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African-American
American Bar Association Examines Stand Your Ground Laws
The American Bar Association has created a national task force to review and analyze stand your ground laws in response to the Trayvon Martin case.
August 11, 2013
Students
In $25M Gift, Casino Mogul Bets on Blindness Cure
Las Vegas casino mogul Steve Wynn will donate $25 million to the University of Iowa to accelerate the search for cures to rare eye diseases including the one that hampers his own vision, the school announced Thursday.
August 8, 2013
Home
Fairfield U, Others Face Another Sex Abuse Lawsuit
Fairfield University and others that supported a charity designed to help feed and educate boys in Haiti are facing another lawsuit by a man alleging he was sexually abused by a school founder.
August 8, 2013
LGBTQ+
Lavender Law Conference to Address Landmark SCOTUS Decisions
The upcoming conference of the National LGBT Bar Association will give academics a chance to discuss how the Supreme Court’s repeal of Section 3 of the Defense of Marriage Act will impact what’s taught in the classroom.
August 8, 2013
Leadership & Policy
NCAA Getting Out of Jersey-Selling Business
NCAA President Mark Emmert said Thursday it would stop the practice immediately after reports this week that team jerseys and other items linked to individual schools could be found on its own website by searching for specific player names.
August 8, 2013
Faculty & Staff
Harvard Scholar Henry Louis Gates to Host African-American History Series
Dr. Henry Louis Gates Jr. returns to PBS this fall to narrate a six-part documentary series that presents a sweeping look at African-American history from the early 1500s to present-day America.
August 8, 2013
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Exhuming Our Heritage
If anyone had told me years ago that I would communicate almost daily with a white woman whose ancestors almost certainly played a role in enslaving many of mine, I would not have believed them.
August 8, 2013
Health
Feds, Family Reach Deal on Use of DNA Information
Some 60 years ago, a doctor in Baltimore removed cancer cells from a poor black patient named Henrietta Lacks without her knowledge or consent.
August 7, 2013
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Indiana Officials Find School Grading ‘Manipulation’
Indiana officials have found evidence of “manipulation” in the state’s school grading formula as part of a review stemming from a grade-changing scandal.
August 7, 2013
Students
Don’t Let Credit Cards Fool You While in College
If you are a new or returning college student make sure that you have the credit card conversation with your family.
August 7, 2013
Faculty & Staff
Diverse Docket: College of the Mainland Prevails
A Texas community college that fired an African-American tenured history faculty member for disciplinary reasons has won a racial discrimination and retaliation case.
August 7, 2013
STEM
Florida International Program Cultivating STEM Candidates Early
The university is combating the lack of exposure to resources for underrepresented minorities through a number of initiatives as well as a partnership with Miami-Dade Public Schools.
August 7, 2013
Opinion
Higher Education’s Complicity in the Trayvon Martin Tragedy
Universities need to lead the way toward the national conversation on race we clearly need.
August 7, 2013
Faculty & Staff
New Look at Old Community Recasting History of Free Blacks in America
The Hill on Maryland’s Eastern Shore is a historic community of free Blacks that predates Treme’, a neighborhood in New Orleans, which had been recognized as the oldest neighborhood of free Blacks.
August 7, 2013
Community Colleges
Chinese Researcher Sentenced in Research Drug Case
A Chinese researcher was sentenced Tuesday to time served plus two years of probation on charges stemming from the theft of a research drug from a Wisconsin medical school.
August 6, 2013
Community Colleges
Study: U.N. Should Be Accountable for Haiti Cholera
The United Nations peacekeeping mission in Haiti should be held accountable for introducing cholera into the Caribbean nation, a Yale University report said Tuesday.
August 6, 2013
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Miami Dade College Program Develops Students Into Researchers
The computing research lab funds six students each year, many of whom are Hispanic, to spend 10 to 15 hours per week researching and developing projects of their own or advancing projects that other students had begun.
August 6, 2013
Community Colleges
New Figures Suggest Community College Grad Rates Higher Than Thought
A report shows that, of the estimated one in four students who start at community colleges and then move on to four-year institutions, more than 60 percent ultimately graduate.
August 6, 2013
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