Asian Students Association seeks more diversity
By Melvin Backman | Aug. 26, 2010Despite a slight drop in the percentage of Asian-American students at UNC, the Asian Students Association tripled in size within the past two years.
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Despite a slight drop in the percentage of Asian-American students at UNC, the Asian Students Association tripled in size within the past two years.
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Despite a slight drop in the percentage of Asian-American students at UNC, the Asian Students Association tripled in size within the past two years.
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Moving up in the ranks at Carolina isn’t easy. While many promotions choose the obvious second in command, UNC employs national searches to find the best and brightest to lead the school.
Read More »The Wake County School Board voted in a 5-4 decision Tuesday night to overturn 30 years of policy designed to promote public school diversity in favor of a new policy promoting neighborhood schools.
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In her “last lecture,” professor Waithera Karim-Sesay showed that there’s more to Africa than meets the eye and provided a more holistic view of the vast diversity of Africa and its people.
Read More »The state is revising an education reform plan after an early draft caused outrage among American Indian communities. The State Board of Education’s first draft of the Accountability and Curriculum Reform Effort included a proposal to remove pre-colonial history education from the U.S. History course requirements at the high school level.
Read More »The gap in graduation rates between black and white NCAA men’s Division I basketball players is widening.
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RALEIGH — Hundreds of people gathered at Shaw University on Saturday, chanting and singing hymns to promote education reform for the state. The Historic Thousands on Jones Street event, also known as HK on J, is an annual march to the state legislature led by the N.C. NAACP to present its 14-point agenda. This year, the crowd focused on education reform and protested against the resegregation of public schools.
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