Cover Stories: Diversity, Illegal Immigration & Race Articles
November 1st, 2010
Written by Jodie Blankenship in Cover Stories with 2 Comments
The hallowed halls of higher education may be filling up with more of the same faces this fall semester. In fact, since 2000, the trend of increased diversity at colleges and universities is in serious jeopardy of subsiding. Who is the culprit threatening higher education diversity? That culprit is the current economic climate, and the states’ reaction of slashing their budgets, thus negatively...
October 4th, 2010
Written by Wendy Innes in Cover Stories with 7 Comments
Many people are familiar with the idea of the protestant work ethic, but how many of us have ever stopped to examine what the term “work ethic,” means? In addition to exploring what work ethic is, we set out to examine how it varied between cultures, who worked the most, and who didn't; the answers that we found just may surprise you.A study published in the Journal of Applied Psychology earlier...
August 29th, 2010
Written by Rita Rizzo in Cover Stories with 0 Comments
Remember Billy Joel’s song, We Didn’t Start the Fire? The song mentions events and people who influenced societal thought from 1949 to 1989. Listening to the lyrics propels us all to an earlier time when the world felt different to us than it does currently. Indeed, national and world events, inventions, innovations, and the exposure to the influential people during our coming of age years,...
August 2nd, 2010
Written by Rita Rizzo in Cover Stories with 0 Comments
While visiting with the Ojibwa people in a small village outside Winnipeg, Manitoba, I was pleased to be invited to dinner with the tribal chief. At the conclusion of the meal, after sending our prayers to heaven on a cloud of smoke, the Chief took out a pen and began to draw on a napkin. Throughout dinner, we had discussed race and culture. “I want to show you why the races exist,” the Chief...
July 5th, 2010
Written by Danielle Douglas in Cover Stories with 0 Comments
Accumulation of wealth prevented for generations of African-Americans:“Legalized discrimination – where blacks were prevented, often through violence, from owning property, or loans were not granted to African-American business owners, or black homeowners could not access FHA mortgages, or blacks were excluded from unions, the police force, or fire departments – meant that black families could...
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