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HBCUs

HBCUs: Segregated, But Not Segregating

Those who seek to bring more Whites into historically Black colleges should suggest constructive solutions for improving the quality of these institutions.

March 4, 2009

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House Formally Apologizes for Slavery and Jim Crow

The House on Tuesday issued an unprecedented apology to Black Americans for the wrongs committed against them and their ancestors who suffered under slavery and Jim Crow segregation laws.

July 29, 2008

Students

Coalition Says Using a Culturally Based Education Model Could Help Close Achievement Gap

Teachers must be sensitive and inclusive to all students’ cultural backgrounds, educators and advocacy organizations said during a congressional briefing on Capitol Hill Wednesday.

June 25, 2008

Latinx

Majority Latino South Texas Town Abolishes Decades-old Segregation

A South Texas town has abolished an anti-Hispanic segregation law more than seven decades after it was enacted.

May 13, 2008

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Majority Latino South Texas Town Abolishes Decades-old Segregation

A South Texas town has abolished an anti-Hispanic segregation law more than seven decades after it was enacted.

May 6, 2008

Community Colleges

PUTTING FIRST-GENERATION STUDENTS FIRST

Faced with a growing population of first-generation students, many colleges are undertaking unique initiatives to recruit and retain these students.

April 16, 2008

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BLACK MEN – Left out and locked up

There are an estimated 1.5 million Black men in prison and another 3.5 million on probation.

February 6, 2008

Community Colleges

University Systems Commit to Closing Gap

Black college students earn bachelor’s degrees at nearly half the rate — Hispanic students at nearly less than a third the rate — of White students. Low-income students get their undergraduate degrees at one-eighth the rate of more economically advantaged students.

November 28, 2007

Students

School Districts Under Desegregaton Orders Confused By Latest Supreme Court Ruling On Diversity

Officials in Shelby County, Tenn., complain they’ll have to spend millions to satisfy a federal judge’s “arbitrary” desegregation order. It’ll mean busing minority students up to an hour away and replacing hundreds of White teachers with Black ones, they say.

November 11, 2007

Faculty & Staff

Taking Flight Internationally

As the new director of the Center for Africana Studies at Johns Hopkins University and a specialist in Latin American history, Dr. Ben Vinson strengthens the center’s internationalist orientation.

October 31, 2007

STEM

19 Public University Systems Commit To Closing Achievement Gap

African-American college students earn bachelor’s degrees at nearly half the rate – Hispanic students are nearly worse at less than a third – than white students. Low-income students get their undergraduate degrees at one-eighth the rate of economically more advantaged students. Now, nineteen public higher education systems across the country have banded together to try to reverse these trends.

October 30, 2007

Community Colleges

Barack Obama Visits Prince George’s Community College

LARGO, Md. Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama was in Maryland Wednesday for a campaign rally in Prince George’s County.

October 10, 2007