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Students
Perspectives: Knowledge, Authority and Hmong Invisibility
A professor’s comments about Hmong Americans a year ago were controversial, but it was and is the dismissal of Hmong views and voices in the face of intolerance that remains the enduring problem.
March 12, 2008
Leadership & Policy
Racism Alleged in NMSU Decision not to Renew Contracts
A New Mexico State University faculty member whose contract was not renewed says she was told she was “too educated to be considered Black.”
March 12, 2008
Native Americans
State, UW Join Push for Tribal Center at Riverton College
Plans for a long-sought American Indian center at Central Wyoming College in Riverton have gotten a boost with the University of Wyoming joining the project and the state Legislature’s approval of $1.1 million in funding.
March 12, 2008
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Students
Innovations 2008 Conference Highlights Diversity, Equity, Inclusion Themes
Last week, 2,100 community college faculty, administrators and advocates gathered in the mile high city for the League for Innovation in the Community College’s Innovations 2008 Conference, hosted by the Community College of Denver.
March 12, 2008
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Community Colleges
Missouri House Denies Undocumented Students Access too Public Colleges
For the third year in a row, Missouri House members voted Wednesday to bar undocumented immigrants from public colleges and universities.
March 12, 2008
Community Colleges
New Hampshire Pilot Articulation Initiative Rolled Out Statewide
A pilot program that makes it easier and cheaper for community college students to transfer to the University of New Hampshire is being expanded statewide.
March 12, 2008
Students
NASPA Addresses Collegiate Black Male Performance
In a qualitative study examining the lives of 20 collegiate Black males, Iowa State University graduate student researchers determined the six reasons why Black males struggle at predominately White institutions: isolation, the lack of positive images, the lack of preparation, financial factors, the lack of mentors and pride.
March 12, 2008
Leadership & Policy
Advancing Diversity in Public Service
Officials at New York’s City College are undertaking a mission to increase diversity in the field of public service by introducing plans for a national center and creating a new academic curriculum.
March 12, 2008
Health
Researchers at Odds Over Tuskegee Study
The infamous Tuskegee Syphilis Study, a government experiment that charted the effects of the untreated disease on mostly poor and uneducated Black men, was conducted for 40 years before it was exposed and ended in 1972 amid widespread condemnation.
March 12, 2008
Native Americans
The Struggle to Keep Native Students in College
Fourteen of New Mexico Highlands University’s 106 American Indian students enrolled last fall did not return for spring semester. The university is trying to figure out how to retain students who “don’t feel like they belong.”
March 12, 2008
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Asian American Pacific Islander
Minorities and Whites Have Differing Views of Health Care
Minorities are more likely than White patients to rate their health care as fair or poor, a view that is particularly true among Chinese Americans, Blacks born in Africa and Vietnamese Americans.
March 12, 2008
Latinx
Report Explores Link Between Latino’s Faith, Politics and Activism
Latinos’ religious affiliation and church attendance influence their political party preferences, degree of support for the war in Iraq and positions on moral issues raised in the last presidential campaign, according to a report recently released by the Center for the Study of Latino Religion (CSLR) in the University of Notre Dame’s Institute for Latino Studies (ILS).
March 11, 2008
Latinx
Mexico Initiates English Classes Throughout U.S. at Consular Offices
Mexico will use its network of 48 consular offices in the United States to offer courses in English- as-a-Second-Language (ESL), diplomatic officials have announced.
March 11, 2008
Latinx
Latino School Enrollment Up in Texas Cities With Immigration Laws
North Texas cities debating local laws to deal with illegal immigration are also home to school districts with some of the state’s largest increases in Hispanic student enrollment, a Fort Worth Star-Telegram analysis found.
March 11, 2008
Latinx
Report Links Hate Crimes to Anti-immigrant Sentiment
Anti-immigrant sentiment is fueling nationwide increases in the number of hate groups and the number of hate crimes targeting Latinos, a watchdog group said Monday.
March 11, 2008
Students
Michigan Universities Asked To Help Foster Youth With Financial Aid
This June, when foster youth in Michigan graduate from high school and apply for federal higher education funds, they’ll find that money is painfully tight.
March 11, 2008
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Leadership & Policy
A Spitzer Resignation Would Pave Way for New York’s First Black Governor
David A. Paterson may become New York’s first Black governor amid speculation that Eliot Spitzer may step down after he was allegedly implicated in a prostitution scandal.
March 11, 2008
Students
Study: Hazing Still a Problem on Campus
Virtually every college bans hazing, but more than half of college students belonging to campus organizations say they have experienced it in places from the glee club to the fraternity house, according to a new study.
March 11, 2008
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