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Letters

RALLYING FOR FUNDS I graduated from Howard University in the spring of 1991. Back then, we did not have a president that seemed able to rally for funds for the school. Since I graduated, I have seen the difference it has made to the university as a whole to have a president and faculty body […]

June 11, 2008

Majority Latino South Texas Town Abolishes Decades-old Segregation

A South Texas town has abolished an anti-Hispanic segregation law more than seven decades after it was enacted.

May 13, 2008

Majority Latino South Texas Town Abolishes Decades-old Segregation

A South Texas town has abolished an anti-Hispanic segregation law more than seven decades after it was enacted.

May 6, 2008

Community Colleges

Perspectives: Banning Affinity Groups Shows Lack of Understanding

On most college campuses, the term “self-segregation” only applies when students of color choose to establish associations. Self-segregation is itself a political, ideological and racialized term. Thus, this attempt in Arizona to legislate integration shows a stupendous lack of understanding of the fraud that often masquerades as campus diversity efforts, as well as the reality of the experience of many racial minority students on predominantly White campuses.

April 20, 2008

Leadership & Policy

Tennessee Higher Education Officials Deny Honor For `Freedom Riders’

The rejection by Tennessee higher education officials of a proposal to award honorary degrees to 13 former Tennessee State University students expelled from the college in 1961 because of the students’ participation in the historic freedom rides has stirred criticism of the action from the college’s president, alumni and some state lawmakers.

April 3, 2008

ESPN Documentary on the HBCU Athletes Who Desegregated College Sports Scores Big

The stories of Black athletes integrating professional sports are legendary.

March 27, 2008

Faculty & Staff

Are Magnet Schools the Answer

The concept of diversity in America is likely to become more of a reality with the prospect of a Black man or female becoming the next president of the United States. However, outside the Oval Office, minority students are still not well represented within the country’s best educational systems.

March 19, 2008

Democratic Presidential Hopefuls Continue to Court Young Voters

In their final thrust before today’s primary vote in Washington, D.C., Maryland and Virginia, Democratic presidential hopefuls Sens. Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama spent the weekend and much of Monday courting young voters with promises of making higher education accessible to all who want an education. Bolstering support among voters ages 30 and under is critical for both candidates.

February 11, 2008

Getting to Know Dr Sonya Ramsey

Dr. Sonya Ramsey, an associate professor of history at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, has been intrigued by the lives of Black women educators for much of her academic career.

February 6, 2008

The Crucial Youth Vote

Political pundits expect young voters, including college students, to figure prominently in today’s presidential primary vote in New Hampshire as they did, turning out in record numbers, in last week’s Iowa caucuses.

January 7, 2008

Perspectives: Current Tenure Process Deters Minority Women Professors

Diversity efforts at the University of Michigan have been stalled by the denial of tenure to five female professors of color.

December 15, 2007

The Landmark Decision That Faded Into Historical Obscurity

Paving the way for Brown v. Board of Education, the outcome of Mendez v. Westminster resulted in California becoming the first state in the nation to desegregate its schools.

December 12, 2007

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