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African-American
Researchers Compile History of Black S.C. Hamlets
Researchers from two states are compiling a history of Black hamlets on the South Carolina coast originally settled by freed slaves and now threatened by suburban sprawl.
July 13, 2010
African-American
University Medical Schools Test Cell Phones for Health Care Tasks
Howard University Hospital diabetes patients in Washington, D.C. are among those getting help from medical doctors who are testing Internet-connected cell phones that provide daily medical instructions.
July 13, 2010
Students
Amid Criticism, Tennessee HBCU President Announces Retirement
Citing family and personal reasons, Dr. Melvin N. Johnson announced that he would be stepping down as president of Tennessee State University at the end of the year.
July 13, 2010
Opinion
Latest Scientific Racist Theory: Africans Intellectually Inferior Due to Prevalence of Diseases
Since the dawn of modern science and the concomitant expansion of global inequalities among nations, genders, ethnicities and races, scientists have sought to explain these inequalities, dancing around their true foundations —poverty, power and perspective. In the last 40 years, historically silenced groups of intellectuals have pushed poverty, power and perspective as explanations of inequality, […]
July 12, 2010
Students
Arizona May End Scholarships for High Achievers
The Arizona Board of Regents is considering ending a popular college scholarship program for high achievers. The AIMS scholarships pay tuition and fees at the state’s three public universities for high school students who perform well on the standardized Arizona’s Instrument to Measure Standards test.
July 12, 2010
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Leader of Governors Group Targets College Attainment Rates
West Virginia Gov. Joe Manchin launched a project as incoming National Governors Association chairman that he believes can improve the higher education degree attainment rate in each state by at least 4 percent annually.
July 12, 2010
African-American
Association Creates Plan for ‘1890’ HBCUs To Meet Modern Challenges
Dr. Lorenzo Esters has spoken resolutely about the “bold, futuristic and intentional” plan launched last month for 18 historically Black land-grant colleges and universities, but he could have easily been summing up his first year as the person tapped by the nation’s oldest higher education association to advance access and diversity among its member institutions.
July 12, 2010
Opinion
Tennis Anyone? Race and Class Still Matter in Sports
Here we go again. Yet another basketball player had the nerve to play a sport, receive a large check in lieu of the Horatio Alger meta-narrative that one can easily pull oneself up by their bootstraps and make it by hard work and determination in a fair and democratic society. Thank goodness there is equity […]
July 11, 2010
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Opinion: How The Diversity Officer Can Help Transform Curriculum
Diversity officers possess critical interdisciplinary knowledge about diversity issues and are well-positioned to help transform curricula from a multicultural perspective.
July 11, 2010
Native Americans
Conn. Researchers Dig for Items from Tribe-settler War
This summer, University of Connecticut researchers are scouring residential neighborhoods in Connecticut, Rhode Island and New York for artifacts from the battle between the Pequot Indians and English settlers nearly 400 years ago.
July 11, 2010
Latinx
Best & Brightest: UTEP Student’s Study of Success Recognized
University of Texas at El Paso doctoral candidate wins Distinguished Scholar award for proposal to raise student retention and graduation rates in Texas by studying influences on students who achieve against all odds.
July 11, 2010
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Transparency Genie Transforms the Bottle
Is President Barack Obama less transparent than President George Bush? Even a minimum of research reveals a president who may avoid the White House press corps, but is willing to reach out to journalists from non-mainstream news organizations such as the Huffington Post or the Latino press.
July 8, 2010
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Georgia School Board Adopts National K-12 Standards
With a focus on increasing college readiness and success, Georgia has adopted a set of national benchmarks that detail what students should learn in each grade and what they should know to graduate high school.
July 8, 2010
Community Colleges
Report: States Can Improve College Readiness
States can improve college degree attainment by utilizing college readiness standards that link high school curricula to postsecondary education, according to a new report released by the National Center for Public Policy and Higher Education and the Southern Regional Education Board.
July 8, 2010
African-American
Book Review: Black Women, United and Hell-Bent on Doing God’s Work
In Jesus, Jobs, and Justice: African American Women and Religion, Dr. Bettye Collier-Thomas, a professor of history at Temple University, has labored diligently to craft a comprehensive history of Black women in the U.S.
July 8, 2010
Opinion
Where Is the Dialogue?
Last week, the National Science Foundation’s congressionally mandated advisory group on issues of diversity—the Committee on Equal Opportunity in Science and Engineering (CEOSE)—hosted the second of two discussions between committee members and NSF leadership concerning the agency’s proposed Comprehensive Broadening Participation of Undergraduates in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math or STEM (CBP-US) program. CEOSE members […]
July 7, 2010
African-American
Experts Say Feds vs. State Conflict in Arizona Rooted in U.S. Founding
The federal lawsuit against Arizona’s tough new immigration law focuses heavily on a question that has been in the spotlight repeatedly the past decade and dates back to the Founding Fathers.
July 7, 2010
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Project Targets Nevada To Improve College Success
Nevada has been chosen as the first state to take part in a project designed to improve the nation’s college graduation rates and elevate the status of its work force to better compete in a global economy.
July 7, 2010
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