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The Last Mile: Penn State Football Program Should be Indefinitely Suspended

by Dr. Pamela D. Reed, November 11, 2011

Joe Paterno has been fired. Penn State President Graham Spanier is stepping down. The Department of Education has launched an investigation. When 84-year-old Paterno heard the news of his firing, he held court one last time. According to The Associated Press, JoePa told a group of adoring students outside his “Happy

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Are a Boy's Chances Better at Becoming a Sports Star or a Doctor?

by Dr. James Ewers, May 28, 2009

I often ask young children, especially boys, what they want to do when they reach adulthood. One of the most repeated answers is that they want to become professional athletes. The two primary sports that they have an interest in, and not to my surprise, are basketball and football. It

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Slam-Dunking Sports Myths: Thoughts from a “dumb jock” professor

by Dr. Robin Lee Hughes, May 14, 2009

As a professor, one of my major jobs is to choose or follow something called a research agenda. Once chosen, we devote lots of time learning about that particular area, becoming somewhat of an expert and parlaying the information back to larger audiences (in theory, although some of us, quite

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New Football Program Presents Golden Opportunity for Lincoln University

by Dr. Marybeth Gasman, September 24, 2008

With the start of the new academic year, Lincoln University has made some big changes to its campus. The nation’s oldest Black college resurrected its football team and created a marching band. The institution and its president Ivory V. Nelson hope that theses changes will attract more students to the

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CNN’s Black in America Sounds Clarion Call To Do More

by Dr. James Ewers, July 29, 2008

I am black in America so the recent two-part series produced by CNN entitled “Black in America” did appeal to me. This special program to my mind was not only for black people but for white people as well. For whatever judgment you rendered about the series let us give

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Diverse Sponsors ‘Mentoring’ Panel Discussion

Diverse Sponsors ‘Mentoring’ Panel Discussion

Journalist Janet Roach reports on the Diverse-sponsored panel discussion, “The Critical Role of Mentoring in Increasing Graduates and Faculty of Color”. The panel discussion was held in Washington, D.C. during the 98th annual conference of the Association of American Colleges and Universities.


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