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Celebrating Differences Among Students

Celebrating the cultural differences between students in the classroom helps to create a nurturing environment.

Topeka Korean School Keeps Heritage Alive

by Associated Press TOPEKA, Kan. — A longstanding school that is the subject of a recent documentary works to maintain traditions and culture for second-generation Korean-Americans. The Topeka Korean School was founded in 1993, said Sangyoub Park, associate principal at the school and a Washburn University sociology professor, The Topeka Capital-Journal reports. The Korean school […]

Diverse Docket: Former NCCU Football Coach Suffers Another Legal Loss

Fired North Carolina Central University head football coach Henry Frazier III has lost another round in his wrongful termination suit.

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Leadership & Policy

University of Kansas Chancellor Addresses Diversity Issues

LAWRENCE, Kan. — The University of Kansas’ chancellor says hiring a new provost and addressing campus concerns about race are among her top priorities. The Lawrence Journal-World reports Chancellor Bernadette Gray-Little was hired by the university in 2009. She says it is expected to take six to nine months to hire a new provost. […]

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Tradition of Exclusion at PWIs Harmful for Diversity

The success that HBCUs, tribal colleges, Hispanic-Serving Institutions and other minority-serving colleges have with maintaining diversity on their campuses can be attributed to their mission, sense of community and inclusion.

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Faculty & Staff

White Boys’ Club? White Faculty Still Dominates in National Stats

Numbers buttress student protestors’ diversity demands.

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Race Amity Over Enmity Focus of Recent Conference

Expert says, although history books and contemporary media are replete with accounts of enmity between the races, there is a long history of race amity that has not received the same level of attention.

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Black Youth Filling the Leadership Void

Black youth have endured a complicated assault of abuse, criticism and relative political abandonment by Black political, spiritual and even educational leadership.

Study: Diversity on Campuses Impacts Religious, Sexual Identity Worldviews

Co-author adds that institutions must think carefully about how educators are structuring the opportunities for students to interact across their differences.

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Mississippi Supreme Court OKs More Student Work for Poor

JACKSON, Miss. ― Law students will be able to do more legal work for poor Mississippi residents under a rule recently approved by the state Supreme Court. Students attending law schools in other states and those who are not getting course credit for the work can now help attorneys representing people who cannot pay, said […]

Colleges Trying to Find Ways to Deal with Racial Incidents

WASHINGTON ― Officials were slow to handle racial incidents at the University of Missouri, and that contributed to protests, a student hunger strike, a threatened boycott by the football team and ultimately, the resignations of two administrators. At the University of Oklahoma, damage over a racist chant that was caught on video was kept to […]

UVa Looks to Private Donors to Fund Student Financial Aid

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. ― The University of Virginia is increasingly looking to private donors to cover tuition costs for low-income students amid shrinking state funding. Virginia’s flagship public university currently raises more than $10 million a year for need-based scholarships, UVa spokesman Anthony de Bryun told the Charlottesville Daily Progress. That’s up from $1.5 million that […]

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