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Ore. Parents Sue After English-speaking Son Placed in ESL Class
HILLBORO Ore. The parents of a Latino boy who does not speak Spanish filed a $700,000 federal lawsuit against the Hillsboro School District, alleging that educators placed their son in an English as a Second Language program solely because of his ethnicity.
October 16, 2007
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Police Investigating Racial Graffiti Found at Rider University
TRENTON N.J. Police on Tuesday were investigating who was behind racial graffiti found scrawled inside a residence hall at Rider University’s campus in Lawrenceville.
October 16, 2007
Students
Study: Companies Don’t Spend Enough Time Recruiting at HBCUs
The strategies Fortune 400 companies and government agencies use when looking to recruit new employees from historically Black colleges and universities differ from those they use for predominantly White institutions.
October 15, 2007
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Best & Brightest: An Immigrant’s Story From a Community College to Cornell
It was a bit unsettling, all the moving around Julio Torres did as a child, from the Dominican Republic, to Puerto Rico, to live with a grandmother; to the United States, to live with an aunt.
October 15, 2007
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Lawmakers Hammer Federal Officials Over Jena 6 Case
WASHINGTON Democratic lawmakers denounced federal authorities Tuesday for not intervening in the highly publicized case of six Black high school students charged with the beating of a White student, citing racist noose-hanging incidents far beyond the attack in the small Louisiana town of Jena.
October 15, 2007
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University of Alaska Gets $3.2 Million Grant for Ph.D. Program
FAIRBANKS, Alaska The University of Alaska Fairbanks has received a $3.2 million federal grant for a doctoral program combining subjects such as biology and geology with history and sociology.
October 15, 2007
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Japan Decides to Cancel US$4.7 million Grant for Education Center in Myanmar
TOKYO Japan has canceled a multimillion-dollar grant for a business education center in Myanmar following the death of a Japanese journalist during a crackdown on pro-democracy protesters in Yangon, officials said Tuesday.
October 15, 2007
Community Colleges
Job Training Programs Bring Together Mississippi, Alabama Community Colleges
MERIDIAN, Miss. Job training is coming to the Internet in East Mississippi and West Alabama.
October 15, 2007
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Memorial Service Set for Murray State President
TISHOMINGO, Okla. A memorial service has been scheduled for the president of Murray State College.
October 15, 2007
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Nobel in Economics Yet Another for Prize-laden University of Chicago
CHICAGO One of the world’s most influential schools of economics has done it again.
October 15, 2007
Leadership & Policy
University of Houston System Picks South Florida Provost as Chancellor Finalist
HOUSTON A University of South Florida provost is poised to become the next chancellor of the University of Houston System.
October 15, 2007
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Faculty & Staff
Report: IRS Notified Oral Roberts University of Problems with Political Programs
TULSA Okla. Oral Roberts University officials received notification from the Internal Revenue Service last year of deficiencies in the way the nonprofit school had handled political programs, a spokesman has confirmed.
October 15, 2007
Faculty & Staff
Businessman Donates Nearly $75 Million to University of Oregon
EUGENE Ore. Retired businessman Lorry Lokey has given a $74.5 million gift to the University of Oregon, with most of the money going toward the sciences.
October 15, 2007
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House Panel Weighs Jena 6 Case on Tuesday
WASHINGTON Civil rights activist Al Sharpton says Congress should expand hate crime laws to deal more forcefully with noose-hanging incidents like the one in the Jena Six case in order to squelch what he called a sharp rise in racism.
October 15, 2007
Leadership & Policy
Retired University of Minnesota professor, 90, Shares Nobel in Economics
MINNEAPOLIS When 90-year-old Leonid Hurwicz got a phone call around 6 a.m. from someone talking about the Nobel Prize, he thought it was a joke.
October 15, 2007
Leadership & Policy
College Investments Net Good Returns, Questions About High Costs
Colleges and universities raked in money by the billions last year. But their investing success now has a price a movement in Congress to force the wealthiest schools to spend more of their money to keep down tuition.
October 15, 2007
Latinx
New Jersey Eyes Ways to Improve Latino Services
Language translators would be made available in all state departments and the state would recruit teachers from Spain and Puerto Rico under recommendations delivered Monday to New Jersey Gov. Jon S. Corzine.
October 15, 2007
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Worst? Wisconsin Can’t Accept That: State Must Find Better Ways To Address Education Gap
EDITORIAL – AP from BELOIT NEWS Here in Wisconsin, much of the news about public education and academic performance is positive. Wisconsin students consistently rank above national averages in achievement. Unless, that is, we’re talking about Black students. According to figures released recently by the U.S. Department of Education, fourth- and eighth-grade Black students in […]
October 15, 2007
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