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Students
New Course To Help Teachers Relate To American Indian Students
Prospective teachers at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln will soon be able to learn the subtle and sometimes striking differences between American Indian students and their classmates.
June 21, 2006
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Native Americans
Tribal Colleges Beckon Members
Flexing sovereignty and economic clout spurred in some cases by Indian gambling, tribal colleges are growing around the country. Nationally, there were no tribal colleges before 1968. Today, there are more than three dozen in the U.S. and one in Canada. Oklahoma, which didn’t have a tribal college until 2002, now has four seeking accreditation and financing.
June 18, 2006
African-American
Vanderbilt Lures Black
Vanderbilt University, on a mission to transform the English department’s literary studies program…
June 14, 2006
African-American
Bite Size Briefs
Bar Association’s Affirmative Action policy; Arkansas Black Studies funding; Michigan diversity grading system; Federal panel to question law school affirmative action policy.
June 13, 2006
Women
More Single-sex Public Schools Likely Under Expected Rule Change
In Travis Brown’s sixth-grade class, they’re making robots — more than a dozen boys standing around work stations, chatting among themselves as they chop cardboard with scissors or glance at comic books for inspiration.
June 12, 2006
Faculty & Staff
Black Professors Under Pressure At Duke; Six Black Faculty Quit
Three months after she was chosen to head the committee on race in response to the university’s lacrosse scandal, Duke University Professor Karla Holloway threatened to quit yesterday citing exhaustion.
June 12, 2006
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Latinx
Pell Grant Increase Considered
U.S. House Republican leaders are proposing a $100 increase in the maximum Pell Grant next year, a move that may pave the way for the first increase in program funding since 2003.
June 7, 2006
Latinx
Perspectives: Colleges Should Muster Courage To Fight Back
The attack on programs that recruit and retain Black students will have broad consequences on the economic well-being of Black America unless we fight back.
June 7, 2006
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Latinx
Study: Latin History Teaching Standards Lacking
American schools are doing a poor job of teaching history and culture of Latin America and Mexico, according to a new review of states’ world history teaching standards conducted by the Washington, D.C.,-based Thomas B. Fordham Institute.
June 5, 2006
Latinx
Education Department Issues Criteria for “Rigorous” Curriculum
Students at minority-serving colleges and universities are among the primary targets of a new $4.5-billion financial aid windfall…
May 31, 2006
Sports
Use of Indian Mascots Coming to an End For College Teams
The debate over the use of American Indian imagery in college sports is coming to a head as the National Collegiate Athletic Association…
May 31, 2006
Students
Operation Black Male
The media and scholarly literature are replete with countless reminders of the negative plight of…
May 31, 2006
African-American
Looking for a Cut Card
When a million immigrants flooded the streets of Los Angeles, and a quarter as many thronged into the customary protest space…
May 31, 2006
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African-American
Howard University Trio Repeats Skins Competition Victory
Repeating their winning ways for a second consecutive year, three Howard University seniors took top honors…
May 31, 2006
Students
Luminaries Honor Toni Morrison Before Retirement
A party for author Toni Morrison drew stars such as former President Bill Clinton and actor Morgan Freeman, as well as officials and students from Princeton University, where the author has taught for 17 years before announcing her retirement this spring.
May 29, 2006
African-American
Vanderbilt Lures Black Literary Scholars
Vanderbilt University is on a mission to transform its literary studies program, and hopes to use an interdisciplinary approach to make that happen. To achieve that end, the university is adding five leading Black literary scholars, including Drs. Houston A. Baker and Hortense Spillers, to its English department.
May 24, 2006
African-American
Oxford University Press Unveils African-American Virtual Library
Students, scholars, teachers and librarians now have instant access to more than 30 volumes of reference works on the African-American experience — all on one new online resource.
May 17, 2006
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Faculty & Staff
Auditor: University of Missouri-Kansas City Faculty Diversity Is ‘Worst’ He’s Seen
The University of Missouri-Kansas City has a serious problem with its racial climate and a serious lack of diversity in its faculty…
May 17, 2006
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