Tag: Minorities on Campus: Page 75

Faculty & Staff

Struggling Through the Cuts

California students and faculty grapple with the effects of draconian state cuts to postsecondary education that have topped more than $1 billion in the last year.

February 2, 2010

African-American

U.S. Racial History Less Understood Among Post-Racial Generation, Scholars Say

After the election of President Barack Obama, some college students consider prejudice and racism as relics of American societal behavior.

January 31, 2010

Students

A Cut Below

California students and faculty grapple with the effects of a state budget crisis in postsecondary education.

January 20, 2010

Students

MATH : Life In Absolute Values

As a high school student in East Los Angeles, Dr. Erika Tatiana Camacho didn’t know what ganas looked like. She aspired to only one thing: becoming a store cashier.

January 6, 2010

Latinx

COMMUNITY COLLEGE FORUM : CELEBRATING A LEGACY OF DIVERSITY AND ACHIEVEMENT

Among longtime residents and higher education observers in and around Phoenix, South Mountain Community College (SMCC) has been known for 30 years as “the little college that could.”

December 23, 2009

Students

NEW STATE OF LEADERSHIP:MINORITIES BREAK COLOR BARRIERS IN TOP ADMINISTRATIVE POSITIONS AT PENNSYLVANIA INSTITUTIONS.

Pennsylvania, the state with the sixth-largest population in the country with more than 12 million people, reportedly has more than 450 public and private colleges, universities and career and technical training schools.

December 9, 2009

Faculty & Staff

SPECTRUM: GROWING BY LEAPS WITHOUT BOUNDS

Dr. Tukufu Zuberi is familiar to millions of viewers on the popular PBS “History Detectives” program, a television series in its eighth season devoted to “exploring the complexities of historical mysteries.

December 9, 2009

African-American

HBCUs Step Up to the HIV Challenge

Impact of HIV on Blacks compels historically Black colleges and universities to develop initiatives to confront the spread of the disease.

November 30, 2009

African-American

DIVERSE BOOKSHELF: Further Along the River

A new study sheds light on the effects of student life on college success.

November 25, 2009

Students

College Students Find Support in Campus ‘Posses’

The Posse Foundation, founded by Deborah Bial, targets students in disadvantaged urban school districts who have strong leadership skills and helps keeps them in college by supporting their psychological and academic needs.

November 16, 2009

MSIs

MSIs To Get New Help in Going ‘Green’

A new grant to the United Negro College Fund should help a cross-section of minority-serving institutions – including Hispanic-serving universities and tribal colleges – promote environmentally friendly building practices in the years ahead.

November 12, 2009

Faculty & Staff

LASTWORD: Tending to Diversity at an HBCU

Diversity acquires a new meaning and perspective at historically Black colleges and universities, where African- Americans are the majority and others are in the minority.

November 11, 2009