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Sports
WNBA Players Readily Step Up into Activist Role
Experts discuss the female athletes’ civic responsibilities and whether these role models have the latitude to express what matters to them vs. what matters to the league and its sponsors.
African-American
Higher Ed, Civil Rights Groups Should Explore Areas of Convergence
There is plenty of common ground between universities and civil rights groups that needs to be uplifted and utilized. There is a gulf that needs to be filled.
Students
Colleges Renew STEM Push With Diversity in Mind
Colleges and universities readjust their focus on STEM education amid a declining interest from college-bound students.
Students
University of Wisconsin-Madison to Test Diversity Program
MADISON, Wis. ― The University of Wisconsin-Madison is creating a diversity program for its incoming freshmen students after a series of race-related incidents have occurred on campus. The campus will test the program, called Our Wisconsin, on up to 1,000 freshmen to allow students to learn about themselves and others, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported. […]
Students
Federal Judge Grills GOP Lawyers Over Need for Bathroom Law
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. ― A federal judge lobbed tough questions at GOP lawyers Monday as he considered whether to block a North Carolina legal measure governing transgender bathroom access, asking pointedly how the law was making people safer. The Republican lawyers urged U.S. District Judge Thomas Schroeder to deny the preliminary injunction sought by transgender plaintiffs, […]
Leadership & Policy
Franklin Pierce University has 1st Woman President
RINDGE, N.H. ― Franklin Pierce University’s new president is the first alumna and first woman to occupy the position. Kim Mooney, who started Monday, served on the university’s Board of Trustees for seven years. She was interim president for six months before serving as provost and vice president of academic affairs for another seven years. […]
Leadership & Policy
Yale to Revisit Name of College Honoring Slavery Supporter
NEW HAVEN, Conn. ― Yale University said Monday it will reconsider the decision to keep the name of a residential college named for John C. Calhoun, a 19th-century alumnus and ardent supporter of slavery. Yale President Peter Salovey announced in April that the university was preserving the name of Calhoun College, defying protesters who railed […]
Leadership & Policy
Ronald Carter to Step Down as Johnson C. Smith President in 2017
Dr. Ronald L. Carter, president of Johnson C. Smith University since 2008, announced his intention to step aside as leader of the historically Black institution in June 2017. Carter, in a letter sent to JCSU stakeholders on Monday, indicated that the university had completed the goals of the 2008-2017 Strategic Plan implemented when he took […]
African-American
The Perverse Affinity for Defending Slavery
One can only wonder what would make any rational, decent human being assert that slavery was a good thing.
Students
Former Oregon State Fraternity Member Found Guilty of Rape
CORVALLIS, Ore. ― A former Oregon State University student has been found guilty of raping a woman at the Phi Kappa Psi fraternity last year. The Corvallis Gazette-Times reports that Tyler Lazell Warren on Wednesday was found guilty of rape, sexual abuse and burglary in connection with the July 2015 incident at the fraternity. Warren […]
Faculty & Staff
The High Price of Pregnancy While on the Academic Job Market
Although a woman who is currently employed and becomes pregnant has (limited) legal protections afforded to her in the form of FMLA, there is little protection for a woman searching for a job while pregnant.
African-American
Black Scholars Take Issue with Obama on Police Encounters
President Obama suggested that Hillary Clinton is the best candidate in the 2016 presidential race because she knows “the worry Black parents feel when their son leaves the house isn’t so different than what a brave cop’s family feels when he puts on the blue and goes to work.”
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