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Students

Newsroom power shortage – minorities in journalism

Are students of color getting the inside scoop on what it takes to become news editors and producers?

July 13, 2007

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Smithsonian embraces Latino History

Last year, the Smithsonian Institution accepted charges of “willful neglect” for the glaring absence of Latino contributions to American history, culture, and art among its vast national collection. Now that oversight is about to be rectified as Dr. Refugio Rochin, director of Michigan State University’s Julian Samora Research Center, assumes the helm of the 150-year-old institution’s new Center for Latino Initiatives.

July 12, 2007

Health

A shopper’s market; economy brightens job picture for professional school graduates

Economy brightens job picture for professional school graduates

July 12, 2007

STEM

Graduating in prosperous times

When Ed Wrenn pursued a bachelor’s degree in computer information systems at Florida A&M University, the young Boston-area native kept an unwavering watch on the job market. During his time at FAMU, Wrenn estimates that he had contact with nearly one hundred potential employers about jobs after college. By fall 1997, his last semester at FAMU. Wrenn had five job offers to consider.

July 12, 2007

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Sample-minded: scholars of color support new counting strategy for Census 2000

Dr. Robert B. Hill knows the consequences that result when the national census undercounts a community’s population. A locality stands to lose millions of dollars in federal funding for social services, job training education, and other programs if the Census Bureau undercounts the locality’s population, he explains.

July 12, 2007

Students

When hazing leads to death: one campus’ response – Southeast Missouri State University

All campus administrators face issues of hazing, some with more urgency than others. Southeast Missouri State University faced a worse crisis than most in 1994 when twenty-five-year old Michael Davis — a journalism major — died after two weeks of hazing at the hands of his Kappa Alpha Psi brothers.

July 12, 2007

Leadership & Policy

Type casting for women presidents – of jobs and institutions

The just-released American Council on Education report, The American College President, found that there were no gains in the number of presidencies for African Americans. Research that I conducted in the spring of 1996 on data collected from African American and White women who were college presidents demonstrate, to some degree, why this is particularly true for African American women while women in general — clearly, White women — are experiencing progress.

July 12, 2007

Students

An enduring commitment – Xavier University’s president Norman C. Francis

In three decades, Norman C. Francis has led Xavier University from local fame to national acclaim

July 12, 2007

Students

Building a culture of success – New York State high school/college science enrichment program, minority students

New York A new report on New York State’s Science and Technology Entry Program (STEP) and its college counterpart (C-STEP) shows that these enrichment programs were responsible, in the words of the outside evaluator, for “dramatically raising the academic performance of their students,” most of whom are African American, Hispanic, and low-income.

July 12, 2007

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BI Appointments PROFESSIONAL

Cassandra Berry has been named an associate vice president for the new office of equity and diversity at the University of North Texas. Previously, she was assistant vice president and director of the office of equal opportunity and multicultural affairs at UNT. Berry earned a bachelor’s degree in business administration from Stephen F. Austin State University.

July 12, 2007

Leadership & Policy

Feds Close Title VI Investigation in Ohio

DAYTON, Ohio The decision by the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR) to close its active Title VI investigation into the state of Ohio’s treatment of Central State University (CSU) triggered mixed reactions ranging from praise to sharp criticism in and around the Wilberforce, Ohio campus.

July 12, 2007

Students

University of California aims to raise transfer rates by 38 percent

San Francisco This state, which boasts the nation’s largest two-year college system and one of the best community college student transfer rates, thinks it can do even better.

July 11, 2007