Eric St. JohnStudentsWorth-Less GrantsRising Pell grant awards are not keeping pace with rising tuition and a new report shows that they are depriving needy students of educational choiceJuly 14, 2007HomeTaking the InitiativeIn the wake of Washington State’s passage of Initiative 200, pro-affirmative action scholars call for a new combat strategyJuly 14, 2007LatinxHarmony and DiscordIn the struggle for access and opportunity, different racial and ethnic groups have often — but not always — joined forces in an attempt to exert influence over those who formulate national policy. Sometimes the association has been harmonious; sometimes it has been discordant. Sometimes it has been effective; other times it has been non-productive. Below are seven examples of Black/ Hispanic coalition efforts, some successful, some unsuccessful.July 14, 2007StudentsNewsroom power shortage – minorities in journalismAre students of color getting the inside scoop on what it takes to become news editors and producers?July 13, 2007StudentsLoan debt: a new viewStudent loan debt. It weighs heavily upon hundreds of thousands of Americans. It also is the leading reason African Americans drop out of college. Yet, surprisingly, a new study shows that indebted Black students actually are carrying a lighter debt load than their White and Asian peers. And they tend to come from households that have comparably higher incomes.July 12, 2007HealthLess sugar and more of the sweet life: the Diabetes Prevention ProgramWashington The Diabetes Prevention Program (DPP) is a researh study being conducted at twenty-five medical centers around the country. Sponsored by the National Institutes of Health’s (NIH) National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK), the program hopes to prove that type 2 diabetes can be prevented by altering one’s lifestyle and/or medication.July 11, 2007African-AmericanA prescription for participation: diabetes study helping African Americans overcome fears of ethnic medical researchThey don’t want to take pills. They’re unwilling to participate in randomized trials. They are reluctant to take a chance,” says Robert Ratner, M.D., head of the Medlantic Clinical Research Center in Washington, D.C., discussing why some people don’t want to participate in medical research. “There remains reluctance to participate in any medical study. Some of it is, `I want someone else to do it so I “know it’s safe, then I’ll do it’ — the guinea-pig phenomenon.”July 11, 2007StudentsHome shopping network: CD-ROMs facilitate college search processWith a seventeen-year-old high school junior for a son, the time has come once again to go college shopping. And as one of those guys who hates to shop, I naturally was looking for something that would allow me to visit a university or two hundred without leaving home. After all, travel expenses can be…well, expensive.July 11, 2007Page 1 of 1
