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More Single-sex Public Schools Likely Under Expected Rule Change

In Travis Brown’s sixth-grade class, they’re making robots — more than a dozen boys standing around work stations, chatting among themselves as they chop cardboard with scissors or glance at comic books for inspiration.

June 12, 2006

STEM

Rutgers University Reorganization Preserves All-Female Campus Presence

The Rutgers University board of governors recently approved a major university reorganization, simplifying a complicated system of undergraduate colleges even as it preserved an all-female niche on the campus…

March 14, 2006

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Rutgers President Makes Concession to Women’s College Supporters

Rutgers President Richard McCormick on Tuesday laid out his vision of melding four of the university’s colleges into a new School of Arts and Sciences, while still preserving an all-female niche on the campus…

March 9, 2006

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Valley Forge Military College to Accept Women

Valley Forge Military College, the last all-male military college in the country, will accept women beginning next fall.

October 24, 2005

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Spelman Students Shatter Myths About Women as Leaders in Science

Spelman College students are defying the myth that women are not equipped to be leaders in the sciences Story:

July 27, 2005

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Spelman Students Shatter Myths About Women as Leaders in Science

Spelman College students are defying the myth that women are not equipped to be leaders in the sciences Story:

July 27, 2005

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GEAR UP, TRIO Officials Mobilize Support To Save College-Access Programs

GEAR UP, TRIO Officials Mobilize SupportTo Save College-Access ProgramsBy Tracie PowellWith an older brother in prison and a father he hardly knew, the most Ronnie Rice had hoped for was a spot in the military or a job at one of the factories in his hometown of Mobile, Ala. For this borderline high-school student, college […]

March 23, 2005

Leadership & Policy

Teachable Moments

Teachable MomentsWhen protests erupted following the publication of an anti-reparations ad in a campus newspaper, Brown University President Ruth Simmons decided her community could benefit from taking a closer look at the university’s historical ties to slavery By Kendra HamiltonIt all started as a rather run-of-the-mill campus controversy over race and slavery: an anti-reparations ad […]

February 9, 2005

Faculty & Staff

Taking an Interdisciplinary Approach

Taking an Interdisciplinary Approach Ten African-American scholars combine expertise to get at the root of obesityFor decades in the obesity research community, the name Dr. Shiriki K. Kumanyika has been virtually synonymous with culturally specific weight-control and dietary change research. But when she decided to take a more activist role in designing research to reduce […]

January 26, 2005

Leadership & Policy

Breaking Down the Walls

Breaking Down the WallsN o one was surprised when Dr. Marcus Cox’s Ph.D. in history from Northwestern led to job offers from Ohio State and Illinois State universities. But it came as quite a surprise to his friends when Cox passed on those schools to go to The Citadel — a small Southern military college […]

September 8, 2004

Students

Where the Boys Aren’t

Where the Boys Aren’t The decline of Black males in colleges and universities has sociologists and educators concerned about the future of the African American communityBy David HefnerWhen sociologist W.E.B. Du Bois wrote these words more than 100 years ago, life in America was infinitely different for Blacks. For all its evils, segregation offered the […]

June 16, 2004

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Smith College Graduates Country’s First All-Female Class of Engineers

Smith College Graduates Country’s First All-Female Class of Engineers NORTHAMPTON, Mass.  Amid increasing calls to bolster the nation’s scientific literacy and enhance its high-tech work force, a pioneering and much watched engineering program has just produced its first graduates.Despite the program’s short history, the newly minted engineers — all women — are weighing significant career […]

June 2, 2004