Black IssuesStudentsFreedom of Speech Frayed at Florida CollegeFreedom of Speech Frayed at Florida CollegeIn what appears to be retaliation for speaking out, five Edward Waters College administrators are abruptly terminated BY PEARL STEWARTJonathan Glenn, a college freshman with a 3.7 GPA, wrote an article for his journalism class last April complaining about the lack of campus security. Within hours of submitting the […]August 25, 2004StudentsNorfolk State Creates Program to Grow Its Own Leadership CadreNorfolk State Creates Program to Grow Its Own Leadership Cadre Executive leadership training for underrepresented minorities is not exactly a new idea — the granddaddy of such programs, the American Council on Education’s Fellows Program, will be 40 years old this year, and the National Association for Equal Opportunity in Higher Education (NAFEO) has a leadership […]August 25, 2004African-AmericanProfessional Notes© Copyright 2005 by DiverseEducation.comAugust 25, 2004African-AmericanEventsSEPTEMBER Sept. 20-22National College Access Network 8th Annual ConferenceBostonE-mail: [email protected]: www.CollegeAccess.orgSept. 23 –2520th Annual Symposium on African American Studies“African American Studies: Meeting the Challenge Today: Learning from the Past — Envisioning the Future”Purdue University West Lafayette, Ind.Web: www.sla.purdue.edu/academic/idis/african%2Damerican/index.asp Sept. 24-272004 Patterson Research ConferenceCommemorating the 50th Anniversary of Brown vs. Board of Education & 40 Years […]August 25, 2004HomeGrants & AwardsCalhoun Community College (Ala.) has been awarded a $400,000 grant from the National Science Foundation to fund the college’s new Computer Science, Mathematics and Technology (CMT) Academic Rewards program. The program is designed to increase the number of well-prepared graduates in technology, computer specialties and mathematics by offering 40 annual scholarships and a variety of […]August 25, 2004HomeEmpower Others to Solve Computer ProblemsEmpower Others to Solve Computer ProblemsBy Reid Goldsborough Has this happened to you? Your third cousin twice removed calls you in a panic that his computer is on the fritz. He thinks he may have picked up a virus, or maybe one of his kids messed things up by sharing music with friends over the […]August 25, 2004HomeBerkeley Opens High-Tech LabBerkeley Opens High-Tech Lab To Support Social Science Research BERKELEY, Calif.The University of California at Berkeley Haas School of Business has launched the XLab — which is shorthand for Experimental Social Sciences Laboratory. The XLab is a high-tech facility to help economists, political scientists and other social scientists test their theories and to determine whether […]August 25, 2004HomeRace, Class, and the Postindustrial CityRace, Class, and the Postindustrial CityBy Dr. Frank Harold Wilson259 pp., $65.50 hardcover ISBN: 0-7914-6015-0; $21.95 paperback ISBN: 0791460169; State University of New York Press, 2004 Race, Class, and the Postindustrial City thoroughly explores the scholarship of Dr. William Julius Wilson, one of the nation’s leading sociologists and public intellectuals, and the controversies surrounding his […]August 25, 2004HomeFacing Racism in EducationFacing Racism in EducationEds. Sonya L. Anderson, Polly F. Attwood, and Lionel C. HowardHarvard Educational Review, 2004315 pp. $29.95 paperback ISBN 0-916690-42-3This third edition of Facing Racism in Education continues the work begun in the first and second editions of this widely acclaimed book, breaking the silence about the experiences of people of color in […]August 25, 2004HomeMeasuring Racial DiscriminationMeasuring Racial DiscriminationPanel on Methods for Assessing Discrimination, Eds. Rebecca M. Blank, Marilyn Dabady and Constance F. CitroThe National Academies Press, 2004336 pp., $44.95, hardcover ISBN 0-309-09126-8; $30.50 PDF book ISBN 0-309-53083-0Many racial and ethnic groups in the United States, including Blacks, Hispanics, Asians, Native Americans, and others, have historically faced severe discrimination — pervasive […]August 25, 2004Previous PagePage 51 of 431Next Page
