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University of Rhode Island Admits its Most Diverse Freshmen Class
University of Rhode Island Admits its Most Diverse Freshmen Class SOUTH KINGSTOWN, R.I.The University of Rhode Island will be admitting its most diverse freshmen class ever this fall. Approximately 300 of the 2,400 incoming freshmen are minorities. There also will be three new minority staff members, including three professors.The changes were brought about in part […]
September 13, 2000
Recruitment & Retention
UT-KnoxVille creates v.p. post to handleaffirmative action
UT-KnoxVille creates v.p. post to handleaffirmative actionKNOXVILLE, Tenn. The University of Tennessee will create a new vice president position specifically to boost minority enrollment and hiring, says Dr. J. Wade Gilley, the university’s president. “For the first time, we will have a major administrator in charge of affirmative action,” Gilley told The Knoxville News-Sentinel. The […]
September 13, 2000
Community Colleges
Students Sue Over Campus Relocation Effort
NEW HAVEN, Conn. Students at Hartford’s Capital Community College here have filed a federal racial discrimination lawsuit in an attempt to block the college’s move to a former downtown department store. The lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court in New Haven, claims that moving the college from its current campus to the former G. Fox […]
September 13, 2000
African-American
Racial Divisions
Racial DivisionsHelping Students Build Bridges Across By Eleanor Lee Yates ANN ARBOR, Mich.A University of Michigan-based research project is looking at the link between diversity and learning on campus, examining how associating with different ethnic peers affects students’ social skills, cognitive thinking and attitudes on democracy. The project also will highlight college programs and activities that […]
September 13, 2000
Students
Excerpts from Dr. Arthur E. Levine’s Diversity on Campus
Excerpts from Dr. Arthur E. Levine’s Diversity on CampusThe Meaning of DiversityThe academy does not agree on what diversity means or how it should be achieved. To be more precise, over the past four decades, the term has taken on a number of different, competing, even conflicting meanings, often on the same campuses. Several years […]
August 30, 2000
Students
James Farmer Rests in Peace, But Mary Washington College Still Wrestles with Multicultural Issues
James Farmer Rests in Peace, But Mary Washington College Still Wrestles with Multicultural IssuesA plan at Mary Washington College to relocate the school’s James Farmer Multicultural Center and divert resources to “cultural” programming has provoked angry protests from faculty and others.Faculty at the liberal arts college say the changes belie the administration’s stated commitment to […]
August 16, 2000
Students
Oregon Student Files Reverse-Discrimination Case Against Community College
Oregon Student Files Reverse-Discrimination Case Against Community CollegeA Portland Community College student here has filed a reverse-discrimination complaint alleging she is being denied free tuition because she is White. Adrienne Williams, 29, claims a teacher development program violates the college’s nondiscrimination policies because it is open only to minorities. She sent her complaint to the […]
August 16, 2000
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GM Backs U Mich. Minority Admissions
GM Backs U Mich. Minority AdmissionsGeneral Motors Corp. is publicly supporting the University of Michigan’s minority admissions programs, the subject of two federal class-action lawsuits. Eliminating affirmative action would deprive businesses of well-trained minority candidates and reduce campus diversity, GM officials said in a friend-of-the-court brief filed last month in U.S. District Court. Two 1997 […]
August 16, 2000
Students
Natural Allies
Natural AlliesBlack colleges and two-year schools try to come together to create a network of seamless education for minority students Several years ago, officials at San Francisco City College here began the African American Achievement Program, aimed at encouraging more of the school’s Black students to transfer to four-year schools.It started out pretty small. But […]
August 16, 2000
Faculty & Staff
Community College Faculty
Community College FacultyThough pursuing research can be difficult at two-year colleges, many scholars of color are drawn by the opportunities to teach an increasingly diverse student populationBy Kathleen Kennedy ManzoColumbus, Ga.Twenty-five years ago, Dr. Marilyn Howard fit the classic profile of the community college student. A first-generation college student from a working-class family, Howard did […]
August 16, 2000
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Tuskegee, Michigan State Collaborate on Human Genome Implications
Tuskegee, Michigan State Collaborate on Human Genome ImplicationsDETROIT — The University of Michigan, Michigan State University and Tuskegee University are collaborating on a Communities of Color and Genetics Policy project to educate minorities about genetic research and gather opinions on guidelines so that genetic information isn’t used as a basis for discrimination or misused in […]
July 19, 2000
Students
More Doctorates in the House
More Doctorates in the HouseExperts explain what’s working  in postgraduate programs at HBCUs and TWIsWASHINGTON — The upward trend for African American postgraduate degree attainment remains constant. From 1992-93 through 1997-98, African American master’s degree attainment rose 8.6 percent overall and 9.7 percent at historically Black colleges and universities. Degree attainment for African Americans at […]
July 5, 2000
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