Diverse StaffHomeEncouraging Girls to Focus on Their Ph.D., Not Their MTVAcademics have long suspected that over-sexualized images of young women can have a detrimental effect on their emotional growth.April 4, 2007HomePreserving, Not Partying, This Spring BreakPlenty of students head to Cancun for Spring Break. But instead of lying on a beach, students from the University of Southern California will be on the beach cleaning up.April 4, 2007African-AmericanBook of Note: Hollywood Weighs In On the Abolition of Slavery in EnglandThe new movie “Amazing Grace” is an elegant depiction of famed British abolitionist William Wilberforce, who at 21 began the movement to eventually abolish the slave trade and free all slaves in England.April 4, 2007StudentsArthur Ashe Jr. Sports Scholars [2007]Diverse: Issues In Higher Education established the Sports Scholars Awards to honor undergraduate students of color who have made achieving both academically and athletically a winning combination.April 4, 2007HomeMicrosoft Awards $5 Million Digital Divide Software Grant To National Urban LeagueNational Urban League officials say the $5 million software grant announced by the Microsoft Corp. will focus largely on education and tutoring assistance administered nationally by 102 local affiliates of the nation’s oldest and largest Black organization.April 4, 2007HomeFirst Woman Selected for Top Computer Science AwardThe Association for Computing Machinery has named Frances E. Allen the winner of the 2006 A.M. Turing Award for her work in computer science.April 4, 2007HomeGrants & GiftsThe Robert Wood Johnson Foundation has awarded $4.5 million in grants to 15 community service projects, including programs at Duke University, the New York University School of Medicine and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Each grant will be available for three years, at up to $100,000 per year. Kansas State University has […]April 4, 2007Community CollegesProfessional AppointmentsAnita Gliniecki has been named president of Housatonic Community College (Conn.). She had been serving in an interim role. Gliniecki earned a bachelor’s from Wayne State University and a master’s from the University of Michigan. Dr. Vivian Barnette has been named director of counseling services at North Carolina A&T State University. She holds a bachelor’s […]April 4, 2007SportsNEWS ANALYSIS: For Black Women Coaches: You Haven’t Come a Long Way BabyWhile much attention has been paid to ensuring that the coaching staffs of men’s college and professional sports teams reflect the diversity of the teams they lead, a review of the racial composition of women’s collegiate basketball coaches reveals a surprising and disturbing lack of diversity.March 14, 2007LGBTQ+UCLA Gets $1 Million to Study Legal Topics Involving Gay CouplesLOS ANGELES A gay couple that hope to marry one day has donated more than $1 million to the University of California, Los Angeles, to fund research on legal topics involving same-sex relationships.February 28, 2007Previous PagePage 111 of 115Next Page
