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Jackson State’s NAACP Chapter Has First White President
The president of the Mississippi NAACP says the selection of a White man to lead one of the organization’s chapters shows its real mission to represent more than one race.
December 13, 2010
Native Americans
American Indian Museum Still Facing Criticism for Historical Inaccuracies
Native American activists, scholars lead collaborative effort to address sins of omission at the National Museum of the American Indian.
December 13, 2010
Native Americans
Book Review: Lending Credibility to the Oral Tradition
Native American scholar validates indigenous oral history as a source of academic information with book exploring the murder of a famed Ojibwe chief.
December 12, 2010
African-American
Civil Rights Commission Report Finds That HBCUs Do a Better Job of Graduating Black STEM Majors
Race-conscious admissions at elite institutions lead to academic “mismatch” for Black students, report says.
December 12, 2010
Native Americans
Native Americans Combat the Suicide Spirit
Tribal colleges are at the forefront of communitywide efforts to combat suicide with culturally relevant methods.
December 9, 2010
Latinx
Early College Planning Essential for Latino Student Success, Experts Say
To ensure better college access and success for Latino students from low-income backgrounds, institutions should help them put together college plans as early as the eighth grade, according to experts at two Washington-area education events.
December 9, 2010
African-American
Scholar Documents Historic Ties Between African-Americans and Native Americans
As an associate professor at the University of Michigan, Dr. Tiya Miles has emerged as a leading scholar of Cherokee-African American relations.
December 8, 2010
Faculty & Staff
Belmont University Faculty Wants Discussion of Sexual Identity Issues
Professors at Belmont University in Tennessee, where a gay soccer coach recently resigned, want a campus discussion of sexual identity issues.
December 7, 2010
Leadership & Policy
Ten HBCUs Get Accreditation Reaffirmed, Two Placed on Warning Status
Fisk and Tennessee State Universities were placed on warning status by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools (SACS) Commission on Colleges.
December 7, 2010
African-American
Author Spotlight: Oyeronke Oyewumi
Oyeronke Oyewumi is an associate professor of sociology at the State University of New York at Stony Brook, where she has taught courses on gender and globilization and feminist theory. The Nigerian-born scholar studied at the University of Ibadan and at the University of California at Berkeley. She is the author of African Women and Feminism: Reflecting on the Politics of Sisterhood, Africa World Press, Trenton: New Jersey (2003), available on diversebooks.net
December 6, 2010
African-American
U.S. Civil Rights Commission Announces Reports on HBCU Effectiveness, Minority STEM Pursuit
The commission announced Monday that it has released The Educational Effectiveness of Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) and Encouraging Minority Students to Pursue Science, Technology, Engineering and Math Careers (STEM) briefing reports.
December 6, 2010
Latinx
Immigrant Students Give Blood To Show Citizenship
As Congress gets closer to a possible vote on the DREAM Act, college-aged undocumented immigrants are literally shedding blood for the cause.
December 5, 2010
African-American
Experts Recommend Improved Strategies for Getting Minority Males into Graduate School
The Council of Graduate Schools’ annual conference that wrapped up in Washington, D.C., over the weekend focused on the challenges associated with positioning students to pursue more than just a bachelor’s degree.
December 5, 2010
Students
NAFEO, AT&T Launch Effort To Help Students With Disabilities Attend HBCUs, PBIs
The National Association for Equal Opportunity in Higher Education and the AT&T telecommunications giant have launched an initiative to provide scholarships to students with disabilities attending Historically Black Colleges and Universities and Predominantly Black Institutions.
December 2, 2010
African-American
Fisk, Angry Over Judge’s Art Ruling, Says It Will Fight On
Financially strapped Fisk University says it will appeal a Tennessee judge’s decision to deny the school access to all the sale proceeds of a proposed ownership sharing agreement involving the school’s valuable Stieglitz art and photograph collection.
December 2, 2010
Asian American Pacific Islander
Report: Asian American Academic Achievement in California Lags Heavily Within Certain Subgroups
Despite the pervasive nature of the “model minority” myth, members of certain Asian ethnicities in California have disproportionate rates of never finishing high school, especially if they’re poor or speak limited English, University of California researchers say.
December 2, 2010
African-American
Mississippi Still Lacks Civil Rights Museum
Mississippi bred some of the worst violence of the civil rights era, yet nearly a half-century after a barrage of atrocities pricked the conscience of America, it’s one of the few civil rights battleground states with no museum to commemorate the era.
December 1, 2010
Leadership & Policy
Christopher Brown Named New President of Alcorn State
Fisk University provost has been named president of Alcorn State University in Mississippi.
November 30, 2010
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