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Run silent, run cheap: the high price of not asking for salary equity

In today’s environment, white males are increasingly feeling as if they are being personally blamed for the fact that there is still a significant wage gap between whites and Blacks and men and women.

June 18, 2007

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1996 Ad

Atlanta – When Atlanta was named host city for the 1996 Olympic Games, recent Morris Brown College graduate LaDon Love dreamed about being a part of the event. That dream will come true next month when the Atlanta Committee for the Olympic Games (ACOG) will pay LaDon $160 per day to keep track of cameras during the broadcasts of the Olympics.

June 18, 2007

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Small schools – Where Football Is An Activity, Not a Business

In college football, the big schools win and the small schools struggle.

June 16, 2007

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After Hopwood – ‘Affirmative Consideration’ Advocated to Promote Diversity

Outlining what he calls “affirmative consideration,” Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights Deval Patrick is calling for a new approach to undo past discrimination.

June 16, 2007

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Coming back: NAACP wants more of a campus presence – participation of youth

Orange, CA To tap America’s youthful energy, the NAACP might hire an administrator for programs on college campuses nationwide, said the chairperson of the organization’s board of directors.

June 16, 2007

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Chicano studies: forging identity – development of Chicano studies as a discipline

Carlos Munoz, Chicano studies professor at the University of California-Berkeley, says the relatively large influx of Chicano students into universities unleashed a political movement focused on civil and human rights and an intellectual movement that both challenged historical knowledge and created the discipline of Chicano studies.

June 16, 2007

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Recovering yesterday – collection and preservation of African American history

Today, celebrations of “Black History Month” stretch from Kwanzaa, through Martin Luther King’s birthday, through February, and sometimes through Malcolm X’s birthday in March. It is easy to forget that just thirty years ago some people wondered if there was enough Black history to even fill up a week. In 1968 a CBS television special, Black History Lost, Missing or Stolen?, captured the then-current feeling that no one knew, or had preserved, the true story of African American contributions to this society.

June 15, 2007

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Flocking to film school – minorities and the film industry

New York — In recent years, many of the high School students clamoring for a coveted spot in New York University’s Future Filmmakers Workshop — designated for members of “traditionally underrepresented” groups — have challenged the boundaries of what that means.

June 15, 2007

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Professional Appointments

DR. ERNEST JAMES WILSON III has been appointed dean of the University of Southern California’s Annenberg School of Communication. He is currently a visiting professor at the school. Wilson holds a bachelor’s from Harvard College and a master’s and doctorate from the University of California, Berkeley.   ELVIS BRANDON  has been named dean of allied health […]

June 13, 2007

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Campus Anti-Semitism, But Not Racism, Focus of Civil Rights Commission Web Site

A new effort by the federal government to crack down on anti-Semitism against Jewish students on U.S. colleges campuses has some questioning why more isn’t being done to also monitor racist activity directed towards African-American, Hispanic and other racial minority college students.

June 4, 2007

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Students say Northeastern U Terminating Non-Ph.D. Faculty to Move Up In the Rankings

BOSTON Northeastern University is purging its communications and journalism program of instructors who lack doctorates in a move students say is motivated by the university’s quest to improve its U.S. News & World Report ranking.

May 30, 2007

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Professional Appointments

Dr. Linda Warner has been named president of Haskell Indian Nations University (Kan.). She had previously been associate vice chancellor for academic affairs for the Tennessee Board of Regents. Warner, a member of the Comanche Nation, holds an associate degree from Northeastern A&M Junior College, a bachelor’s from Northeastern State University, a master’s from Pennsylvania […]

May 30, 2007