cmaadmin (EDU)Hi this is my profile and bio information.Asian American Pacific IslanderAmherst College President Urges Students to Call Police if Racially HarassedAmherst College president Biddy Martin has, in a letter this week, urged students and other community members to call the campus or local police if they are the target of racial harassment in the wake of the coronavirus. “Students, staff, and faculty who become the target of bias, harassment, or assault – verbal or physical […]April 9, 2020News RoundupRev. Al Sharpton Asks Harvard if it Has Black Endowment ManagersCivil rights leader the Rev. Al Sharpton last month asked Harvard University to disclose whether it has any Black asset managers on its $40.9 billion endowment fund, reported the university’s newspaper The Harvard Crimson. In a letter to Harvard president Dr. Lawrence S. Bacow, Sharpton asked the university to issue a report disclosing these details […]April 9, 2020COVID-19Clemson University Says Students Gathering on or Off Campus Subject to Code of ConductA Clemson University student last week hosted a party with 100 attendees at their rented home in downtown Clemson, flouting social distancing guidelines issued to curb the spread of the coronavirus, reported Greenville News. Police broke up last Friday’s party after neighbors complained, and on the following Wednesday, the university released a message saying students […]April 9, 2020StudentsStudy: Minority Student Enrollment Hasn’t Kept Pace With Demographic Trends in States That Have Affirmative Action BansEnrollment of underrepresented minorities at public universities has not kept pace with demographic trends in states that have banned affirmative action, a new study finds. In these states, the portion of underrepresented minorities among students admitted and enrolling in public universities has steadily lost ground relative to changing demographic trends among high school graduates, based […]April 8, 2020COVID-19Coronavirus Debt Relief for 300,000 Private Student Loan Borrowers in New YorkNew York Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Tuesday announced relief for as many as 300,000 borrowers of private student loans who are left out of the ambit of the federal Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act, or CARES Act. These 300,000 borrowers can now contact their student loan servicer to defer student loan payments for […]April 8, 2020News RoundupBlack Pennsylvania Student Wins $40,000 Damages in Racial Discrimination LawsuitA district judge ordered a Pennsylvania restaurant to pay $40,000 in damages to a Black Lebanon Valley College student who alleged the eatery called him the N-word and refused to serve him, reported Penn Live. Ricky Lee Bugg Jr. was a junior at the college in 2017 when the incident occurred at Just Wing It, […]April 8, 2020COVID-19Fewer Enrollments, Lost Income to Pressure Universities’ Finances: Moody’sLower student enrolments and lost income will pressure higher education institutions worldwide, due to the global coronavirus pandemic, said bond ratings agency Moody’s Investors Service. Public U.S. universities will be under more pressure because of potential government funding cuts and lower income from investments, said the agency. Decreased investment income is especially on the cards […]April 8, 2020Homewebcast april 22 2020April 8, 2020Latest NewsMeet Kimberlé Crenshaw, a Dr. John Hope Franklin Award RecipientDr. Crenshaw famously coined the term “intersectionality” in 1989 to describe how race, gender, class and other individual characteristics intersect, when she published an article titled, “Demarginalizing the Intersection of Race and Sex” in the University of Chicago Legal Forum.April 7, 2020COVID-19Democratic Senators Urge Companies to Provide Relief For Private Student BorrowersSenator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and 13 other Democratic Senators on Tuesday urged student loan companies to relax repayments for private student borrowers left out of the $2.2 trillion coronavirus stimulus package. The stimulus package allows the suspension of federal student loan repayments for six months, until the end of September. The Democratic Senators urged student […]April 7, 2020Previous PagePage 139 of 3226Next Page
