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Bowdoin Uses Scholarships to Increase Racial and Ethnic Student Diversity

Bowdoin Uses Scholarships to Increase Racial and Ethnic Student Diversity BRUNSWICK, Maine The racial and ethnic makeup of the student body at Bowdoin College will be more diverse this fall because of two scholarship programs that are counteracting the state’s disadvantages in attracting minority students.Scholarships from the Posse Foundation, along with the Chamberlain Leadership Scholarship, […]

UGA Sorority Suspended During Discrimination Investigation

UGA Sorority Suspended During Discrimination InvestigationATHENS, Ga.University of Georgia officials have temporarily suspended a sorority while they investigate claims that an African American student was denied membership because of her race. University officials say a member of Alpha Gamma Delta filed a complaint against the sorority, which led officials to conduct a preliminary investigation.“Discrimination is […]

Florida, Michigan, California Colleges Have Yet to Agree to D.C. Tuition Plan

Florida, Michigan, California Colleges Have Yet to Agree to D.C. Tuition PlanThe District of Columbia’s new tuition assistance program, which gives the city’s high school graduates up to $10,000 a year to attend public colleges and universities across the country, is being criticized by a handful of schools who are refusing to participate. Calling some […]

Thirteen-year-old Prodigy Headed to Jackson State

Thirteen-year-old Prodigy Headed to Jackson State JACKSON, Miss. A 13-year-old prodigy from Jackson is the youngest person to be admitted to Jackson State University’s honors college. Shayon Ghosh from Jackson Preparatory School had a perfect score on the ACT college entrance exam. His father, Kunal Ghosh, is chairman of the university’s department of physics, atmospheric […]

California Agrees to Grow Need-Based Student-Aid Program

California Agrees to Grow Need-Based Student-Aid ProgramSACRAMENTO, Calif.California Gov. Gray Davis and state legislators have agreed to nearly double the size of the state’s need-based student-aid program, increasing spending on it to nearly $1.2 billion a year. The agreement came after lawmakers decided to support the governor’s proposal to put an additional $118 million toward […]

Disseminating the Truth About Affirmative Action

Disseminating the Truth About Affirmative ActionA recent preliminary study conducted at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln showed disturbing trends in the perceptions of prospective graduate students toward affirmative action and minority students. This investigation entailed in-depth interviews with self-identified Caucasian female undergraduates applying to graduate programs in psychology and psychology-related fields. Respondents attributed a variety of […]

Excerpts from Dr. Arthur E. Levine’s Diversity on Campus

Excerpts from Dr. Arthur E. Levine’s Diversity on CampusThe Meaning of DiversityThe academy does not agree on what diversity means or how it should be achieved. To be more precise, over the past four decades, the term has taken on a number of different, competing, even conflicting meanings, often on the same campuses. Several years […]

The Art of Diversity

The Art of Diversity Dr. Arthur E. Levine is in a pretty enviable position. As president of Columbia University’s Teachers College, he sits at the helm of a Harlem, N.Y.-based institution steeped in its legacy of inclusion. Back in the 1940s, ’50s and ’60s, Southern states burdened with the shackles of segregation readily paid for […]

GEAR UP Facing Criticism

GEAR UP Facing CriticismCongressional sponsors of the 2-year-old Gaining Early Awareness and Readiness for Undergraduate Programs have beaten back attempts to terminate the initiative, but prospects for future funding growth may be dimming.House and Senate negotiators in late July rejected White House recommendations to increase funding for the program from $200 million to $325 million. […]

Campus Cops Try To Fill Role As Cyber Superheroes

Campus Cops Try To Fill Role As Cyber SuperheroesMinority students here at the University of Iowa’s College of Dentistry received a series of threatening e-mail messages last March warning them to “be afraid, not only for their future careers but for their lives.“If firearms need to be used. Then they will,” said the message, which […]

James Farmer Rests in Peace, But Mary Washington College Still Wrestles with Multicultural Issues

James Farmer Rests in Peace, But Mary Washington College Still Wrestles with Multicultural IssuesA plan at Mary Washington College to relocate the school’s James Farmer Multicultural Center and divert resources to “cultural” programming has provoked angry protests from faculty and others.Faculty at the liberal arts college say the changes belie the administration’s stated commitment to […]

Federal Judge Rules That Georgia has No Compelling Interest in Promoting Diversity

Federal Judge Rules That Georgia has No Compelling Interest in Promoting DiversityA federal district judge ruled late last month that three White female applicants denied admission to the University of Georgia in 1999 should be offered admission to the institution this fall, effectively ending the university’s policy of giving special consideration to minority applicants.In his […]

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