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Accessing African-American Archives

The Johns Hopkins University will collaborate with Baltimore’s Afro-American Newspapers to open the 115-year-old newspaper company’s historic archives thanks to a $476,000 grant. Funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the project will involve the university’s Center for Africana Studies and Center for Educational Resources at the Sheridan Libraries.

September 5, 2007

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Sound advice for the classroom

Today’s emphasis on the uses of computer technology and audio-visual materials in the classroom obscures an equally effective, cost-efficient means of communication: sound.

July 14, 2007

Students

News Briefs

WASHINGTON Dr. Henry Louis Gates Jr., the director of Harvard University’s W.E.B. DuBois Institute for Afro-American Research, was among the nine honorees at the White House on November 5 to be presented the National Endowment for the Humanities’ (NEH) 1998 National Humanities Medal.

July 14, 2007

Leadership & Policy

Powerful sisters – college presidents – Cover Story

Within only a couple of decades, women of color have come a long way in their representation among college presidents. The place where they are most abundant is at community colleges. There are currently 104 women of color heading postsecondary institutions, and 61 of these are at community colleges.

July 12, 2007

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Could Harry Potter die? It would make mythological sense, say professors.

NEW YORK Brace yourselves, Harry Potter fans. No matter how desperate you are for Harry to live, some experts in classic literature and mythology say that finishing off the young wizard would make sense in a literary kind of way.

July 4, 2007

African-American

“We want to read about ourselves”: writers and scholars assess state of black literature – black writers and scholars analyze state of black literature

WASHINGTON, D.C. Is the current resurgence in Black literature and enduring one or is it just a “spike”? What’s driving it? Will it last? And how should colleges and universities respond in their literature classes?

June 23, 2007

HBCUs

Federal spending for HBCUs is up: agencies from the CIA to the Veterans Administration increase grants, fellowships and gifts – historically black colleges and universities, Central Intelligence Agency

Federal grant, training and recruiting spending directed at historically Black colleges and universities jumped by 21 percent in a two-year, period, according to government figures in a soon-to-be released report.

June 20, 2007

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Reaching out, but in which direction? – academic outreach programs – includes list of MESA USA members

When early academic outreach programs were first created and took aim at reaching out to students of color, the initial idea was to inspire and motivate students to prepare for college in a general way.

June 16, 2007

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Marvelous Morrison – Toni Morrison – Award-Winning Author Talks About the Future From Some Place in Time

Award-winning Author Talks About the Future From Some Place in Time.

June 16, 2007

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Expanding the Literary Canon

Hispanic literature is growing in popularity, and scholars would like to see it better incorporated into high school, college curriculms.

March 28, 2007

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Expanding the Literary Canon

For most college students, literature courses began in high school and consisted almost entirely of the classics of America and Western Europe…

March 21, 2007

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MLA Report Calls for Tenure and Promotion Changes

New demands for research productivity, shrinking humanities lists by academic publishers and fears about limited opportunities for junior scholars are among the factors that prompted a landmark study released today by the Modern Language Association of America.

December 7, 2006