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A Historical Omission

Dr. Maggie Rivas-Rodriguez and colleagues were puzzled to learn of a major World War II documentary to air without the voices of Latino veterans. And then the campaign began.

September 18, 2007

One Year Later, Duquesne Still Healing From Shootings

PITTSBURGH One year after five players were shot in the worst act of random violence to strike a major college sports program, Duquesne University’s basketball team is in healing mode.

September 18, 2007

Perspectives: Racist Cartoon Art Imitates Life

Last week The Recorder, a non-official student newspaper distributed at Central Connecticut State College, ran an explicitly sexual cartoon about urinating on a 14-year-old Latina being held prisoner that set a new level for campus racism and sexism.

September 18, 2007

Leadership & Policy

2 NY education administrators are finalists for Florida education commissioner

TAMPA Fla. A current state education chancellor and two New York administrators with Florida ties were selected Tuesday as finalists for state education commissioner.

September 17, 2007

Community Colleges

Kansas State University issues warning about Salina tech school merger

SALINA Kan. Kansas State University could be forced to close its Salina campus if an area technical school merges with a community college that could offer cheaper classes, a Kansas State official says.

September 17, 2007

Student seeks charter for Hispanic fraternity at Radford

RADFORD Va. Stung by slurs when he arrived on campus as a freshman, Yanil Escobar is spearheading an effort to have the first Hispanic fraternity chartered at Radford University.

September 17, 2007

College Coaches Paranoid About Spying

ATHENS Ga. Georgia is getting ready to face Alabama in a crucial Southeastern Conference game. The Crimson Tide is coached by Nick Saban. Saban used to work for Bill Belichick. Can you figure out where this is going?

September 17, 2007

Native Americans

Tribe settles with California school district over discrimination claims

Christine Wilson remembers the way the father of her children, an American Indian of the Paiute tribe, was picked on at school in Bishop, the small mountain town where they grew up. But watching their daughters get roughed up and suspended unfairly told her it was time for real change, she said.

September 17, 2007

University of Mississippi Fraternity Appeals Suspension

JACKSON Miss. A University of Mississippi fraternity asked school officials Tuesday to lift a one-year suspension that was given after a student said he was assaulted and called a racial slur at a party.

September 17, 2007

Racial division still among struggles in Little Rock school district

LITTLE ROCK Much like 1957, 2007 has proven to be a highly divisive year for the Little Rock School District but the developments this year pitted a black-majority school board against the district’s black superintendent, rather than a battle over integration.

September 17, 2007

Nation’s largest school district wins top public education award

NEW YORK The nation’s largest school system has won the country’s top prize in public education that honors an urban district with the greatest student improvement and most success reducing achievement gaps among the poor and minorities.

September 17, 2007

Columbia student union nixes controversial anti-illegal immigration speaker

NEW YORK Jim Gilchrist, founder of the anti-illegal immigration Minuteman Project who was forced off a Columbia University stage last year, will not be coming back for a return engagement at the school.

September 17, 2007

$31 million federal research grant to Morehouse, others

ATLANTA A $31 million federal grant has been awarded to a group of Atlanta-area universities and medical organizations. It is one of a dozen such grants announced Tuesday, designed to better translate lab discoveries into patient treatments.

September 17, 2007

Navy, University of Hawaii agree on contract for university research center

HONOLULU The Navy and the University of Hawaii have agreed to terms on establishing a Navy research center on campus.

September 17, 2007

Leadership & Policy

Examiners’ reports show Alabama 2-year colleges doing OK job

PRATTVILLE Ala. Financial aid abuse at Bishop State Community College has led state examiners to expand the scope of their audits, but such problems have not been found at other schools so far, an examiner told system presidents Tuesday.

September 17, 2007

Duquesne Still Healing From Shootings

PITTSBURGH One year after five players were shot in the worst act of random violence to strike a major college sports program, Duquesne University’s basketball team is in a healing mode.

September 17, 2007

Funeral for UM student who fell from tree scheduled for Thursday

JACKSON Miss. Bradley Jameson chose to leave his native Texas for the University of Mississippi because he wanted to attend school “in a community that was all about the college.”

September 17, 2007

Women’s lawsuit against University of Colorado set for trial in ’09

DENVER A lawsuit filed by two women who say they were raped at a party attended by University of Colorado football players and recruits has been set for trial in 2009.

September 17, 2007