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African-American
Call Me Mister: South Carolina Program Trains Black Men to Become Schoolteachers and Role Models
Now seven years old, the Call Me Mister program has placed 20 Black male teachers in South Carolina schools. So how are they doing?
June 13, 2007
Students
Broken Bonds: Are Black Greek Organizations Making Themselves Irrelevant?
It is rare that one finds a venue to advance balanced, yet critical, debate over Black Greek Letter Organizations, or BGLOs.
June 13, 2007
Students
Coming to Terms With the “R” Word
Colleges may boast diversity, but what does that really mean for campus climate?
May 30, 2007
Students
How UCLA’s Black Enrollment Rebounded
Community leaders and Black alumni stepped up to help boost Black enrollment at the University of California, Los Angeles this year. The number of Black students who said they plan to enroll as freshmen in the fall doubled from 103 to 203, bringing the percentage of Black UCLA freshmen to 4.5 percent, up from 2.2 percent a year ago.
May 21, 2007
African-American
Old Problem, New Approach
Jackie Johnson, an instructor of computer education at Wake Technical Community College in North Carolina, has developed an educational Web site with the goal of making science “cool” for Black youth.
May 16, 2007
Faculty & Staff
A Tenure Not Soon Forgotten
After 34 years on the Wellesley College faculty, Dr. Tony Martin’s teachings have at times been controversial, but his mentoring of Black women is what his students will remember most.
May 16, 2007
Students
University panel says student parody “harassed” blacks
BOSTON A judicial panel at Tufts University on Thursday ruled that a conservative campus journal “harassed” blacks by publishing a Christmas carol parody called “O Come All Ye Black Folk” that many found racist.
May 13, 2007
African-American
An Unusual Suspect
Often working behind the scenes, Grace Lee Boggs has intrigued scholars and students with her lifelong mentoring of Black radicals.
April 25, 2007
Faculty & Staff
Minority Scholars Share Strategies At ‘Keeping Our Faculties’ Conference
MINNEAPOLIS When Dr. John Brooks Slaughter was being recruited as president of Occidental College, he asked one professor on the search committee how many African-Americans were on the faculty. He vividly recalls her answer: “You’re looking at 50 percent of them.”
April 24, 2007
African-American
Just Focus on the Facts
Just Focus on the Facts(“Scholars Disagree Over Former Slave’s Amazing Tale,” www.diverseeducation.com, March 29) While I can appreciate the pursuit of historical accuracy, this find is interesting but unnecessary. It would be wonderful for the United States to actually talk about the existence, horrors and implications of slavery. Whether or not Equiano was born in […]
April 18, 2007
African-American
An Unusual Suspect
Often working behind the scenes, Grace Lee Boggs has intrigued scholars and students with her lifelong mentoring of Black radicals.
April 18, 2007
African-American
Book of Note: Hollywood Weighs In On the Abolition of Slavery in England
The new movie “Amazing Grace” is an elegant depiction of famed British abolitionist William Wilberforce, who at 21 began the movement to eventually abolish the slave trade and free all slaves in England.
April 4, 2007
African-American
Grad Student Works to Add Color to Military History
Black World War II veterans have largely been left out of historical accounts, but one historian is attempting to change that.
April 4, 2007
African-American
Scholars Disagree Over Former Slave’s Amazing Tale
Olaudah Equiano’s famous 1789 autobiography describing the horrors of the Middle Passage was key in abolishing the British slave trade, and his story is now depicted in the new movie “Amazing Grace.” But a University of Maryland scholar is challenging the veracity of Equiano’s claim, and his controversial theory is upsetting Equiano fans from Harvard University to Nigeria.
March 27, 2007
Faculty & Staff
New Study Forewarns of Major Turnover in Black Studies Programs
The two regions with the smallest Black populations — the East and West — have the most Black studies degree-granting institutions, according to a new census that also forewarns of major turnover in Black studies departments.
March 25, 2007
Faculty & Staff
Right Person Right Time
The appointment of Dr. Drew Gilpin Faust, the first woman named president of Harvard University, marks a diversity high point in the storied history of the nation’s oldest college.
March 21, 2007
African-American
Making DNA Matches
Rick Kittles’ comments fail to address one important fact (see “Regaining A Lost Heritage,” Feb. 8). Half of all African-American…
March 21, 2007
African-American
Book of Note
In this fascinating book, medical ethicist and journalist Harriet A. Washington documents how slaves and freedmen were used for experiments in hospitals…
March 21, 2007
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