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Native Americans

DIVERSIFYING PEDAGOGY

Indigenous Ways of Knowing has been making its way out of tribal colleges into mainstream universities, but this method of teaching has its critics.

April 16, 2008

Recruitment & Retention

Professional Appointments

DR. G. WAYNE CLOUGH, president of the Georgia Institute of Technology, has been named secretary of the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C. He will step down from his post at Georgia Tech on July 1. Clough received a bachelor’s and master’s from Georgia Tech and a doctorate from the University of California, Berkeley. DR. ELIZABETH […]

April 16, 2008

Grants & Gifts

The AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF COMMUNITY COLLEGES has received $2.5 MILLION from the Wal-Mart Foundation for AACC’s Building Better Communities through Regional Economic Development Partnerships initiative. Specifically, the funds will go toward AACC’s Center for Workforce Development. BRYN MAWR (PA.) and SPELMAN COLLEGES (GA.) have received a four-year, $1.1 MILLION grant from the National Science Foundation […]

April 16, 2008

Diverse Calendar

April 29-May 1 Hispanic Association of Colleges and Universities 8th International Conference Universidad de Guadalajara Guadalajara, Mexico www.hacu.net April 30-May 3The National Association of Graduate Admissions Professionals 21st Annual Conference Hyatt Regency Denver at Colorado Convention Center www.nagap.org May 7-10 National Rural Health Association 31st Annual NRHA Rural Health Conference Sheraton New Orleans Hotel New […]

April 16, 2008

Black and Hispanic Students Hit Hardest by Credit Crunch

Opportunities for equitable access to college are harder to come by than ever, with the shift in federal aid policy moving from grants to loans, the passing of the College Cost Reduction and Access Act of 2007 (CCRAA) and the collapse of the consumer credit markets.

April 16, 2008

Black Players Drop to 8.2 Percent of Major Leaguers

Major League Baseball received its best grade for racial diversity in hiring, even as the percentage of Black players dropped again last year.

April 15, 2008

University of California Makes Room for Record 60,000 Freshmen

The University of California has accepted a record 60,008 California residents as freshmen for the coming fall despite worries that cuts in state funding could lead to overcrowded campuses and tuition increases, officials said Monday.

April 15, 2008

Senate Pushes Museum of the Latino Closer to Reality

The United States Senate has approved legislation that includes authorization to establish a commission to study creation of a National Museum of the American Latino as part of the Smithsonian Institution.

April 15, 2008

More Needs to Be Done to Make Minority Students Financially Literate, Panel Says

Black and Hispanic households are less knowledgeable about their options for financing college, resulting in reduced access to higher education opportunities, said a panel of experts Wednesday at a forum sponsored by the Pell Institute for the Study of Opportunity in Higher Education and the Council for Opportunity in Education.

April 15, 2008

Arizona Professor Discovers Secrets of Altar Panels Now at SMU

Some modern detective work has brought new insight into a collection of 15th-century panels that once adorned a church altar in Spain.

April 15, 2008

Faculty & Staff

New Mexico State Official Apologizes for Bad ‘Humor’

An associate dean at New Mexico State University who was accused of e-mailing pornography to others at the school has apologized, according to a confidential memo.

April 15, 2008

A Time To Grieve and Heal

Today marks the one-year anniversary of the most deadly and violent school shooting in American history.

April 15, 2008

Chicago-area Colleges Reopen After Graffiti Threats

Two colleges returned to normal class schedules Tuesday after a promised doomsday scrawled in graffiti came and went without incident, and another university was preparing to reopen Wednesday.

April 15, 2008

HSI Leaders Appeal For Increased Funding

With the White House proposing cuts for their favored programs next year, leaders of Hispanic-serving colleges and universities descended on Washington, D.C., this week to state their case for more, not less, funding for fiscal year 2009.

April 15, 2008

Senate Plans Hearing on Sludge, NAACP Wants Investigation

The Senate Environment and Public Works Committee will investigate the government’s funding of research in poor, Black neighborhoods on whether sewage sludge might combat lead poisoning in children, its chairman said Monday.

April 14, 2008

University of Illinois Center Works to Deconstruct the Politics of Race

Set up as part of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign’s diversity initiative, its Center on Democracy in a Multiracial Society is analyzing important issues in race relations.

April 14, 2008

Virginia Justices Hear Randolph Macon Coeducation Cases

The governing board of Randolph Macon Woman’s College broke a contract with students when it decided in 2006 to immediately begin enrolling men, a lawyer for a group of female students told the Virginia Supreme Court on Monday.

April 14, 2008

Lawmaker Wants to Alter University Admissions Practices in Mich.

A state lawmaker is drawing up a proposal that would give the top 10 percent of graduates at each of Michigan’s high schools automatic admission to state universities.

April 13, 2008