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Holbert was elected with five other students—the majority are women—to serve in leadership roles for the year. The other states represented are Oklahoma, Georgia, Arizona, Iowa, and Kentucky. The Oklahoma Farm Report declared that the National FFA Organization made history with the election of Holbert. Other outlets did not mention Holbert's race at all.
This isn't exactly news. According to the most recent issue of the NEA Higher Education Advocate, a quarterly publication of the National Education Association, in 2008 a study revealed that HBCU faculty members earned $11,000, or 17%, less than their non-HBCU peers.
"About 10% of former foster care youth will attend college, and only about 3% graduate from higher education institutions—I was one of them."
"Ethnic studies works," Artnelson Concordia, a teacher who is helping to develop an ethnic studies curriculum in San Francisco, is quoted as saying in the NPR article. He says students will see that "all of their experiences can be connected to larger issues."
The core of the research center will focus on African American men, stress, kidney and cardiometabolic disease; breast cancer disparities and metabolic stress; diet-induced obesity and metabolic syndrome; community engagement and pilot projects, and mentoring.
