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Besieged, bothered, and bewildered: affirmative action director charges Pitt-Johnstown president with discrimination, harassment and retaliation – University of Pittsburgh-Johnstown

JOHNSTOWN, Pa. According to the University of Pittsburgh-Johnstown’s affirmative action director, the institution’s president told her that he did not believe in affirmative action and would do everything possible to avoid implementing its principles.

July 13, 2007

HBCUs

Charting journalism degrees

The data for this study come from the United Stated Department of Education. It is collected through the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) program completers survey conducted by the Office of Educational Research and Improvement (OERI). The survey requests data on the number of degrees and other formal awards conferred in academic, vocational, and continuing professional education programs. Institutions report their data according to the Classification of Instructional Program (CIP) codes developed by the National Center for Educational Statistics (NCES). CIP codes provide a common set of categories allowing comparisons across all colleges and universities.

July 13, 2007

Leadership & Policy

Type casting for women presidents – of jobs and institutions

The just-released American Council on Education report, The American College President, found that there were no gains in the number of presidencies for African Americans. Research that I conducted in the spring of 1996 on data collected from African American and White women who were college presidents demonstrate, to some degree, why this is particularly true for African American women while women in general — clearly, White women — are experiencing progress.

July 12, 2007

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Citadel sisters: a first times two – African American women students at The Citadel military college in Charleston, SC

CHARLESTON, S.C. Unlike the late Charles D. Foster, who thirty-one years ago bore the burden of integrating The Citadel military college alone, the first two African American females to attend the school will have something he didn’t have – each other.

July 11, 2007

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Anything We Love Can Be Saved. – book reviews

Alice Walker has been accused of writing well, and of writing badly. In the case of her most famous work, The Color Purple (1982), both accusations overlapped dramatically, each bringing its own measure of adoration and libel. Her admirers and detractors emerged from all sectors of popular, public, and academic life yielding a range of responses — from ostensible assessments of her craft, to open judgement of her political affiliations, to speculative accusations of ulterior (market-driven) motives. A similar response greeted the novel Possessing the Secret of Joy (1992)

July 11, 2007

Students

Scholarship, sisterhood, service – black women in African American fraternities

When twenty-two young Black women came together at Howard University to form Delta Sigma Theta sorority, their goal was to focus on scholarship, sisterhood, and service to the African American community. A review of the sorority’s early history indicates that these young women, and the ones who followed them, did exactly that.

July 10, 2007

Sports

Respecting Black Women

C. Vivian Stringer, the head coach of the Rutgers University women’s basketball team, urged the audience at a symposium on respecting Black women to remain vigilant and to broaden the conversation from the Don Imus incident to all of the ways in which Black women are degraded and disrespected on a daily basis.

June 27, 2007

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The affirmative action debate & collegiality – in academia

When California voters go to the polls on November 5, they will vote on Proposition 209 — the so-called California Civil Rights Initiative — the ballot measure that would essentially outlaw affirmative action in the state of California.

June 22, 2007

Faculty & Staff

Reaching out to young Black men: a dedicated and determined group of scholars offer the lure of the academy – includes related article on the Meyerhoff program as evaluated by a student – side bar listing academic programs for Black male students – Cover

The low numbers of African-American males seeking higher education is a problem that has been talked about, written about, and studied. Now, some colleges and universities seem willing to put their money where their mouths are.

June 22, 2007

Leadership & Policy

Southern University officials resist one-board-for-all plan

BATON ROUGE, LA Southern University’s separate management board is safe for now, but college administrators aren’t sure it will survive.

June 17, 2007

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Addie & Rebecca – letters of free-born African-American women during the Civil War

Discovered Civil War Era Letters Preserve Two Free-born Black Female Activists’ Comments on Their Life and Times.

June 16, 2007

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Lessons of tolerance: former Cherokee chief brings experience to Dartmouth College – Wilma Mankiller

Hanover, NH — In many ways, Wilma Mankiller seems out of place in New Hampshire, a state where 96 out of every 100 residents are white and which refuses to recognize the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday.

June 15, 2007