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Sun Ra Exhibit at UPenn Shows Jazz Pioneer’s Spacy Imagery
The late jazz musician and band leader Sun Ra told of having a mystical experience in his youth in which he was transported to Saturn and instructed to speak to the world in troubled times to come.
May 26, 2009
HBCUs
Former NC HBCU Leader To Lead North Carolina A&T
Dr. Harold L. Martin, a former chancellor of Winston-Salem State University, was named the chancellor of North Carolina A&T State University this past Friday by the University of North Carolina Board of Governors.
May 25, 2009
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International
UVA Diversity Chief Appointed Top Post at International Reading Association
Known for his expertise on diversity in postsecondary institutions, Dr. William B. Harvey, the University of Virginia’s vice president and chief officer for diversity and equity, will employ his aptitude in a different arena when he assumes the executive director position at The International Reading Association (IRA) on Aug. 1, 2009.
May 25, 2009
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Texas House Approves Changes to Top 10 Percent Admission Rule
The Texas House of Represented on Monday approved changes to the rule that provides automatic college admission to students who graduated in the top 10 percent of their high school class.
May 25, 2009
Opinion
Black History, No More?
Now that Barack Obama is President of the United States, why don’t we just pretend that America wasn’t built on slaveholding? If the spate of recent “post-racial” articles suggesting that we need no longer commemorate the African American struggle for freedom and equality in this country is any indication, this seems to be where we’re […]
May 21, 2009
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Diversity on the Bench
If President Barack Obama wants to make the Supreme Court more diverse, he has a wider range of options than any of his predecessors.
May 21, 2009
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Asian American leads Latino district in California
In an election that highlighted America’s fluid racial landscape, an Asian American candidate emerged as the leading contender to fill a U.S. House seat in an overwhelmingly Hispanic district.
May 21, 2009
Students
Duncan Brings Obama Agenda to Congress
President Barack Obama’s goals of more college financial aid and an end to high school “dropout factories” will significantly increase opportunities for minority students, Secretary of Education Arne Duncan told Congress on Wednesday.
May 20, 2009
Community Colleges
California Budget Crisis Hits Colleges
California voters on Tuesday resoundingly rejected Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s latest effort to fix the state’s budget, a package of budget-balancing measures that he promised would provide a short-term patch for the current financial crisis and prevent further catastrophe in the future.
May 20, 2009
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Senate Confirms Former Idaho AG for Indian Affairs
An American Indian who served as Idaho attorney general is the new head of the Bureau of Indian Affairs.
May 20, 2009
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Poll Finds Grads Trying to Stay Afloat
Students scattering for the summer are worried they’ll be graduating from schools of higher learning only to find themselves snagged in the school of hard knocks.
May 19, 2009
Sports
Shaq Takes Crash Course in Broadcast at Syracuse University
NBA star Shaquille O’Neal is back in university, taking a crash course designed to teach athletes about the broadcasting industry.
May 19, 2009
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Education Experts Offer Alternatives to College Rankings
While college rankings likely are here to stay, experts at a Washington, D.C., forum Monday offered alternatives to these very public benchmarks of higher education success — including one that factors in the engagement levels of students with major risk factors.
May 18, 2009
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Stimulus Jobs Likely To Be Unevenly Distributed Among Races
President Barack Obama’s American Recovery and Reinvestment Act will do little to improve the unemployment rates of underrepresented minorities, particularly Blacks and Hispanics, in this country, says a new report conducted by researchers at New York University’s Graduate School of Public Service.
May 18, 2009
Opinion
A Litmus Test for Commencement Speakers?
Every President since President Eisenhower has been invited to speak at Notre Dame’s commencements. So, why has President Obama’s invitation created such a row? It depends on who you ask. First, many of those who oppose his invitation do so ostensibly based on Catholic social teaching and a doctrinal dedication to Catholicism.  That is, they […]
May 17, 2009
Students
Violent Hazing at Times in College Band Repertoire
When two first-year French horn players in Southern University’s marching band were beaten so badly they had to be hospitalized in intensive care, it exposed a dirty secret: Hazing is not reserved for fraternities.
May 17, 2009
Native Americans
Navajos Largely Unscathed By Recession
Talk at the community center in this small Navajo town is not as focused on the economy as it is in many places off the reservation.
May 17, 2009
Community Colleges
College Students, Academic Advisers Increasingly Engaging in Recession-proof Career Planning
The recession has guided Americans’ decisions about travel, health care and even what brand of soda to purchase.
May 14, 2009
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