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Faculty & Staff

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Faculty & Staff

Historian Cobb Joining Faculty at Columbia University

Dr. William Jelani Cobb, a prolific Black historian and journalist, is joining the faculty of Columbia University??s Graduate School of Journalism.

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Puerto Rico Debt Crisis More Than Just an Economic Issue

Puerto Rico’s debt crisis is a humanitarian crisis impacting the most vulnerable groups on the island, human rights activists and lawyers said at a briefing on Capitol Hill recently.

African-American

Professor Tackles Turbulent History of Latinos and the LAPD

Scholars present research in the growing area of Chicana/o and Latina/o geography, specifically comparative racialization at the annual meeting of the American Association of Geographers.

Engaging Latino Students for Transfer and Completion

Both community colleges and bachelor’s degree-granting institutions across the country are responding to a chorus of calls for dramatic improvements in student success and college completion.

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African-American

Only Half of U.S. Students Taking ‘College-Ready’ Courses

Only about half of all U.S. high school students actually take the sequence of courses they need to be considered ready for college and careers, according to a new report being released today by the Education Trust.

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Leadership & Policy

Politicians Sometimes Say the Strangest Things

Primaries and caucuses are events that are happening almost every week now

More Students Seeing the World Without Getting Credits

A survey found that roughly half of the 227 institutions responding reported an increase in the number of students who participated in non-credit education abroad for the 2012-13 academic year over the previous year.

Courtney Allen Allen said her non-credit educational activities in Panama helped better prepare her for the workforce.

UVA Student Group Supporting Undocumented Students Finds Its Footing

A new student group at the University of Virginia—DREAMers on Grounds—is working to create a support network for students who are either undocumented or who have received DACA benefits.

UMKC Takes Issue with Education Trust Report Conclusion

According to UMKC, the university is concerned primarily with providing full access to all members of the community, and that Education Trust’s numbers do not tell the full story.

Faculty & Staff

GREGORY E. TRIPLETT

GREGORY E. TRIPLETT has been appointed associate dean for graduate studies at Virginia Commonwealth University. He was an associate professor of electrical and computer engineering and associate director of the Honors College at the University of Missouri. Triplett earned a bachelor’s from Florida A&M University, a master’s from Florida State University and a doctorate from the Georgia Institute of Technology.

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The Benefits of Campus Activism

Student unrest and campus activism historically has been responsible in many ways for bringing about justifiable and positive changes in academe.

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