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Leadership & Policy
Tuskegee Selects Purdue Administrator, Researcher as New President
Tuskegee University announced Friday the selection of Dr. Gilbert L. Rochon, associate vice president for collaborative research and engagement at Purdue University, as its sixth president.
September 19, 2010
Gilbert Rochon
Students
Parents of Prairie View Hazing Victim Settle Suit Against Fraternity
The parents of the Prairie View A&M University student who died in a hazing incident last year have settled their wrongful death lawsuit against their son’s fraternity, court records show.
September 15, 2010
Marco McMillian is the Phi Beta Sigma fraternity executive director.
African-American
Coppin State Opens Campus-based Neighborhood Computer Center
Coppin State University is set to debut formally today its new efforts to help low-income residents in nearby neighborhoods modernize their digital communications skills with the opening of a neighborhood broadband technology skills training center.
September 15, 2010
Coppin State President Reginald Avery
African-American
National Science Board Report Calls for Equity, Excellence and Opportunity in STEM
The United States’ ability to be not just a global leader but even a competitive participant in technology will depend largely on a massive infusion of women and underrepresented racial and ethnic minorities in the fields of science, technology, engineering and math, or STEM.
September 15, 2010
Dr. Cora Marrett is acting director of the National Science Foundation and a member of the National Science Board.
African-American
Tennessee Judge Reverses Course, Embraces Fisk Plan To Sell Interest in Art Collection
Fisk University’s plan to sell half interest in its most valuable asset—a 101-piece collection of art and photographs—for $30 million to Arkansas’s Crystal Bridges Museum won conditional approval from a Tennessee judge who has blocked the sale twice in recent years, most recently last month.
September 14, 2010
‘The Radiator Building—Night, New York’ by Georgia O’Keeffe is part of the Fisk University art collection.
African-American
HBCU National Meeting Stresses Competitiveness by Black Schools
Speakers at a national HBCU conference on Tuesday said the future of HBCUs hinges on winning contracts instead of grants, implementing ways to become more energy efficient, and making a concerted effort to retain and graduate incoming students who are increasingly ill-prepared for the rigors of college.
September 14, 2010
Lisa P. Jackson, Administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
African-American
Obama Administration Officials Praise, Encourage HBCUs at National Conference
Leaders of historically Black schools were encouraged to pursue research and development opportunities more aggressively for their institutions during opening sessions of the HBCU Week conference.
September 13, 2010
HBCU Presidents and Obama
African-American
Georgia Rep. Bishop Awarded Scholarships to Family
A Georgia congressman awarded his stepdaughter, a niece and an aide’s future wife college scholarships through the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation, making him the second House Democrat known to use the group to steer money to relatives and associates.
September 12, 2010
Sanford Bishop
African-American
Tennessee Proposes Temporary Custody Plan for Fisk Art Collection; School Protests
The State of Tennessee, the City of Nashville and a new Nashville arts center will combine forces to temporarily relieve Fisk University of its responsibilities to maintain a priceless art collection until the school regains financial stability, Tennessee’s attorney general said Friday in a plan filed with a Tennessee court.
September 12, 2010
‘The Radiator Building—Night, New York’ by Georgia O’Keeffe is part of the Fisk University art collection.
Students
Rev. Jackson Debunks ‘Post-Racial’ Idea at Minority Legal Scholar Conference
The Rev. Jesse Jackson, the civil rights leader who twice ran for president, mocks the notion that the mere fact that a Black person is sitting in the White House means the nation has entered a “post-racial” era.
September 12, 2010
Jesse Jackson
African-American
An Appreciation: Political Scientist Ronald Walters, 1938 – 2010
Dr. Ronald Walters, who retired last year from his post at the University of Maryland in College Park where he was professor of government and politics and director of the school’s African American Leadership Institute, died late Friday of cancer.
September 12, 2010
Ronald Walters
Leadership & Policy
Shaw University Announces New President
A historically Black college in North Carolina’s capital city has named its first female president.
September 9, 2010
Dr. Irma McClaurin was named president of Shaw University on Thursday.
Students
Bernie Milano Maintains Long-term Focus on Minority Doctorate Program
In an exclusive interview with Diverse, KPMG Foundation President Bernie Milano discusses the state of affairs at The PhD Project and what lies ahead for the storied initiative.
September 8, 2010
Bernie Milano
Latinx
Latino Higher Education Group Launches College-completion Campaign
Excelencia in Education’s Ensuring America’s Future by Increasing Latino College Completion campaign seeks to align itself with the Obama Administration’s goal of making the United States the most college-educated nation in the world by 2020.
September 8, 2010
Sarita Brown
Latinx
Best & Brightest: Temple University Grad Continues Public Health Advocacy
Kelly Lopez credits Temple University with allowing her to create Chicas in Charge, a five-week program in Reading, Pa.,that helps Latina girls ages 14 to 17 learn about preventing sexually transmitted diseases and teen pregnancy.
September 7, 2010
Chicas in Charge group
African-American
HBCU Stimulus Funding Has Helpful Yet Limited Impact
HBCUs’ share of stimulus money, with few exceptions, did little to improve the beleaguered condition of the institutions. Click here for HBCU stimulus funding analysis.
September 7, 2010
Central State University
Students
Congresswoman Repays Foundation for College Scholarships
U.S. Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson (D-Texas), following her admission that she broke scholarship rules by awarding money to her relatives and an aide’s children, said that she has repaid about $31,000 to the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation.
September 6, 2010
Eddie Bernice Johnson
Leadership & Policy
Opinion: Assessing the Broad Picture of Asian-American Achievement
Although Asian-Americans boast the highest college graduation rates among ethnic groups in the U.S., large sectors of their population suffer from low educational attainment.
September 6, 2010
U.S. Rep. Michael Honda
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