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Leadership & Policy
Q&A: Lani Guinier and the Pimple on Adonis’ Nose
Lani Guinier, the Bennett Boskey Professor of Law at Harvard Law School, is among a panel of speakers participating in “The Future of Diversity and Opportunity in Higher Education: A National Forum on Innovation and Collaboration,” conference here this week.
December 4, 2008
African-American
Tracking the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Via the Web
What took shape in the 1970s as data collections on the trans-Atlantic slave trade stored on mainframe computers has made its way to a world-wide audience as an interactive and searchable database on the Internet.
December 4, 2008
Leadership & Policy
Shannon: Seeing Black Coach Number Fall to 3 ‘Sad’
Of the 65 coaches leading programs affiliated with the Bowl Championship Series, Miami’s Randy Shannon is about to stand alone.
December 4, 2008
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Sagging Economy Boosts Business School Applications
With the extraordinary demise of “the Big Five” investment banks in September and the turmoil in the global economy that followed, the casual observer might be forgiven for thinking that this would be a lousy time to be enrolled in a business program.
December 3, 2008
Native Americans
Arizona Tribe’s Suit Over Research Revived
An Arizona appeals court panel ruled that the Havasupai American Indian tribe can proceed with a lawsuit that claims university researchers misused blood samples taken from tribal members.
December 3, 2008
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American Folk Music Legend Odetta Dies at 77
Odetta, the folk singer with the powerful voice who moved audiences and influenced fellow musicians for a half-century, has died.
December 3, 2008
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Women of color emerge as new face of small business
Maya Breuer started her business eight years ago because she says she wanted to make a living doing something personally meaningful.
December 2, 2008
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U.S. Makes Modest Progress in College Affordability and Accessibility
College accessibility has improved modestly over the last decade as the proportion of 18 to 24 years enrolled in college has risen from 39 percent to 42 percent since 1997.
December 2, 2008
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Richardson longed to return to DC, federal posts
No one believed Bill Richardson was leaving the national stage just because he abandoned his bid for the Democratic presidential nomination last January.
December 2, 2008
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LGBTQ+
Univ. of Toledo official fired over column sues
The firing of a college administrator over her criticism of gay rights has sparked a debate about free speech and whether universities have the right to regulate what employees say outside of their jobs.
December 2, 2008
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Latinx
Telling Tales Helps Students Jump Right into Learning Spanish
Frustrated by traditional language teaching tools, an experienced Spanish teacher from Annapolis has adult students writing imaginative stories and jumping to learn the language — literally.
December 2, 2008
Latinx
Task Force Urges Proactive Recruiting for Federal Jobs
A working group studying ways to improve the representation of Hispanics in the federal workforce for the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has called for more accountability in management and proactive recruiting.
December 2, 2008
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Study: Minorities have higher rates of entrepreneurship than Whites
With a first-time report on minority entrepreneurs, an influential research project on U.S. entrepreneurship detected declining activity among American entrepreneurs from 2005 to 2007, reflecting a likely sign of the U.S. economy’s broader decline in 2008.
December 1, 2008
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Trusted Obama Adviser Susan Rice to be UN Envoy
Susan Rice, the first African-American woman named as U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, brings to the job a lifetime’s work on international issues, an insider’s knowledge of the White House and State Department, and close ties to President-elect Barack Obama.
December 1, 2008
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Students
Beyond Obama-mania: Will Young People Stay Involved Post-election?
Christopher Carter worked hard up until the presidential election to register and turn out his classmates to vote. Carter, a second-year political science student, attends the country’s oldest historically Black college, Cheyney University in Pennsylvania.
November 30, 2008
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Marine Archaeologists Find Remains of Slave Ship
Marine archaeologists have found the remains of a slave ship wrecked off the Turks and Caicos Islands in 1841, an accident that set free the ancestors of many current residents of those islands.
November 30, 2008
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Tribal Colleges
The Obama Effect
My immediate reaction to U.S. Sen. Barack Obama’s election as the 44th president of the United States was to promptly follow his admonition — turn off the television and read with my daughter.
November 26, 2008
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Reshaping the Landscape, One Student at a Time
Carmen Twillie Ambar knows that some people think women’s colleges are obsolete.
November 26, 2008
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