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Prominent Black Congressman Augustus Hawkins Dies at 100

LOS ANGELES (AP) _ Augustus Hawkins, the first African American from California to serve in Congress and helped form the Congressional Black Caucus, has died. He was 100.

November 13, 2007

Faculty & Staff

Perspectives: Entrepreneurship Training Can Empower Students Being Left Behind

The rote learning taking place day after day in classrooms across the country in order to meet minimum No Child Left Behind benchmarks leaves most students bored and many teachers demoralized. Missing from the NCLB renewal discussion is the benefit of entrepreneurship education, with its experiential and contextual methods that empower students and keep them engaged.

October 23, 2007

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Nobel in Economics Yet Another for Prize-laden University of Chicago

CHICAGO One of the world’s most influential schools of economics has done it again.

October 15, 2007

Leadership & Policy

Retired University of Minnesota professor, 90, Shares Nobel in Economics

MINNEAPOLIS When 90-year-old Leonid Hurwicz got a phone call around 6 a.m. from someone talking about the Nobel Prize, he thought it was a joke.

October 15, 2007

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Tuition economics 101: Pick a college you can afford

Would you sell your home, put off retirement or dip into your 401(k) to buy a Lamborghini or Hermes handbag for your teenager? Didn’t think so.

October 2, 2007

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UC-Berkeley Study: Half of Black Employees in Low-Wage Jobs

The unemployment crisis in the Black community has been well documented. The Bureau of Labor Statistics reported in July that the Black unemployment rate was 8 percent, nearly twice the rate for Whites.

September 2, 2007

Students

Adults with low educational skills hamper W.Va. economy

CHARLESTON W.Va. Experts in economics, education and welfare agree: a key to improving West Virginia’s long-struggling economy is developing the state’s “human capital.”

July 28, 2007

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Students choose skills programs instead of jobs

ALLENTOWN Pa. High School junior Jenn Pinkos spent a day earlier this month at DeSales University learning how to stage combat.

July 28, 2007

Leadership & Policy

Fighting to Survive

EAST ST. LOUIS, Ill. This slowly decaying, city, once called “America’s Soweto,” is so impoverished that it lost its city hall six years ago in a court judgement to a creditor.

July 14, 2007

Leadership & Policy

The River Running Through College Admissions. – Review – book reviews

If you don’t read another book about higher education this year, you must read William G. Bowen’s and Derek Bok’s The Shape of the River: Long Term Consequences of Considering Race in College and University Admissions (Princeton University Press, 1998).

July 14, 2007

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Despite education, black workers still face challenges

With the unemployment rate at a twenty-eight-year low of 4.5 percent, and discussion of discrimination unpopula in this post-affirmative action era, scant attention has been focused on the unemployment rate gap and the differential status of African American workers. But yes, there is still an unemployment rate gap, and it widened — not narrowed — in the face of economic prosperity.

July 14, 2007

STEM

Graduating in prosperous times

When Ed Wrenn pursued a bachelor’s degree in computer information systems at Florida A&M University, the young Boston-area native kept an unwavering watch on the job market. During his time at FAMU, Wrenn estimates that he had contact with nearly one hundred potential employers about jobs after college. By fall 1997, his last semester at FAMU. Wrenn had five job offers to consider.

July 12, 2007