School of Humanities and Social Science
Spring 2010
SHSS Dialogs “One of the most basic but significant developmental topics is generational differences and how it impacts our impact on students.”
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Black History Month
Dr. Debra Nixon
Inside this Issue
In 1915, Carter G Woodson and Jesse E. Moorland co‐founded the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History (ASNLH) to educate and bring attention to the contributions of Black people in American and world history. Several years later, in 1926, Woodson urged the Black fraternity, Omega Psi Phi, Inc. to create Negro History and Literature Week. They later changed the Name to Negro History Week, designating February as the month to celebrate Black achievement, giving homage to Abraham Lincoln (who issued the Emancipation Proclamation) and Frederick Douglass (a noted abolitionist and proponent of education as empowerment). Both men were born in February. Years later, (in 1970) and in response to the Black Power Movement, the ASNLH changed the name from Negro History Week to Black History Week; finally extending the commemoration to the entire month of February in 1976. (continued on page 6). http://www.biography.com/blackhistory/history/black‐ history‐month.jsp
"Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere." -
-Rev., Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Cover Black History Month
Page 1
Message from the Dean
Page 2 College Student Affairs: Theory to Practice Page 3 Student Spotlights
Page 4 Editor’s Note