Tag: African-Americans
Promoting academic excellence and providing service and advocacy for the community are paramount pillars of the Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc. Young men between the ages of 12 and 18 will converge Friday, July 26, on the NIU campus for the 2013 Leadership Development Institute. This event is hosted by the Midwest Region of the...
The NIU Center for Black Studies has scheduled a full slate of events for Black Heritage Month, which this year will observe the 150th anniversary of the signing of the Emancipation Proclamation and the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington. La Vonne I. Neal, dean of NIU’s College of Education, will explore these central...
Northwestern University professor Carol D. Lee will speak Monday, June 18, at the 2012 Affiliate Retreat of the NIU Center for the Interdisciplinary Study of Language and Literacy. Lee is the Edwina S. Tarry Professor of Education and Social Policy, a professor of learning sciences and professor of African-Americans studies. Her presentation is titled, “Every...
Since it was created four decades ago, the Center for Black Studies has woven itself tightly into NIU’s fabric. It started as a place where students and faculty can develop courses for the new minor, Black Studies. It also was a place for students and faculty to discuss issues that were going on both on-...
“Storming the Gates: The Struggle for Access to Higher Education in Illinois,” a powerful documentary which chronicles the ongoing history of blacks and Latinos in Illinois higher education, will screen at NIU. The screening begins at 4:30 p.m. Monday, Feb. 27, inside the Carl Sandburg Auditorium of the Holmes Student Center. The film features trailblazers...
With 2012 being a leap year, the NIU community will have an extra day in February to revel in, learn about and focus on Black Heritage Month. Organizers say they will need every hour of that day to remind students and faculty of the national and international contributions African-Americans have made to politics, the arts,...
Members of the Illinois Committee on Black Concerns in Higher Education (ICBCHE), in collaboration with the Office of Precollegiate Programs and the NIU Black Faculty Association, will hold a town hall meeting Monday, Dec. 5, at NIU. The group will develop strategies for assuring black access and equity in Illinois education. Two years ago, the...
Matthew Stults-Kolehmainen, assistant professor of exercise science in the Department of Kinesiology and Physical Education (KNPE) at Northern Illinois University, is the lead author of an article published in Obesity, an influential journal covering topics related to obesity and related health pathologies. Titled “Fat in Android, Trunk and, Peripheral Regions Varies by Ethnicity and Race...
Earl Smith, professor of sociology and director of American Ethnic Studies at Wake Forest University, will talk at NIU at 6 p.m. Monday, Oct. 10. Smith will speak on “Athletic Industrial Complex: Conference Realignment and Race” at the Yordon Center. This lecture will include a critical analysis of recent NCAA conference realignment, and will focus...
Alfred W. Tatum, an NIU alum and former professor in the Department of Literacy Education, will return Tuesday, Sept. 27, as the featured speaker in the College of Education’s Fall 2011 Community Learning Series. Tatum, who now teaches in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC), will speak...
When NIU’s James Brunson, assistant vice president for Diversity & Equity in Student Affairs & Enrollment Management, received a letter from Major League Baseball Commissioner Bud Selig, he thought to himself, “How does he even know about me?” But it should come as no surprise as Brunson, after more than 25 years of tireless research,...
A month full of activities the NIU community has planned in celebration of Black Heritage Month 2011 will begin Tuesday, Feb. 1.
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