Tag: African Americans/Black: Page 96

Students

Athletes, outcasts and partyers – films about African Americans in higher education

Films about African Americans in higher education are a relatively new phenomenon but they, like other films about Blacks, still frequently resort to stereotypes.

June 15, 2007

Students

An interview with Tim Reid – Interview

When veteran actor Tim Reid got sick and tired of being sick and tired of the negative images of African Americans he saw on the silver screen, he decided to go behind the camera and produce “positive feature films” for the African-American community.

June 15, 2007

Students

Coming to Terms With the “R” Word

Colleges may boast diversity, but what does that really mean for campus climate?

May 30, 2007

Students

How UCLA’s Black Enrollment Rebounded

Community leaders and Black alumni stepped up to help boost Black enrollment at the University of California, Los Angeles this year. The number of Black students who said they plan to enroll as freshmen in the fall doubled from 103 to 203, bringing the percentage of Black UCLA freshmen to 4.5 percent, up from 2.2 percent a year ago.

May 21, 2007

Students

University panel says student parody “harassed” blacks

BOSTON A judicial panel at Tufts University on Thursday ruled that a conservative campus journal “harassed” blacks by publishing a Christmas carol parody called “O Come All Ye Black Folk” that many found racist.

May 13, 2007

Faculty & Staff

Minority Scholars Share Strategies At ‘Keeping Our Faculties’ Conference

MINNEAPOLIS When Dr. John Brooks Slaughter was being recruited as president of Occidental College, he asked one professor on the search committee how many African-Americans were on the faculty. He vividly recalls her answer: “You’re looking at 50 percent of them.”

April 24, 2007

African-American

Book of Note

In this fascinating book, medical ethicist and journalist Harriet A. Washington documents how slaves and freedmen were used for experiments in hospitals…

March 21, 2007

Faculty & Staff

Duke’s Devil of a Mess

Last spring, at the height of the frenzy over accusations that three Duke University men’s lacrosse players had gang raped a Black exotic dancer during a party…

March 7, 2007

Faculty & Staff

Duke’s Devil of A Mess

For Diverse’s Web readers only: an advanced copy of our March 8th edition’s exclusive on how Black professors are under fire at Duke. With the criminal case against the lacrosse players unraveling, a group of professors are now facing fierce criticism that their own biases fueled a “lynch-mob mentality” on campus that has destroyed the reputations of three young men.

February 25, 2007

Students

An Institution of the People

It may have produced one of the most contentious fights ever in U.S. higher education

February 21, 2007

African-American

Airmen Outrage

Airmen Outrage I do not know what to make of the recent uproar over the outstanding record of the Tuskegee Airmen (see “Historians Question Record of Tuskegee Airmen,” Jan. 11). So what if there may be evidence that they lost a plane or two? Abraham Lincoln did not free the slaves; George Washington did not […]

January 24, 2007

African-American

Books of Note

Check out the “essential reading list” for students during Black History Month, put together by Dr. Karla Holloway…

January 24, 2007