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On The Move

DR. KENNETH BOUTTE is program officer in the Division of Human Resource Development, Directorate for Education and Human Resources of the National Science Foundation. Boutte serves as a professor of biology and dean of freshman studies at Xavier University of Louisiana. Boutte holds a bachelor’s from Xavier University of Louisiana and a doctorate from […]

January 20, 2010

African-American

Rhode Island to Highlight African-American Memoir in Tours, School Curriculum

William J. Brown’s 1883 memoir is at the center of a yearlong project, funded by the Rhode Island Council on the Humanities, which seeks to raise the free Black civic leader’s profile and further the public’s understanding of African-American history in Rhode Island.

January 11, 2010

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SPECTRUM : SPEAKING FROM THE HEART

Dr. Anton Treuer’s passion for the Ojibwe language goes beyond the purview of academic study.

November 25, 2009

Faculty & Staff

New Study Examines Gender-based Pay Gaps in Academia

A paper in the new issue of Psychology of Women Quarterly examines gender-based pay gaps among U.S. faculty using two methodologies.

November 11, 2009

Students

AWARDING EXCELLENCE

The Examples of Excelencia, sponsored by Excelencia in Education, is the only national program to identify programs with evidence of effectiveness in accelerating Latino student success at the associate, baccalaureate and graduate levels.

September 16, 2009

Faculty & Staff

A Decline in Humanities

Doctorate students of color who are couched in humanities and liberal arts fields such as philosophy, communications, and ethnic studies could be especially impacted by college job cuts and hiring freezes.

August 11, 2009

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Illinois Humanities Council Application Deadline for Free College Course Extended

The Illinois Humanities Council (IHC) and The Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities is pleased to announce that it has extended the application deadline for The Odyssey Project, a free, eight-month college humanities course for 18 and over adults living at or below 150 percent of the federal poverty level.  According to the Chicago […]

August 6, 2009

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Professors Worry Over Post-Racial Obama Era

With Barack Obama becoming U.S. president in barely a week, some college English professors worry it may actually become tougher to engage students in race-based literature.

January 12, 2009

HBCUs

Hill Harper on Campus

Actor and best-selling author Hill Harper talked to Diverse’s Michelle J. Nealy this month about his motivational speaking tour, “HBCU Empower Me Tour With Hill Harper,” which launched in September and runs through May 2009.

November 26, 2008

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New MLK Specialization at Union Institute & University

Doctoral students at Union Institute & University in Cincinnati will now have the opportunity to specialize in Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s work through the school’s interdisciplinary studies program.

August 20, 2008

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Literary Scholar Indicts Some Black Thinkers for Shallow Works

In his new book Betrayal: How Black Intellectuals Have Abandoned the Ideals of the Civil Rights Era, Dr. Houston A. Baker Jr., a leading scholar in African-American and American literature, takes a number of well-known Black intellectuals to task for published works that he deems as either lacking in substance or ideologically detrimental to Black American interests.

May 13, 2008

African-American

Literary Scholar Indicts Some Black Thinkers for Shallow Works

Diverse: What led you as a literary scholar to write Betrayal? HB: The motivation was, as interesting as it may seem now more than 20 years down the line, the culture wars that were launched by neoconservatives and the think tanks that support their point of view in the United States back in the late […]

May 13, 2008