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Ambitious Agenda, Ticking Clock

Interest groups, students have lengthy wish list, but Congress may not tackle everything this fall.

September 5, 2007

Faculty & Staff

Combating the Model Minority Stereotype

The University of California has established a multi-campus research program to study and develop solutions for problems affecting Asian Americans.

September 5, 2007

Hispanic Outreach By Non-HSIs Lacking, Study Indicates

Hispanic-serving institutions make up only 6 percent of all colleges, but enroll half of all Hispanic college students, raising questions in a new study about outreach and diversity efforts at majority schools.

September 5, 2007

African-American

In Memoriam: Dr. Asa Hilliard 1933-2007

The news spread rapidly: Brother Asa Hilliard had died. It was like one had to tell another and another because one could not believe Asa had transitioned to join the elders.

September 5, 2007

Faculty & Staff

Ward Churchill: By Firing Him, CU Regents ‘Gutted Academic Freedom’

Former University of Colorado professor Ward Churchill may have lost his job, but he hasn’t lost his nerve.

September 5, 2007

Seeking Out Success

University of Pennsylvania’s Dr. Shaun Harper expects his extensive research will create a new paradigm of how Black males adapt and succeed in college.

September 5, 2007

Community Colleges

SAAB Tackling the Black, Brown Male Crisis

Increasingly, dropping out of high school is a one-way ticket to prison for Black men.

September 5, 2007

A Tale of Two Indias

India’s Supreme Court recently upheld a stay against a quota system in higher education for historically oppressed Indians. Upper- and lower-caste Indians are at odds over the ruling.

September 5, 2007

Creativity in Its Most Pure Form

Annual workshop aims to convert writing from a solo endeavor to a communal experience.

September 5, 2007

Professional Appointments

Dr. Cassandra Manuelito-Kerkvliet has been appointed president of Antioch University Seattle. According to the university, she is the first American Indian woman to lead a non-tribal institution. She was previously president of Diné College. Manuelito-Kerkvliet holds a bachelor’s and master’s from the University of Wyoming and a doctorate from the University of Oregon. Dr. Angela Batista […]

September 5, 2007

African-American

Grants & Gifts

Bowling Green State University (Ohio) has received a three-year, $1 million grant from the U.S. Agency for International Development to support the Civic Education Partnership Initiative in Lebanon and Morocco. BGSU’s International Democratic Education Institute will conduct the initiative, which will bring educators from both countries to BGSU for an intensive curriculum-development seminar, among other […]

September 5, 2007

Faculty & Staff

Living With a Majority-Minority Mindset

While race relations have improved over the years, a lack of understanding regarding inequalities still exists.

September 5, 2007

Faculty & Staff

Combating the Model Minority Stereotype

LOS ANGELES For more than a decade, a group of educational leaders within the University of California system have been working towards a common goal: the development of a statewide think tank that would address the issues of the growing Asian American and Pacific Islander population.

September 4, 2007

Civil Rights Pioneer Comes “Full Circle” With New UTenn Job

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. Rita Geier, whose 1968 lawsuit helped desegregate Tennessee’s public colleges and universities, is going to work for the University of Tennessee.

September 4, 2007

Faculty & Staff

In Brief: Floyd Flake’s No-Confidence Vote, Diversity Efforts Pay Off At CU, Kentucky Institutions

The labor union representing the faculty at Wilberforce University has issued a vote of no confidence in President Floyd Flake that the school said on Friday is tied to contract talks. Black enrollment at the University of Colorado is up 24 percent within this year’s freshman class while the University of Louisville has hired 45 Asian, Black and Hispanic professors.

September 4, 2007

UC-Berkeley Study: Half of Black Employees in Low-Wage Jobs

The unemployment crisis in the Black community has been well documented. The Bureau of Labor Statistics reported in July that the Black unemployment rate was 8 percent, nearly twice the rate for Whites.

September 2, 2007

Tenn. Atty. General Objects to Settlement Over O’Keeffe Work Involving Fisk U.

SANTA FE Tennessee’s attorney general is objecting to a proposed settlement of a lawsuit involving the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum in Santa Fe and Fisk University, contending it violates the law.

September 2, 2007

Gay Studies Programs Thriving on U.S. College Campuses

SAN FRANCISCO Before he transferred to San Francisco State University from its sister school in rural central California, Emo Loredo knew only a few other openly gay students.

September 2, 2007