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Belmont University Faculty Wants Discussion of Sexual Identity Issues
Professors at Belmont University in Tennessee, where a gay soccer coach recently resigned, want a campus discussion of sexual identity issues.
December 7, 2010
Leadership & Policy
Ten HBCUs Get Accreditation Reaffirmed, Two Placed on Warning Status
Fisk and Tennessee State Universities were placed on warning status by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools (SACS) Commission on Colleges.
December 7, 2010
Students
Southern U.S. College Graduation Rates Lag Behind National Average
A nuanced picture of college completion rates in southern U.S. states emerged Tuesday with the release of a study that shows most states trailing the national average—a trend that the report’s authors say could have negative implications for the region’s workforce and its increasingly diverse student population if things don’t improve.
December 7, 2010
Community Colleges
Postsecondary Certificate Programs Can Offer Upward Mobility and Help Meet 2020 Goal, Report Says
Certificate programs could go a long way in helping American higher education meet President Barack Obama’s 2020 goal to significantly increase the number of students earning postsecondary credentials, a new report says.
December 7, 2010
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Citigroup’s Pandit Sees Africa as New Growth Driver
Citigroup Inc. Chief Executive Officer Vikram Pandit said Africa is a major new driver of growth as consumer spending slows in the U.S. “Africa has a major role to play in this new world,” Pandit told reporters in Johannesburg today. “The most important thing we are seeing is an exponential rise in trade between emerging markets.”
December 6, 2010
African-American
Author Spotlight: Oyeronke Oyewumi
Oyeronke Oyewumi is an associate professor of sociology at the State University of New York at Stony Brook, where she has taught courses on gender and globilization and feminist theory. The Nigerian-born scholar studied at the University of Ibadan and at the University of California at Berkeley. She is the author of African Women and Feminism: Reflecting on the Politics of Sisterhood, Africa World Press, Trenton: New Jersey (2003), available on diversebooks.net
December 6, 2010
Faculty & Staff
DiverseBooks.net: A Year of Progress
Since we started diversebooks.net nearly a year ago (on January 22, 2010), we have added selections from additional publishers, including the University of Mississippi Press, the American Counseling Association, Africa World Press and Black Classic Press. We also made numerous adjustments to the content and design of our site.
December 6, 2010
Home
Report: Teach for America Training Better Tennessee Teachers
A report says most new teachers in Tennessee trained by Teach for America are producing higher test scores and getting better results than those trained through traditional means.
December 6, 2010
African-American
U.S. Civil Rights Commission Announces Reports on HBCU Effectiveness, Minority STEM Pursuit
The commission announced Monday that it has released The Educational Effectiveness of Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) and Encouraging Minority Students to Pursue Science, Technology, Engineering and Math Careers (STEM) briefing reports.
December 6, 2010
Students
Graduation Gap Between Black and White College Football Players Said To Be Growing
A sports diversity institute study says there is a “disturbing” and growing gap in the graduation rate between Black and White football players at the vast majority of universities in the Football Bowl Subdivision.
December 6, 2010
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Johnson wheels and deals to fulfill ambitions for RLJ
Anyone keeping track of Robert L. Johnson, chairman and chief executive of Bethesda-based RLJ Cos., probably noticed the batch of deals he has closed in the past four months: a couple of hotels, a few equity ventures. Before the ink could dry on any of those agreements, the billionaire businessman had several more in the works, including plans for a debt equity fund and another community bank.
December 5, 2010
Latinx
Immigrant Students Give Blood To Show Citizenship
As Congress gets closer to a possible vote on the DREAM Act, college-aged undocumented immigrants are literally shedding blood for the cause.
December 5, 2010
African-American
Experts Recommend Improved Strategies for Getting Minority Males into Graduate School
The Council of Graduate Schools’ annual conference that wrapped up in Washington, D.C., over the weekend focused on the challenges associated with positioning students to pursue more than just a bachelor’s degree.
December 5, 2010
Students
Along With Increased Scrutiny of For-profits, Harvard Economist Urges Transparency for All Institutions
Dr. Bridget Terry Long says traditional higher education institutions should be providing more information about how valuable the schooling they provide will be in the workplace.
December 5, 2010
Students
NAFEO, AT&T Launch Effort To Help Students With Disabilities Attend HBCUs, PBIs
The National Association for Equal Opportunity in Higher Education and the AT&T telecommunications giant have launched an initiative to provide scholarships to students with disabilities attending Historically Black Colleges and Universities and Predominantly Black Institutions.
December 2, 2010
African-American
Fisk, Angry Over Judge’s Art Ruling, Says It Will Fight On
Financially strapped Fisk University says it will appeal a Tennessee judge’s decision to deny the school access to all the sale proceeds of a proposed ownership sharing agreement involving the school’s valuable Stieglitz art and photograph collection.
December 2, 2010
Asian American Pacific Islander
Report: Asian American Academic Achievement in California Lags Heavily Within Certain Subgroups
Despite the pervasive nature of the “model minority” myth, members of certain Asian ethnicities in California have disproportionate rates of never finishing high school, especially if they’re poor or speak limited English, University of California researchers say.
December 2, 2010
African-American
Mississippi Still Lacks Civil Rights Museum
Mississippi bred some of the worst violence of the civil rights era, yet nearly a half-century after a barrage of atrocities pricked the conscience of America, it’s one of the few civil rights battleground states with no museum to commemorate the era.
December 1, 2010
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