March 2013
March 12th, 2013
Written by Lisa Cornwell -... in Cultural Uniqueness, Latest News with 1 Comment
Miami University is revitalizing the language of the Miami Tribe, the university’s namesake. The project is directed by Daryl Baldwin, a member of the Miami Tribe.
Baldwin was born around the time that his Miami Tribe of Oklahoma was losing its last generation of fluent speakers and facing the possibility that its language would die with them.
Fifty years later, a project that Baldwin directs at...
March 11th, 2013
Written by Jeannie Nuss - ... in Race & Politics, Feature Stories with 0 Comments
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) – Arkansas is among states that do not have Hispanics representatives in the state legislature.
Arkansas has a burgeoning Hispanic population, but without Latinos in the legislature issues targeting the newer Arkansans have come up rarely in the current legislative session.
Two Latinas ran for the Legislature last year and lost, leaving Arkansas as one of more than a dozen...
March 11th, 2013
Written by Holly Ramer in Feature Stories with 0 Comments
CONCORD, N.H. (AP) - Dartmouth College is documenting its diversity with an oral history project focused on the previously silent voices of students and staff.
While the college already has extensive audio recordings of former presidents, administrators and trustees, officials at the Rauner Special Collections Library decided last year to expand their oral archives to include current and former...
March 11th, 2013
Written by Margery A. Beck... in National Collegiate Dialogue with 59 Comments
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — An Omaha man who was kicked out of the University of Nebraska's law school just months before he was set to graduate is suing the school and others, saying he was discriminated against because of his Arabic heritage and Muslim beliefs.
Mohammad Al-Turk filed the lawsuit on Tuesday in Nebraska's federal court, naming the University of Nebraska College of Law, several law school...
March 11th, 2013
Written by Abby L. Ferber ... in National Collegiate Dialogue with 23 Comments
Each week, the White Privilege Conference and the Matrix Center for the Advancement of Social Equity and Inclusion, housed at the University of Colorado, Colorado Springs (UCCS), hosts a half hour radio show called Intersections Radio that features an interview with a different author, scholar, and/or speaker.
In this segment, Gary R. Howard, who has 35 years of experience working with issues of...