StaffLatinxRace, Identity and Academic SurvivalRace, Identity and Academic Survival How Race is Made: Slavery, Segregation and the Senses By Mark M. Smith The University of North Carolina Press, 2006216 pp., $29.95 cloth, ISBN: 0-8078-3002-X For at least two centuries, says Mark M. Smith, White Southerners used all of their senses — not just their eyes — to construct racial […]January 25, 2006HomeProfessional AppointmentsSidney H. Evans Jr. has been appointed senior vice president and chief financial officer-treasurer of Howard University. He has held financial management positions with several banking and government organizations. Evans earned a bachelor’s from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a master’s from the University of Pittsburgh’s Joseph M. Katz Graduate School […]January 25, 2006African-AmericanGrants & AwardsEastern Washington University has received a $500,000 challenge grant from the Kresge Foundation to help equip the university’s new Computing and Engineering Building. Half of the funds will be used to purchase scientific equipment, while the other half will go towards an endowment to replace and maintain current equipment. Holy Names University (Calif.) has received […]January 25, 2006HealthBlack Public Officials Launch New Alliance to Address Critical Policy Issues Facing People of Color in the United StatesLeaders of organizations representing African-American public officials are holding a mobilization summit this week to…January 19, 2006HomeKaplan Survey: Most SAT Takers Want Test Sections on Different DaysWith college counselors petitioning for students to be given the option of taking the three sections of the three-hour…January 18, 2006HomeRelation Between Incarceration and Race Disparities In U.S. HIV Rates Explored In StudyThere may be a relationship between incarceration and race disparities in American HIV rates…January 11, 2006HomeEmerging Scholars: The Class of 2006The tradition of publishing an Emerging Scholars edition began in the pages of Black Issues In Higher Education…January 11, 2006STEMScience, Technology High Schools to Open in Texas As Part of Statewide InitiativeThe Texas High School Project (THSP) — supported by the Michael & Susan Dell Foundation…January 11, 2006StudentsProfessional AppointmentsDr. Emmanuel Awuah has been named director of the Office of Multicultural Resources and Diversity Awareness at Onondaga Community College. He earned bachelor’s degrees from St. Mary’s Teachers’ College and the University of Ghana, a master’s from the University of Guelph in Canada and a doctorate from Michigan State University. Dr. Rosalinda B. Barrera has […]January 11, 2006HomeGrants & AwardsRose-Hulman Institute of Technology (Ind.) has been awarded a $490,000 grant from the Lilly Endowment to continue the Homework Hotline, which provides free mathematics and science tutoring to Indiana middle and high school students. The grant is the third the foundation has made to the hotline. Sacramento State University has received a $2 million gift […]January 11, 2006Previous PagePage 24 of 46Next Page
