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Colleges Take Action to Boost Minority Grad Rates (2/4/10)
By Zach Miners

Many colleges and universities place a premium on enrolling a racially diverse student body. But at most of these schools, their graduates might not be as varied as the students who entered as freshmen. Only about 40 percent of underrepresented minority students—blacks, Latinos, and American Indians—graduate from college within six years; the same statistic for nonminorities is 60 percent.

Experts say that much of the disparity in graduation rates can be attributed to the different economic backgrounds students bring when they enter college, a criterion in which minorities tend to be disadvantaged. This relationship between economic background and...

Western leads nation in minority student graduation gains(2/2/10)
By Bill Graves, The Oregonian

Western Oregon University led the nation in recent years in improving the graduation rate of its minority students, the Education Trust reports.

About 10 percent of Western's students belong to underrepresented minority groups – African American, Latino and Native American. The six year graduation rate for those groups at Western, which is in Monmouth, collectively jumped from 17.5 percent in 2002 to 42.3 percent in 2007. That was the largest gain in graduation rates for underrepresented minorities among any public university in the nation, reports the Education Trust, a nonprofit in Washington, D.C. that promotes...

Thomas J. Espenshade, a professor of sociology at Princeton University, used that question to answer a question about his new book, No Longer Separate, Not Yet Equal: Race and Class in Elite College Admission and Campus Life (Princeton University Press), co-written with Alexandria Walton Radford, a research associate at MPR Associates. In fact, he could probably use the glass image to answer questions about numerous parts of the book.

While Espenshade and Radford -- in the book and in interviews -- avoid broad conclusions over whether affirmative action is working or should continue, their findings almost certainly will be used both by supporters and critics of affirmative action...

Howard Zinn, the Boston University historian and political activist whose books such as A People’s History of the United States prompted a generation to rethink the nation’s past, died on Wednesday in Santa Monica, Calif., where he was travelling. He was 87...

Federal judge allows civil rights case to proceed (1/27/10)

The civil rights case of a man shot in the back repeatedly by a Milwaukee police officer nearly five years ago is headed for trial in federal court. U.S. Magistrate Judge William Callahan on Tuesday scheduled a two-week jury trial to begin June 7 in the civil case brought against the city of Milwaukee by the family of Wilbert Prado, who was shot to death...