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Students

University of Georgia Celebrates Desegregation Anniversary

Georgia’s flaghip university has honored Charlayne Hunter-Gault and the late Hamilton Holmes over the past few days as faculty, alumni, students and others commemorate the 50-year anniversary of the desegregation of UGA.

January 11, 2011

LGBTQ+

Blacks, Women, Now Gays: Military To Adjust Again

The military has a new social challenge: Allowing gays and lesbians to serve openly in the ranks.

December 22, 2010

African-American

Mississippi Still Lacks Civil Rights Museum

Mississippi bred some of the worst violence of the civil rights era, yet nearly a half-century after a barrage of atrocities pricked the conscience of America, it’s one of the few civil rights battleground states with no museum to commemorate the era.

December 1, 2010

Home

UVa Preserves Civil Rights-era News Films

The University of Virginia Library is preserving Civil Rights-era television news footage that includes clips of civil rights leaders discussing plans for demonstrations and former Gov. Lindsay Almond vowing to fight racial integration.

November 30, 2010

Students

Advocates Decry Loss of N.J. Scholarship Program for Preschool Teachers

Education advocates say New Jersey’s Abbott initiative—offering scholarships to employees of preschools in New Jersey’s poorest districts—had tremendous impact.

November 23, 2010

Leadership & Policy

Gov. Says He Wants UMass Head With National Heft

Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick wants the next president of the University of Massachusetts system to have “broad wings” and experience in national academic circles.

November 22, 2010

Latinx

Lone Latina Senator in Mass. Defends Tuition Plan

Massachusetts’ only Latina state senator defended a state proposal last week to grant in-state tuition to undocumented immigrants and accused critics of the plan of spreading “fiction.”

November 21, 2010

Latinx

Court Upholds In-state Tuition for Some Immigrants

The California Supreme Court weighed in Monday on the politically charged immigration fray when it ruled that undocumented immigrants are entitled to the same tuition breaks offered to in-state high school students to attend public colleges and universities.

November 15, 2010

African-American

Tennessee Courts Approves Fisk Art Sale With Rigid Conditions That Anger School and State

A Tennessee Judge has decided financially troubled Fisk University can sell half ownership in its prestigious Alfred Stieglitz Collection of photographs and art for $30 million, if two-third of the proceeds are placed in a new endowment whose sole purpose would be to use its income to ensure the collection remains in Nashville, even if Fisk closes.

November 4, 2010

African-American

Desegregation Offers Lessons for Gay Troops Debate

Though the military may now seem to lag behind America’s acceptance of gays in civilian life, the armed forces led the charge in ending racial segregation in the 1940s and ’50s.

October 31, 2010

African-American

Perspectives: Education Reform and the Access/Success Pendulum

As higher education renews its focus on college completion, we should be mindful about past failure to hold steadfast to access and success, UCLA professors urge.

October 25, 2010

African-American

Obituary: William Arthur “Buddy” Blakey

William Arthur “Buddy” Blakey, 67, whose contributions to and advocacy for public and private Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) spanned more than five decades, died Oct. 13.

October 14, 2010