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Opinion
Are You in This for the Love of Sports and Winning? The New Academy …… Sport Academies
There is a plethora of “For the Love of Whomever” television shows out there. Most of the time, a D-list celebrity tries to find love and the world is his or her oyster. The producers place a casting call and they reel in the candidates. The celebrity or wannabe then has his or her pick […]
February 23, 2010
Opinion
Are You in This for the Love of Sports and Winning? The New Academy …… Sport Academies
There is a plethora of “For the Love of Whomever” television shows out there. Most of the time, a D-list celebrity tries to find love and the world is his or her oyster. The producers place a casting call and they reel in the candidates. The celebrity or wannabe then has his or her pick […]
February 23, 2010
Home
Black History Month Book Review: A One-Woman Miracle
The basic facts Rebecca Skloot writes about are these: Henrietta Lacks grew up poor, orphaned and hard-working, even as a child, on her grandfather’s tobacco farm in rural Halifax County, Va. She died a painful death in 1951 at age 31 as the result of cancerous tumor on her cervix. She is buried in an unmarked grave in her hometown of Clover, Va.
February 23, 2010
Latinx
Univision, Feds Launch Hispanic Education Campaign
Univision, in partnership with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and the U.S. Department of Education, launched a three-year media campaign to encourage and support Latino families and their children’s academic achievement. Many other civil rights, educational and community organizations will be involved in strengthening coalitions to promote college readiness and decrease the drop-out rate for Hispanic high school students.
February 23, 2010
Students
Decades in the Making, Ellison’s Unfinished Second Novel Emerges as Essential Read
Edited by scholars and published by Random House, Ralph Ellison’s Three Days Before the Shooting…The Unfinished Second Novel is a stirring, 1,000-plus page testimony to a process the brilliant author began soon after his masterpiece Invisible Man was written.
February 22, 2010
Sports
Payton, Rice and Robinson Lead First Black College Football Hall Class
Historically Black institution icons Walter Payton, Jerry Rice, Deacon Jones and former Grambling coach Eddie Robinson were among the first set of honorees inducted into the Black College Football Hall of Fame on Saturday.
February 22, 2010
Students
HBCU Case Study Documents How Schools Can Help Students Pay Back Loans
A new report released Tuesday called “Lowering Student Loan Default Rates: What One Consortium of Historically Black Institutions Did to Succeed,” argues that institutions can work proactively to reduce default rates among former students.
February 22, 2010
Opinion
They Will Come: Recruitment of Black and Latinos to Rural, Traditionally White Colleges
There is an absurdly low number of African-American and Latino faculty and students at my college, a situation that exists at thousands of colleges across the nation in overwhelming White, rural or semirural communities.  That is not necessarily a problem, as it would be statistically impossible for African-American and Latino students to substantially diversify […]
February 21, 2010
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Majority of Administrators Receive No Pay Raises, Survey Says
For the first time in nearly three decades, there has been no increase in the overall median base salary for senior-level administrators in higher education. It’s also anticipated many institutions will have no money to offer raises, fill vacant positions or hire additional staff next year.
February 21, 2010
Students
UC-San Diego Condemns Party Mocking Black History
The chancellor of the University of California, San Diego, is condemning a ghetto-themed party organized by fraternity students to mock Black History Month, but officials say no one is likely to be disciplined.
February 18, 2010
Students
Slain UAH Biology Chair Remembered as Caring Father Figure
A University of Alabama-Huntsville biology department chairman gunned down at a faculty meeting was remembered Thursday as a father figure who cared deeply about his students, the kind of professor who kept his office door open in case they needed to talk about personal problems.
February 18, 2010
Students
High School Graduation Rates Low Where Most American Indians, Alaska Natives Live, Report Says
A new national report has found that fewer than 50 percent of Native American Indian and Alaska Native students from the Pacific and Northwest regions of the U. S. graduate from high school.
February 18, 2010
STEM
Breaking New Ground on Faculty Diversity in STEM Fields
Just over 10 years after releasing a groundbreaking report on the status of their women faculty, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has made public a much-anticipated review of their small community of underrepresented minority faculty in an effort to shed light on the need for greater diversity within the MIT professoriate. The importance of […]
February 17, 2010
Students
Students Complained About Alabama Professor Charged in Deadly Rampage
After Amy Bishop’s arrest on charges of shooting to death three colleagues during a faculty meeting at the University of Alabama in Huntsville, student complaints add to the picture that has emerged of her as a talented  but erratic figure.
February 17, 2010
Students
Trial Under Way for Accused Shooter of Spelman Student
A Spelman College student who was killed by a stray bullet as she walked with friends on a neighboring college campus was trying to break up the fight that led to her death, a prosecutor said Wednesday.
February 17, 2010
Home
Coming to Grips With Negrophobia
Though they share heritage and language, the relationship between Black Latin Americans and their lighter compatriots is marred by historical denial, discrimination and denigration.
February 17, 2010
Opinion
Underground Greeks: Dealing With the Not-So-Secret Pledge Process
About one month into the fall semester, four of my students mysteriously started missing classes, showing up late and missing assignments. All of them barely passed my class, but, on the last day of the semester, I found out why their production had slipped so greatly. They all proudly wore their fraternity’s colors, indicating they […]
February 16, 2010
Leadership & Policy
Alabama Professor in Slayings Shot Victims Methodically, Survivor Says
A professor who survived a deadly university shooting rampage said the colleague charged in the attack methodically shot her victims in the head until the gun apparently jammed and she was pushed out of the room.
February 16, 2010
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