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Students
Calling for More Diversity
Students’ work to create a diverse campus pays off with an increase in Hispanic enrollment and a stronger sense of pride and community.
February 18, 2009
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Faculty & Staff
John Crain Named President of Southeastern
John L. Crain will become the new president of Southeastern Louisiana University, according to an announcement yesterday from the University of Louisiana System’s board of supervisors.   Crain will lead Louisiana’s third largest public university with over 15,000 students. Crain, a tenured faculty member at the institution, has served as faculty senate president, head of the department […]
February 17, 2009
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TV Festival Explores Latino Image in Film
Forty films showing the progression of how Latino characters and culture are depicted in cinema will be the stars of a festival hosted by Turner Classic Movies and Chon Noriega, author and film professor from the University of California/Los Angeles.
February 17, 2009
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Hispanic Enrollment Up, Bucking Trend at UT Austin
Although spring enrollment is down over all at the University of Texas at Austin, numbers are up slightly for Hispanic, African American and foreign students, a preliminary report shows.
February 17, 2009
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University and R.I. Latino Policy Institute Enter Agreement
Roger Williams University and the Rhode Island Latino Policy Institute have agreed on a research partnership.
February 17, 2009
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Leadership & Policy
Morris Brown Manages To Keep Doors Open a Little Longer
Morris Brown College paid $150,000 toward its outstanding water bill Tuesday afternoon to help keep the school open.
February 17, 2009
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Students
Creating a Sustainable Pipeline
After the Massachusetts Institute of Technology came under fire for a lack of diversity among its tenured faculty, the school’s administration is taking steps to ensure it is welcoming to faculty of color.
February 17, 2009
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International
Hispanic Enrollment Up, Bucking Trend at UT Austin
Although spring enrollment is down overall at the University of Texas at Austin, numbers are up slightly for Hispanic, African American and foreign students, a preliminary report shows.
February 17, 2009
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Opinion
Arne Duncan on Tour and the Next Generation of Educators
One important area of concern that received little attention during this year’s monumental presidential election was education. Other than a brief nod during one debate — during which both candidates represented cursory and almost identical positions — education and the looming future of the No Child Left Behind Act was indeed left behind. Currently, understanding […]
February 16, 2009
HBCUs
At-risk high school students benefit from partnership with HBCU
Disadvantaged students at a Texas public high school are achieving at a higher level as a result of a recent partnership between Prairie View A&M University, according to results announced yesterday by the Thurgood Marshall College Fund (TMCF) Redesign Network. The partnership between Prairie View and the high school is part of TMCF’s college preparedness program […]
February 16, 2009
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Leadership & Policy
UDC launches community college, first in D.C. since 1977
Two-year school should not be run by UDC, some say.
February 16, 2009
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Leadership & Policy
Minorities in Massachusetts find path to university presidential ranks difficult to tread
Once a pioneer, Massachusetts is experiencing a slowdown in the promotion of minorities to the university president ranks, particularly at elite private institutions.
February 16, 2009
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Students
Man sues LA college over anti-gay-marriage speech
A community college student has filed a lawsuit claiming a public speaking professor berated him and refused to let him finish a speech opposing same-sex marriage.
February 16, 2009
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Health
Morehouse School of Medicine Researcher Picked for Breast Cancer Journal Editorial Board
Dr. Veena N. Rao, co-director of the Cancer Biology Program and Georgia Cancer Coalition Distinguished Cancer Scholar at Morehouse School of Medicine’s Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, has been selected to serve on the editorial board of The Open Breast Cancer Journal. Rao and co-investigators last year used a gene therapy to introduce a protein into […]
February 15, 2009
International
Arrested and Suspended: Accused of genocide, a Rwandan professor tells Diverse his side of the story.
On Feb. 3, Professor Leopold Munyakazi was arrested for overstaying his visa; Goucher College, in Maryland, suspended him a day later. He is now awaiting a hearing to see if he will be allowed to stay in this country, or forced to leave the country.
February 15, 2009
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Faculty & Staff
Economic Woes Test Historically Black Colleges
Historically Black colleges and universities, which for decades have been educating students who can’t afford to go — or can’t imagine going — elsewhere, have been particularly challenged by the nation’s economic meltdown.
February 15, 2009
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Opinion
Educators of Conscience Call for an Academic Boycott of Israel
On Monday, February 2, 2009, scholar Benny Morris gave a lecture, “The First Arab-Israeli War,” at Wesleyan University, which was sponsored by the Jewish and Israeli Studies Certificate Program. As a New Historian who supports Zionist ideology, Morris is one of Israel’s most distinguished historians. He became well known after accessing and analyzing Israeli military […]
February 12, 2009
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The Stimulus Bill: Winners Large and Small
As the dust begins to clear on Congress’ stimulus bill, it’s clear there are some big winners, some smaller winners and only a few left out in the cold under the compromise legislation totaling $789 billion.
February 12, 2009
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