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Native Americans

Antioch’s Seattle Campus Chooses First American Indian Woman College Head

Dr. Cassandra Manuelito-Kerkvliet of the Navajo, or Dine, tribe appears to be the first American Indian woman to be appointed president of a mainstream university outside of the tribal college system. She was named this month to lead Antioch University Seattle from a pool of more than 40 candidates. She formally begins her presidency July 15.

April 29, 2007

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Perspectives: Will the Messages in Rap Music Change Because of Russell Simmons’ Efforts?

In the wake of Don Imus’ sexist and racist slurs against the Rutgers women’s basketball team, a new voice was added last week to the to the chorus line against inappropriate lyrics in music. To my surprise, Russell Simmons, the pioneering rap industry mogul who also has a line of clothing, has joined in the effort to clean up rap lyrics.

April 29, 2007

MIT Dean Resigns for Faking Her Academic Credentials

Marilee Jones, a prominent crusader against the pressure on students to build their resumes for elite colleges, resigned Thursday as dean of admissions at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology after acknowledging she had misrepresented her own academic credentials.

April 26, 2007

Advocacy Group Urges Schools to Remove Students’ Barriers To Mental Health Help

WASHINGTON, D.C. In the wake of the Virginia Tech tragedy, mental health experts urge higher education administrators to implement policies that encourage students to seek help early, remove barriers to seek treatment and ensure that students will not be punished when they ask for help.

April 26, 2007

Two Legislators Push for Additional Funding To Continue Physician Training Program for Hispanics

With its funding set to expire next month, a program that trains Hispanic doctors may get a reprieve thanks to two U.S. legislators who were successful in pushing for a short-term extension of grants.

April 26, 2007

Leadership & Policy

BET’s “College Hill” Criticized For Representation of Black Students, Universities

The reality series “College Hill” caused an uproar at its previous locations, but the Black Entertainment Television show provoked its greatest controversy to date at its most recent setting, the University of the Virgin Islands.

April 26, 2007

African-American

An Unusual Suspect

Often working behind the scenes, Grace Lee Boggs has intrigued scholars and students with her lifelong mentoring of Black radicals.

April 25, 2007

Cuomo: Student Loan Scandals Flourished Because Ed. Dept. ‘Asleep At The Switch’

Congress must crack down on questionable practices between student loan companies and higher education institutions to help restore consumer confidence in the $85 billion student loan industry, lawmakers and a chief industry critic said Wednesday.

April 25, 2007

Affirmative Action Admits Tend To Be More Successful Than Legacy Admits, Says Study

Researchers at Princeton University have found that students who received legacy admissions are more likely to face academic challenges than Blacks who were admitted under affirmative action admissions programs.

April 25, 2007

HBCU Players Vie for Attention in NFL Draft

While improved off-season regimens are helping the development of players at Black colleges, it’s hard to say the schools are enjoying a renaissance when it comes to supplying the NFL with talent.

April 25, 2007

Lawsuit Claims Aspiring Minority Doctors Left In ‘Educational Limbo’

LOS ANGELES A medical school that trains minority students filed a $125 million lawsuit that claims Los Angeles County breached its contract by leaving the school without an accredited teaching hospital.

April 24, 2007

Faculty & Staff

Minority Scholars Share Strategies At ‘Keeping Our Faculties’ Conference

MINNEAPOLIS When Dr. John Brooks Slaughter was being recruited as president of Occidental College, he asked one professor on the search committee how many African-Americans were on the faculty. He vividly recalls her answer: “You’re looking at 50 percent of them.”

April 24, 2007

Perspectives: ‘Hair’ We Go Again: Race Talk and Non-Authentic Dialogue

What wasn’t, and should have been, covered in the Don Imus flap. Why do we fail to look beneath the veneer, beyond the smoke and mirrors, to focus on the true issues?

April 24, 2007

Assessing Faculty Safety

Although attacks on college professors are not common, the horrific slayings at Virginia Tech show just how much at risk they can be when they try to do their jobs.

April 23, 2007

Leadership & Policy

Howard University Partners to Form New Science and Technology Institution in Botswana

Howard University leaders are partnering with the Republic of Botswana to create the southern African country’s second institution of higher learning, which will focus on science and technology.

April 23, 2007

Tackling The Problem of Foster Children Missing Out On College

A Michigan task force, charged with recommending ways to help teenagers who age out of the foster care system, is focusing on higher education. One proposal would waive tuition for former foster children enrolled in Michigan’s public universities and community colleges.

April 23, 2007

Faculty & Staff

Prairie View Boosters Petition For University To Leave Texas A&M System

A group of Prairie View A&M University alumni and university donors are petitioning the Texas A&M University System to either address concerns that its regents don’t represent the university’s interests, or let the university secede from the university system.

April 22, 2007

Leadership & Policy

Lawmakers Work to Avoid State Takeover of Texas Southern

Black statehouse legislators are rushing to create legislation that would avoid a governor-appointed conservator from taking the helms of the financially troubled Texas Southern University in Houston.

April 22, 2007