Recently added articles from Diverse Issues in Higher Education:
Keep fighting the good fight.(Editorial)
Sep 04, 2008; Anyaso, Hilary Hurd ... We kicked off this academic year in the previous edition featuring 10 champions of diversity--from the PhD Project to the University System of Georgia's African-American Male Initiative, just to name two, in efforts to highlight those organizations and individuals that are truly doing ...
Correction.(Correction notice)
Sep 04, 2008 ... The "Diversity Champions" profile of Excelencia in Education in the August 21st issue of Diverse incorrectly named one of Excelencia's ...
Getting to know Dr. Kofi Lomotey.
Sep 04, 2008; Nealy, Michelle J. ... While Dr. Kofi Lomotey has held appointments at predominately White institutions, he understands the critically important roles that historically Black colleges and universities play in educating Black students. "HBCUs provide a nurturing, parenting role that few if any other ...
Protecting voters' rights.(Brief article)
Sep 04, 2008 ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The NAACP's Legal Defense Fund unveiled a new nonpartisan voter awareness program, Prepared to Vote, to help reveal and address voting barriers in the upcoming November elections such as: voter ID requirements, voter purges, faulty voter rolls, poorly ...
Voices of diversity.(Brief article)
Sep 04, 2008 ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] VOICES OF DIVERSITY: Tune in to DiverseEducation.com and listen to Diverse's featured champions of diversity Dr. Roy Jones of the Call Me Mister ...
Music to their ears.(Brief article)
Sep 04, 2008 ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Last month, the College of Music at the University of North Texas held its first-ever mariachi summer camp for Hispanic students in sixth through 12th grades. Along with learning to play the guitarron or the trumpet, participants got a taste of college ...
Diverse digits.(spectrum)
Sep 04, 2008 ... Voter turnout among 18 to 24-year-olds in the 2006 election: <Pre> White 24% Black 20% Hispanic 17% Asian/Pacific ...
An inside look at a law's renewal: newly signed law includes more than 60 initiatives, including those for single parent students, active duty military and disabled students.
Sep 04, 2008; Dervarics, Charles ... Tucked inside nearly 1,200 pages of the Higher Education Act, Congress has inserted a variety of new or expanded policies that may help more low-income students attend and succeed in college. In addition to a $9,000 authorized Pell Grant and more aid to minority-serving ...
University of Texas program demystifies graduate school for minority students: through the intellectual entrepreneurship: Cross-Disciplinary Consortium at UT, students of diverse backgrounds are being introduced to graduate-level work.(noteworthy news)
Sep 04, 2008; Anderson, Michelle D. ... Though it did not begin as a diversity initiative, a five-year-old program at the University of Texas at Austin designed to give undergraduates a taste of what graduate school is like has drawn a significant number of underrepresented minority and first-generation students. ...
10 diversity champions II.(List)
Sep 04, 2008; Nealy, Michelle J. ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Introducing the "Champions of Diversity" in the Academic Kickoff issue proved a timely reminder of the mission of Diverse during the lead-up to the 25th anniversary of Cox, Matthews and Associates, the founder of the former Black Issues in Higher Education ...
'Preserving intellectual capital': as political strife is a constant around the globe, the Institute of International Education's Scholar Rescue Fund assists scholars whose academic freedom is threatened in their home countries.
Sep 04, 2008; Stewart, Pearl ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Dr. Felix Kaputu's quiet life as an English and Biblical scholar researching comparative religions belies the disquiet of his life a few years ago. In 2005, living in his native Democratic Republic of the Congo, Kaputu was arrested and accused ...
Examining a class-divided society inside and outside the classroom.(Race and Class Matters at an Elite College)(Book review)
Sep 04, 2008; Dodson, Angela P. ... Americans traditionally have fancied themselves as living in a classless society, in contrast to the way most of the world functions. As a result, scholars pay little attention to what role class plays in people's lives as a whole, much less in education. Fortunately, some researchers are ...
New releases.(List)
Sep 04, 2008 ... Because of Race: How Americans Debate Harm and Opportunity in Our Schools, by Mica Pollock, $29.95, Princeton University Press, (July 2008), ISBN: 978-0-691-12535-0, 277 pp. Economics of Distance and Online Learning: Theory, Practice and Research, Edited by William J. Bramble ...
Texas Tech University.(Guy Bailey as president )(Brief article)
Sep 04, 2008 ... Dr. Guy Bailey has been appointed president of Texas Tech University. Previously, he served as chancellor of the University of Missouri-Kansas City ....
North Carolina Central University.(David Kroll as chariperson)(Brief article)
Sep 04, 2008 ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] DR. DAVID KROLL has been named the first chairperson of the pharmaceutical sciences department at North ...
Metropolitan Community College.(Paul Long as vice chancellor)(Brief article)
Sep 04, 2008 ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] PAUL LONG has been named vice chancellor of educational services at Metropolitan Community College (Mo.). Most recently, he served ...
Palm Beach County Community College.(Norma Richards as equity officer)(Brief article)
Sep 04, 2008 ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] NORMA RICHARDS has been named equity officer at Palm Beach County Community College (Fla.). Formerly, she ...
The California State University.(Benjamin F. Quillian, Jr. as vice chancellor)(Brief article)
Sep 04, 2008 ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] DR. BENJAMIN F. QUILLIAN, Jr. has been named vice chancellor for administration and finance at The California State University ....
Williams College.(Neil Roberts as assistant professor )(Brief article)
Sep 04, 2008 ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] DR. NEIL ROBERTS has been appointed assistant professor of Africana studies and faculty affiliate in political science at Williams College (Mass.). He ...
Florida Institute of Technology College of Aeronautics.(Winston E. Scott as dean)(Brief article)
Sep 04, 2008 ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] WINSTON E. SCOTT has been named dean of the Florida Institute of Technology College of Aeronautics. Formerly, he served as an astronaut for ...