2/17 – NYC – “Panther Baby” – Meet the Author – Columbia Professor Jamal Joseph

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(PANTHER • POET •PROFESSOR• PRISONER • OSCAR NOMINEE) Professor Joseph will be making stops throughout the country for readings of his new book  Panther Baby. In Panther Baby, …

Columbia Still Leads JBHE Rankings

“Four years ago Columbia University headed the JBHE rankings for the first time. Now, for the fifth year in a row, Columbia has the highest percentage of Black freshman students …

U.S. Urges Creativity by Colleges to Gain Diversity

The Obama administration on Friday urged colleges and universities to get creative in improving racial diversity at their campuses, throwing out a Bush-era interpretation of recent Supreme Court rulings that limited affirmative action in admissions.

Income gap most extreme in Morningside, Hamilton Heights

The median household income of the highest fifth of the population is $207,053—34 times $6,073, the median income for the lowest fifth, according to a report by the Census Bureau released in November. The median household income of the highest fifth of the population is $207,053—34 times $6,073, the median income for the lowest fifth, according to a report by the Census Bureau released in November.

Kellis E. Parker, Civil Rights Activist and First Black Columbia Law Professor, Dies at 58

Kellis E. Parker, a noted legal scholar and civil rights activist who embraced jazz as a framework for understanding the law and, in 1972,became the first full-time black law professor at Columbia University, died on October 10 at St. Luke’s Hospital in New York. The cause of death was acute respiratory distress syndrome, which struck him suddenly at the end of September, said Kimberly Parker, his daughter. He was 58.

On Dean Moody-Adams

We, the Black Alumni Council, thank Dean Moody-Adams for her dedicated service to the Collegeas Dean and Vice President for Undergraduate Education.

Columbia’s black community is particularly gratified that Dean Moody-Adams filled her historicrole as the first minority and first female Dean of the College with such aplomb, grace, anddedication. Dean Moody-Adams set a very high standard for professionalism, scholarship, andcomposure under challenging circumstances

Jerome L. Greene Science Center Will Be Interdisciplinary Hub

A rendering of the future Jerome L. Greene Science Center as seen from West 129th Street and Broadway. On the right is a depiction of the science center as seen from a plaza on the Manhattanville campus.Now rising on the onetime site of parking lots and warehouses in Manhattanville is the University’s effort to recreate that kind of collaborative space in the Jerome L. Greene Science Building—not just for a single department, but for a wide range of disciplines related to neuroscience.

Charter Founder Is Named Education Commissioner

John B. King Jr., who credits teachers for helping him surmount an isolated childhood as an orphan in Brooklyn and who ran celebrated charter schools in New York and Massachusetts, was named Monday as the state’s next education commissioner, with a unanimous vote of the Board of Regents.

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Malcolm X scholar Manning Marable dies at 60

NEW YORK – Manning Marable, an influential historian of the black experience in the United States and the author of a forthcoming biography of Malcolm X, died Friday in New York. He was 60.

His wife, Leith Mullings, said Marable died from complications of pneumonia at New York-Presbyterian Hospital in Manhattan. She said he had suffered for 24 years from sarcoidosis, an inflammatory lung disease, and had undergone a double lung transplant in July.