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Author Message   Yvettep AALBC .com Platinum Poster Username: Yvettep Post Number: 2119 Registered: 01-2005 Rating: N/A Votes: 0 (Vote!) Posted on Thursday, July 05, 2007 - 11:53 am:        Lots of good stuff on the Diverse Issues website. Too many topics to post separate threads for each. Some highlights: *Gullah Culture ‘Hangs On’ at Weekend Institute in Denver: The “Mile High City” may be considered an unlikely location to hold a conference on Gullah culture, but more than 100 scholars, students and local residents came together last weekend to participate in the First Annual Gullah Studies Institute, sponsored by Metropolitan State College of Denver and spearheaded by Jacquelyn Benton, visiting assistant professor in the African and African-American Studies Department at MSCD. The Institute, themed “The Water Brought Us: Gullah History & Culture,” was in response to an overwhelming interest expressed in the Gullah/Geechee people after Benton, who has researched Gullah culture for more than 10 years, took a group of students from MSCD and the University of Colorado to St. Helena Island off the coast of South Carolina... *Berklee College of Music’s New Mission Statement Reflects African Contributions to Contemporary Music In what Berklee College of Music President Roger Brown calls a “psychological victory for the institution,” the board of trustees recently adopted an amended mission statement for the college that acknowledges the historical contributions that African descendants have made to the development of the contemporary American musical genres on which Berklee’s curriculum and training are based. “Founded on jazz and popular music rooted in the African cultural diaspora, our comprehensive curriculum is distinctly contemporary in its content and approach, and embraces the principal musical movements of our time,” is how the second paragraph of the revised mission statement now reads... *Getting to Know: Yolanda Cash Jackson Lobbyist for Florida’s HBCUs Works the Capitol on Behalf of Minority Students Yolanda Cash Jackson is one of only a handful of Black lobbyists for historically Black colleges and universities working the halls of the Florida state capitol in Tallahassee. At the time of this interview, a bill concerning funding was inching its way through the state Legislature... CHeck them out! http://diverseeducation.com/