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Section: Demographics

When Procedural Diversity is Not Enough

When Procedural Diversity is Not Enough Two fraternities at the University of Virginia were suspended as photos of members in blackface were posted on a Web site following a Halloween party, the Washington Post recently reported. If that sounds like an alarmingly familiar story, that’s because it is. Around the same time last year, Black […]

December 4, 2002

African-American

When the Personal Is Political: Telling and Selling Our Stories

When the Personal Is Political: Telling and Selling Our StoriesBy Julianne Malveaux Anthony Samad is a Los Angeles-based political scientist, economic developer and political activist. He has written a weekly column in California for more than a decade, focusing on social, political and race issues affecting African Americans. For all of his accomplishments, the greater […]

November 20, 2002

African-American

Encyclopedia Explores Diversity of Black Writers, Genres

Encyclopedia Explores Diversity of Black Writers, GenresScience fiction, romance share space with history and hip-hop Dr. Wilfred D. Samuels never expected to fall — and in a big way — for science fiction as a literary genre. In actuality, he’s fallen for a group of African American sci-fi, fantasy and horror writers who are using […]

November 20, 2002

African-American

Emory Receives Major Gift to African American Studies Archive

Emory Receives Major Gift to African American Studies Archive ATLANTAEmory University has received a gift to its library collections that greatly increases teaching and research opportunities in 20th-century African American studies. A portion of the Hatch/Billops Collection in New York — an extraordinary collection assembled during the past 35 years — has been given to […]

November 20, 2002

Latinx

Five-Year Plan Targets Minority-Serving Colleges

Five-Year Plan Targets Minority-Serving CollegesBy Charles Dervarics A five-year management plan adopted by the U.S. Department of Education calls for strengthening Black colleges, Hispanic-serving institutions and tribal colleges. As one of several objectives in higher education, the Strategic Plan 2002-2007 seeks improvements for minority-serving institutions, calling them essential in “closing the gap between low-income and […]

November 20, 2002

African-American

Encyclopedia Explores Diversity of Black Writers, Genres

November 6, 2002

African-American

Center for Africana Studies Opens at Penn State

November 6, 2002

Native Americans

Black, Hispanic Admissions Up at University of California Law, Medical Schools

November 6, 2002

African-American

Musician, Novelist, Filmmaker Among MacArthur Fellows

November 6, 2002

African-American

Creating a Trans-Atlantic Agenda on Race

Creating a Trans-Atlantic Agenda on Race By Ronald RoachWASHINGTONAcademic officials and policy-makers from the United States and the European Commission convened the first two of three planned conferences last month aimed at solving problems of racial discrimination and xenophobia in Europe and the United States. Although organizers say the conferences grew largely out of a […]

November 6, 2002

African-American

Studying War

Studying War “I ain’t gonna study, war no more, ain’t gonna study war no more…” This determined folk song’s refrain was an emotional rallying cry during the civil rights and anti-Vietnam War movements of the 1960s. Today, it is ironic that many of the key players in what seems to be a personal matter that […]

November 6, 2002

Faculty & Staff

Dual Dilemma

Dual DilemmaBlack faculty work to ensure access, while making the academy hospitable to minority faculty, students”Like most non-Blacks, I guess, I have, anyway, always thought that Afro-American Studies is a pseudo-discipline, invented by guilty White liberals as a way of keeping Black intellectuals out of trouble and giving them a shot at holding professorships at […]

October 23, 2002

Women

In Memoriam: Education Advocate Dies

In Memoriam: Education Advocate DiesRep. Patsy Mink, D-Hawaii, senior Democrat on the House of Representatives’ higher education panel and a key figure in the creation of Title IX, died late last month of pneumonia. Mink, 74, was the ranking Democrat on the House Subcommittee on 21st Century Competitiveness, which oversees federal higher education programs. First […]

October 23, 2002

Latinx

HBCU Leaders Focus on Technology Gap

HBCU Leaders Focus on Technology Gap‘Sustained teamwork’ needed to eliminate disparities, one leader saysHistorically Black colleges and universities lag far behind traditionally White institutions in technology, college leaders told a House of Representatives panel in September.“The technology gap at many of our campuses is a visible reminder of the unresolved legacy of separate but equal […]

October 23, 2002

Faculty & Staff

Extending Their Reach

Extending Their ReachWith the 50th anniversaries approaching of the establishment of Phi Beta Kappa chapters at Howard and Fisk universities, the anniversary is a reminder that the honor society remains a remote influence on historically Black institutions and Black students at predominantly White college campuses.By Ronald RoachFew academic organizations can claim to have conferred as […]

October 9, 2002

Students

Greek Life Still Segregated at University of Alabama

Greek Life Still Segregated at University of AlabamaTUSCALOOSA, Ala.The University of Alabama’s traditional White fraternities and sororities remain racially segregated a year after a Black woman created a stir by trying — and failing — to gain membership (see Black Issues, Sept. 13, 2001).The membership recruitment period known as rush ended last month, and none […]

October 9, 2002

Native Americans

Cultural Center to Showcase Tribal College’s History

Cultural Center to Showcase Tribal College’s HistoryLAWRENCE, Kan.Reminders of Haskell Indian Nations University’s origins as a boarding school to educate and assimilate tribal children greeted visitors at the formal opening of its new Museum and Cultural Center. The $1.1 million center is one of about 30 such facilities being built at tribal colleges across the […]

October 9, 2002

Latinx

Students of Color Make Enrollment, Graduation Gains

Students of Color Make Enrollment, Graduation Gains WASHINGTONThe number of students of color enrolling and graduating from the nation’s colleges and universities continues to climb steadily, according to an annual status report released last month by the American Council on Education’s (ACE) Office of Minorities in Higher Education (OMHE). Overall, enrollment by students of color […]

October 9, 2002