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African-American

Harvard Scholar Says He Received Death Threats

Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. on Sunday joked about his arrest by a white police officer, but also described receiving death threats and dreaming about being arrested at the White House. According to the Washington Post, in his first public appearance since sharing a beer at the White House on Thursday with the officer, […]

August 2, 2009

WSU Loses Migrant Education Program

A Washington State University program that for more than four decades helped educate migrant workers and their children has lost its federal funding.

August 2, 2009

Perspectives: The Black Community’s Shared Responsibility in ‘Wrongful’ Police Profiling

What is apparent and missing from the dialogue on police profiling minorities is the dark side of the coin that asks the question, “is there a shared responsibility between the African-American community and policing that co-equally contribute to the disparity figures”?

August 2, 2009

Faculty & Staff

Texas Tech Petition Opposes Ex-AG Gonzales’ Hire

A small group of Texas Tech University faculty members is objecting to the school’s hiring of former U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales on the grounds that he demonstrated ethical failings while in office.

August 2, 2009

Leadership & Policy

Texas colleges’ math-science push falling short, board says

Texas colleges and universities aren’t coming close to meeting goals to increase graduates from math and science programs and enroll more Hispanic students, according to a report released Thursday. That comes from the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board’s annual “Closing the Gaps by 2015” report presented in Austin, The Dallas Morning News reported. © Copyright […]

July 30, 2009

$1.5 million grant to help MSU educate more Hispanics in neurosciences

A $1.5 million federal grant will help Michigan State University increase the number of Hispanic doctoral students trained in the neurosciences. According to MSU News, the grant — from the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, a division of the National Institutes of Health — serves as an extension of an MSU partnership with […]

July 30, 2009

Community Colleges

For Community Colleges, Wind Technician Training Is a Growth Business

Wind turbine technicians are strongly in demand — and community colleges are moving quickly to fill the need. According to the New York Times, in recent months, the Kalamazoo Valley Community College in Michigan has added a wind course, as has the Lake Region State College in North Dakota. Riverland Community College in Minnesota will […]

July 30, 2009

Faculty & Staff

New GI Bill Live Tomorrow

Many have called it the most substantial improvement to veterans’ education benefits since World War II. Others see it as the nation making up for what it didn’t do for those who returned with little thanks after serving in Vietnam. But whatever the sentiment, on August 1, more than a year and a half after […]

July 30, 2009

Mikva: All UI trustees should resign

The chairman of a board investigating University of Illinois admissions said that all the trustees should offer their resignations and let the governor sort them out, but some members of the board balked at the idea of a mass resignation. According to the News-Gazette, judge Abner Mikva, reached at his Chicago home Thursday evening, said […]

July 30, 2009

Community Colleges

Colleges going paperless in attracting students

Riverland Community College’s “Programs of Study” publication looks like a notebook and makes paper-shuffling sounds when its pages are turned. The sights and sounds, however, all are through a computer via Riverland’s Web site and the ePaperFlip software for publications. According to the Austin-Post Bulletin, it’s one of the ways Riverland, like many other colleges, […]

July 30, 2009

Faculty & Staff

Will Google Book Search Settlement Increase Access for Underserved Communities?

Google and multiple parties involved in a class action suit related to Google Book Search have reached a settlement agreement that in a best-case scenario will result in millions of out-of-print books previously unavailable to the vast majority of people becoming accessible with a mouse click.

July 30, 2009

What to Learn in Obama’s ‘Teachable’ Race Moment?

You can’t solve a problem if you don’t discuss it.

July 30, 2009

Audit: South Carolina School Must Guard Financial Viability

A federal audit warns a historically Black college in South Carolina must take extra steps to remain financially viable.

July 30, 2009

Obama Names Diverse Group of Medal of Freedom Recipients

Civil rights veteran Joseph Lowery, anti-apartheid activist Desmond Tutu, and medical school dean Pedro Jose Greer are among 16 recipients of the 2009 Presidential Medal of Freedom, the White House announced Thursday.

July 30, 2009

Morgan Staffer Alleges Wrongful Firing

After six years as Morgan State University’s media advisor Denise Brown was suddenly fired last month. According to ABC 2 News, Brown claimed her contract termination stems from a series of articles and opinion pieces published in the school newspaper, The Spokesman, in February alleging misuse of funds from the student government association’s budget. “ […]

July 29, 2009

Community Colleges

Excelsior College Launches New Services for GIs

Excelsior College, a national leader in higher education for military members and veterans since the 1970s, has added specially-trained outreach staff and streamlined services to meet anticipated growth in demand for education benefits provided by the Post-9/11 GI bill. The bill takes effect Aug. 1. According to the Washington Examiner, 33 percent of Excelsior’s 32,000 […]

July 29, 2009

AKA president sued over wax statue of herself

Members of the country’s oldest black sorority are suing to remove their president, alleging that she spent hundreds of thousands of dollars of the group’s money on herself — some of it to pay for a wax statue in her own likeness.

July 29, 2009

Perspectives: Broken U.S. Police Culture and Lack of Police Temperament Explain Gates-Crowley Encounter

Today’s ‘beer summit’ at the White House aside, America has an opportunity to address the problem of a U.S. police culture that holds that arrest and harm should come to a citizen who dares question the authority of a police officer.

July 29, 2009