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HBCUs

Advice to HBCUs: Use the Media To Your Advantage

Advice to HBCUs: Use the Media To Your AdvantageAs a product of a historically Black university, I am very tired of continuously defending the legal viability, constitutional justification and the significance of HBCUs.We all understand that racism is a prevalent dynamic in our society. However, even more frightening, we must realize that the mass media […]

August 15, 2001

African-American

Teaching Slavery: Overcoming Artificial Barriers to Past, Present

Teaching Slavery: Overcoming Artificial Barriers to Past, PresentRecent discussions of reparations to African Americans for slavery prompted me to reflect on the ways I have been taught about slavery in graduate school. My educational experiences with the study of slavery have varied according to the professor’s chosen topics for discussion and their selection of readings. […]

May 23, 2001

Students

Pennsylvania Panel to Probe Racial Incidents On College Campuses

Pennsylvania Panel to Probe Racial Incidents On College CampusesAction prompted by recent incidents at Penn State, University of PennsylvaniaBy Eleanor Lee YatesHARRISBURG, Pa.A resolution authorizing the Pennsylvania House of Representatives’ Committee on Education to investigate racial incidents on college campuses recently passed unanimously. Rep. James R. Roebuck Jr., the sponsor of the resolution, hopes the […]

May 9, 2001

Health

North Carolina Researchers to Investigate Racial Differences in Health

North Carolina Researchers to Investigate Racial Differences in HealthCHAPEL HILL, N.C. Differences in treatment and outcomes between Blacks and Whites in North Carolina will be the focus of a new program at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The program, based at the school’s Cecil G. Sheps Center for Health Services Research, will […]

January 31, 2001

Students

Explaining the Achievement Gap

Explaining the Achievement GapResearchers offer theories on Black underachievment — especially Black malesNew York     The warm reception accorded Dr. Claude Steele at a New York University School of Education policy breakfast earlier this month signaled the extent to which his social psychology research is finding acceptance among education experts and officials on the Black-White student […]

December 20, 2000

Students

University of Tennessee Administrators Address Minority Students’ Concerns

University of Tennessee Administrators Address Minority Students’ ConcernsKNOXVILLE, Tenn. What started as a sophomore-level student art project meant to depict the strangulation of the environment — nine nooses hanging from a tree — has many Black students at the University of Tennessee seeing the incident as more than just art. Last month’s episode was the […]

December 6, 2000

African-American

Officials Optimistic That 2000 Census Is Better Than Ever

Officials Optimistic That 2000 Census Is Better Than EverWASHINGTON Last month, federal officials announced that the response rates for Census 2000 exceeded those of the 1990 U.S. Census by 2 percentage points, from 65 percent to 67 percent. The 2000 Census response rate also exceeded the U.S. Census Bureau’s projected rate, which was 61 percent.“Thanks […]

October 11, 2000

Students

Georgia Sorority Members Ordered to Undergo Race Sensitivity Training

Georgia Sorority Members Ordered to Undergo Race Sensitivity Training ATHENS, Ga.A University of Georgia sorority accused of evaluating a potential pledge on the basis of race will undergo sensitivity training, according to an agreement with the university. A resolution released last month says Alpha Gamma Delta and the university agreed that some sorority members “may hold […]

October 11, 2000

Asian American Pacific Islander

The ‘Other’ Asians

The ‘Other’  AsiansWith their numbers on the rise, Indian, Pakistani and other South Asian scholars are gradually emerging from academe’s shadows.When Dr. Madhulika Khandelwal did a computer search for literature about Indian immigrants in 1986, she got back thousands of hits.“I thought,  ‘Wow! I thought there was nothing.’ But there were thousands of titles,” says Khandelwal, […]

February 2, 2000

African-American

The Problem With Henry Louis Gates’ ‘African World’

The Problem With Henry Louis Gates’ ‘African World’The beautiful African coastline in Ghana is studded with the haunted vestiges of slave fortresses built by European nations over a period of 400 years. It is not unlike the history of the European Slave Trade in other parts of West Africa, from Mauritania to Angola, where more […]

November 24, 1999

Students

Dear BI Career Consultants:

Dear BI Career Consultants:As a dean, how do I get my faculty and the academic vice provost/provost to buy into our diversity agenda?Dr. James AndersonVice Provost and Dean of Undergraduate StudiesNorth Carolina State UniversityTo promote any campus initiative, successful deans understand what the faculty value, how academic business gets done and how to facilitate the […]

October 13, 1999

Home

Admissions Models for Inclusion

Admissions Models for Inclusion Two New Admissions Strategies Could Reopen Doors the Anti-Affirmative Action Initiatives have closed — at least for the most disadvantaged students of colorThey’re not complete substitutes for affirmative action, their creators admit bluntly. But in states where affirmative action has been banned or is threatened, two new approaches to the college […]

October 13, 1999