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Several Scholars Named MacArthur Fellows

The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation named 25 new MacArthur Fellows for 2005.

October 5, 2005

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Converging Complexities

Converging Complexities Higher Education and the Color Line: College Access, Racial Equity and Social ChangeBy Gary Orfield, Patricia Marin and Catherine L. Horn, eds. Harvard Education Press, 2005300 pp., $59.95 cloth, ISBN: 1-891792-60-1; $29.95 paper, ISBN: 1-891792-59-8 In the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court’s landmark Grutter v. Bollinger decision upholding affirmative action, this book […]

October 5, 2005

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MacArthur Fellows Announced by MacArthur Foundation

On Sept. 20, The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation named 25 new MacArthur Fellows for 2005…

September 20, 2005

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Black Leaders Examine Developing Contract With Black America

Black Leaders Examine Developing Contract With Black AmericaLITHONIA, Ga. For his sixth annual State of the Black Union symposium, Tavis Smiley challenged assembled Black leaders to examine developing a contract with Black America. The resulting discussion had a crowd of about 2,000 on its feet for repeated ovations as the Rev. Al Sharpton, Nation of […]

March 23, 2005

International

Maryland to Lead Major U.S. Homeland Security Behavioral Research Center

Maryland to Lead Major U.S. Homeland Security Behavioral Research CenterCOLLEGE PARK, Md.The University of Maryland will be home to a major U.S.-sponsored social and behavioral research center dedicated to reducing worldwide terrorism. Its research will focus on areas such as how to disrupt the formation of terror networks and minimize the impact of future attacks.U.S. […]

January 26, 2005

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Oklahoma Race Riot Memorial to be Named for John Hope Franklin

Oklahoma Race Riot Memorial to be Named for John Hope FranklinTULSA, Okla. A planned memorial to Tulsa’s 1921 race riot will be named in honor of internationally acclaimed historian and author Dr. John Hope Franklin, who is a native of Rentiesville and spent much of his youth in Tulsa. The committee in charge of designing […]

January 12, 2005

African-American

The Soul of David Levering Lewis

The Soul of David Levering LewisAward-Winning Scholar Contemporizes Black Intellectual TraditionBy Ronald Roach At the 20th anniversary gala of Black Issues In Higher Education this past June, Dr. David Levering Lewis was honored with an inaugural John Hope Franklin Distinguished Contributor to Higher Education award. Lewis’ prize-winning scholarship played no small part in his selection […]

December 29, 2004

Community Colleges

Cybercitizen Awareness Program Targets College Students

Cybercitizen Awareness Program Targets College StudentsWASHINGTONThe Business Software Alliance (BSA) has launched “Define the Line” , an awareness program designed to educate students about the importance of being good cybercitizens and respecting the intellectual property of copyrighted works online. The program also encourages students to use only legal software and to understand the impact of […]

December 1, 2004

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New Report Critiques Affirmative Action Studies

New Report Critiques Affirmative Action StudiesPRINCETON, N.J.The National Association of Scholars (NAS) has posted a new report on its Web page, “The Changing Shape of the River: Affirmative Action and Recent Social Science Research,” prepared by Dr. Russell Nieli, a lecturer in the department of politics at Princeton University. In the report, Nieli summarizes the […]

November 17, 2004

Faculty & Staff

Stanford Lures Harvard Professors Bobo, Morgan

Stanford Lures Harvard Professors Bobo, MorganBOSTON For married partners in academia, tenure, or the lack thereof, can complicate a couple’s situation substantially, and not always in the most positive manner. But for two nationally renowned professors, Lawrence Bobo and Marcyliena Morgan, who are married, tenure troubles have resulted in a coastal shift that positions them […]

October 20, 2004

Latinx

Surging in the Southeast

Surging in the Southeast North Carolina HBCUs expected to play significant role in facilitating college access for the increasing Latino population in the region By Ronald Roach Given the surging growth in the U.S. Latino population in recent years, nowhere have those increases been occurring faster than in the southeast. North Carolina, Arkansas and Georgia, […]

September 22, 2004

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Phalaenopsis John Hope Franklin

Phalaenopsis John Hope FranklinOrchids have been revered by royalty for centuries, collected rabidly by 18th-century enthusiasts and cultivated by those entranced by the flowering plant’s fragrant beauty. It was in 1959 that orchids first captured the attention of renowned historian Dr. John Hope Franklin, James B. Duke Professor Emeritus of History at Duke University, who […]

September 22, 2004