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Students
… 3,000 and counting – educational aid to underrepresented students
Several years ago, a number of educators, after deciding there were not enough Latinos enrolled in graduate schools around the country, created a program called “Helping 500 U.S. Hispanic Students into Graduate Schools.”
June 19, 2007
African-American
Educational gains by minority students threatened – affirmative action programs
Washington — The nation’s students of color made significant gains in college enrollment and the number of degrees they earned in recent years, but the gap between them and their white counterparts on all educational levels is glaring, says a report released this month by the American Council on Education (ACE).
June 18, 2007
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Latinx
Migrant education shows young Hispanics striving to assimilate
NEW OXFORD Pa. Uprooted from his native Mexico and overwhelmed by an unfamiliar language, Jorge Lua-Ildefonso was miserable on his first day of school in the United States just five years ago.
June 17, 2007
Faculty & Staff
The sound of a gateway closing – how anti-affirmative action was organized for national debate – Special Report Top 100 Degree Producers
In America, education remains the gateway to upward social mobility, to opportunity, to self-sufficiency, successful families and political participation. That’s the reality.
June 17, 2007
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African-American
Five-year trends in minority degree production – Special Report Top 100 Degree Producers
For the past five years, I have prepared listings of the colleges and universities across the United States that confer the most degrees to students of color for Black Issues In Higher Education.
June 17, 2007
African-American
To do list – steps affirmative action proponents can take – Special Report Top 100 Degree Producers
Affirmative action has helped ensure access to higher education for students and faculty who might not have had that chance otherwise. Now that affirmative action programs are battling for their very existence, the editors and writers of Black Issues In Higher Education present the following pointers and reminders that have been gleaned from interviews, research and discussions in preparation for this special report.
June 17, 2007
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Students
UCLA ‘greater’ because of affirmative action – University of California, Los Angeles
In the past year, no issue has so touched the University of California as affirmative action and the controversy it has generated.
June 17, 2007
Leadership & Policy
ACE & affirmative action: a chat with Robert Atwell and Reginald Wilson – former president and senior scholar with the American Council on Education – Special Report Top 100 Degree Producers
As the umbrella organization for higher education, the American Council on Education is often at the center of the major issues facing colleges and universities, Dr. Robert Atwell, who has announced his retirement as president, and Dr. Reginald Wilson, senior scholar with ACE, have been two of the leading proponents in the country for affirmative action.
June 17, 2007
Leadership & Policy
Black literature in the ’90s
In 1948, Zora Neale Hurston published an article in the Negro Digest titled “What White Publishers Won’t Print.” Today, the issue turns not on what white publishers won’t print, but rather, what they will print when it comes to African-American literature.
June 17, 2007
Leadership & Policy
Clergy and deans say black colleges need black churches
Washington When a small group of spirited clergy, Black-college presidents, deans and community leaders came together for an early morning session at the national conference of the National Association for Equal Opportunity in Higher Education (NAFEO) on a recent Saturday morning, they did more than pray and render hearty amens.
June 17, 2007
Latinx
Washington update – 1996 budget agreements for minority students
Final ’96 Budget Pact Preserves Some Education Programs A final 1996 budget agreement hammered out by the White House and Congress provides for a Pell Grant increase and protects a number of high-priority programs for disadvantaged students.
June 17, 2007
Latinx
Beyond brutality – scholars say repeated beatings born in hate and police culture
After an 80-mile chase, the blows to the body began almost immediately. The Riverside, CA, sheriffs repeatedly beat a defenseless Mexican citizen on the side of a freeway in Los Angeles County. The blows continued even after the man was down. Then, the same officer turned his riot stick on a woman passenger. She was dragged from the truck.
June 17, 2007
Native Americans
Search For New UND President Needs American Indian Voice
BISMARCK, N.D. The president of United Tribes Technical College says the committee searching for a new University of North Dakota president should include an American Indian.
June 17, 2007
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Latinx
Reaching out, but in which direction? – academic outreach programs – includes list of MESA USA members
When early academic outreach programs were first created and took aim at reaching out to students of color, the initial idea was to inspire and motivate students to prepare for college in a general way.
June 16, 2007
Students
Making retention work
Since 1988’s all-time high in the college enrollment African Americans enrollment of African, American, declining high school completion figures have contributed to a slower increase in minority college participation After more than a decade of intensely examining factors that influence retention, we seem to be in a period of slippage of minority participation and success at the post-secondary level.
June 16, 2007
African-American
The wisdom of our elders: continuing the legacy
WASHINGTON Caring for the young; breaking the barriers that divide African Americans along class, age and gender lines; and taking responsibility for the future were the themes of February’s Black Issues in Higher Education videoconference, which was: designed as a celebration of African American history.
June 16, 2007
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Students
Student Retention Success Models in Higher Education. – book reviews
A new book edited by Dr. Clinita Ford provides unusual insight into the lessons taught by more than two decades of experience with improving educational opportunities for African American, Latino, and Native American students.
June 16, 2007
African-American
Black congressmen protest NAFEO award to Thurmond – National Association for Equal Opportunity in Higher Education, Sen. Strom Thurmond
Washington Reps. William Clay (Demo) and Louis Stokes (DOH) refused to share an award from the National Association for Equal Opportunity in Higher Education (NAFEO) with former segregationist Sen. Strom Thurmond (R-SC) at a prescheduled Capitol Hill ceremony.
June 16, 2007
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