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Asian American Leaders Criticize State Rights Commission Task Force
Asian American students and community leaders are criticizing a state Human Rights Commission task force report on Washington State Story:
August 31, 2005
Asian American Pacific Islander
University of Michigan Vision Study Says Asians, Whites See World Differently
Asians and North Americans really do see the world differently, according to researchers at the University of Michigan. Story:
August 24, 2005
Leadership & Policy
Stepping Forward
As Butler University President Bobby Fong was reviewing applications a few years ago for a national fellows program that grooms future leaders of higher education Story:
August 24, 2005
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Asian American Pacific Islander
Black Journalists Association Concerned About Impact
Black Journalists Association Concerned About Impact Of Downsizing on Newsroom DiversityWASHINGTON The National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ) is troubled over the impact on newsroom diversity as the news media industry continues its steady pace of layoffs, buyouts and downsizing. At least five Black journalists were among more than 60 newsroom staffers recently let go […]
December 1, 2004
Students
Documenting the Diaspora
Documenting the DiasporaHistorian couple investigate Central Africa’s place in world history, rooting Black studies in an international contextBy Ronald RoachTraveling to the Vatican to study documents once belonging to a 17th-century central African diplomat may seem an unlikely project for professors in an African American studies program. But for Drs. John Thornton and Linda Heywood, […]
November 3, 2004
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Leadership & Policy
Minority Test Takers Make Significant Gains on SAT
Minority Test Takers Make Significant Gains on SATBut achievement gap between White, minority students persists By Cassie ChewWASHINGTONAmong the record 1.4 million college-bound students in the class of 2004 who took the SAT, another record number of these SAT takers, 37 percent, were minority students, the College Board said in its annual report of SAT […]
September 22, 2004
Students
SAJA Works to Raise Profile of South Asia, Journalism Profession
SAJA Works to Raise Profile of South Asia, Journalism ProfessionAfter several years of informal networking sessions and cocktail hours, the Asian American Journalists Association (AAJA) and the South Asian Journalists Association (SAJA) are coming together for the first time at next month’s UNITY conference to co-host a panel on media coverage of civil liberties after […]
July 14, 2004
Asian American Pacific Islander
U.S. Newsrooms Still a Long Way From Racial Parity
U.S. Newsrooms Still a Long Way From Racial ParityIn some instances small increases can signal big gains — a one or two-point increase on the ACT, a mere quarter-point increase in interest rates. Yet, in the instance of newsroom diversity, a half a percentage point boost offers little to celebrate. “It’s pitiful that we continue […]
July 14, 2004
Students
The Best-Kept Secret: Crime on Campus
The Best-Kept Secret: Crime on CampusIn Indiana, a Ball State University student’s lifeless, bullet-riddled body is discovered at dawn, wedged between the seats of his car. A 19-year-old Iowa student is stabbed to death in plain sight in a campus-dining hall at the Maharishi University. A Fort Hays college freshman is savagely beaten just off […]
May 5, 2004
Asian American Pacific Islander
Texas A&M to Leave Race Out of Admissions Decisions
Texas A&M to Leave Race Out of Admissions Decisions University says it will step up minority recruiting, offer scholarships    While many colleges nationwide are scrambling to use affirmative action in admissions, Texas A&M University has announced it won’t give race any special consideration. Instead, A&M officials are confident that efforts such as stepped-up minority recruiting […]
December 31, 2003
Faculty & Staff
Harvard’s New Chapter in Black Studies
Harvard’s New Chapter in Black StudiesA neglected African studies program finally gets a departmental home By Ronald RoachFrom afar, it seemed that Afro-American studies at Harvard had taken a nasty tumble when two of its best-known scholars announced their resignations in early 2002, and its venerable chairman, Dr. Henry Louis Gates Jr., let it be […]
October 8, 2003
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Asian American Pacific Islander
Diversity Intersects With National Security
Diversity Intersects With National SecurityThe UNCF’s Institute for International Public Policy plans to engage ‘unusual suspects’ in a discussion on the global importance of a diverse work force By Cassie ChewAfter nine years of sending African American, Hispanic, Asian American and American Indian undergraduate students around the globe to study the socio-economic and political structure […]
September 10, 2003
Students
Aiming for the Top
Aiming for the TopFoundation backing puts school’s journalism and communications program on new footingBy Ronald RoachHAMPTON, Va. When Erin Hill read a magazine article her senior year in high school about Hampton University’s plans for a new journalism and communications building, she saw the project validating her desire to attend the historically Black school in […]
July 30, 2003
Asian American Pacific Islander
A Faltering Picture of Diversity
A Faltering Picture of DiversityMinority journalists don’t have to consult industry surveys to know that their representation in the newsroom falls far below parityBy Ben Hammer Catalina Camia remembers how stunned she was when at a banquet for an Asian American community group in the late 1980s, a lawyer she had been speaking with for […]
July 30, 2003
Asian American Pacific Islander
Life Experiences Color Online Classmates’ Identities
Life Experiences Color Online Classmates’ IdentitiesBy Lydia Lum The words “race blind” literally took on a new meaning when I enrolled in an online class. Gone were the labels I had used so often, like reaching for a TV remote control. Black and White. Asian. Multiracial. So it wasn’t surprising that race crossed my mind […]
March 12, 2003
Faculty & Staff
Extending Their Reach
Extending Their ReachWith the 50th anniversaries approaching of the establishment of Phi Beta Kappa chapters at Howard and Fisk universities, the anniversary is a reminder that the honor society remains a remote influence on historically Black institutions and Black students at predominantly White college campuses.By Ronald RoachFew academic organizations can claim to have conferred as […]
October 9, 2002
Asian American Pacific Islander
Connecting The Classroom and the Community
Connecting The Classroom and the CommunityService-learning programs allow students to apply real-world experience with classroom studyBy Phaedra Brotherton The events of Sept. 11 have been credited with awakening a desire for many to do something meaningful and give back to their communities. But for the past decade, a growing number of institutions of higher education […]
April 24, 2002
Asian American Pacific Islander
Institute Showcases History of Black Journalists on the Web
Institute Showcases History of Black Journalists on the WebOAKLAND, Calif.The Robert C. Maynard Institute for Journalism Education (MIJE) is using video on the Web to tell a forgotten chapter of journalism history.The Maynard Institute late last month launched “The Black Journalists Movement,” a unique online oral history project that gives voice to Black journalists recalling […]
March 27, 2002
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