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Medical School Association Diversity Chief Talks Health Care Reform
Dr. Marc Nivet, the Association of American Medical Colleges chief diversity officer, says the emphasis on prevention and wellness in the health care reform law will benefit minorities.
November 7, 2010
Health Care
African-American
Tennessee Courts Approves Fisk Art Sale With Rigid Conditions That Anger School and State
A Tennessee Judge has decided financially troubled Fisk University can sell half ownership in its prestigious Alfred Stieglitz Collection of photographs and art for $30 million, if two-third of the proceeds are placed in a new endowment whose sole purpose would be to use its income to ensure the collection remains in Nashville, even if Fisk closes.
November 4, 2010
Hazel O’Leary
African-American
Minorities Ride GOP Wave to Groundbreaking Wins
The Republican wave produced groundbreaking results for minority candidates, from Latina and Indian-American governors to a pair of Black congressmen from the Deep South.
November 3, 2010
In Florida, Allen West (pictured) ousted a two-term Democrat to a House seat. He is the first Black Republican elected to Congress from Florida since a former slave served two terms in the 1870s.
African-American
Surgeon General Benjamin Urges Prescription for Better U.S. Health
America’s top doctor leads effort to focus nation on exercise and other strategies to promote health and wellness.
November 3, 2010
Health Care
Students
Conveying the Black College Experience into Distance Learning
With HBCUsOnline.com, radio personality Tom Joyner ventures into ‘expanding the voice’ of HBCUs by targeting growing contingent of nontraditional students.
November 3, 2010
Launched by radio personality and longtime HBCU booster Tom Joyner, HBCUsOnline.com seeks to tap into the lucrative online adult higher education market (photo by AP/Mary Ann Chastain).
Students
Future Teachers Must Show, Not Just Tell, Skills
Standing at the edge of a pond surrounded by her class of fourth-graders, Jasmine Zeppa filled a bucket with brown water and lectured her pupils on the science of observing and recording data. Many of the children seemed more interested in nearby geese, a passing jogger and the crunchy leaves underfoot.
November 2, 2010
Sharon P. Robinson is president of the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education, an umbrella group for schools that specialize in training teachers.
African-American
A Sign of Peace at Southern University
The faculty senate president at Southern University’s Baton Rouge (SUBR) campus says the SUBR faculty organization recently “accepted an olive branch” from top administration officials after months of conflict over budget cuts and fiscal priorities.
November 2, 2010
Lisa Delpit
Faculty & Staff
Lincoln University President Says He Can’t Fire Professor Over Remarks
The president of Lincoln University said late last week that he cannot fire a tenured professor who has questioned the Holocaust and expressed virulent anti-Israel views because the teacher has kept his opinions out of the classroom.
November 1, 2010
Dr. Ivory Nelson is president of Lincoln University.
African-American
Schools Step Up Efforts to Attract Adult Learners into College Programs
After traditional colleges and universities lost ground in the race to win back minority college dropouts, there is a push across academia to find innovative ways to recruit and retain adult learners.
November 1, 2010
CEO Jamie Merisotis
African-American
Anti-affirmative Action Campaign Expected to Win in Arizona
Overshadowed by battle over controversial immigration law, anti-affirmative action ballot initiative in Arizona goes unchallenged.
November 1, 2010
Ward Connerly
African-American
Perspectives: Affirmative Action May be Needed — for Men
Anti-affirmative action initiatives such as the referendum before Arizona voters on Tuesday may prove harmful to men if universities cannot rely on that tool to achieve gender diversity.
October 31, 2010
Shirley J. Wilcher
African-American
Desegregation Offers Lessons for Gay Troops Debate
Though the military may now seem to lag behind America’s acceptance of gays in civilian life, the armed forces led the charge in ending racial segregation in the 1940s and ’50s.
October 31, 2010
Thomas J. Woods, 78
African-American
APLU and Other Organizations Establish Partnership Between Afro-Columbian and Historically Black Land-grant Universities
The Association of Public Land-grant Universities (APLU), the Asociación Columbiana de Universidades (ASCUN) and Phelps Stokes have established a collaborative partnership to promote educational and cultural exchange programs between Afro-Columbian serving universities and historically Black land-grant universities in the United States. The presidents of each organization signed a memorandum of understanding on Friday during a special ceremony at APLU headquarters in Washington, D.C.
October 31, 2010
Dr. Lorenzo Esters
African-American
John Hope Franklin Reconciliation Park Opens in Tulsa, Okla.
Officials on Wednesday dedicated the John Hope Franklin Reconciliation Park in Tulsa, Oklahoma, marking the city’s first significant acknowledgement of the 1921 Tulsa Race Riot. (Click here to watch Dr. John Hope Franklin’s televised interview on Tulsa and racial reconciliation.)
October 27, 2010
The late Dr. John Hope Franklin (center) was on hand for the fall 2008 groundbreaking of the John Hope Franklin Reconciliation Park in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
Students
Bethune-Cookman Defends Dismissals of Professors Accused of Sexual Misconduct
Countering the claim that faculty members were denied due process prior to being fired, Bethune-Cookman University officials have defended the 2009 dismissals of four professors accused of sexual misconduct.
October 26, 2010
Frustrated professor
African-American
Fisk Rejects New Proposal Over Art Collection
Fisk University on Monday rejected a proposal to keep its Stieglitz art collection on display at the school.
October 25, 2010
‘The Radiator Building—Night, New York’ by Georgia O’Keeffe is part of the Fisk University art collection.
African-American
Ayers Funding To Drop Off in 2012
Mississippi’s three historically Black universities will begin receiving less money from the settlement of the decades-old desegregation lawsuit in 2012.
October 25, 2010
Mississippi Valley State University President Donna Oliver said the university is trying to increase diversity.
African-American
Perspectives: Education Reform and the Access/Success Pendulum
As higher education renews its focus on college completion, we should be mindful about past failure to hold steadfast to access and success, UCLA professors urge.
October 25, 2010
Drs. Patricia Gándara and Gary Orfield
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