Tag: Gender: Page 32

International

Top 100 Undergraduate Degree Producers

Who were Alexander Lucius Twilight and Mary Jane Patterson? If you know, you are an excellent candidate for the “Jeopardy” category, “African-American firsts.”

May 30, 2007

Sports

The Prevalence of Black Females In College Sports: It’s Just An Illusion

If you had a chance to watch the NCAA women’s basketball championship in April, you probably noticed that 80 percent of the starters for Rutgers and Tennessee were non-White.

May 30, 2007

Home

Perspectives: ‘Hair’ We Go Again: Race Talk and Non-Authentic Dialogue

What wasn’t, and should have been, covered in the Don Imus flap. Why do we fail to look beneath the veneer, beyond the smoke and mirrors, to focus on the true issues?

April 24, 2007

Home

Prosecutors Drop Charges in Duke Case

RALEIGH, N.C. North Carolina’s top prosecutor dropped all charges Wednesday against the three former Duke University men’s lacrosse players accused of sexually assaulting a Black exotic dancer at an off-campus party, saying the athletes were innocent victims of a “tragic rush to accuse” by an overreaching district attorney.

April 11, 2007

Leadership & Policy

Sparring Continues Over Cuny black male initiative

I have never met the young African-American man who writer Christina Asquith claims (see “Dreams Deferred?” Feb. 22) we are trying to put out of a job as a counselor at Medgar Evers College’s Male Development and Empowerment Center.

April 4, 2007

Home

Encouraging Girls to Focus on Their Ph.D., Not Their MTV

Academics have long suspected that over-sexualized images of young women can have a detrimental effect on their emotional growth.

April 4, 2007

Students

Univ. Of Michigan Uses Computer Program To Achieve Diversity

ANN ARBOR The University of Michigan says it has stopped using race and gender when selecting which students to admit, but it is using new tools to make sure it brings in a diverse class next fall.

March 28, 2007

Faculty & Staff

Right Person Right Time

The appointment of Dr. Drew Gilpin Faust, the first woman named president of Harvard University, marks a diversity high point in the storied history of the nation’s oldest college.

March 21, 2007

Faculty & Staff

Right Person Right Time

The appointment of Dr. Drew Gilpin Faust, the first woman named president of Harvard University…

March 21, 2007

African-American

‘Call Me MISTER’ Program Expands To 11th College

The College of Charleston will soon become the 11th college in South Carolina to embark on a program that for seven years has been increasing the horrid numbers of Black male elementary teachers in the South Carolina state system.

March 11, 2007

Home

An Unpredictable Turn Of Events

When the news broke last spring that three members of the Duke University men’s lacrosse team were accused…

March 7, 2007

Students

Michigan Proposal 2 Battle Threatens Scholarships

Now that Michigan voters have axed affirmation action programs in public institutions…

March 7, 2007