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Decrying Over-Representation of African-Americans in Prisons, Reformers Ask Senate for Changes

Reforming the nation’s ailing criminal justice system can help African-Americans and many of the nation’s youth, whose brushes with the law leave them with bleak futures and few opportunities, a prominent Black legal scholar and other leaders told Congress Thursday.

June 11, 2009

Leadership & Policy

Setting a New Standard

Despite the gains minorities have made in student enrollment and higher education leadership, the needle needs to move further and faster in the next 25 years to narrow the widening educational achievement equity gap.

June 10, 2009

Students

Celebrating the Life and Legacy Of Dr. John Hope Franklin

Dr. John Hope Franklin chronicled the experiences of African-Americans like no one before him, forcing America to recognize Black history as American history. His contributions innumerable, his impact abiding. Here, scholars Robert Harris, David Levering-Lewis, John French and Clifton Wharton Jr. write about the celebrated scholar and activist.

June 10, 2009

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Professional Appoitments

DR. DARLYNE BAILEY has been appointed dean and professor of the Graduate School of Social Work and Social Research at Bryn Mawr College (Pa.), effective Aug. 1. Bailey earned a bachelor’s from Lafayette College, a master’s from Columbia University and a doctorate from Case Western Reserve University. MAMIE JACKSON is associate vice president for development […]

June 10, 2009

Faculty & Staff

Chicago State Faculty Wish List for New President Includes Public Apology

In the second part of the series chronicling the controversial Chicago State University presidential search, the faculty are calling for the state’s governor to remove the school’s board of trustees.

June 8, 2009

Faculty & Staff

Chicago State Faculty Say Flawed Presidential Search Led to Flawed Outcome

In the first of two stories chronicling the controversial appointment of a new president to lead Chicago State University, faculty members, shut out of a ‘less than transparent’ selection process, call on the governor of Illinois to intervene.

June 7, 2009

Leadership & Policy

A&M President Scores Poorly in First Evaluation

Texas A&M University President Elsa Murano received low marks for leadership and management in a highly critical performance review released Thursday by the A&M system.

June 7, 2009

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Studies Offer Conflicting Results On ‘Obama Effect’

Could merely knowing that a Black man has been elected president of the United States raise the scores of Blacks on standardized tests and shrink the unrelenting and formidable achievement gap?

June 3, 2009

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Perspectives: Sotomayor Falls in Journalism’s Blind Spot

The president’s nomination of Judge Sonia Sotomayor to the U.S. Supreme Court has come during a most awkward time in the history of U.S. journalism, which many analysts claim is in serious decline, if not on life support.

June 2, 2009

Leadership & Policy

University of Kansas Names First Woman, First Black Chancellor

Dr. Bernadette Gray-Little, a top University of North Carolina official, will become the first female and first Black chancellor at the University of Kansas.

May 31, 2009

STEM

Ronald Takaki, Ethnic Studies Pioneer, Dies

Dr. Ronald Takaki, a pioneer in the field of ethnic studies who taught the University of California system’s first Black history course, has died.

May 31, 2009

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Hispanic Theologian Chosen for Vatican Ambassador

A Hispanic Roman Catholic theologian who was an adviser to Barack Obama’sBarack Obama’s -Search using: · News, Most Recent 60 Days presidential campaign will be nominated to serve as the next U.S. ambassador to the Vatican, the White House announced Wednesday.

May 28, 2009