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$14 Million Grant for Various Colleges, Institutions to Preserve Civil Rights History

A number of institutions, including colleges, have received varying portions of a $14 million grant awarded by the National Park Service to preserve African American civil rights. The funds are awarded through the African American Civil Rights Historic Preservation Fund. The recipient colleges are Allen University, Benedict College, Johnson C. Smith University, Livingstone College, Morris […]

Native Americans

How the U of Minnesota, Twin Cities Doubled Its Retention of Native American Students

Unable to sleep one night, Dustin Morrow was scrolling through the usual blur of posts and advertisements on Facebook when a commercial for the University of Minnesota caught his eye — and held it for ten minutes. The video was entirely in Ojibwe, the language his ancestors had spoken for centuries.

Asian American Pacific Islander

Amherst College President Urges Students to Call Police if Racially Harassed

Amherst 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 […]

Portrait of President Biddy Martin in her office. Photo by Maria Stenzel.

Study: Minority Student Enrollment Hasn’t Kept Pace With Demographic Trends in States That Have Affirmative Action Bans

Enrollment 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 […]

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Prominent Literary Scholar Dr. Cheryl A. Wall Dead at 71

Dr. Cheryl A. Wall — a well-known champion of Black women writers and a longtime professor at Rutgers University-New Brunswick — died on April 4, 2020. She was 71. An expert in African American literature, American literature and feminist criticism, Wall was the Board of Governors Zora Neale Hurston Professor of English at Rutgers-New Brunswick, […]

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African-American

A Primer on Asian Americans

Asian Americans fight against “the perpetual foreigner syndrome.” That is the sentiment that no matter how much they try to be American — or in fact have always been American — they must be secretly loyal to another nation.

Native Americans

How a Small Tribal College Stepped up to Make Face Shields For Health Workers

Bay Mills Community College, a tribal college in Michigan, got a request from its community two weeks ago, to make face masks for local workers providing key services as the coronavirus spreads. The school’s advanced manufacturing program got to work, designing a lightweight, reusable face shield. Using 3D printing technology, they plan to produce 3,000 shields in three weeks.

Asian American Pacific Islander

SFSU Asian American Studies Chair Documents Trump’s “Chinese Virus” Hate

From March 20- April 1, Dr. Russell Jeung and community activists set up a “Stop-AAPI-Hate” website to record incidents of discrimination toward Asian Americans.

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Native Americans

For Tribal Colleges That Have Always Struggled With Internet Access, Moving Online Isn’t Easy

Tribal colleges and universities – which serve over 16,000 Native American students – have been hard hit by the coronavirus, as they try to support some of the poorest student populations in remote rural areas with limited technology and funds.

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UNCF: $1 Billion for HBCUs, TCUs, MSIs in Federal Coronavirus Stimulus Package

Congress and the White House have agreed to provide $1 billion in emergency funds to historically Black colleges and universities, tribal colleges and universities, and other minority serving institutions to help them cope with the coronavirus pandemic, said the United Negro College Fund in a statement on Wednesday.

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COVID-19 Comes to Campus: What Hurricane Katrina Tells Us About the Current Campus Crisis

We are living in pandemic pandemonium, where panic is the prevailing mode of operation. Every college and university is operating with all hands-on deck, altering their operational norms; the result is that campus employees—academics, practitioners, and leaders—are beyond exhausted. Yet, for those of us who have witnessed campuses in crisis, all of this feels eerily familiar. As two higher education professionals and scholars who worked on the ground through Hurricane Katrina and studied campus crisis response, we are extremely reflective and vigilant about how we move forward in this new reality.

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Asian American Pacific Islander

The President’s Diversity Values Stink

While there is no vaccine for COVID-19 we do have a vaccine for the ignorance of xenophobia. It’s called knowledge. President Trump can use a little of that right now, instead of shooting from the lip as he did numerous times on live television last week.

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