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Faculty & Staff

Perspectives: Thanks for Asking

We applaud White House and Education Department officials for visiting Hispanic-majority communities to better ascertain the challenges and key issues for Latino/a students. If the goodwill created by this initiative is matched by decisive action, the current administration can achieve educational improvements for Hispanic Americans.

July 21, 2009

California Budget Crisis Threatens To Derail Students’ Dreams

San Jose State University senior Daniel Ruelas has been looking for a job since May 2009 without luck.

July 20, 2009

Harvard Scholar Skip Gates Arrested in Massachusetts, Claims Racism

Black scholar Dr. Henry Louis (“Skip”) Gates Jr. is accusing a Massachusetts police department of racism after he was arrested while trying to get into his locked home near Harvard University.

July 20, 2009

Confederate Archives Find Unlikely Transcribers

When Ariel Brown was offered a chance to transcribe the correspondence of the first family of the Confederacy, the history major with a keen interest in the South seized the opportunity.

July 20, 2009

Michael Jackson: A Transformative Human Being

Okay. I will confess that I was a huge Michael Jackson fan! From the time I was a teenager, I rabidly purchased all of his albums. To me, he was one of the greatest entertainers to live. To this very day, I still harbor that assessment. In fact, on the very evening of his passing […]

July 19, 2009

Leadership & Policy

While Aid Helps, Some Struggle With Private School Tuition

The nation’s economic recession is beginning to take a toll on some students at private colleges and universities, a new survey says.

July 19, 2009

Diversity Professionals Explore Cultural Competency at George Mason University Meeting

Dozens of diversity professionals examined organizational obstacles and solutions in achieving cultural competency at “Workplace Diversity: Practice and Research,” the third annual diversity conference hosted by The School of Management at George Mason University.

July 19, 2009

New Executive Director Named To Head White House Initiative on Historically Black Colleges and Universities

U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan announced last Friday the appointment of Dr. John Silvanus Wilson Jr. as executive director of the White House Initiative on Historically Black Colleges and Universities.

July 19, 2009

Best & Brightest: Desire to Help Others Set Baltimore Native on Path to Achievement

By the time Edward Murray Jr. graduated from high school, he had witnessed a lot for his 18 years — the drowning of his niece and the demise of several family members who had succumbed to substance abuse and crime.

July 16, 2009

Senate Confirms Ex-Astronaut Bolden to Head NASA

The Senate confirmed on Wednesday retired astronaut Maj. Gen. Charles Bolden as administrator of NASA, just in time for the space agency’s 40th anniversary celebrations of man’s first steps on the moon.

July 16, 2009

African-American

John Brown Exhibit on Display at West Virginia University

Nineteenth century sketches depicting the trial and hanging of abolitionist John Brown, and the uniform of a Confederate militia commander who helped halt his Harpers Ferry insurrection are on display at West Virginia University.

July 16, 2009

Fisk Wins Chance to Make Case For Selling Interest In Art Collection

The Tennessee Court of Appeals on Tuesday ordered a Nashville trial judge to give Fisk University the chance to prove it meets the legal requirements to modify the conditions of a deceased donor’s gift of art and, if satisfied, fashion an order that would allow Fisk to sell part interest in the world famous collection it has controlled more than half a century.

July 15, 2009

Researchers: Economy Sends Workers in Search of GED Credential

A new report on GED testing in 2008 is one of the latest indicators that the demand for high school education, and subsequently, higher education, has increased in a tough economy.

July 15, 2009

Perspectives: Wake Up GOP: Sotomayor is This Generation’s Jackie Robinson

Nine years into the new millennium and conservatives and Republicans — with straight faces — insist that it is they that should define the nation’s racial debate and that it is their views that are fair and objective and part of the U.S. mainstream.

July 15, 2009

Achievement Gaps Show Little Change for Black Students

Despite some progress since 1990, Black students continue to trail White students significantly in both math and reading at critical stages of K-12 education, a new federal report says.

July 14, 2009

Community Colleges

Obama Says Education a Key to Economic Rebound

Conceding unemployment will get worse before it gets better, President Barack Obama on Tuesday unveiled a $12 billion plan to help community colleges prepare millions of people for a new generation of jobs. Challenging critics, he said he welcomed the task of turning around the economy.

July 14, 2009

Some Undergrads Shave a Year Off College to Save

While educators debate the wisdom of three-year college degrees, some ambitious students are going ahead and finishing their coursework in three years anyhow as a way to save thousands of dollars in tuition.

July 14, 2009

African-American

Morgan State University Professor M.K. Asante discusses new film, The Black Candle

M.K. Asante, an awarding-winning poet, author and internationally acclaimed filmmaker, recently embarked on his most ambitious teaching assignment to date: educating the world about Kwanzaa.

July 13, 2009