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
African-American
A Crisis Is a Terrible Thing to Waste
In his best-selling book The World Is Flat, New York Times foreign affairs columnist Thomas Friedman examines the technological and social shifts that have leveled the economic world…
February 8, 2006
affleck
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 bring…
February 2, 2006
Students
Clemson Hosts National Conference in Black Student Achievement
Creating a climate for diversity on college campuses will help attract, retain and graduate more Black students…
January 26, 2006
African-American
Cornell Study Says Upstate Mexicans Largely Invisible
A new study by Cornell University finds more Mexican farmworkers are settling in rural upstate New York…
January 25, 2006
African-American
Grants & Awards
Eastern Washington University has received a $500,000 challenge grant from the Kresge Foundation to help equip the university’s new Computing and Engineering Building. Half of the funds will be used to purchase scientific equipment, while the other half will go towards an endowment to replace and maintain current equipment. Holy Names University (Calif.) has received […]
January 25, 2006
Students
Student Death Shifts Focus to Black Fraternities
The death of a University of Oklahoma fraternity member at a Stillwater party has brought scrutiny of the safety measures of predominantly Black Greek-lettered organizations…
January 24, 2006
African-American
Duke University Sociologist Notes ‘Reorganization of Black’
As an active member of his Brooklyn community, Roy Hastick takes plenty of inspiration from Martin Luther King Jr. and his dream of racial peace…
January 17, 2006
African-American
Emerging Scholars: Merging Disciplines, Cultures and Languages
Dr. Lucía M. Suárez is modest about her success in academia. When asked about the journey that has led her to…
January 11, 2006
suarez
African-American
In Pursuit of Civil Discourse in the Academy
I believe in civil discourse. I believe in the value that comes from intellectual engagement with thoughtful people…
January 11, 2006
pierce_001
African-American
University of Colorado Graduating Higher Percentage of Minority Students, Says Report
The University of Colorado in Boulder has done a better job of graduating minority students than other public colleges in the state…
January 3, 2006
African-American
Vying to Beat the Golfing Odds
Most of the golfers at the 2004 Queenstown Maryland Futures Tour had caddies who calculated the…
December 28, 2005
golf
African-American
Making History
Making History Dr. Marvalene Hughes, the first female or African-American to be named president of California State University-Stanislaus, is named president of Dillard University, also making her the Louisiana university’s first female president. Dr. JoAnn W. Haysbert, provost of Hampton University in Hampton, Va., becomes the first female president of historically Black Langston University and […]
December 28, 2005
Sports
In Memoriam
In Memoriam Ossie Davis, actor, playwright, producer, activist, and husband to actress Ruby Dee, was 87 when he died in February from natural causes. Wrote poet Haki Madhubuti in his tribute to Davis: “His art fed us, allowing us to grow and, yes, finally appreciate his greatness and his genius. He was, indeed, our golden […]
December 28, 2005
gary
Students
Evaluating Evaluations: Answering the Unasked Question
W.E.B. Du Bois wrote, “Between me and the other world there is ever an unasked question…
December 28, 2005
green
Faculty & Staff
University of Arkansas Revives Black Studies Program
More than two years after the Black studies program at the University of Arkansas was left…
December 20, 2005
hine
African-American
Harvard President Summers Marries Professor
Harvard President Lawrence H. Summers married Harvard professor Elisa New last weekend in a ceremony…
December 14, 2005
harvard
Students
Colorado University Police Investigating
University of Colorado, which has recently been hit with a string of racially tinged incidents…
December 14, 2005
Students
Hispanic, Diversity-based Greek Organizations
The University of Alabama, a landmark in the fight over racial segregation…
December 14, 2005
Previous Page
Next Page