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Blacks, Women, Now Gays: Military To Adjust Again

The military has a new social challenge: Allowing gays and lesbians to serve openly in the ranks.

Reaching Out to Diverse Students with Mental Health Services

Perspectives: Reaching diverse students with critical mental health services requires innovative and culturally competent outreach.

Faculty & Staff

Belmont University Faculty Wants Discussion of Sexual Identity Issues

Professors at Belmont University in Tennessee, where a gay soccer coach recently resigned, want a campus discussion of sexual identity issues.

African-American

Desegregation Offers Lessons for Gay Troops Debate

Though the military may now seem to lag behind America’s acceptance of gays in civilian life, the armed forces led the charge in ending racial segregation in the 1940s and ’50s.

Thomas J. Woods, 78

Higher Education Seeks Common Ground Among the Religious Faithful

Faced with America’s wide-ranging religious landscape, colleges and universities are working to embrace spiritual diversity through inclusive discourse, initiatives and programs.

The Rev. Albert Mosley is head chaplain and director of the Johns Hopkins campus ministry office and its Bunting Meyerhoff Interfaith and Community Service Center.

Support, Counseling, Education Urged for Gay Youth

Support and other resources for gay young people are out there, sometimes only a click or a phone call away, but advocates said the recent suicide of Rutgers University freshman Tyler Clementi and other teens who were believed to have been victims of anti-gay bullying point to the need for even more widespread help.

Perspectives: It’s About Common Sense and Decency

The events leading to Rutgers University freshman Tyler Clementi’s death speaks to a continuing myopia and homophobia, a decline of decency and a lack of critical-thinking skills among some college students.

N.J. Student’s Suicide Illustrates Internet Dangers

The shocking suicide of a college student whose sex life was broadcast over the Web illustrates yet again the Internet’s alarming potential as a means of tormenting others and raises questions whether young people in the age of Twitter and Facebook can even distinguish public from private.

ACLU: GSU’s E-Mail Policy Violates Constitution

A First Amendment issue is brewing at Grambling State University in the wake of the president’s summer e-mail message to students, prohibiting political expression via e-mail.

Dr. Frank Pogue is president of Grambling State University.

Rev. Jackson Debunks ‘Post-Racial’ Idea at Minority Legal Scholar Conference

The Rev. Jesse Jackson, the civil rights leader who twice ran for president, mocks the notion that the mere fact that a Black person is sitting in the White House means the nation has entered a “post-racial” era.

Opinion: Diversity in the Curriculum is the Next Step for Leadership in a Globally Interconnected World

To achieve full-blown diversity and fulfill the fundamental mission of higher education in America, the curriculum must change to keep pace with the dynamic of an increasingly diverse student body and professoriate.

African-American

Taking Diversity to the Next Level

With expanded management and planning responsibilities, high-ranking chief diversity officers are heading their institutions’ comprehensive approach to inclusiveness.

Shirley J. Wilcher is the executive director of the American Association for Affirmative Action.

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