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DR. DONNA H. OLIVER is the president of Mississippi Valley State University. Oliver previously served as provost and vice president for academic affairs at Edward Waters College. Oliver earned a bachelor’s from Elon College and a master’s and doctorate from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. DR. LAURA BARRETT has been named dean of […]

August 19, 2009

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Sotomayor OK’d for Supreme Court in Historic Vote

Sonia Sotomayor won confirmation Thursday as the nation’s first Hispanic Supreme Court justice in a history-making Senate vote that capped a summer-long debate heavy with ethnic politics.

August 6, 2009

Latinx

SPECTRUM : SMASHING THE STEROTYPES ON THE BIG SCREEN

While attending graduate school at Stanford University, Dr. Chon Noriega watched four films that impacted his life: “Stand and Deliver,” “La Bamba,” “Milagro Beanfield War” and “Born in East L.A.”

August 5, 2009

Latinx

Smashing the Stereotypes On the Big Screen

While attending graduate school at Stanford University, Dr. Chon Noriega watched four fi lms that impacted his life: “Stand and Deliver,” “La Bamba,” “Milagro Beanfi eld War” and “Born in East L.A.”

August 5, 2009

Faculty & Staff

“Green” For All

Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lisa Jackson works to ensure minorities are not left out of the burgeoning ‘green’ economy.

August 5, 2009

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Professional Appoitments

DR. CAMMY ABERNATHY has been appointed dean of the College of Engineering at the University of Florida. She is currently the associate dean for the Offi ce of Academic Affairs and a professor of materials science in the engineering college. Abernathy received her bachelor’s from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and a master’s and doctorate […]

August 5, 2009

HBCUs

FAMU Law School Granted Full Accreditation

The Florida A&M University College of Law reached a milestone accomplishment last week when the American Bar Association’s (ABA) Council of the Section of Legal Education and Admissions granted full accreditation to the Orlando-based law school.

August 4, 2009

Leadership & Policy

UI trustee Shah heeds panel’s call, offers resignation

The chairman of the University of Illinois Board of Trustees stepped down from the board on Monday, following calls for trustees to resign by the state commission investigating claims trustees and politicians pressured the university to admit some applicants.  According to the News-Gazette, Niranjan Shah of Oak Brook, appointed to the board in 2003 and […]

August 3, 2009

Faculty & Staff

Texas Tech Petition Opposes Ex-AG Gonzales’ Hire

A small group of Texas Tech University faculty members is objecting to the school’s hiring of former U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales on the grounds that he demonstrated ethical failings while in office.

August 2, 2009

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Obama Names Diverse Group of Medal of Freedom Recipients

Civil rights veteran Joseph Lowery, anti-apartheid activist Desmond Tutu, and medical school dean Pedro Jose Greer are among 16 recipients of the 2009 Presidential Medal of Freedom, the White House announced Thursday.

July 30, 2009

Students

Sallie Mae Suffers Revenue Losses From Economy and Federal Loan Reforms

Sallie Mae, the largest private funding source for student loans, is under fire both from the recession and political reforms in student lending heralded by the Obama administration.

July 27, 2009

Faculty & Staff

New HBCU Initiative Leader Seeks to Forge Relationships Between HBCUs and Obama Administration

Dr. John Silvanus Wilson Jr. looks back at his days as a Morehouse College student as a time when faculty, staff and administrators formed a campus community that was nurturing and family-oriented – a distinguishing characteristic of many of the nation’s historically Black colleges and universities.

July 26, 2009