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Grants & Gifts

Benedictine University (Ill.) and the College of DuPage (Ill.) will use a three-year, $199,952 grant from the National Science Foundation to help introduce biocalculus to more two- and four-year students at the two institutions. The U.S. Department of Labor has awarded a $500,000 grant to the North Alabama/Southern Tennessee region for the Second Generation of […]

February 21, 2007

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Getting to Know Dr. James T. Minor

Growing up in Detroit, James Minor bypassed the drugs and gang life that plagued his neighborhood and graduated from the city’s public school system…

February 7, 2007

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Teeing Off With Bill Dickey

In 1982, a Black man hitting the links in Phoenix was something of a rare site…

January 10, 2007

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Clarifying the Shifting Sands of International Law

Jenny Martinez is proof of the power of role modeling and mentoring. As an undergraduate at Yale University…

January 10, 2007

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Grants & Awards

Elizabeth City State University (N.C.) has received a $400,000 gift from Melvyn and Vonda Riley, the largest alumni donation in the university’s history. Melvyn Riley graduated from ECSU in 1961, while Vonda Riley graduated in 1965. The gift will be used to support athletic scholarships. The University of Hawaii’s School of Social Work has received […]

January 10, 2007

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Teacher-Turned-Philanthropist Does Her Part

Dr. Annette Rickel has proven that you don’t have to be Bill Gates or George Soros to make a difference…

December 27, 2006

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Trying Times for Bishop State

Decades before segregationist Alabama Gov. George Wallace blocked the University of Alabama’s doors to African-Americans…

December 27, 2006

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Colin Powell Center Gets $10 Million To Develop More Black Policy Makers

The New York Life Foundation is providing $10 million to fund the Endowment for Emerging African American Issues…

December 27, 2006

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Minority Librarians Seek To Update Image of White ‘Bun Lady’

MONTGOMERY, Ala. Librarians have long been portrayed as the little old White lady with her hair in a bun and glasses on a chain around her neck, “shushing” noisy people, but Deborah Lilton represents a more modern image.

December 18, 2006

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Financing College Diversity: Is it a Case Of ‘Robbing Peter to Pay Paul’?

Many readers may be shocked to learn that some of this nation’s colleges and universities practice price…

December 13, 2006

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Colin Powell Center Gets $10 Million To Develop More Black Policy Makers

The New York Life Foundation is providing $10 million to fund the Endowment for Emerging African American Issues at the Colin Powell Center for Policy Studies at the City College of New York.

December 5, 2006

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An Ethnic Studies Evolution

As a student in the Chicana/o studies program at the University of Texas at El Paso…

November 29, 2006