Tag: Ethnic Studies: Page 10

Faculty & Staff

Ethnic Fraud?

For American Indian scholars, securing a job in higher education can sometimes be as simple as checking a box…

January 24, 2007

Faculty & Staff

Ethnic Fraud?

For American Indian scholars, securing a job in higher education can sometimes be as simple as checking a box…

January 24, 2007

HBCUs

Professional Appointments

Dr. Wayne J. Riley has been named the 10th president of Meharry Medical College (Tenn.). He was most recently vice president and vice dean for health affairs and governmental relations at Baylor College of Medicine. Riley earned a bachelor’s from Yale University, a master’s from Tulane University, an MBA from Rice University and a medical […]

December 27, 2006

Students

Widening the Door to Higher Education

Here is a modest proposal, and it’s guaranteed to generate even more sensationalistic media coverage of higher education than we’re currently subjected to…

December 27, 2006

Asian American Pacific Islander

Taking a Stand

Every December, the nation pauses to remember Pearl Harbor, the site of the 1941 Japanese surprise attack that propelled…

December 13, 2006

Students

WSU President: Professor Who Used Racial Term to Face Reprimand

PULLMAN Wash. A professor who used a vulgar racial term while arguing with a student about a political demonstration is likely to face a reprimand, but will be allowed to continue teaching, Washington State University President Lane Rawlins said.

December 11, 2006

Students

An Ethnic Studies Evolution

As a student in the Chicana/o studies program at the University of Texas at El Paso…

November 29, 2006

African-American

Native American Studies Program Expands at Columbia

Spurred on by fierce student activism a decade ago, Columbia University is now pushing forward with plans to create an American Indian studies program, making it one of only three Ivy League colleges to offer such a curriculum.

October 2, 2006

Latinx

Foreign Scholars Continue To Be Scrutinized By U.S. Authorities

A number of foreign scholars have been denied entry this year to the United States on grounds of political or ideological affiliations. According to the ACLU, the U.S. government is using ideological exclusion not as a legitimate reason to protect the country but just to stop someone who is against government policy per se.

September 23, 2006

Leadership & Policy

Quotes of Note

“Let’s talk about the complicity of the Episcopal Church as one of the institutions of this country who, of course…

September 20, 2006

Home

A Life’s Work Washed Away

When Hurricane Katrina barreled toward land just over a year ago, University of New Orleans librarian emeritus Marina Espina…

September 6, 2006

Faculty & Staff

Professor Named To Fill Endowed UCLA Chair On Japanese Internment

After a year-long search, the Asian American Studies Center and Department at the University of California, Los Angeles has appointed Dr. Lane Ryo Hirabayashi as the first George and Sakaye Aratani Professor of the Japanese American Internment, Redress and Community. The endowed chair is the first and only of its kind in U.S. higher education to address the historical legacy of the Japanese-American internment during World War II.

July 4, 2006