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Group Wants Hate-crime Inquiry into Mexican Flag Incident at the University of New Mexico

ALBUQUERQUE The New Mexico League of United Latin American Citizens has asked state and federal officials to investigate a University of New Mexico student who is accused of tearing down a Mexican flag.

October 6, 2007

Doing what had to be done. The integrated military seen as model for society – Special Report: The Integrated Military – 50 Years

In the almost fifty years since President Harry S. Truman ordered the desegregation of the military, the United States armed forces have fostered equal opportunity on a scale that few other institutions have matched.

July 11, 2007

West Point Officials Say Increasing Number of Black Applicants Physically Unfit

African-Americans continue to be under-represented at the highly selective U.S. Military Academy at West Point, but medical issues may contribute as much as academics to low admission rates.

October 16, 2006

Valley Forge Military College to Accept Women

Valley Forge Military College, the last all-male military college in the country, will accept women beginning next fall.

October 24, 2005

A Few Good Officers: HBCUs Seek Ways to Boost ROTC Pipeline

A Few Good Officers: HBCUs Seek Ways to Boost ROTC PipelineBATON ROUGE, La. — Leaders from 21 historically Black colleges and universities with Army ROTC programs met at a Southern University conference earlier this month to discuss ways to recruit and train more Black officers.U.S. Department of Defense statistics show that while 29.5 percent of […]

March 29, 2000

BI News Briefs

Judge OKs Settlement in White Student’s Discrimination SuitTULSA, Okla. — A federal judge earlier this month approved a settlement in a discrimination lawsuit filed by a White student who contended that Oklahoma higher-education officials unfairly denied him a scholarship.University of Tulsa student Matthew Pollard filed his lawsuit against the Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education […]

March 29, 2000

Leadership & Policy

BI Nes Briefs

Regents Reprimand Tennessee State University President Over Mishandled Student Honors Program NASHVILLE, Tenn. — The state Board of Regents reprimanded the president of Tennessee State University earlier this month and stripped control of a student honors program from him after revelations the program has been mishandled.The university first landed in trouble when state officials discovered […]

September 29, 1999

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