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Like It or Not, America Has Played the Race Card Again

by Dr. Christopher Metzler, January 12, 2010

Why do I allege that America has played the race card? Because Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's private musings about race have now come out of the closet. Reid said what many Americans think: President Barack Obama is light skinned and has no "Negro dialect" unless he wants to. Reid

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The Gender Imbalance on College Campuses

by Dr. Elwood Watson, January 11, 2010

During the past few years, I have walked into a number of classes I’ve taught, looked around and have been startled at what I have witnessed. I am talking about the X/Y factor, or the gender ratio. Gender imbalance was striking. A number (though not all) of my classes were

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Cultivating A Knack For Cross-Cultural Understanding

by Dr. Murali Balaji, January 7, 2010

When I was an undergraduate student at the University of Minnesota in the 1990s, during the height of conservative efforts to repeal affirmative action, I often found myself the lone Indian-American attending demonstrations by minority-student groups to save it. I used to also be the only non-Black person at the Africana

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Completion By Design or By Chance?

by Deborah Santiago, January 6, 2010

Completing college should not be synonymous with a "roll of the dice," but too often it is. How many of us were asked during college orientation to look to the left and right of us, because only one of the three of you was going to make it to graduation?

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