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Charges Against NY College Students who Claimed Bias Attack

ALBANY, N.Y. ― Three 20-year-old Black female college students who claimed a group of White men and women harassed them with racial slurs aboard a city bus are being charged with assault. Officials at the University at Albany announced Thursday that two of the women, Ariel Agudio and Asha Burwell, both of Long Island, also […]

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RUQAIIJAH A. YEARBY

RUQAIIJAH A. YEARBY has been named associate dean of institutional diversity and inclusiveness at the Case Western Reserve University School of Law. She is a professor of law, associate director of the Law-Medicine Center and Oliver C. Schroeder Jr. Distinguished Research Scholar at Case Western Reserve. Yearby earned a bachelor’s from the University of Michigan, a master’s from Johns Hopkins and a juris doctor from Georgetown University.

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KATHY BRITTAIN RICHARDSON

KATHY BRITTAIN RICHARDSON has been appointed president of Westminster College, effective July 1. She is provost and a professor of communication at Berry College in Georgia. Richardson earned a bachelor’s from Shorter College, and a master’s and a doctorate from the University of Georgia.

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BRYAN TERRY

BRYAN TERRY has been appointed vice chancellor for enrollment management at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. He was associate provost for enrollment management at UNC-Greensboro. Terry earned a bachelor’s from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, an MBA from Fontbonne University and a doctorate from Illinois State University.

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MARTA ELENA ESQUILIN

MARTA ELENA ESQUILIN was appointed assistant professor of professional practice and associate dean of the Honors Living-Learning Community at Rutgers University-Newark. Esquilin was director of Intercultural Resources and Social Justice Programs at Columbia University. Esquilin earned a bachelor’s from the University of Vermont and a master’s from Teachers College, Columbia University.

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LISA LARSON

LISA LARSON has been appointed president of Eastern Maine Community College. She is vice president for academic and student affairs at Hennepin Technical College. Larson earned a bachelor’s from Northern State University, a master’s from Minnesota State University, Mankato and a doctorate from St. Mary’s University of Minnesota.

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Diverse Docket: Judge Squashes Bias Suit Against Howard University

U.S. District Judge Richard Leon threw out a suit by Jeannette Frett, a $150,000-a-year senior director and chief talent officer in Howard’s Office of Talent Management.

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Corporations Beginning to See Value of Supporting HBCUs

Recent headlines have shared historic announcements by many leading corporations of their new commitment to supporting greater diversity in science, technology, engineering and math.

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President Obama Nominates First African-American Librarian of Congress

President Barack Obama has nominated the longtime head of Baltimore’s library system as the next Librarian of Congress. Carla Hayden would be the 14th Librarian of Congress in the institution’s 214-year history and the first woman and the first African-American to hold the position. Obama announced her appointment on Wednesday. If confirmed by the Senate, […]

Librarian of Congress, Carla Hayden

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Booker T. Washington: A Complicated Legacy

Booker T. Washington’s curriculum practice of connecting education to the social life and needs of his students in furtherance of the democratic prospect was powerfully unique and created a vision for future generations of educators.

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ED Seeks More Accurate Measures of Disproportionality in Special Education

The Department of Education wants states to start using a standardized methodology to determine whether they are identifying minority students for special education services at a disproportionately high rate.

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Changing the Political Rhetoric Surrounding HBCUs

Politics are an important cornerstone of American culture.

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