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African Students Trace U.S. Civil Rights

LITTLE ROCK Ark. Just a day into a tour of civil rights landmarks in the South, Nadia Samie says she already sees parallels between the Jim Crow era and the apartheid period in her country, South Africa.

Report: CUNY to raise admissions standards for senior colleges

NEW YORK The City University of New York is going to make it tougher for students to get into its senior colleges.

Wisconsin attorney general: Race can be considered in admissions

MADISON Wis. A new freshman admissions policy requiring University of Wisconsin campuses to consider an applicant’s race as one of many factors is legal, the state attorney general said Thursday.

Frat adviser: Cartoon may have prompted alleged threat

EDWARDSVILLE Ill. A Southern Illinois University student accused of writing a note threatening a “murderous rampage” similar to the April one at Virginia Tech may innocently have been mimicking what he’d seen on a cartoon, a fraternity adviser of the suspect said.

Lawyer Asks for Changes in Schools Case

LOUISVILLE Ky. An attorney who won a U.S. Supreme Court ruling that rejected the use of race in assigning students to Louisville schools asked a judge on Thursday to allow about 2,800 students to change schools immediately.

College Student Accused of Terror Threat

EDWARDSVILLE, Ill. He seemed in many ways a typical college student — president of his fraternity at Southern Illinois University, an aspiring rapper who wrote about finding a girlfriend who could cook. He said his favorite book was the Bible.

Getting to Know: Denny McAuliffe

Denny McAuliffe realized early on that traditional college recruiting wasn’t going to bring more American Indians to journalism school. As a result, “We don’t recruit,” he says. “We go to them.”

The Weight of One Man’s Opinion

While casting the deciding vote in the recent K-12 desegregation case, Justice Anthony Kennedy’s opinion left some room to maneuver.

‘Time Out’

Do the demographics of sports newsrooms contribute to the sometimes negative coverage of Black athletes?

Professional Appointments

Peter Roby has been named athletic director at Northeastern University (Mass.). He becomes only the second Black AD at a New England Division I institution. Roby was previously director of Northeastern’s Center for the Study of Sport in Society. He earned a bachelor’s from Dartmouth College. Dr. Maurice Apprey has been named dean of […]

Grants & Gifts

California State University-Northridge has received a $2 million contribution from the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors to support the university’s Performing Arts Center. The 1,700-seat center is expected to begin construction this year and should be completed by 2009. Chestnut Hill College (Pa.) has received a four-year, $799,600 grant from the U.S. Department of […]

Making the Transition From the Private Sector to Higher Education

When I moved into the higher education arena earlier this year, my family was ecstatic to see that my new position had been mentioned in Jet magazine. My mother thought I’d have three months off a year to play since I was “teaching.”

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