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Leadership & Policy
Tribal College Honors American Indian Veterans
KYLE S.D. A monument honoring more than 1,800 American Indian military veterans will be dedicated Saturday six miles southwest of Kyle at the administrative headquarters of Oglala Lakota College.
June 20, 2007
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We need to emphasize similarities as well as differences – DiverSimilarity, the paradigm to effectively manage ethnic similarities and dissimilarities
Prior to the 1960s, the dominant paradigm was the assimilation paradigm, which espouses the values and beliefs of the white Western European culture and seeks to modify and suppress non-white, non European values.
June 20, 2007
African-American
Wanted: black students in public speaking classes
As each semester begins I anxiously await to see the ethnic composition of my public speaking classes. And each semester I find myself lecturing to a class that is more than 80 percent white and 20 percent people of color.
June 20, 2007
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Diversifying Diversity. – book reviews
Dr. Roosevelt Thomas is the author of “Beyond Race and Gender” and the founder and president of The American Institute for Managing Diversity, Inc.
June 20, 2007
HBCUs
Taking stock and refocusing: foundations forcing shifts in educational priorities
Atlanta Foundations have a long history of support for American higher education. But as foundations re-focus and shift their priorities, new trends in philanthropic giving are challenging colleges and universities to examine their ability to attract funding.
June 20, 2007
Faculty & Staff
Minority businesses collaborate with HBCUs to develop new technologies – Federal Government Encouraging HBCU-minority business alliance – historically Black colleges and universities
When Veatronics Corporation needed engineering expertise to develop a highly advanced fetal monitor last year, it turned to North Carolina A&T State University for help.
June 20, 2007
Leadership & Policy
The HBCU presidential pressure cooker – historically Black colleges and universities
Faced with hostile legislatures, growing enrollments, and shrinking budgets, the presidents of many historically Black colleges and universities are also under increasing pressure from their boards of trustees to perform “satisfactorily” or get out.
June 20, 2007
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Students
By becoming more student centered, colleges will excel
From my observations, those people who work in what is known as “student affairs” are basing their work on a few guiding realities. These realities or guiding principles underlie the fundamental mission of higher education and open a window into the complexity of student affairs’ work in the late 1990s. First and foremost, institutions are […]
June 20, 2007
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Leadership & Policy
Museum exhibit sheds historical light on Atlanta University Center
Atlanta Heidi Struve and her father, Larry Struve, had some time on their hands after attending a field hockey match on the campus of Morris Brown College during the Olympic Games in Atlanta. The Reno NV duo spotted an Olympic Arts Festival sign pointing to an exhibit on “The History of the Atlanta University Center” in the college’s Fountain Hall and decided to venture inside.
June 20, 2007
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Will technology bridge the gap between Black & White? – technology and racism
Since summertime is conference time, I wandered the halls of the Washington Hilton Hotel in mid-July taking in the atmosphere of the World Future Society conference. Futurists from around the world had ideas about the way education, economics, transportation, and even crime might be different in the 21st century — about the ways technology will transform everything from the way we communicate to the way we count.
June 20, 2007
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Will technology bridge the gap between Black & White? – technology and racism
Since summertime is conference time, I wandered the halls of the Washington Hilton Hotel in mid-July taking in the atmosphere of the World Future Society conference. Futurists from around the world had ideas about the way education, economics, transportation, and even crime might be different in the 21st century — about the ways technology will transform everything from the way we communicate to the way we count.
June 20, 2007
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Will technology bridge the gap between Black & White? – technology and racism
Since summertime is conference time, I wandered the halls of the Washington Hilton Hotel in mid-July taking in the atmosphere of the World Future Society conference. Futurists from around the world had ideas about the way education, economics, transportation, and even crime might be different in the 21st century — about the ways technology will transform everything from the way we communicate to the way we count.
June 20, 2007
Faculty & Staff
Belt-tightening goes on – and on: ACE report offers ten-year retrospective – American Council on Education
Realizing that the budgetary woes colleges and universities have suffered the past decade may be permanent, higher education officials are coming up with more substantive strategies to deal with the long-range crisis, according to an annual report.
June 20, 2007
Sports
Student-athletes, the World Bank and the United Nations
As I settled in to listen to a panel of four recently graduated student-athletes discuss their views on college athletics, the last thing I expected to hear about was The World Bank, the United Nations and various countries’ GNPs.
June 20, 2007
HBCUs
Washington update – major topics of 1996 that concern the academic world
Reauthorization On the Horizon
June 20, 2007
Students
To be or not to be: that is the question – A Multiracial Statistic
Maria P. P. Root, ed., The Multicultural Experience. Racial Borders As The New Frontier. (Thousand Oaks: Sage Publications, 1996) (Paper, xxviii, 481 pp.) Hardcover: $58.00 Softcover: $26.95
June 20, 2007
Students
Teaching the young keeps him young – 90 Year Old Dr. Richard Mckinney of Morgan State Still Going Strong
One of the oldest active professors in the nation, Dr. Richard I. McKinney, professor emeritus of philosophy at Morgan State University, has spent all of his life on college campuses and plans to keep on going. This semester will see him teaching at least one class.
June 20, 2007
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Students
The shift away from need-blind: colleges have started their version of “wallet biopsies.” – higher education institutions admit students on economic status criteria
Imagine a student who has always had his heart et on attending a certain college. He has all the necessary credentials: a stellar resume, a terrific grade-point average, a strong application, and some very laudatory letters of recommendation.
June 20, 2007
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