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Students

Wade in the Water: A Contemporary Metaphor

Like most of the country, I spent much of early September following the news coverage of Hurricane Katrina. The resulting debate called into question my own self-definition as an African-American…

January 25, 2006

African-American

Cornell Study Says Upstate Mexicans Largely Invisible

A new study by Cornell University finds more Mexican farmworkers are settling in rural upstate New York…

January 25, 2006

Students

Wade in the Water: A Contemporary Metaphor

Like most of the country, I spent much of early September following the news coverage of Hurricane Katrina…

January 25, 2006

Home

Diverse: Issues In Higher Education Magazine Profiles 10 Rising Stars in the Academy

FAIRFAX, VA., January 12, 2006 – Diverse Issues is kicking off the new year recognizing young scholars from around the nation who are making their mark in the academy.

January 11, 2006

Students

Emerging Scholars: Counting on Critical Resistance

Dr. Dylan Rodríguez, one of the founders of Critical Resistance: Beyond the Prison Industrial Complex…

January 11, 2006

Asian American Pacific Islander

Swept Into the Background

The entire world saw the images of Black New Orleans residents left homeless…

December 14, 2005

Faculty & Staff

Ethnicity Investigation Dropped by University of Colorado

The University of Colorado has dropped its investigation into the American Indian heritage of the professor who Story:

August 24, 2005

African-American

Interim Colorado President Suggests Diversity Study

Interim University of Colorado President Hank Brown wants a committee to recommend how to increase diversity following several racial Story:

August 24, 2005

African-American

Interim University of Colorado President Seeks to Study Student Diversity

Interim University of Colorado President Hank Brown wants a committee to recommend how to increase diversity following several racial Story:

August 4, 2005

Students

The State of Latino Education: A War Against Ignorance

The State of Latino Education: A War Against IgnoranceThe population of Latinos in the United States has skyrocketed to approximately 40 million, and they’ve begun to move into virtually every state in the union, particularly into the Midwest, Northwest and Southeast. Yet, with the exception of many schools in the Southwest, many schools from K-12 […]

June 16, 2004

Leadership & Policy

Desmond Tutu Featured at CU-Boulder AIDS Symposium

Desmond Tutu Featured at CU-Boulder AIDS Symposium BOULDER, Colo.Nobel Peace Prize-winner Desmond Tutu kicked off a six-day “Stop the Silence” AIDS Symposium last month at the University of Colorado at Boulder. The former archbishop of Cape Town, South Africa, was the keynote speaker of the symposium that included advocates and scholars from CU-Boulder and Harvard […]

April 21, 2004

Leadership & Policy

Brown University Committee Examines Historical Ties to Slavery

Brown University Committee Examines Historical Ties to SlaveryPROVIDENCE, R.I.Brown University President Ruth Simmons has established a committee to examine the Ivy League school’s historical ties to slavery and debate whether the university should make amends. An article in Brown’s alumni magazine last summer reported that Simmons created the presidential committee last spring. She appointed about […]

March 24, 2004