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More Bowl Teams Meet Academic Standards

More bowl-bound Division I football programs are meeting the NCAA’s minimum acceptable academic standards than last year, according to a study released Monday. The report by the Institute for Diversity and Ethics in Sport at the University of Central Florida found that of the 64 teams headed for bowls, 73 percent earned recent Academic Progress […]

December 3, 2007

UTSA Student Group Protests Cancellation of Black Studies Course

SAN ANTONIO — The University of Texas at San Antonio’s cancellation of an upcoming course within the African American Studies Program has prompted the resignation of a professor and drawn criticism from some students. The university pulled “African American Political Thought” from the spring semester because of a lack of student interest in the black […]

December 3, 2007

Jackson State Campus Mourns Death of Student Who Was Missing For Weeks

The body of Jackson State University student Latasha Norman was found in a wooded area about 10 miles from the campus, near Tougaloo College, on Thursday afternoon, Nov. 29, authorities reported.

December 3, 2007

Public School Crime Down, But It’s Still More Dangerous For Black, Hispanic Children

The percentage of public schools experiencing incidents of crime was lower in 2005 than in 2003. In 2003, 65 percent of schools reported crimes to the police compared to 61 percent of schools in 2005, the latest year analyzed by the National Center for Education Statistics.

December 3, 2007

In Brief: UT Teaching Hospital Considers Turning Away Undocumented Cancer Patients

The University of Texas Medical Branch may stop offering cancer care to indigent and undocumented immigrants in order to cut costs; University of Buffalo researcher’s work leads to dismissal of Tulsa ‘Race Riot’ charges; West Virginia rethinks scholarship leave of absence.

December 3, 2007

Jackson State Campus Mourns Death of Student Who Was Missing For Weeks

The body of Jackson State University student Latasha Norman was found in a wooded area about 10 miles from the campus, near Tougaloo College, on Thursday afternoon, Nov. 29, authorities reported.

December 2, 2007

Community Colleges

Obama Outlines Plan for Community Colleges

Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama outlined a plan last week at Iowa Central Community College in Fort Dodge to give community colleges incentives to grow and tailor their programs to meet the needs of local industries.

December 1, 2007

Community Colleges

Without Federal Dollars, Oregon Community College Could Collapse in Earthquake

ASTORIA, Ore. — Clatsop Community College officials are hoping that federal officials will come through with a grant to help stabilize the crumbling facilities on the campus, which have been rated as 100 percent likely to collapse in a major earthquake.

December 1, 2007

Black Male Initiative Conference Yields Best Practices

ATLANTA Five years after the University System of Georgia started an initiative to boost enrollment of Black males, officials are seeing results, but they also realize more needs to be done.

December 1, 2007

Faculty & Staff

Professor Allegedly Makes Racist Remarks in Class at Brandeis University

The professor allegedly used the term “wetbacks” in class, a derogatory expression used to describe immigrants who have crossed the Mexican border illegally. Brandeis University moved swiftly and decisively to correct the situation by placing a monitor in his class, but a faculty committee says the university threatened the professor’s academic freedom to remedy a situation that it hadn’t fully investigated.

December 1, 2007

Faculty & Staff

Police: No Suspects, Leads in Columbia University Noose Case

NEW YORK Nearly two months after someone hung a noose on a Black Columbia University professor’s office door, police say they have no suspects in the apparent hate crime that shook the Ivy League campus.

December 1, 2007

SC’s 16 Tech Schools, University of South Carolina Start Program to Ease Student Transfers

COLUMBIA, S.C. Students at the state’s 16 technical colleges will be able to more easily transfer to the University of South Carolina under an agreement approved Thursday. The program will go into effect next fall and could attract up to 500 students in the first year, officials said. “There’s a wonderful Southern saying, ‘Y’all come!’ […]

November 29, 2007

Number of Mental Health Patients Banned From Buying Guns Doubles Since Virginia Tech Shootings

WASHINGTON The number of people barred from buying guns because of mental health problems has more than doubled since a deranged student shot to death 32 students on a university campus last April, the Justice Department said Thursday.

November 29, 2007

Diversity Debate Shakes Up Quiet Liberal Arts Campus

GRANVILLE, Ohio Nooses on a poster advertising a Halloween singing concert set off two weeks of debate and protest at Denison University, a largely White liberal arts campus. The college choir, which had invited students to “come hang with us,” removed the posters, canceled the concert and turned the event into a forum on discrimination. But some students say the ad was the last straw and exposed an ugly side to this expensive university situated in a quaint central Ohio town.

November 29, 2007

University of Missouri Campus Can Drop Columbia Designation — Sometimes

KANSAS CITY, Mo. The University of Missouri-Columbia campus is keeping the hyphen and everything after it for official purposes. But the Board of Curators for the four-campus system agreed Thursday to let the state’s flagship school go by the University of Missouri for recruitment, fundraising, marketing and intercollegiate athletics.

November 29, 2007

Black Male Initiative Worth Duplicating

New York City College of Technology’s Black Male Initiative (BMI) program was recently named one of nine U.S. Model Replication Institutions by NASA and the National Science Foundation for its innovative approaches in attacking the problem of Black male student enrollment and retention.

November 28, 2007

University of Montana, Montana State University Offer Classes in Powwow Planning

MISSOULA, Mont. Listed on the University of Montana’s class schedule with English, philosophy and algebra is one you’re unlikely to find on many university course lists.

November 28, 2007

New Report Highlights Factors in English Proficiency, Assimilation Among Hispanics

Fluency for Hispanic immigrants increases across generations, according to a new report released by the Pew Hispanic Center, a research organization based in Washington, D.C.

November 28, 2007