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Latinx
Students vow to oppose Proposition 209 – special report: health sciences
The weekend after the elections, approximately 1,600 Chicano students met at California State University at Northridge (CSUN) for the regularly scheduled fall statewide MEChA conference.
June 23, 2007
African-American
The color maroon – review of book on African history and culture – special report: health sciences
I approach this book with unmitigated joy. For the record, let me confess at the outset that I am Afrocentric in my view, as well as a colleague, friend and fan of the author of this magnificent collection of essays, The Maroon Within Us. Additionally, I have encouraged him, over the years, to commit his […]
June 23, 2007
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Native Americans
Wired for controversy: symbolic sculpture by Native American rejected by University of New Mexico – Barbed
The University of New Mexico has rejected a sculpture it had commissioned from a Native-American artist because his final product includes barbed wire.
June 23, 2007
Faculty & Staff
A morale dilemma – black professors on white campuses – includes related article on mentorship programs for black faculty – Cover Story
Strained relations with white colleagues. Constantly having one’s credentials questioned. An unwieldy workload. Job insecurity. Lack of respect from white students. Cultural, social and professional alienation.
June 22, 2007
Faculty & Staff
Reaching out to young Black men: a dedicated and determined group of scholars offer the lure of the academy – includes related article on the Meyerhoff program as evaluated by a student – side bar listing academic programs for Black male students – Cover
The low numbers of African-American males seeking higher education is a problem that has been talked about, written about, and studied. Now, some colleges and universities seem willing to put their money where their mouths are.
June 22, 2007
Students
Community college becomes battleground for complaint about privately funded scholarship – Northern Virginia Community College
A white male student at Northern Virginia Community College is charging that a minority scholarship program at the school violates his constitutional rights, pointing to a federal court ruling that banned a university from awarding publicly-funded scholarships exclusively to African Americans.
June 22, 2007
Latinx
President’s Hispanic education commission releases report
The long-awaited report by the President’s Commission on Educational Excellence for Hispanic Americans was finally released last month with few surprises and a grim picture for both Latinos and the nation.
June 22, 2007
Latinx
Senate bill freezes HBCUs – Historically Black Colleges and Universities – includes related article on special education grants – Washington Update
Education Department (ED) support for historically Black colleges and universities likely will remain frozen at current levels next year, based on recent action by members of the U.S. Senate.
June 22, 2007
Leadership & Policy
UND search committee hopes to finish early next year
The president of the state Board of Higher Education says the membership of a 16-member committee searching for a new University of North Dakota president will not be changed, despite a request that an American Indian be added.
June 21, 2007
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LGBTQ+
Nevada University Need to Offer Health Benefits to Domestic Partners, Says Public Employees Benefits Board
CARSON CITY Nev. Nevada’s universities need to offer health benefits to employees’ domestic partners in order to stay competitive in hiring faculty and staff, state regulators were told Wednesday.
June 20, 2007
Leadership & Policy
Tribal College Honors American Indian Veterans
KYLE S.D. A monument honoring more than 1,800 American Indian military veterans will be dedicated Saturday six miles southwest of Kyle at the administrative headquarters of Oglala Lakota College.
June 20, 2007
African-American
Wanted: black students in public speaking classes
As each semester begins I anxiously await to see the ethnic composition of my public speaking classes. And each semester I find myself lecturing to a class that is more than 80 percent white and 20 percent people of color.
June 20, 2007
Students
Teaching the young keeps him young – 90 Year Old Dr. Richard Mckinney of Morgan State Still Going Strong
One of the oldest active professors in the nation, Dr. Richard I. McKinney, professor emeritus of philosophy at Morgan State University, has spent all of his life on college campuses and plans to keep on going. This semester will see him teaching at least one class.
June 20, 2007
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LGBTQ+
Educating a New Majority: Transforming America’s Educational System for Diversity. – book reviews
Supreme Court Justice Antonio Scalia described the debate on the Colorado gay rights case as part of a “kulturkampf,” a German word meaning culture war.
June 20, 2007
LGBTQ+
Educating a New Majority: Transforming America’s Educational System for Diversity. – book reviews
Supreme Court Justice Antonio Scalia described the debate on the Colorado gay rights case as part of a “kulturkampf,” a German word meaning culture war. The term dates to the 1870s when Chancellor Otto Von Bismarck used the concept to eradicate Catholic influence in German society, using “government to enforce ideas of a German identity; a German way of thinking, a German culture, a more German Germany.”
June 20, 2007
Latinx
UNM Los Alamos branch has new executive director
LOS ALAMOS N.M. The University of New Mexico’s Los Alamos branch has a new executive director.
June 19, 2007
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Latinx
Spending bill would freeze funds for HBCUs – historically Black colleges and universities
Historically Black colleges and universities would receive the same amount of federal funding in 1997 that they received this year under legislation proposed by Republicans in the House of Representatives.
June 19, 2007
LGBTQ+
Color-coded hearts – color consciousness among Blacks
When Black slaves came to this country stripped of any connection with the history and culture which gave them a sense of place in the universe, they heeded the human urge to define themselves.
June 19, 2007
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