Welcome to The EDU Ledger.com! We’ve moved from Diverse.
Welcome to The EDU Ledger! We’ve moved from Diverse: Issues In Higher Education.

Search

Section: Demographics > African-American
Students
On Higher Education: The Academic Enterprise In An Era Of Rising Student Consumerism
ON HIGHER EDUCATION: THE ACADEMIC ENTERPRISE IN AN ERA OF RISING STUDENT CONSUMERISM
July 14, 2007
Students
Large Black Voter Turnout Helped Usher In New House Leadership
Strong voter turnout among African Americans helped Democrats pick up five U.S. House of Representatives seats and avoid any net losses in the Senate in the November 3 election.
July 14, 2007
Students
The Epitome of Inequality
Alabama’s all-but-level higher education playing field is a case study in what’s wrong with higher education’s commitment to equity and diversity
July 14, 2007
African-American
What’s New
Last month, the University of Maryland-College Park announced the establishment of the David C. Driskell Center for the Study of the African Diaspora. The center will offer the opportunity to study Africa and the African Diaspora from multidisciplinary perspectives — particularly the arts, languages, literature, and history.
July 14, 2007
Faculty & Staff
The tough sell – James Hill, University of Texas – Cover Story
With the appointment of its first African American vice president, the University of Texas tries to overcome its legacy of minority exclusion
July 14, 2007
Faculty & Staff
Growing from the center
Research centers abound on the nation’s campuses, offering dynamic career opportunities for scholars at every level
July 14, 2007
Students
Celebrating Africana studies: program gets ‘coming out party’ at New York University
NEW YORK In the 1960s, college administrations cobled together piece-meal Black studies programs to placate African American students, inspired by Black Power and African independence struggles, demanding curriculums and professors “relevant” to their experiences.
July 14, 2007
Students
News Briefs
WASHINGTON Dr. Henry Louis Gates Jr., the director of Harvard University’s W.E.B. DuBois Institute for Afro-American Research, was among the nine honorees at the White House on November 5 to be presented the National Endowment for the Humanities’ (NEH) 1998 National Humanities Medal.
July 14, 2007
Students
The Power & Pain of Multicultural Politics on Campus
When votes came in a few weeks ago for new student senators at California State University Northridge (CSUN), most of the winners were students of color. While that shouldn’t seem unusual for a multi-ethnic campus where minorities constitute 62 percent of the 27,000 students, it was a noteworthy departure from past elections.
July 14, 2007
csun
Students
The Broken Pledges of Greek Life
Videoconference searches for ways to end fraternity and sorority hazing
July 14, 2007
African-American
Letters To The Editor
If one of the editorial goals of Black Issues In Higher Education is to advocate and expand the base of those who seek to increase educational opportunities for Blacks, care must be most intensive when reporting the results of various studies that address any issue pertinent to the stated goal. This includes the issue of affirmative action.
July 14, 2007
African-American
Transforming the Study of Literature — and Ourselves
The pursuit of the study of what we now call African American literature is its own story. The teaching of this radical and radicalizing literature is a parallel story that shares all of the problems and challenges of African American presence in the academy and in this nation.
July 14, 2007
reedplg
African-American
Rooted Against the Wind. – book reviews
Rooted Against the Wind is a collection of essays in which Gloria Wade-Gayles takes us with her as she grapples with personal responses to some gripping issues: aging, rape, homophobia, where Black scholars should teach, and choosing to live in a Black community. Her responses are loving, sensible, and wise.
July 14, 2007
African-American
Forbidden Fairways: African Americans and the Game of Golf. – book reviews
Golfing history is not high on the list of favored subjects for most Americans. Moreover, yet another painful recitation of the darker side of American history involving race relations is about as welcome to most people as a politician’s confession that taxes are going up. To his consummate credit, Calvin Sinnette succeeds not only in telling a story that needs to be told, but does so without rancor and with a style and grace that bespeaks his own love of the game of golf.
July 13, 2007
African-American
Whispers, Secrets and Promises. – book reviews
Love has strange powers; its control is unexplainable. Love can singe souls, lift spirits, weaken the most resistant knees with abrupt force. Love can inflate or deflate human hearts. Indeed, love can charge emotion into an abundance of affection. Poets have a way of rendering a clear view of love and how it affects those people where love harbors permanently or slips away to leave permanent scars.
July 13, 2007
African-American
When speech is truly free
When I walked into the newsroom of The Houston Post on August 16, 1972, there were only three other African Americans working at this major daily as full-time journalists. I was twenty-three years old, just two months out of school, armed with a master’s degree from the University of Illinois and the memories of growing up in segregated North Louisiana.
July 13, 2007
African-American
The Black Press: Soldiers Without Swords
As entombed as most of our stories have been throughout American history, many of us know about the Civil Rights movement and Martin Luther King Jr., or slavery and Harriet Tubman and Frederick Douglass.
July 13, 2007
anderson_001
African-American
Celebrating and deconstructing our educational progress
A recent Census Bureau report has good news about African American education. In Educational Attainment in the United States, the Census Bureau reported that 86.2 percent of African Americans ages twenty-five to twenty-nine were high school graduates in 1997, continuing an upward trend in the educational attainment of African Americans that began in 1940.
July 12, 2007
Previous Page
Next Page