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Section: Demographics
Latinx
Significant Increase in College-bound Hispanics Projected For The South
The current number of Hispanic high school graduates in the 16 states that constitute the Southern Regional Education Board is projected to more than double by 2022, outpacing national projections, according to a new report released by Denver-based Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education.
March 19, 2008
Leadership & Policy
Letters
INCLUSION IS JUST PART OF THE STORY “Perspectives: Tradition of Inclusion Left Out of William & Mary President’s Story,” Feb. 26, 2008 Inclusion is indeed part of [President Gene] Nichol’s story, but it is a minor issue in the chaos that Nichol created at W&M. And diversity of intellectual thought was not on his agenda. […]
March 19, 2008
Asian American Pacific Islander
Getting to Know Dr. Purnima Mankekar
Ask Dr. Purnima Mankekar about family meals during her childhood in India, and she immediately recalls table conversation always revolving around feminist politics and social justice issues.
March 19, 2008
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African-American
Telling Her Story
The roles of women then and now make appealing subjects.
March 19, 2008
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Asian American Pacific Islander
Diverse Calendar
March 27-30 MELUS — Society for the Study of Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States 22nd Annual MELUS Conference “Towards a Confluence of Multi-Ethnic Arts and the University” The Blackwell Hotel and Conference Center The Ohio State University Columbus, Ohio Web: http://webspace.ship.edu/kmlong/melus March 29-April 2 American College Personnel Association83rd Annual Convention “Professionalism with Purpose: Advancing […]
March 19, 2008
Leadership & Policy
Divinity School at TCU Still Plans to Honor Obama Pastor
Controversy surrounding the longtime minister of Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama is not deterring a Texas divinity school from honoring the Rev. Jeremiah Wright at a ceremony later this month.
March 18, 2008
Latinx
Celebrating a Ripe Audience: A New Publishing Imprint Highlights Hispanic Celebrities
With the recent launch of the Celebra publishing imprint, Raymond Garcia hopes to tap into the emergent Hispanic book-buying market.
March 18, 2008
Latinx
Justice and Immigration Clinic Opens at California’s University of La Verne College of Law
The University of La Verne (ULV) College of Law has announced the opening of its Justice & Immigration Clinic (JIC).
March 18, 2008
Latinx
From South America to Europe, Scholars Discuss Equity
While affirmative action programs are being challenged in the United States, Brazil is readily adopting these admissions policies in their colleges and universities as the morally correct thing to do to address the socioeconomic exclusion of Blacks, according to research done by Fulbright New Century scholar, Dr. Michele S. Moses.
March 18, 2008
Leadership & Policy
Tribal College Leaders Bow Out of UND Advertisement, Citing Nickname
Five current and former tribal college presidents have decided not to take part in a photo shoot for a University of North Dakota student recruiting campaign because of their opposition to the Fighting Sioux nickname, a UND official says.
March 16, 2008
Latinx
Colleges Encouraged to Improve the Student Experience By Using Identified Best Practices
Jackson State University discovered through a student survey that students were not feeling engaged at the institution, and despite problematic academic probation and retention rates, were not taking advantage of the support services available.
March 12, 2008
Students
Perspectives: Knowledge, Authority and Hmong Invisibility
A professor’s comments about Hmong Americans a year ago were controversial, but it was and is the dismissal of Hmong views and voices in the face of intolerance that remains the enduring problem.
March 12, 2008
Native Americans
State, UW Join Push for Tribal Center at Riverton College
Plans for a long-sought American Indian center at Central Wyoming College in Riverton have gotten a boost with the University of Wyoming joining the project and the state Legislature’s approval of $1.1 million in funding.
March 12, 2008
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Native Americans
The Struggle to Keep Native Students in College
Fourteen of New Mexico Highlands University’s 106 American Indian students enrolled last fall did not return for spring semester. The university is trying to figure out how to retain students who “don’t feel like they belong.”
March 12, 2008
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Asian American Pacific Islander
Minorities and Whites Have Differing Views of Health Care
Minorities are more likely than White patients to rate their health care as fair or poor, a view that is particularly true among Chinese Americans, Blacks born in Africa and Vietnamese Americans.
March 12, 2008
Latinx
Report Explores Link Between Latino’s Faith, Politics and Activism
Latinos’ religious affiliation and church attendance influence their political party preferences, degree of support for the war in Iraq and positions on moral issues raised in the last presidential campaign, according to a report recently released by the Center for the Study of Latino Religion (CSLR) in the University of Notre Dame’s Institute for Latino Studies (ILS).
March 11, 2008
Latinx
Mexico Initiates English Classes Throughout U.S. at Consular Offices
Mexico will use its network of 48 consular offices in the United States to offer courses in English- as-a-Second-Language (ESL), diplomatic officials have announced.
March 11, 2008
Latinx
Latino School Enrollment Up in Texas Cities With Immigration Laws
North Texas cities debating local laws to deal with illegal immigration are also home to school districts with some of the state’s largest increases in Hispanic student enrollment, a Fort Worth Star-Telegram analysis found.
March 11, 2008
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