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Missouri Professor Taps Time in Streets for Study of Prison
Wearing shorts in 30-degree weather and a yellow raincoat revealing tattoos on his left triceps and left pinky finger, University of Missouri-Columbia sociology professor Brian Colwell is no ordinary researcher.
March 4, 2008
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Bringing the Arab World to U.S. Classrooms
Amidst few resources and emerging demand, one student’s creative learning technology is now being marketed as a helpful teaching tool for Arabic professors nationwide.
March 4, 2008
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Grants & Gifts
The AMERICAN INDIAN COLLEGE FUND has received a $50,000 grant from the AT&T Foundation for student scholarship through the AICF’s Tribal College Program. The monies will benefit tribal college students studying math, science, technology and business. The CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY has received an eight-year, $24 MILLION grant from the W. M. Keck Foundation to […]
March 3, 2008
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Diverse Calendar
March 13-15 Eleventh Annual Regional HBCU Summit on Retention “Improving Retention at HBCUs: Retention is a Shared Enterprise” Clarion Resort Hotel Ocean City,Md. Contact: Dr. Anne L. Gaskins-Nedd Phone: (301) 860-3687 e-mail: anedd@bowiestate.edu March 14-15 Faculty Resource Network at New York University “The Molecules of Life: A National Dissemination Conference” Grand Hyatt Atlanta Phone: (212) […]
March 3, 2008
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University of Rochester Students Demand More Faculty Diversity
Students at the University of Rochester are demanding that university officials hire more faculty members from underrepresented groups, insisting that the administrators spend less time strategizing about diversity and make it a reality.
March 3, 2008
Leadership & Policy
Antioch Alumni Determined to Keep College Open
Alumni of Antioch College in Ohio want to keep the school open, even if it means holding classes off campus.
March 3, 2008
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Babson College Meets Changing Needs With Diversity Officer
Dr. Elizabeth Thornton, Babson College’s newly appointed chief diversity officer, wasn’t hired to mitigate a highly charged climate of racial violence or vandalism or to appease student and faculty complaints on multiculturalism.
March 2, 2008
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2 South African Students Involved in Racist Video Apologize
Two students behind an alleged racist video in which five Black university workers appear to be duped into eating food tainted with urine have apologized and said they acted without malice.
March 2, 2008
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4 Charged in Temple U. Beating Outside Jewish Fraternity
Four Temple University students face charges related to the beating of a man outside a Jewish fraternity on the Philadelphia campus, an attack police categorized as a hate crime.
March 2, 2008
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Demythologizing Diversity in Higher Education
Why has it taken so long for institutions of higher education to move beyond lip service to genuine inclusion for minority and female faculty and staff?
March 2, 2008
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America Fails To Meet Justice Goals 40 Years After Kerner
Over the last 40 years, America has failed to make significant progress on poverty, inequality, racial injustice and crime, according to a report that updates the 1968 report of the Kerner Commission, the bipartisan National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders.
February 28, 2008
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Dyson: Black History Month “Living, Significant and Important”
Minister and civil rights activist Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. earned in today’s dollars nearly a quarter of a million dollars a year in the early 1960’s and gave nearly all of it to the civil rights movement, Georgetown University Professor Michael Eric Dyson said Thursday during a speech dissecting the roots of a celebration we now call Black History month.
February 28, 2008
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Labor Department Suing Knoxville College, Ex-president
The U.S. Department of Labor is suing Knoxville College and former president Barbara Hatton to recover about $15,000 in retirement plan contributions it says the college never made.
February 28, 2008
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Princeton Releases Michelle Obama’s Senior Thesis
Princeton University has recently released Michelle Obama’s senior thesis after previously making it unavailable to the public, according to an article in The Daily Princetonian.
February 28, 2008
HBCUs
UNCF Partners with Public Policy Organization to Recruit HBCU Students for Fellowship Program
The United Negro College Fund Special Programs Corporation is helping the Institute for International Public Policy Fellowship Program recruit more students from Historically Black Colleges and Universities.
February 28, 2008
Sports
NCAA Places Lane College on 4 Year Probation
The NCAA has placed Lane College on probation for four years for major violations in its Division II athletic program.
February 28, 2008
Community Colleges
Wisconsin Officials Consider Community College Baccalaureate Plan
Adults who have some college credits but never finished four-year degrees could earn their diplomas at one of the state’s 13 two-year colleges, under a proposal being developed by University of Wisconsin System officials.
February 27, 2008
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Leadership & Policy
Alabama House Panel OKs Contentious Community College Oversight Bill
A House committee approved a bill Wednesday that would give a legislative panel the right to review and approve policy changes in Alabama’s two-year college system.
February 27, 2008
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