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Students
School Attorneys: FAMU Settlement With Porn Video Company Sets Precedent for Trademark Protection
Florida A&M University’s recent settlement with Internet porn company RK Netmedia Inc. sets a precedent for other universities to sue to protect their trademark, school attorneys say.
May 3, 2010
Latinx
Professor Behind Controversial Arizona Law Also Works Against In-State Tuition for Undocumented Students
Traveling around the country to undo laws benefiting undocumented immigrants, law professor Kris Kobach is to the in-state tuition for undocumented student movement what Ward Connerly is to affirmative action in college admissions.
May 2, 2010
African-American
Southern Picks Mason as Its New System President
The Southern University System chose its new president Friday, selecting Ronald Mason Jr., who has been the leader of Jackson State University in Mississippi.
May 2, 2010
Latinx
Opinion: Arizona – This is What Apartheid Looks Like
The truth is, a civilizational clash is being played out in the same state in which the state legislature questions the birthplace and legitimacy of President Barack Obama and where Sen. John McCain competes with Senate hopeful J.D. Hayworth to see who is the most anti-immigrant.
April 29, 2010
African-American
House Panel Votes To Block NSF Funding Shift
A House of Representatives panel on Wednesday dealt a blow to the Obama administration’s plan to consolidate federal science programs for minority-serving institutions into a single entity with broader competition.
April 29, 2010
Faculty & Staff
Slain UAH Professor Had integral Role in Minority STEM Education Network
Through Alabama’s Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation (LSAMP) program, students of color at the University of Alabama Huntsville worked with mentors, such as the late Adriel Johnson (far left in photo), and earned degrees in STEM disciplines.
April 29, 2010
African-American
Science Associations Publish Legal Handbook on Diversity Strategies
Women and minorities in this country are woefully underrepresented in the fields of science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM). That’s very bad news for a nation undergoing a major demographic shift that by 2050 will make minorities the majority of the population.
April 28, 2010
African-American
Height’s Legacy Stirs Push for Social Work Act Passage
Among social work professionals, the late Dorothy Height is celebrated for the prestige her activism brought to the social work profession. Those professionals say her legacy is now inspiring social work leaders to lobby Congress hard on legislation aimed to boost the profession.
April 28, 2010
Asian American Pacific Islander
Obama Administration Seeks Increased Asian American and Pacific Islander Access to Federal Programs
For the month of May, Obama administration officials plan to hold a series of events aimed at improving the lives of underserved Asian American and Pacific Islander communities.
April 27, 2010
Students
Ad Campaign Hopes To Inspire College Ambitions Among U.S. Latinos
Latino parents are the target of a new public service advertising campaign by the Hispanic Scholarship Fund (HSF) in concert with the Ad Council to help instill a college-going culture within the nation’s largest minority group.
April 27, 2010
African-American
Tribute: Dorothy Irene Height – 1912-2010
The news of Dorothy Height’s passing, which was not unexpected, caused many to pause and mourn the loss of a national treasure but only briefly. For if ever there was a life to be celebrated, it was the life that was lived by Height.
April 27, 2010
Students
Report: Blacks Have Heaviest College Debt
A College Board study, Who Borrows Most? Bachelor’s Degree Recipients with High Levels of Student Debt, released today reports that undergraduate student debt is heavier among African-American bachelor’s degree recipients than among graduates from other racial and ethnic groups.
April 26, 2010
Students
Thurgood Marshall College Fund Appoints New Leader
The Thurgood Marshall College Fund announced Monday the appointment of Johnny C. Taylor as president and CEO of the scholarship and institutional support organization.
April 26, 2010
Latinx
HSI Administrators Express Dismay Over Proposed NSF Grant Consolidation
The Obama administration’s proposal to consolidate federal science programs for minority-serving institutions into a single competitive grant program has representatives from Hispanic-serving institutions (HSIs) crying foul.
April 26, 2010
Students
Race-based Facebook Controversy Stirs Minnesota Campus
The Facebook conversation that roiled the University of Minnesota Duluth (UMD) in mid-April continued to reverberate last week culminating in an emotional forum on campus. UMD chancellor calls incident ‘horrendous and despicable,’ saying the university needs to work with the Student Association to address the issue.
April 25, 2010
African-American
Forum: Minority-serving Campuses Urged to Tout Their Success
The Obama administration’s top official for federal initiatives with historically Black schools on Thursday urged MSI leaders to focus on telling policymakers about their record of achievement.
April 22, 2010
African-American
Analysis: Torch Passes in Civil Rights Struggle
The recent deaths of Dorothy Height and Benjamin Hooks, two icons of the civil rights era, nudge those who have come behind them closer to the control for which they have clamored.
April 22, 2010
African-American
Incoming IRA President Aims to Prepare Literacy Teachers to Instruct Diverse Classrooms
As a teenager in Albany, Ga., Patricia A. Edwards took the lead in teaching the younger kids in her community to read. When boys came to her father’s barbershop for haircuts she told them, “If you don’t let me teach you the alphabet, I’ll tell my daddy to give you a baldy.”
April 21, 2010
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