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Students

Higher Education Seeks Common Ground Among the Religious Faithful

Faced with America’s wide-ranging religious landscape, colleges and universities are working to embrace spiritual diversity through inclusive discourse, initiatives and programs.

October 12, 2010

Students

Founded as a ‘Colored Institute,’ W.Va. State University Celebrates 120th Anniversary

West Virginia State University, a historically Black school that first opened its doors in March 1891, is celebrating its 120th academic year this 2010-2011 school year.

October 11, 2010

African-American

Fisk Proposes Revisions in Plan To Sell Interest in Stieglitz Art Collection

Fisk University and the Arkansas-based Crystal Bridges Museum have dotted the “i’s” and crossed the “t’s” on a major revision of their plan that gives Fisk $30 million cash in exchange for selling Crystal Bridges 50 percent ownership of Fisk’s prestigious Alfred Stieglitz Collection of art and photographs and giving the museum considerable control over the future of the collection.

October 10, 2010

Home

Survey: Americans Don’t Know Much About Religion

A new survey of Americans’ knowledge of religion found that atheists, agnostics, Jews and Mormons outperformed Protestants and Roman Catholics in answering questions about major religions, while many respondents could not correctly give the most basic tenets of their own faiths.

September 29, 2010

African-American

EEOC Accuses Calif. University of Discrimination

A federal agency that fights work place discrimination says a private Southern California university denied tenure to a Black professor due to her race and later fired her.

September 21, 2010

Leadership & Policy

University of North Carolina Celebrates 1955 Racial Integration Milestone

Fifty-five years after a federal court allowed them to register for classes by overturning the university’s racist admissions policy, John Brandon and brothers Ralph and LeRoy Frasier returned to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill to be celebrated as pioneers.

September 20, 2010

Students

Parents of Prairie View Hazing Victim Settle Suit Against Fraternity

The parents of the Prairie View A&M University student who died in a hazing incident last year have settled their wrongful death lawsuit against their son’s fraternity, court records show.

September 15, 2010

Students

Rev. Jackson Debunks ‘Post-Racial’ Idea at Minority Legal Scholar Conference

The Rev. Jesse Jackson, the civil rights leader who twice ran for president, mocks the notion that the mere fact that a Black person is sitting in the White House means the nation has entered a “post-racial” era.

September 12, 2010

Students

Bernie Milano Maintains Long-term Focus on Minority Doctorate Program

In an exclusive interview with Diverse, KPMG Foundation President Bernie Milano discusses the state of affairs at The PhD Project and what lies ahead for the storied initiative.

September 8, 2010

African-American

Fisk Should Be Relieved of Responsibility to Art Collection, Judge Says

Citing Fisk’s financial woes, court calls for a new plan to keep the Stieglitz Collection in Nashville under different management.

August 22, 2010

Students

African-American Valedictorian Challenges Elite N.Y. High School on Diversity

Calling for a new approach to recruiting and retaining a diverse student population, the Hunter College High School’s 2010 valedictorian speech by Justin Hudson sent shockwaves across the school and New York City and forced a discussion about diversity.

August 17, 2010

Students

Veteran Journalist Pinkston Sees Bright Prospects for the News Profession

Encouraged by educators to become a reporter, CBS newsman Randall Pinkston says he’s optimistic about the news profession because of the promising student journalists he meets while guest lecturing at journalism schools.

August 4, 2010