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Higher education groups announce campaign to support race initiative
Miami Two leading national higher education organizations have announced a year-long campaign to encourage the nationâs colleges and universities to launch activities in support of U.S. President Bill Clintonâs national dialogue on race relations.
July 11, 2007
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Ford Fellows Fund established to increase minority participation in Ph.D. program
At the 1993 annual conference of minority recipients of the Ford Foundationâs Fellowship Fund for doctoral candidates and graduates, Dr. Bai Akridge asked this question of the participants: âIf weâve agreed that this program is so important to us, why arenât we doing something to help ourselves, too?â
July 10, 2007
HBCUs
As discussion gets started, legislators seek elimination of governmentâs affirmative action policies
As President Bill Clinton was defending the use of affirmative action in college admissions, members of Congress rolled out a plan to abolish such preferences in the awarding of government funds.
July 10, 2007
Students
Wanted: more black graduate students
In the middle of my doctoral studies, I encountered an elderly relative who expressed some chagrin that I was âstill in school.â She noted that she had sent me a few dollars when I earned my undergraduate degree and wondered whether her investment was wasted.
June 19, 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 Februaryâs Black Issues in Higher Education videoconference, which was: designed as a celebration of African American history.
June 16, 2007
African-American
Ten myths, half-truths and misunderstandings about Black history
Black history may have seemed âlost, stolen or strayedâ at one time, but since then much of the African American past has been rediscovered and reanalyzed.
June 15, 2007
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Fisk Seeks Courtâs Permission to Sell Prized Paintings
Lawyers for Fisk University and the Georgia OâKeeffe Museum early this month were working to hammer out an agreementâŚ
February 21, 2007
Students
Historians John Hope Franklin, Yu Ying-shih Named Winners of 2006 John W. Kluge Prize for the Study of Humanity
Drs. John Hope Franklin and Yu Ying-shih have been named the recipients of the third John W. Kluge Prize for lifetime achievement in the study of humanity, the Library of Congress announced Wednesday. They will share the $1 million prize.
November 14, 2006
Students
Coming to Terms with the âDâ Word
Hoping for the best, expecting the worst. Thatâs one way of describing what I was feelingâŚ.
August 23, 2006
Faculty & Staff
Franklin Symposium: Black Achievement Suffers
In this city, now unfortunately infamous for an elite universityâs lacrosse team party that may have gotten out of handâŚ
July 12, 2006
Faculty & Staff
Franklin Symposium: Black Achievement Suffers Because of Inadequate Relationships With Teachers
In this city, now unfortunately famous for an elite universityâs lacrosse team party that may or may not have gotten out of hand, sits two high schools under a judgeâs threat of closure because not enough students appear to be on track to attend any college, much less Duke.
June 18, 2006
Latinx
Intellectual Expansion Through International Learning
I can remember seeing a large paper map of the world in grade school. It showed the United States as a large body of land that seemed toâŚ
May 17, 2006
African-American
Making the Past Present
Historian Lonnie G. Bunch III talks often about âthe ancestors.â On the job since July, the founding director of the Smithsonianâs National Museum of African American History and Culture knows that the âeyes of the worldâ are trained on him nowâŚ
February 8, 2006
African-American
Making the Past Present
Historian Lonnie G. Bunch III talks often about âthe ancestors.â On the job since July, the founding director of theâŚ
February 8, 2006
African-American
Farmers Insurance Group Announces National Black History Educational Initiative for Educators
Farmers Insurance Group has partnered with the Association for the Study of African American Life and History (ASALH) to bringâŚ
February 2, 2006
Tenure
John Hope Franklin Holds a Mirror to America
Itâs the rare historian whose life looms as large as the events he or she chroniclesâŚ
December 28, 2005
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John Hope Franklin Publishes Memoirs of Life
These days, Dr. John Hope Franklin spends more time in the greenhouse with his collection of 300 orchids than in library stacksâŚ
November 16, 2005
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John Hope Franklin Writes Memoir of a Life
These days, Dr. John Hope Franklin spends more time in the greenhouse with his collection of 300 orchids behind his home than in library stacksâŚ
October 27, 2005
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