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Countdown in California: students offer voter initiative to counteract Proposition 209 – measure to restore affirmative action

Members of Students for Educational Opportunity, a Berkeley-based group working against the clock to restore affirmative action in education. By the end of March they had gathered 200,000 signatures to place a new initiative on California’s November ballot. The initiative, which is designed to counter Proposition 209, states that California may “consider the economic background, race, sex, ethnicity, and national origin of qualified individuals.”

July 12, 2007

African-American

Bad news in Berkeley: 800 Black, Latino students with 4.0 grades and 1200-plus SATs denied admissions

800 Black, Latino students with 4.0 grades and 1200-plus SATs denied admissions

July 12, 2007

Black scientists: a history of exclusion, part 2 – includes related article – Cover Story

The first African American to receive a doctoral degree in the United States was a scientist. Dr. Edward Alexander Bouchet (1852-1918) was a native of New Haven, Connecticut, who graduated from Yale University’s undergraduate school in 1874, and completed his Ph.D. in physics there in 1876.

July 12, 2007

A new script for black theater: Dartmouth conference focuses on new strategies

Nearly two years ago, playwright August Wilson stunned the American theatre community by charging that predominately white arts organizations were guilty of undermining African American theater companies. The charges — delivered at Princeton University before the Theatre Communications Group, a leading nonprofit theater organization–sparked a national debate about the role of African American theater companies in American theater.

July 12, 2007

Community Colleges

Embracing the Tiger: The Effectiveness Debate and the Community College. – book reviews

The two most important words in community college faculty and administrative lexicons these days are institutional effectiveness.

July 12, 2007

Sisters in science – few African American women in science programs

More African American women participate in higher education than African American men, and the gap is widening. In 1995, there were 556,000 African American men enrolled as students in all institutions of higher education at all levels of matriculation, compared to 918,000 African American women. The growth in the number of African American women also exceeded the growth rate among African American men.

July 12, 2007

Winning to lose – academy losses of Black faculty to industry

When thirty-year-old Dr. Damian Rouson completed his Ph.D. last April, the Stanford University graduate took a job at Failure Analysis Associates, a prestigious Silicon Valley engineering firm.

July 12, 2007

Making mentorship count: surviving Ph.D. programs requires someone who is willing to show the way

By his own admission, Dr. Damian Rouson’s initial adjustment from Howard University to the graduate engineering program at Stanford University was difficult.

July 12, 2007

Gems of wisdom: avoiding derailment on the doctorate track

Dr. Howard Adams has been engaged in the struggle to attract more African American students into graduate education in science and engineering for more than twenty years. In that time, he has witnessed measurable improvement in the academic caliber, motivation, and preparedness of African American undergraduates.

July 12, 2007

Faculty & Staff

It’s not rocket science – finding African American undergraduates for graduate study in science – includes related articles

Earlier in his career, Dr. Luther S. Williams spent nearly ten years as the only faculty member of color out of seventy in his department at Purdue University. The African American microbiologist is now assistant director of education and human resources at the National Science Foundation (NSF).

July 12, 2007

Motivating faculty gets results – recruitment for minority graduate students

When Dr. Ted Greenwood talks about boosting the number of it under-rep presented minority doctoral holders in the sciences, there is a no-nonsense resolute quality to his voice.

July 12, 2007

Dorm Keeps Name Despite Protest Over Klan Connection

BLACKSBURG, Va. A Virginia Tech dorm named for a now-deceased professor who might have had Ku Klux Klan ties won’t be renamed, Tech President Paul Torgersen said.

July 12, 2007

Bridging the Gap That Divides America

The early 1970s, the aftermath of the civil rights movement, was a time of great promise for America’s minority population. Nowhere was the promise greater than in engineering. Engineering was the nation’s largest profession, the root of its economic development, the source of wealth creation. It was a field in which half of the CEOs of Fortune 500 companies had earned their stripes.

July 12, 2007

Leadership & Policy

NAACP Head Backs Off Criticism Of Handling of Racial Attack

GREENSBORO, N.C. The head of the state chapter of the NAACP says he regrets criticizing Guilford College for its response to a campus racial attack.

July 12, 2007

BI Appointments PROFESSIONAL

Cassandra Berry has been named an associate vice president for the new office of equity and diversity at the University of North Texas. Previously, she was assistant vice president and director of the office of equal opportunity and multicultural affairs at UNT. Berry earned a bachelor’s degree in business administration from Stephen F. Austin State University.

July 12, 2007

Harvard Civil Rights Project Gets $500,000 Grant

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. The Harvard Civil Rights Project — headed by Christopher Edley Jr., former advisor to President Bill Clinton and current law professor, and Gary Orfield, professor of education and social policy — announced earlier this month that it had received a $500,000 grant from the Charles Stewart Mott Foundation.

July 12, 2007

The Book for Math Empowerment: Rethinking the Subject of Mathematics. – Review – book reviews

The Book for Math Empowerment: Rethinking the Subject of Mathematics

July 12, 2007

African-American

College Deciding Discipline For Hanging Black Mannequin

YELLOW SPRINGS, Ohio Antioch College officials are trying to decide whether to discipline four students who tied a noose around the neck of a Black mannequin and hung it from a tree.

July 12, 2007