Diverse StaffStudentsTragedy Strikes Two Campuses, Threatens OneAn Auburn University student was found shot to death on a highway and the University of North Carolina student body president was found fatally shot on a Chapel Hill, N.C. street. Meanwhile, eight dorms at the University of California, Davis were evacuated Wednesday night and a student was arrested after explosives were found in a dorm room.March 6, 2008SportsThe Untold Stories of Black Athletes To Air on ESPNA film about the injustices that defined the civil rights movement told through the eyes of basketball players and coaches from primarily historically Black colleges and universities will air on ESPN on March 16 and 17.March 4, 2008HomeCourse Watch: GMU Offers Class on Wedding PlanningGeorge Mason University in Fairfax, Va., has started offering the first course in the country on wedding planning, now a $160 billion industry in the United States, according to a report by ABC.March 4, 2008HomeJust the Stats© Copyright 2005 by DiverseEducation.comMarch 4, 2008Asian American Pacific IslanderDiverse CalendarMarch 13-15 Eleventh Annual Regional HBCU Summit on Retention “Improving Retention at HBCUs: Retention is a Shared Enterprise” Clarion Resort Hotel Ocean City,Md. Contact: Dr. Anne L. Gaskins-Nedd Phone: (301) 860-3687 e-mail: [email protected] March 14-15 Faculty Resource Network at New York University “The Molecules of Life: A National Dissemination Conference” Grand Hyatt Atlanta Phone: (212) […]March 3, 2008HomeScholars Discuss Diversity in Presidential RaceFive political scientists answered Diverse readers questions about the presidential race.February 27, 2008HomeSpectrum’s Own ‘Emergency Teacher’Devoted Diverse readers may recall that former senior editorChristina Asquith spearheaded thecreation of the Spectrum section in the magazine in 2006.February 20, 2008HomeCover Letters That TalkFor hiring managers, the age of poring over repetitious, lackluster cover letters and résumés could soon be coming to an end with the advent of video introductions (VINTROs), according to www.HireMeNow.com, a temporary and contract employment marketplace. A survey conducted by the Web site in December of 2007 revealed that over 80 percent of hiring […]February 19, 2008HomeLibrary of Congress Receives Historic AdditionThe Library of Congress received a substantial addition to its collection of civil rights movement resources last month from the family of James Forman, who served as the executive secretary for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee from 1961 to 1966. In a ceremony that took place in the library’s Jefferson Building, Forman’s sons, James Jr. […]February 19, 2008HomeProfessional AppointmentsDr. Ronald L. Carter has been appointed president of Johnson C. Smith University (N.C.) effective July 1. Currently, he is provost and dean of faculty at Coker College (S.C.). He earned a bachelor’s from Morehouse College and a master’s and doctorate from Boston University. CATHIE CAROTHERS has been named director of the […]February 19, 2008Previous PagePage 89 of 115Next Page
