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Recruitment & Retention

Focusing on the Flight, Not the Plight Of Black Men

The retention of Black men at the collegiate level, within the general context of the “plight” of Black males…

March 21, 2007

Community Colleges

Dreams Deferred?

Wrongly imprisoned, Alan Newton advises students in CUNY’s Black Male Initiative. So why is a civil rights group trying to stop him?

February 21, 2007

Halving High School Dropout Rate Could Save U.S. $45 Billion Annually, Study Shows

Lawmakers mulling a solution to the looming Medicare and Social Security shortfalls brought on by mass baby boomer retirements need to look no further than stemming the tide of high school dropouts, according to a study released Wednesday titled, “The Costs and Benefits of an Excellent Education for America’s Children.”

February 8, 2007

Morehouse Study: Untreated Prison Illnesses Can Expose Black Communities to Contagious Diseases

Untreated illnesses in a prison population can expose whole communities to the risk of infection from a contagious disease, according to one study. Another study has found that the rates of psychiatric disorder among U.S.-born Latinos have increased substantially over the past decade.

January 18, 2007

Black, Hispanic Male Crisis Focus Of Higher Ed Summit

For Dr. James H. Ammons, the crisis confronting Black and Hispanic males is obvious, but so is the solution…

December 27, 2006

African-American

Perspectives: Oversized Pants, Undersized Goals of Today’s Youth

The dress code of today’s youth is symptomatic of larger problems of what is supposed to be the future generation of doctors, lawyers, scholars and other professionals. The lifestyles and decision-making of an increasingly large numbers of young men, both Black and White, should be called into question. Oversized pants and undersized goals make for a bleak future.

December 6, 2006

Black, Hispanic Male Crisis A Concern At Higher Ed Summit

TAMPA, Fla. At a recent summit of higher education officials looking to confront the crisis of minority males, Dr. James H. Ammons summed up the mission ahead: “We, as leaders, have to step to the plate. [Black male] enrollment in prison cannot continue to supersede enrollment in higher education.”

December 4, 2006

Prison Instead of Princeton

It costs approximately $22,000 per year to incarcerate each of the 2.2 million people in U.S. prisons…

September 20, 2006

Man Freed by Law School to Graduate from Same School

On Christmas Eve 1996, Christopher Ochoa went back to his Texas prison cell and pressed a razor blade to his forearm. He was serving a life sentence for a murder he did not commit and was ready to end it all. But Ochoa didn’t follow through. And on Friday, he will have a new life awaiting when he…

May 10, 2006

Where the Workers Are: Classrooms and Jail Cells

Higher education leads the pack of full-time civilian, federal, state and local government workers, followed by the prison system.

May 3, 2006

Where Are We Going?

The need for African-American teachers — not to mention Hispanic, American Indian and Asian teachers — is even more urgent than it was in August 1988, when Diverse’s predecessor…

April 19, 2006

Emerging Scholars: Counting on Critical Resistance

Dr. Dylan Rodríguez, one of the founders of Critical Resistance: Beyond the Prison Industrial Complex…

January 11, 2006

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