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Arizona State Graduate in Limbo Over Immigration Status
Undocumented immigrants like Angelica Hernandez who were brought here as children have virtually no chance of earning legal status under current federal immigration laws.
May 24, 2011
Community Colleges
Education Advocates Facing Up to Budget Deal, Anticipating 2012 Fiscal Debate
Next year’s House plan contains more than $700 billion in cuts from labor, education, health and human service programs.
May 24, 2011
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Perspective: Race and Beyond – Playing the Dozens
A week ago, Princeton University Professor Cornel West played the dozens on President Obama, a Center for American Progress senior fellow writes.
May 24, 2011
Community Colleges
Report: Pay Disparities Persist for Minorities and Women With College Degrees
A study by the Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce shows that White median earnings surpassed that of all other groups in all but a few fields, and, in those cases, White median earnings were surpassed only by those of Asians.
May 24, 2011
Sports
WNBA Names New York University Student as a Leader of Tomorrow
Tonya Ingram, who recently completed her second year at New York University, was named the BBVA Leader of Tomorrow by the Women’s National Basketball Association.
May 24, 2011
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Hundreds of Civil Rights Movement Era Love Letters To Be Donated in Houston
William and Audrey Lawson will donate their correspondence from nearly 60 years ago to the archives of the African American Library at the Gregory School and the Houston Metropolitan Research Center in Houston.
May 23, 2011
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Gov. Haley Barbour Apologizes to Activists Arrested in Mississippi
Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour has apologized to dozens of civil rights activists who were carted off to the state’s notorious Parchman prison in the 1960s for attempting to desegregate interstate travel.
May 23, 2011
Community Colleges
Perspective: Cultivating Community College Creativity Within Financial Constraints
North Carolina and Texas success stories illustrate best practices of community college global education.
May 23, 2011
Asian American Pacific Islander
More Than a Tiger Mom
Celebrated but controversial author and Yale University law professor Amy Chua’s takes on world geopolitics have long been a hot topic in the academy.
May 23, 2011
Leadership & Policy
African Burial Ground to Be Restored in Richmond, Va.
Virginia Commonwealth University’s Board of Visitors on Friday approved the transfer of the African Burial Ground to the city, clearing the way for asphalt and gravel to be removed from the site in Richmond’s historic Shockoe Bottom.
May 22, 2011
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Critics Question Effectiveness of U.S. Civil Rights Commission
President Obama is moving to wrest control of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights from Republican appointees, but questions are being raised about its ability to create a better America for victims of discrimination.
May 22, 2011
Latinx
Influential Speakers Inspire 2011 Graduates to Pursue the American Dream
This spring, minority-serving institutions, including historically Black colleges and universities and Hispanic-serving institutions, are hosting a number of influential leaders as graduation speakers.
May 22, 2011
African-American
Scholar Khalil Gibran Muhammad to Take Reins at Schomburg Center
Dr. Khalil Gibran Muhammad, an assistant professor of history at Indiana University, is poised to take the helm of the world’s leading repository of the global Black experience when he becomes director of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture.
May 22, 2011
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U.C. Berkeley Law Professor Goodwin Liu Facing GOP Defeat Over Appeals Court Nomination
President Barack Obama faced his first defeat of a judicial nominee, as Senate Republicans lined up against a California law professor who boldly asserted his liberal views and leveled attacks against two conservative Supreme Court justices.
May 19, 2011
Latinx
DREAM Act Enters New Phase Among Certain Progressive States
States instituting laws antagonizing undocumented immigrants have surged, while the number of states that allow undocumented students to get in-state tuition have peaked.
May 19, 2011
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Report: Income Inequality Poses Obstacle for Obama College Completion Drive
The U.S. will not reach the Obama administration’s goal of becoming the most college-educated country in the world by 2020 unless the country eliminates the income-based inequalities that cause a gap in degree attainment between rich and poor.
May 19, 2011
African-American
SUNO/UNO Merger Scrapped for Lack of Support
House Speaker Jim Tucker, sponsor of the legislation, said that he doesn’t have the two-thirds support needed for passage and doesn’t expect to be able to get the votes this legislative session.
May 18, 2011
Community Colleges
Poll Finds Recent College Graduates Hit by Recession
A new survey of college graduates from the last five years finds that the Great Recession has hit them hard, forcing them into low-paying jobs, often unrelated to their educations.
May 18, 2011
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