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Sports

University of Louisiana at Lafayette Appeals Verdict in Football Coach’s Firing

The University of Louisiana at Lafayette is appealing a jury decision that the university must pay fired football coach Jerry Baldwin $2 million in damages after the panel determined race was among the reasons for his 2001 dismissal.

July 13, 2008

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College Officials Urged to Monitor the Graduation Rate Gap

Experts cite need to grapple with underlying issues of race and retention.

July 9, 2008

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TOP 100 GRADUATE AND PROFESSIONAL DEGREE PRODUCERS – INTERPRETING THE DATA

Two of three U.S. citizens or permanent residents are not people of color; that is, they are non-Hispanic Caucasians.

July 9, 2008

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U.S. Politicians Find Ways to Play on Racial Fears

A Republican congressional candidate in a majority-White Mississippi district runs ads trying to tie his Democratic rival with Barack Obama’s former pastor, seen by some as an anti-White firebrand.

July 2, 2008

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Might Obama’s Success Undercut Affirmative Action?

Barack Obama’s political success might claim an unintended victim: affirmative action, a much-debated policy he supports.

July 1, 2008

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Might Obama’s Success Undercut Affirmative Action?

Barack Obama’s political success might claim an unintended victim: affirmative action, a much-debated policy he supports.

June 30, 2008

HBCUs

Andrew Carnegie and Race

A financial supporter of Tuskegee Institute and Hampton University, Andrew Carnegie believed deeply in the cause of Negro education and saw slavery as blight on the country’s “triumphant democracy,” but he failed to address the terrorist acts visited upon Blacks in the South of lynching, sharecropping and Jim Crow laws. However, author David Nasaw also provides the complexities of Carnegie’s thinking on race and race relations in the United States.

June 16, 2008

Students

Upping the Numbers

Outreach efforts at The Ohio State University result in the increased retention of Black male students.

June 11, 2008

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TOP 100 UNDERGRADUATE DEGREE PRODUCERS – INTERPRETING THE DATA

Over the past five years, the number of bachelor’s degrees conferred to African-Americans by proprietary (privatefor- profit) institutions increased by 150 percent or an average annual rate of 26 percent.

June 11, 2008

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Black Males in a State of Emergency

Outreach efforts at The Ohio State University result in the increased retention of Black male students.

June 9, 2008

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Racial Attitudes Pose Challenge for Obama

Joyce Susick is the type of voter who might carry Barack Obama to the White House or keep him out.

June 9, 2008

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Opponents and Supporters of Affirmative Action Debate Use of Race in College Admissions

A candid discussion on race-conscious college admissions policies and affirmative action ruffled feathers, as representatives from both sides of the issue met in Washington to debate whether colleges and universities could achieve significant diversity without using race or ethnicity as a factor in admissions decisions.

May 21, 2008