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Posts Tagged ‘American Diversity’
Can China Compete with US for The Best Immigrants?
China opens doors of state-run companies to top talent Berkeley Blog Vivek Wadhwa, 11/17/11 The top talent in countries around the world have a new suitor: the Chinese government. China has a severe shortage of skilled talent and, in a policy reversal, has decided to open its doors to talent fro[...]
January 15th, 2011 - 11:40 am § in Uncategorized
The Global Class, Is Fascism Next?
Chrystia Freeland of the Atlantic has a very important article. The Rise of the New Global Class, a Prelude to Fascism? Christia Freeland’s piece in the Atlantic is a brilliant and frightening vision not of the future, but of a present that is likely summed up best by one word “fascism.&[...]
January 13th, 2011 - 7:15 pm § in Uncategorized
College Commits Student to Mental Ward
I might dismiss this as a fairy tale except, I once mentored a UW student, also a foreign student, who went through a similar ordeal. In his case. the Konlk County Mental Health social workers reprimanded the UW for their mistreatment of my student. My student was Chinese and I had a hard time convi[...]
January 10th, 2011 - 2:20 pm § in Misc.
Calendar:Mt. Zion Baptist: Jim Crow Prisons
THE NEW JIM CROW: PRISON INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX see details at TA calendar click book to see Dr. Alexander’s book. DATE: Monday, January 24, 2011 – 7:00pm LOCATION: Mount Zion Baptist Church, 1634 19th Avenue at Madison, Seattle The ACLU-WA cosponsors the Bush School Diversity Speakers Serie[...]
January 7th, 2011 - 2:48 pm § in Uncategorized
Chronicle: Erasing the N-word
Erasing the N-Word in Huck Finn Erases History January 6, 2011, 10:36 pm By Marybeth Gasman In the past few days, the news and internet have been buzzing with talk of a new version of Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Auburn University professor Alan Gribben’s new edition of the b[...]
January 6th, 2011 - 11:36 pm § in Uncategorized
Legacy Status Gives a 45% Affirmative Action Advantage!
From Huffington: According to a new study, legacy status may matter a lot more in college admissions than previously estimated, offering an advantage of up to 45.1 percent. The Chronicle of Higher Education reports that in an article titled “The impact of legacy status on undergraduate admissi[...]
January 3rd, 2011 - 11:02 am § in America
How to Overturn Immigrant Laws for the University of Arizona
Manuel! Manuel! the screams echo as Arizona’s home grown quarterback cocks his arm to throw yet another long ball. Campus heroes are nothing new for theWildcats. This hero. Manuel Ortega, is something else. Son of a gardener, Manuel earned his way through high school by picking up jobs[...]
December 29th, 2010 - 11:26 am § in Politics, Schools & Colleges
Third World America, II
see also Part I: going to school on a Native American Reservation. Robert Reich’s summary of the woes of our declining education system seems almost a continuation of the story in Part 1 of a young American trying to get an education under the third world standards of life on an Indian reserva[...]
Wide Receiver Wins Rhodes!
On the afternoon of the final game of the regular football season, Baltazar ‘Zar’ A. Zavala ’11 opened up a text message informing him that he had received a Rhodes Scholarship! Zar was a walk on, During his first year at the university, Zavala walked on to the football team and reveled in t[...]