Christina AsquithStudentsNCCU Goes on Offense: We’re Not a “Poor Cousin” to DukeIn its coverage of the Duke University men’s lacrosse rape story, the media for months has contrasted the elite, privileged world of Duke with the struggling-to-get-by image of the historically Black North Carolina Central University, where the alleged rape victim is a student.June 26, 2006HomeU-Wisconsin Grapples With a Sex Case that Strikes a Racial NervePaul Barrows, the beleaguered University of Wisconsin administrator accused in 2003 of sexual harassment, just wants his embarrassing case to end. After two years of negative headlines invoking race, politics, university spending, and indecent relations, one would think that the university administration would like it to end, too.June 20, 2006Faculty & StaffBlack Professors Under Pressure At Duke; Six Black Faculty QuitThree months after she was chosen to head the committee on race in response to the university’s lacrosse scandal, Duke University Professor Karla Holloway threatened to quit yesterday citing exhaustion.June 12, 2006Faculty & StaffAccepted into Education CityJust minutes from the Persian Gulf’s translucent blue waters, through the flat, white desert and past the headquarters of the Al Jazeera news network…June 7, 2006Faculty & StaffMoving Beyond DivestmentAcademia should examine the underlying causes of civil war and find new property rights regimes and economic and livelihood alternatives that resolve disputes like the current crisis in Sudan. Professor Steve Hansch of Georgetown and American Universities talks about divestment and other ways universities can help.June 4, 2006Community CollegesFrom Combat to Classrooms: Are Professors Prepared to Teach War Veterans?Apathy towards coursework. Declining grades. Angry outbursts in class. One in five veterans of the Iraq and Afghanistan war suffers from post-traumatic stress disorder. But as many return home and stream onto college campuses, they enter a system ill-prepared to deal with them.May 31, 2006Faculty & StaffAccepted into Education CityJust minutes from the Persian Gulf’s translucent blue waters, through the flat…May 31, 2006HomeProfessor: Use Social Unrest to Change Admissions PoliciesIn 1960, the “big three” universities — Princeton, Harvard and Yale — admitted only a handful of Black students each year…May 17, 2006StudentsFor Missing Civil Rights Hero, A Degree at LastIf Lloyd Gaines is alive, his law degree is waiting for him. The University of Missouri-Columbia School of Law has decided to award an honorary degree to Gaines 68 years after…May 3, 2006HomeProfessor: Use Social Unrest to Change Admissions PoliciesIn 1960, the “big three” universities —Princeton, Harvard and Yale — admitted only a handful of Black students each year…April 24, 2006Previous PagePage 5 of 6Next Page
