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Over there: exchange programs and colleges seek to send minority students abroad – US education programs

In some communities, foreign travel is viewed as a rite of passage to round out the college experience. But far too few African Americans are taking advantage of the opportunity to Broaden their horizons in the world classroom for reasons that include lack of access to information about opportunities, limited funds, language restrictions and concentration in fields that are not targeted for foreign exchange programs.

June 16, 2007

Chicano studies: forging identity – development of Chicano studies as a discipline

Carlos Munoz, Chicano studies professor at the University of California-Berkeley, says the relatively large influx of Chicano students into universities unleashed a political movement focused on civil and human rights and an intellectual movement that both challenged historical knowledge and created the discipline of Chicano studies.

June 16, 2007

Building Aztlan – resurgence of Chicano activism on campus

Some Chicano scholars say the beginning of the Chicano activist movement was the defense of Tenochtitlan (now Mexico City) in 1521, which pitted the indigenous Mexican population against Spanish invaders. Others define it as the end of the Mexican-American War in 1848, when Mexico lost half of its territory to the United States and Mexican residents became, as one scholar put it, “strangers in their own land.”

June 16, 2007

Carrot-top and multicolored eyes – an African American educator recounts the role of racial diversity in his life – Column

I tried recently to focus my thoughts on diversity and the effect this concept has had upon higher education in recent years. I lingered upon personal thoughts of how I have been affected by it throughout my life.

June 16, 2007

Leadership & Policy

Endowments: investing in education’s future – historically African American colleges

With enrollments down, operating costs up, federal research funds disappearing and admission and hiring policies endangered, the best way to coax a smile out of higher education administrators is to mention a single word: endowment.

June 16, 2007

Faculty & Staff

The road taken, twice – Column

Signposts Detours and Exits of a Military Wife Who Happens to be a Tenured Professor.

June 16, 2007

Leadership & Policy

Spending smart – economic restructuring of Morris College

Behind his back, Morris College alumni refer to the president of the small, Black Baptist college in Sumter, SC, as “the survivor.” It is a respectful nickname that has been earned by staying power — more than two decades at the helm — and an ability to financially right an institution that was sinking fast.

June 16, 2007

Silver lining in downsizing cloud – African-American entrepreneurship – Column

Thanks to Republican presidential candidate Pat Buchanan, people are talking about the economic insecurity that so many Americans are experiencing. To be sure, Buchanan is not the first to discuss the plight of the people Labor Secretary Robert Reich calls “anxious Americans,” but his hard-hitting attack on corporations that have downsized millions of workers out of jobs is hardly what one expects from a Republican candidate — even a seemingly populist one.

June 16, 2007

Minority setasides at risk

Federal support for minority setasides is declining rapidly, based on recent action both from the White house and on Capitol Hill.

June 16, 2007

African-American

Separate and Unequal: Black Americans and the US Federal Goverment. – book reviews

Separate & Unequal: Black Americans and the U.S. Federal Government, Desmond King, Oxford University Press, 1995. $35.00 (hardcover)

June 16, 2007

Little-known, little-recognized: historically black community colleges defy categorization, get job done

Providing a variety of college experiences and job training to thousands of Black, Hispanic and other students is a task honed to perfection by a handful of little-known and little-recognized historically Black community colleges.

June 16, 2007

Mississippi mayhem – Mississippi desegregation ruling may harm black college applicants

At this time of year, college recruiters are processing the flood of applications from potential students. But not at Mississippi Valley State University.

June 16, 2007

Mapping a course for success: University of Arizona’s commitment to diversity extends to its non-teaching staff

University of Arizona’s Commitment to Diversity Extends to Its Non-teaching Staff.

June 16, 2007

Stopping the raid on student aid

Washington In an assessment of the past political year at a Quality Education for Minorities luncheon, Dr. David Merkowitz of the American Council on Education said that threats to financial aid have been defeated and that affirmative action is still alive.

June 16, 2007

Leadership & Policy

Dedicated to the ones they love – endowment helps open the Camille Cosby Academic Center at Spelman College

Spelman’s New $15-Million State-of-the-art Camille Cosby Academic Center Draws Tributes, Raves from Community.

June 16, 2007

Chairing up: black alumni students endow Whitney M. Young Jr. Memorial Chair at U of P’s Wharton School of Business – University of Pennsylvania

Philadelphia To ensure a permanent African-American presence and establish themselves as major forces in institutional policy-making, African-American students and alumni of the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School of Business have raised a $1.25 million endowment for a new Whitney. M. Young Jr. Memorial Chair. It will support the teaching and research activities of scholars of African descent at Wharton.

June 16, 2007

Black, feminist, outspoken and unintimidated – arguments for feminist concerns of Black women

Beverly Guy-Sheftal’s masterful anthology of African-American feminist thought, “Words of Fire,” is a reminder that African-American women sometimes publicly expressed feminist thought before white women did.

June 16, 2007

Leadership & Policy

California’s Mertes to resign – David Mertes, chancellor of California Community College system

David Mertes, who led the nation’s largest collection of colleges through massive social changes and numerous political mine fields, will resign June 30 as chancellor of the California Community College system.

June 16, 2007