Tag: African Americans/Black: Page 74

Faculty & Staff

Dr. Michael Drake Has the Foundation, Support to Succeed as Ohio State President

The university’s first Black president has served as a professor, senior associate dean and has engaged in cutting-edge research focused on breast cancer, HIV/AIDS and tobacco use.

February 23, 2014

Faculty & Staff

Special Focus: Black History Month

In this Black History Month-focused edition, Diverse takes a look at MIT professor Craig Steven Wilder’s new book, Ebony and Ivy, exploring the long history of slavery and Ivy League institutions.

February 17, 2014

Faculty & Staff

John Lewis Takes Readers on a ‘March’ through Civil Rights

John Lewis’ best-selling graphic novel depicting the civil rights movement is the first in a trilogy, designed to tell the civil right story in an easy-to-read medium.

February 13, 2014

African-American

University of Utah Study Seeks Faith’s Effects on Brain

University of Utah researchers studying religion’s effects on the brain are gearing up to study the minds of Mormons who have come back from recent missions.

February 9, 2014

Faculty & Staff

Is ‘Saturday Night Live’ the Answer to Our Diversity Ills?

Lorne Michaels in an interview in the latest New York Magazine acknowledges his program has a diversity problem.

February 9, 2014

African-American

Hearings Planned on Connecticut College Sexual Assault Bill

The proposed legislation attempts to strengthen sexual assault policies on Connecticut college campuses and the way schools report sex assaults.

February 9, 2014

Faculty & Staff

Hampton University President Harvey Giving $1M-Plus to Talladega College

Dr. William R. Harvey and his wife, Norma, have given the money to help establish a museum that will be home to the renowned Hale Woodruff Amistad Murals.

February 5, 2014

Faculty & Staff

Male Rape and Sexual Assault Too Often Ignored

People tend to relegate the sexual violation of men as a deviant sort of activity that takes place behind prison walls or as aberrations that happen so infrequently as to be miniscule.

February 4, 2014

Sports

Super Bowl Halftime Show Picture of Diversity

Bruno Mars, with a Puerto Rican-Hungarian and Filipino background, shows entertainment’s growing diversity as well as his status as a world-class entertainer.

February 3, 2014

African-American

Community College News Now Aggregate List 1/29/201

Community College News Now Aggregate List 1/29/2014 State of the Union: Obama asks Congress to reverse economic inequality http://www.latimes.com/nation/politics/politicsnow/la-pn-state-of-the-union-obama-2014-20140128,0,2195484.story#ixzz2rntqPptb Low-key state of the union for education – Is the Pell shortfall back? – Connecticut backs off value-added teacher evals http://www.politico.com/morningeducation/0114/morningeducation12853.html How Cody Anderson went from a community college outfielder to one of the Indians’ top […]

January 31, 2014

African-American

In Case You Missed It…

Stanford Keeps Bill Walsh’s Diversity Legacy a Priority SiriusXM Radio Channel Broadcasts the HBCU Experience Prepared to Be a Professor, Not a Pioneer Latino Consortium Looks to Evolve for Growing Latino Community

January 31, 2014

Faculty & Staff

Korean Julia Sun-Joo Lee Brings New Face to Black Literature

Inspired by growing up in racially tense ’90s L.A and with help from mentors like Henry Louis Gates Jr., this 2014 Diverse Emerging Scholar is leaving her mark in the academic world of African-American literature.

January 29, 2014