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African-American

Diverse Calendar

March 12-16 The National Black Graduate Student Association 20th Annual Conference “Brilliance in Black”Four Points Sheraton at O’Hare HotelChicagoWeb: www.nbgsa.org March 13- 15Eleventh Annual Regional HBCUSummit on Retention“Improving Retention at HBCUs:Retention is a Shared Enterprise”Clarion Resort HotelOcean City, Md.Contact: Dr. Anne L. Gaskins-NeddPhone: (301) 860-3687e-mail: anedd@bowiestate.edu March 14-15Faculty Resource Network at New York University“The Molecules […]

February 19, 2008

Leadership & Policy

University of Connecticut Hopes to Start Offering Black Studies Major in Fall

STORRS, Conn. Students at the state’s flagship university will be able to earn degrees in the study of Black history and culture starting this fall if a state board approves the school’s plans. The University of Connecticut is asking the state Board of Higher Education to approve an interdisciplinary major it will call African-American Studies. […]

February 19, 2008

Celebrating Black History Month

Numerous two-year and four-year colleges are hosting Black History Month events across the nation.

February 13, 2008

African-American

Perspectives: The Future of Public HBCUs Depends On Exceptional Leadership

HBCUs make up 3 percent of colleges, but 23 percent of Black graduates. Surely, Black institutions add value to American higher education. The question is how can they contribute more?

February 10, 2008

African-American

Low Performance of Children Tied to “Ecological Risk”

Living in high-poverty neighborhoods has such a detrimental effect on verbal abilities of Black children that it’s the equivalent to missing a year of school, according to a recent study by sociologists from Harvard and New York universities and the University of Chicago.

February 7, 2008

African-American

Civil Rights Icons Backing Clinton Have Little Company

ATLANTA When Barack Obama was declared the winner of Georgia’s Democratic presidential primary, the Sweet Lowdown restaurant in midtown Atlanta echoed with whoops of glee as dozens of young, Black professionals celebrated his win with raised martini glasses. In other parts of the city, two civil rights icons had more subdued evenings, watching from separate […]

February 6, 2008

Leadership & Policy

In Brief: ACE Names First Woman President

Former UNC president Molly Corbett Broad was named president of ACE; Johns Hopkins researchers find Blacks’ reluctance to participate in medical studies is a direct result of the Tuskegee experiment; and recipients of the Tien Education Leadership Awards are announced.

January 14, 2008

African-American

A Conversation With Dr. Yvonne S. Thornton

Diverse correspondent Lois Elfman talks with best-selling author, gynecologist and educator Dr. Yvonne S. Thornton about the enduring impact of the soon-to-be re-released book, “The Ditchdigger’s Daughters,” higher education and being a Black female physician.

January 14, 2008

African-American

Historians Commemorate 200th Anniversary of the Slave Trade Act of 1808

In commemoration of the 200th anniversary of the Slave Trade Act of 1808, legislation abolishing the transatlantic slave trade for the United States, historians from throughout the African Diaspora gathered to discuss the relevance of the legislation today.

January 12, 2008

African-American

Remembering Martin Luther King Jr.

Remembering Martin Luther King Jr. • Georgia Perimeter College: VIP Reception and Birthday Celebration, Keynote speaker, Susan L. Taylor, Editorial Director, Essence magazine, Jan. 15. • Morehouse College: Crown Forum: Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration, Jan. 24. • Ohio Wesleyan University: 23rd Annual Martin Luther King Jr. Day worship service and breakfast, featuring Dr. Frank […]

January 9, 2008

Faculty & Staff

Catching Up With the Class of 2002

The first group of “Emerging Scholars” gives us an update on life since their magazine debut in January 2002 in what was then Black Issues In Higher Education.

January 9, 2008

African-American

Letters

A ‘New Breed’ I think Christie is a wonderful example of the “new breed” of Indian law practitioners (see “Broadening the Legal Landscape,” Nov. 29). I congratulate her and the University of Tulsa for being legally farsighted and truly responsive to the Native community’s needs. I do take issue with Christie when she used the […]

December 26, 2007

Blackface Costumes at Parties Trigger Punishment at Northwest

MARYVILLE, Mo. Fraternity monitors at Northwest Missouri State University have punished two chapters whose members appeared at Halloween parties in blackface.

December 15, 2007

Faculty & Staff

The First of Its Kind

Cal State Northridge takes the lead by creating the country’s first baccalaureate program in Central American studies.

December 12, 2007

UT at San Antonio Student Group Protests Cancellation of Black Studies Course

SAN ANTONIO — The University of Texas at San Antonio’s cancellation of an upcoming course within the African American Studies Program has prompted the resignation of a professor and drawn criticism from some students.

December 3, 2007

Perspectives: UCLA Fires Dorrell Despite Academic Success, Winning Record and 100% Bowl Record

What does a Black coach have to do to keep his job? Many observers and critics of coaching equity are probably asking that question in light of the reasons the University of California, Los Angeles athletic director has given for the firing of head football coach Karl Dorrell.

December 3, 2007

UTSA Student Group Protests Cancellation of Black Studies Course

SAN ANTONIO — The University of Texas at San Antonio’s cancellation of an upcoming course within the African American Studies Program has prompted the resignation of a professor and drawn criticism from some students. The university pulled “African American Political Thought” from the spring semester because of a lack of student interest in the black […]

December 3, 2007

Diversity Debate Shakes Up Quiet Liberal Arts Campus

GRANVILLE, Ohio Nooses on a poster advertising a Halloween singing concert set off two weeks of debate and protest at Denison University, a largely White liberal arts campus. The college choir, which had invited students to “come hang with us,” removed the posters, canceled the concert and turned the event into a forum on discrimination. But some students say the ad was the last straw and exposed an ugly side to this expensive university situated in a quaint central Ohio town.

November 29, 2007