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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
Sports
Sports, competition and society – athletic and academic competition seen as outcome of a competitive society
Sixty-four teams from historically Black colleges and universities competed on the basis of their knowledge at the Honda Campus All-Star Classic in Orlando FL. The final four competition was as intense as the basketball classic, and Black America’s best and brightest strutted their intellectual stuff as confidently as star basketball players strut their gamesmanship.
June 16, 2007
African-American
A piece of history – Clark Atlanta University Buys Historic Paschal’s Hotel-Restaurant
ATLANTA In one transaction, Clark Atlanta University has acquired a legendary Black business, a new dormitory and a world-class chicken recipe.
June 16, 2007
Students
Making of the Chicano movement revisited – lessons from the Chicano movement of 1968 – Column
Twenty-eight years ago, on March 3, 1968, more than a thousand Mexican-American students walked out of Abraham Lincoln High School and marched through the streets of East Los Angeles, California. Later in the day, several thousand more of them walked out of five other predominantly Mexican-American high schools — and, by day’s end, more than 10,000 had joined the strike.
June 16, 2007
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African-American
Over there: exchange programs and colleges seek to send minority students abroad – US education programs
In some communities, foreign travel is viewed as a rite of passage to round out the college experience. But far too few African Americans are taking advantage of the opportunity to Broaden their horizons in the world classroom for reasons that include lack of access to information about opportunities, limited funds, language restrictions and concentration in fields that are not targeted for foreign exchange programs.
June 16, 2007
Latinx
Chicano studies: forging identity – development of Chicano studies as a discipline
Carlos Munoz, Chicano studies professor at the University of California-Berkeley, says the relatively large influx of Chicano students into universities unleashed a political movement focused on civil and human rights and an intellectual movement that both challenged historical knowledge and created the discipline of Chicano studies.
June 16, 2007
Students
Building Aztlan – resurgence of Chicano activism on campus
Some Chicano scholars say the beginning of the Chicano activist movement was the defense of Tenochtitlan (now Mexico City) in 1521, which pitted the indigenous Mexican population against Spanish invaders. Others define it as the end of the Mexican-American War in 1848, when Mexico lost half of its territory to the United States and Mexican residents became, as one scholar put it, “strangers in their own land.”
June 16, 2007
African-American
Separate and Unequal: Black Americans and the US Federal Goverment. – book reviews
Separate & Unequal: Black Americans and the U.S. Federal Government, Desmond King, Oxford University Press, 1995. $35.00 (hardcover)
June 16, 2007
Students
Little-known, little-recognized: historically black community colleges defy categorization, get job done
Providing a variety of college experiences and job training to thousands of Black, Hispanic and other students is a task honed to perfection by a handful of little-known and little-recognized historically Black community colleges.
June 16, 2007
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