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Students
Despite Credit Crunch, Loans Still Available
Despite the economic downturn and instability of the credit markets, college students are acquiring college loans, although the qualifying criterion has become more stringent, financial aid officials say.
October 9, 2008
Sports
Coaching Pioneer Willie Jefferies Reflects on the Ernie Davis Era
More than 140 years after the abolition of slavery Blacks are still taking note of who is the first to make major breakthroughs in a number of areas of American life.
October 9, 2008
Home
Group Says Nebraska College Biased Against Whites
A group supporting a Nov. 4 ballot measure to end affirmative action says the University of Nebraska College of Law discriminates against White students, but school officials say they never released data that could produce that finding.
October 9, 2008
Opinion
“Racism Without Racists” Is Twisted Logic
There is an astonishing theoretical perspective taking hold in the American academy, and working its way down into the mainstream. And if it remains unchallenged, it seems that it is well on its way to becoming an accepted tenet. It is the bizarre idea that, while racism is alive and well in America — to […]
October 8, 2008
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Students Are No Longer Surpassing Parents’ Educational Achievement
The American tradition of generational upward mobility is at a standstill, and for some minority groups the younger generation is obtaining postsecondary education at lower levels than older adults, according to a new report released Thursday by the American Council on Education (ACE).
October 8, 2008
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University of Minnesota: Stem-cell Study Used Falsified Data
The University of Minnesota has concluded that falsified data were used in a 2001 article published by one of its researchers on adult stem cells. The school is asking that the article be retracted.
October 8, 2008
Faculty & Staff
Penn State Trading Cards Highlight Researchers
Want to trade a glaciologist Richard Alley card for entomologist James Tumlinson?
October 8, 2008
Latinx
Puerto Rican Fund Expands Its Title
New York’s Puerto Rican Legal Defense and Education Fund is changing its name.
October 7, 2008
Students
Opinion: Righting the Ship for Students With Limited English Skills
In 1974, Lau v. Nichols, set a new precedent in bilingual education when it required school districts to assist all students without regard to English language deficiencies. All school programs conducted exclusively in English were deemed unconstitutional because they denied equal access to education to English learners.
October 7, 2008
Faculty & Staff
Illinois Professor Wins Poetry Prize
Paul Martinez Pompa, a faculty member in the English department at Triton College in River Grove, Ill., is the 2008 recipient of the Andres Montoya Poetry Prize given by Letras Latinas, the literary program of the University of Notre Dame’s Institute for Latino Studies (ILS), university officials announced.
October 7, 2008
Latinx
Latina Scholar to Lecture on Church Issues
The growing Latino population — largely Roman Catholic — and the challenges and opportunities it presents to the Catholic Church in the United States will be the subject of the annual Joseph Cardinal Bernardin Lecture on Wednesday, Oct. 22, at the University of South Carolina.
October 7, 2008
Students
Building a Black Male Learning Community
A center at the University of West Georgia focused on Black male students prepares them for college success and beyond.
October 7, 2008
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Children Blame Discrimination for Lack of Minority, Female U.S. President
A new study refutes the idea that children live in a color- and gender-blind world.
October 7, 2008
Community Colleges
Mich. Colleges Beef Up Training for ‘Green’ Jobs
Brandon Knight entered the alternative energy engineering program at Lansing Community College in 2006 with an eye toward owning a business dedicated to developing solar panels, wind turbines and perhaps even other energy sources that people haven’t heard of yet.
October 7, 2008
Native Americans
Museum Shows Work of “Indian/Not Indian” Artist
The Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian will present a career retrospective of works by what it calls one of the most transformative American artists of the last half century, Fritz Scholder (1937-2005), officials announced.
October 6, 2008
Leadership & Policy
Tribal College Presidents Will Reflect on Century
Four speakers will address the “Tribal College Presidents’ Perspectives on the Last 100 Years” at the 20th Annual “Consider the Century” conference on Friday, Oct. 10, the South Dakota State University announced.
October 6, 2008
African-American
Chronicling Obama’s Career From Harvard to Tonight’s Debate
As Sen. Barack Obama takes the stage for his second debate as the Democratic presidential nominee, Diverse looks back at its reporting of Obama’s trailblazing feats starting with his days at Harvard Law School.
October 6, 2008
Asian American Pacific Islander
Groundbreaking Study Shows Asian American Vote Still Up for Grabs
Many Asian Americans favor presidential candidate Barack Obama, but a significant portion remain largely undecided on their pick for president less than one month before Election Day, according to a new national survey released Tuesday.
October 6, 2008
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