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Scholars Work to Reduce Crimes Against Hispanics in North Carolina

Scholars Work to Reduce Crimes Against Hispanics in North CarolinaCHAPEL HILL, N.C.Crimes against Hispanics in North Carolina jumped as much as 500 percent between 1993 and 1998, according to some estimates. Now researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Wake Forest University have teamed up to examine why Hispanics, whose percentage […]

March 13, 2002

Adding a Necessary Voice

Adding a Necessary VoicePRAIRIE VIEW’s juvenile justice program aims to increase number of minorities with doctorates in criminal justice Angela J. Davis wants to take scholarship from the classroom to the courtroom. A tenured law professor at the American University law school in Washington, Davis is seeking to spearhead a clinical research project that will […]

January 16, 2002

From The Classroom to the Courtroom

From The Classroom to the CourtroomScholars assess race and class in the American criminal justice systemBy Ronald RoachAngela J. Davis wants to take scholarship from the classroom to the courtroom. A tenured law professor at the American University law school in Washington, Davis is seeking to spearhead a clinical research project that will work directly […]

January 16, 2002

Fighting Heard Black Criminologists Seek Proper Context to Explain Racism’s Influence on Black Crime

Fighting Heard Black Criminologists Seek Proper Context to Explain Racism’s Influence on Black Crime.By Paul Ruffins“In my profession I’m considered a radical simply because I refuse to accept the idea that Black people are inherently criminal,” says Dr. Ramona Brockett, assistant professor of political science at Northern Kentucky University. “Many mainstream criminologists simply accept the […]

January 16, 2002

Study Abroad Conference Addresses Security, Safety Issues

Study Abroad Conference Addresses Security, Safety IssuesBy Phaedra Brotherton WASHINGTONFor international educators and study abroad administrators, issues of security have always been important, but after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, that awareness has been heightened. Security, safety and health concerns were the subject of a panel discussion at the Study and Learning Abroad Conference […]

November 21, 2001

Calling on Our Nation’s Shared Strength

Calling on Our Nation’s Shared StrengthThis has been an extraordinary and terrible week, marked by a national tragedy greater than anything that has occurred in our lifetimes. All of us have been affected, all of us have been hurt and stunned by what has happened. We are here today because there is great comfort to […]

October 10, 2001

Campuses Unite to Understand National Tragedy

Campuses Unite to Understand National TragedyFor many, terrorist attacks hit close to homeThis generation may have been dubbed “X,” but some observers say its response to the World Trade Center and Pentagon tragedies merits nothing less than an “A+.”The outpouring of emotion and demonstrations of unity on campuses across the nation have been impressive:n At […]

October 10, 2001

Black Churches Play Key Role in Reducing Crime, Study Says

Black Churches Play Key Role in Reducing Crime, Study SaysPHILADELPHIAAfrican American youth who regularly attend church services get into less trouble than those who don’t, according to a recent study by Byron Johnson, director of the Center for Research on Religion and Urban Civil Society at the University of Pennsylvania. Johnson’s findings are compiled in […]

August 15, 2001

Reform Plan Targets Student Repayments on Federal Grant Aid

Reform Plan Targets Student Repayments on Federal Grant AidNeedy students who drop out of college may face fewer responsibilities to pay back federal grant aid if a proposal from leading higher education groups becomes law.With support from more than a dozen other groups, the American Council on Education (ACE) is calling for major changes in […]

August 15, 2001

Community Colleges

Bring Back the Pell Grant for Inmate Higher Education

Bring Back the Pell Grant for Inmate Higher EducationCommunity colleges have a tremendous opportunity to serve thousands of new students. A tragic mistake of the early 1990s ended hundreds of excellent associate’s degree programs for incarcerated students throughout the United States. Now is the time to correct that error and begin again to serve a […]

July 4, 2001

Colleges Experience Increase in Campus Crime, Education Department Says

Colleges Experience Increase in Campus Crime, Education Department SaysRobberies and sex offenses are up on college campuses, while homicides and aggravated assaults are down, the U.S. Department of Education says in what will become an annual snapshot of security on college campuses.The department gathered data from 6,300 institutions as part of its first comprehensive report […]

March 28, 2001

Student Deaths Shake Up College Campuses

Student Deaths Shake Up College CampusesBy Linda Meggett BrownOrangeburg, S.C.Acelebration to honor the memory of the late Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. on his birthday, Jan. 15, turned tragic at Benedict College in Columbia, S.C., when a freshman student was gunned down on campus.Philip Lee Jr., 20, of Newark, N.J., was shot in the back of […]

February 14, 2001

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