Tag: Asian Studies: Page 2

Students

Unmasking the Model Minority Myth

Widely considered as overachievers, Asian students’ academic struggles are often downplayed, ignored.

December 12, 2007

Sports

Grants and Gifts

The AMERICAN BAR ENDOWMENT, a nonprofit sponsor of group insurance and charitable giving programs for the more than 400,000 members of the American Bar Association, has donated $3.7 MILLION to improve the ABA Fund for Justice and Education. The CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY and the regents of the UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA have received $7.5 MILLION […]

October 2, 2007

Asian American Pacific Islander

University of Central Arkansas planning Chinese studies program

CONWAY Ark. A Chinese studies program involving several academic fields is planned at the University of Central Arkansas, paid for in part with a federal grant, university officials say.

September 22, 2007

Asian American Pacific Islander

Overshadowed

Ask the average person what comes to mind at the mention of the Black Panther Party…

February 7, 2007

Asian American Pacific Islander

Taking a Stand

Every December, the nation pauses to remember Pearl Harbor, the site of the 1941 Japanese surprise attack that propelled…

December 13, 2006

Students

Historians John Hope Franklin, Yu Ying-shih Named Winners of 2006 John W. Kluge Prize for the Study of Humanity

Drs. John Hope Franklin and Yu Ying-shih have been named the recipients of the third John W. Kluge Prize for lifetime achievement in the study of humanity, the Library of Congress announced Wednesday. They will share the $1 million prize.

November 14, 2006

Faculty & Staff

What Are You Reading This Summer, Professor?

What Are You Reading This Summer, Professor? Who: Julian Bond, Chairman, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People; Distinguished Adjunct Professor, American University Summer Book: Democracy Rising: South Carolina and the fight for Black Equality since 1865, by Peter Lau Why: “It details the significant work the NAACP did over many years to build […]

August 23, 2006

Faculty & Staff

University of Arkansas Revives Black Studies Program

More than two years after the Black studies program at the University of Arkansas was left…

December 20, 2005

Students

Documenting the Diaspora

Documenting the DiasporaHistorian couple investigate Central Africa’s place in world history, rooting Black studies in an international contextBy Ronald RoachTraveling to the Vatican to study documents once belonging to a 17th-century central African diplomat may seem an unlikely project for professors in an African American studies program. But for Drs. John Thornton and Linda Heywood, […]

November 3, 2004

Students

The Best-Kept Secret: Crime on Campus

The Best-Kept Secret: Crime on CampusIn Indiana, a Ball State University student’s lifeless, bullet-riddled body is discovered at dawn, wedged between the seats of his car. A 19-year-old Iowa student is stabbed to death in plain sight in a campus-dining hall at the Maharishi University. A Fort Hays college freshman is savagely beaten just off […]

May 5, 2004

Faculty & Staff

Harvard’s New Chapter in Black Studies

Harvard’s New Chapter in Black StudiesA neglected African studies program finally gets a departmental home By Ronald RoachFrom afar, it seemed that Afro-American studies at Harvard had taken a nasty tumble when two of its best-known scholars announced their resignations in early 2002, and its venerable chairman, Dr. Henry Louis Gates Jr., let it be […]

October 8, 2003

Faculty & Staff

Extending Their Reach

Extending Their ReachWith the 50th anniversaries approaching of the establishment of Phi Beta Kappa chapters at Howard and Fisk universities, the anniversary is a reminder that the honor society remains a remote influence on historically Black institutions and Black students at predominantly White college campuses.By Ronald RoachFew academic organizations can claim to have conferred as […]

October 9, 2002