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Mills College Celebrates 20-year Anniversary of Protests
Mills College is celebrating the 20th anniversary of their board’s recommitment to single-sex education, which protesting students sought to preserve.
May 5, 2010
Leadership & Policy
Va. Lacrosse Player’s Killing Shocks Classmates
Leonard Sandridge, executive vice president of the University of Virginia, told reporters the campus was saddened, and that the pain is magnified because the accused is “one of our own.”
May 4, 2010
African-American
Black Scholar Denied Pa. Law License In 1847 Admitted to State Bar
As a scholar, poet and abolitionist, George B. Vashon broke barriers in the 1800s: he was the first Black to graduate from Oberlin College, the first Black lawyer in New York state and the first Black professor at Howard University.
May 4, 2010
Students
Iowa State Honors its Past With Current Diversity Measures
Iowa State University renews its commitment to diversity, living up to the legacy created when it cultivated the interests of its distinguished first Black alumnus, George Washington Carver.
May 4, 2010
Leadership & Policy
Mason Says Jackson State Improved During 10-year Presidency
Jackson State University President Ronald Mason said Monday he’s leaving JSU with a better campus, a larger research budget and a stronger relationship with the local business community as he prepares to take a new job heading the Southern University System in Louisiana.
May 3, 2010
Recruitment & Retention
Report: Arkansas Public College Graduation Rate is 38 Percent
Less than 40 percent of students who enroll in Arkansas public universities obtain a degree within six years, according to a new state report. It said 4,333 of the 11,527 students who enrolled in four-year public universities in 2004 had graduated from those schools by 2009.
May 3, 2010
Students
States With ACT Mandate See Minority Performance on the Rise
Using six states as a base, academics are trying to assess how using the ACT exam affects students and schools. Data is incomplete, but trends include improved performance by African-American or Hispanic students.
May 3, 2010
Students
School Attorneys: FAMU Settlement With Porn Video Company Sets Precedent for Trademark Protection
Florida A&M University’s recent settlement with Internet porn company RK Netmedia Inc. sets a precedent for other universities to sue to protect their trademark, school attorneys say.
May 3, 2010
Opinion
How Do True Beauty and Ultimate Hate Reside Side By Side?
Since 2003, I have been taking a group of doctoral students to South Africa during the summer. Every year I am amazed and humbled by the absolute beauty of the country. When I look up at Table Mountain in Cape Town or take the ferry to Robben Island, my breath is taken away by the […]
May 2, 2010
Latinx
Professor Behind Controversial Arizona Law Also Works Against In-State Tuition for Undocumented Students
Traveling around the country to undo laws benefiting undocumented immigrants, law professor Kris Kobach is to the in-state tuition for undocumented student movement what Ward Connerly is to affirmative action in college admissions.
May 2, 2010
African-American
Southern Picks Mason as Its New System President
The Southern University System chose its new president Friday, selecting Ronald Mason Jr., who has been the leader of Jackson State University in Mississippi.
May 2, 2010
Home
Opinion: The Census 2010 and the Three-Fifths Compromise
The discourse over participation of undocumented immigrants in the 2010 Census bears a disturbing similarity to the “compromise” to “count” slaves as three-fifths of a human; that is, the simultaneous counting of people for political gain but treating them as if they don’t really count.
May 2, 2010
Opinion
A “Green” Approach to Education Reform
During recent celebrations of the 40th anniversary of Earth Day, I could not help but think about the condition of the American education system as I listened to the alarming message from environmental experts about how “the world is in greater peril than ever” due to concerns about climate policy, energy efficiency, and renewable energy. […]
April 29, 2010
Latinx
Opinion: Arizona – This is What Apartheid Looks Like
The truth is, a civilizational clash is being played out in the same state in which the state legislature questions the birthplace and legitimacy of President Barack Obama and where Sen. John McCain competes with Senate hopeful J.D. Hayworth to see who is the most anti-immigrant.
April 29, 2010
African-American
House Panel Votes To Block NSF Funding Shift
A House of Representatives panel on Wednesday dealt a blow to the Obama administration’s plan to consolidate federal science programs for minority-serving institutions into a single entity with broader competition.
April 29, 2010
Faculty & Staff
Slain UAH Professor Had integral Role in Minority STEM Education Network
Through Alabama’s Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation (LSAMP) program, students of color at the University of Alabama Huntsville worked with mentors, such as the late Adriel Johnson (far left in photo), and earned degrees in STEM disciplines.
April 29, 2010
Opinion
Ugly Resistance Against the President Continues
Read the following examples: On April 15 (income tax day), more than 10,000 members of the recently formed tea party group converged on the nation’s capital to voice their resentment and erratic anger at government and at President Obama in particular. Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell initially announced that the state had proclaimed April as confederate […]
April 28, 2010
African-American
Science Associations Publish Legal Handbook on Diversity Strategies
Women and minorities in this country are woefully underrepresented in the fields of science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM). That’s very bad news for a nation undergoing a major demographic shift that by 2050 will make minorities the majority of the population.
April 28, 2010
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