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Students

Criminal Justice Think Tank Exits Medgar Evers Campus

The Brooklyn District Attorney’s office will now partner with Medgar Evers on a Community Justice Program for formerly incarcerated students that will involve professors and students from the college’s departments of social work and education and include student internships in the DA’s office.

March 30, 2011

Leadership & Policy

Ousted University of South Carolina Board Member Offers $5 Million Gift to School

Philanthropist Darla Moore aims to establish aerospace research center named after the late South Carolina native and astronaut Ronald E. McNair.

March 28, 2011

Leadership & Policy

News Analysis: Gov. Bobby Jindal’s Regents Short on Diversity

By pushing out a 14-year-member of the Board of Regents to make room for a minority appointee, Gov. Bobby Jindal is acknowledging it doesn’t look good to pack the state’s top higher education board with White members.

March 14, 2011

Leadership & Policy

New Jindal Regents Appointee to Miss SUNO/UNO Board Meeting

Dr. Albert Sam II, a Black surgeon, was named to the Regents Board by Gov. Bobby Jindal after the governor pushed out a longtime White member of the board amid complaints about the lack of diversity on the panel.

March 13, 2011

Asian American Pacific Islander

Latinos, Asians Fuel Calif.’s Population Growth

In the period from 2000 to 2010, the state’s Latino population grew by 28 percent, to 14 million in the nation’s most populous state, while Asian numbers grew by 31 percent, to 4.8 million.

March 10, 2011

Home

As Judicial Nominee, Law Professor Goodwin Liu Lingers in Limbo

A year after President Obama nominated him to the federal bench, it remains uncertain whether University of California, Berkeley law professor and associate dean Goodwin Liu will ever assume the post.

March 6, 2011

Home

Tulane University Education Institute Weighs in on New Orleans Taxes

A Tulane University institute that studies New Orleans schools says property tax exemptions in the city are granted to a much too broad array of nonprofit organizations, professional societies, unions and fraternal clubs.

March 2, 2011

Faculty & Staff

Political Scientist Karin Stanford Reborn As a Hip-Hop Scholar

Ten years after Dr. Karin Stanford gained notoriety for her relationship with the Rev. Jesse Jackson, she has rebuilt her life and the Black studies department she leads.

March 2, 2011

Home

Influential Harvard Minister Peter Gomes Dies at 68

The Rev. Peter J. Gomes, a nationally influential Baptist minister and advocate for tolerance who oversaw Harvard University’s Memorial Church for more than 30 years, has died.

March 1, 2011

Sports

Gallaudet Women on the Road to Winners’ Circle

Gallaudet University senior Easter Faafiti hits the basketball court with teammates this weekend in hopes of not only winning the North Eastern Athletic Conference title but also extending a playing season that already has changed the minds of much of the hearing public.

February 24, 2011

HBCUs

Advocate Hopes to Use International Experience to Build HBCU Capacity

Longtime HBCU teacher and education advocate Boyce Williams talks about her new role at NAFEO.

February 23, 2011

Leadership & Policy

La. Regents’ Racial Makeup Factors in SUNO-UNO Merger Push

The Louisiana state constitution requires the board to reflect the racial and gender makeup of the state, which is about 37 percent minority.

February 22, 2011