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Leadership & Policy
La. Regents’ Racial Makeup Factors in SUNO-UNO Merger Push
The Louisiana state constitution requires the board to reflect the racial and gender makeup of the state, which is about 37 percent minority.
February 22, 2011
Demetrius Sumner
Students
U.S. Banker to Match Immigrants’ College Savings
The group promises that if families save $1,500 by the time a child graduates from high school, it will match that amount.
February 21, 2011
Bob Hildreth
Latinx
Helping Nurture STEM Talent Inspires Harvard Administrator
Native American scholar learned a great deal from his mother, whom he describes as an ethnobotanist who was able to identify and collect plants to use as food and medicine for her children and the family’s animals.
February 21, 2011
Lee Bitsóí
African-American
Islam’s Connection to Black America, U.S. Slavery Explored in Mississippi Conferences
More than three dozen scholars, religious leaders and community activists examined the influences of West African Islam on the world, how slavery has impacted American culture, and the ties between slavery and Islam.
February 21, 2011
Sylviane Diouf
Sports
North Dakota House Panel Says University Must Keep Fighting Sioux Name
The House Education Committee voted to support legislation that says UND must keep its nickname and a logo that shows the profile of an American Indian warrior.
February 20, 2011
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Students
Campus Racial Flaps Dog Alabama Despite Progress
Months after the university unveiled a plaza and clock tower named for its earliest Black students, the campus was swamped with unwelcome attention after a White student was disciplined for yelling racial slurs.
February 20, 2011
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Students
House Republicans Slash $61B in Continuing Resolution
An amendment barring the Department of Education’s proposed gainful employment regulation passed by a vote of 289-136.
February 19, 2011
John Kline
Students
House Republicans Slash $61B in Continuing Resolution
An amendment barring the Department of Education’s proposed gainful employment regulation passed by a vote of 289-136.
February 19, 2011
Latinx
Lower Maryland College Tuition Sought for Undocumented Immigrant Children
To be eligible, students must attend two years of high school in Maryland, and their parents pay one year of income taxes before the student graduates from a Maryland high school.
February 17, 2011
Kris Kobach
African-American
Census Estimates Show Blacks Moving South
The Southern U.S. region – primarily metropolitan areas such as Atlanta, Dallas, Houston, Miami and Charlotte, N.C. – accounted for roughly 75 percent of the population gains among Blacks since 2000.
February 16, 2011
Isabel Wilkerson
Students
Georgia Tech Sees ‘Room for Progress’ After Half Century of Integration
Fifty years after its integration, Georgia Tech recommits itself to providing institutional access to underserved students.
February 16, 2011
Student Body President Steve Glickman
Latinx
Study: California State Northridge Students Hit Hard by Recession
The report, “Squeezed From All Sides,” blames California’s recession and education cuts for pushing students to the breaking point, with some reporting they must forgo college.
February 15, 2011
Patricia Gandara
African-American
Ohio Universities Defend Affirmative Action Strategies in Their Admissions
Two universities accused in a new report of giving minority students an unfair edge in the admissions process defended their practices as being legitimate strategies to expand access and enhance diversity on campus.
February 15, 2011
Shirley Wilcher
Disabilties
Virginia University Named in Lawsuit Alleging Poor Access for Disabled
ROANOKE Va. –  An advocacy group claims in a series of lawsuits that Radford University, a half-dozen Roanoke area shopping malls and two hotels fail to provide adequate facilities for disabled people. The lawsuits were filed over the last two weeks in U.S. District Court in Roanoke by the Florida-based National Alliance for Accessibility and […]
February 14, 2011
African-American
Slaves Hid African Charms in Maryland Greenhouse
The greenhouse on the Maryland-based Wye House plantation where famed abolitionist Frederick Douglass spent part of his childhood was not as uniquely European as once thought: Its furnace was built by slaves, who hid distinctly African touches within it to ward off bad spirits, researchers say.
February 14, 2011
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African-American
Civil Rights Activists Mark 1961 Freedom Rides
Joan Trumpauer Mulholland and the Rev. Reginald Green appeared at the University of Mary Washington to honor the Freedom Rides and their organizer, the late James Farmer.
February 13, 2011
Green and Mulholland
Latinx
Yale, Peruvian University Sign Deal on Incan Artifacts
Yale University announced that it will send back to Peru thousands of Incan artifacts removed from the famed Machu Picchu citadel nearly a century ago.
February 13, 2011
Machu Picchu
Students
New Federal Data Show Rising Student Loan Default Rates
The federal government’s new system to calculate student loan default rates – while highlighting the problems of many for-profit colleges – also may pose risks for some minority-serving institutions that are seeing their rates increase as well.
February 13, 2011
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