundreds of people, most tapping the ground with white canes, marched from a downtown Atlanta hotel to a city park more than half a mile away Tuesday to make a point: Blind people can do what other people do.

July 2, 2007

Native Americans

University of Wisconsin woman’s disappearance remains a mystery

MADISON Wis. Was Kelly Nolan kidnapped? Is she lost, hurt, or worse? Or did she just walk away and not look back?

July 2, 2007

Education Department report: Eastern Michigan violated Clery Act

DETROIT A U.S. Department of Education review found that Eastern Michigan University’s handling of information about a student’s slaying violated the Clery Act, which says colleges and universities must disclose campus security information, the school announced Tuesday.

July 2, 2007

Faculty & Staff

Pennsylvania’s proposed state university faculty pact has bonus, raises

HARRISBURG Pa. Professors at Pennsylvania’s state-owned universities would each receive an immediate $1,750 cash bonus and annual salary increases totaling 10 percent under a four-year contract agreement released Tuesday.

July 2, 2007

Leadership & Policy

Former state Indian Affairs official named to UND search panel

BISMARCK N.D. A tribal college president and former director of North Dakota’s Indian Affairs Commission has been appointed to the committee that will recruit the University of North Dakota’s new president.

July 2, 2007

The Search Committee Handbook

African-American

U.S. Colleges Urged To Improve Access For Disadvantaged International Students, Particularly Africans

U.S. colleges are beginning to reverse the decline in international student enrollment that followed the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. But the key to future growth may be the ability to attract lower-income and disadvantaged foreign students, including those from Africa, witnesses told a House hearing Friday.

July 2, 2007