KATTI GRAYAfrican-AmericanGa. University Learning Community Focuses on Black Freshman WomenAt the University of West Georgia, an all-Black, all-female freshman learning community aims to ease the challenges encountered during the first-year transition into college life.September 26, 2011LatinxVeteran Educator Leads John Jay College’s Prison Re-Entry InstituteFor roughly 40 years, Ann Jacobs has been helping the formerly incarcerated navigate a post-prison world.September 18, 2011HomeFamily Histories of ‘Passing’ from Black to White Documented in BookVanderbilt law professor Daniel Sharfstein’s book, The Invisible Line: Three American Families and the Secret Journey from Black to White, is the outgrowth of parallels he drew between apartheid’s racial distortions and those that shaped America.September 5, 2011Asian American Pacific IslanderEllis Island Immigration Museum to Document the ‘Peopling’ of the U.S.The Peopling of America Center will be rolled out in two phases, with the first chronicling migration patterns before 1892 and the second documenting post-1954 migration.August 1, 2011LatinxSweeping New Immigration Laws in Georgia and Alabama Impact Migrant Labor TrendsAmong findings from Dr. Cesar Escalante’s studies is that as the foreign labor supply, chiefly undocumented Latinos, has declined, 67 percent of surveyed Southern state farmers reported having difficulty finding workers.July 24, 2011Faculty & StaffRoboticist Dennis Hong Inspires Students To Change the WorldDr. Dennis Hong, a NASA Summer Faculty Fellow and two-time winner of the National Science Foundation’s Career Award for extraordinary teacher-scholars, said he’s gratified to have persuaded his students that robotics is its own form of service to science and to humankind.June 13, 2011HomeWayne State Fellows To Help Transform Detroit in Program Modeled After New Orleans EffortThe 25 fellows, slated to be announced in July, are being plucked from a nationwide pool of 640 mid-career urban planners, public policymakers, lawyers, architects, community organizers, developers and others.May 31, 2011HomeGuggenheim Fellow Sachiko Murata Translating Chinese Text on IslamA professor at the State University of New York at Stony Brook since 1983, Murata is translating and analyzing the cosmology, metaphysics and theology of the first known text on Islam written in Chinese, Wang Daiyu’s The Real Commentary on the True Teaching, published in 1642.May 15, 2011HomeBreaking Through the Bar Exam With Prep CoursesLaw schools take action to reverse embarrassing bar exam failure rates by offering bar prep instruction.April 12, 2011StudentsCriminal Justice Think Tank Exits Medgar Evers CampusThe Brooklyn District Attorney’s office will now partner with Medgar Evers on a Community Justice Program for formerly incarcerated students that will involve professors and students from the college’s departments of social work and education and include student internships in the DA’s office.March 30, 2011Previous PagePage 5 of 6Next Page
