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Proposed Changes to Rutgers’ Africana Studies Prompt Concerns About Department’s Future
Dr. Walton R. Johnson recently resigned as chair of Rutgers University’s Africana Studies department in protest of a proposal that he says attacks the very existence of his department and discipline.
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Experts To Study Campus Climate, Hiring Practices at UC Riverside
In an effort to address campus diversity complaints from minority faculty, students and alumni, the University of California, Riverside has invited three outside scholars to review faculty hiring policies and investigate the treatment of minority students within the Graduate School of Education.
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Professor Allegedly Makes Racist Remarks in Class at Brandeis University
The professor allegedly used the term “wetbacks” in class, a derogatory expression used to describe immigrants who have crossed the Mexican border illegally. Brandeis University moved swiftly and decisively to correct the situation by placing a monitor in his class, but a faculty committee says the university threatened the professor’s academic freedom to remedy a situation that it hadn’t fully investigated.
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Police: No Suspects, Leads in Columbia University Noose Case
NEW YORK Nearly two months after someone hung a noose on a Black Columbia University professor’s office door, police say they have no suspects in the apparent hate crime that shook the Ivy League campus.
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Revealing Painful Pasts
More than a year ago, Brown University released its landmark report on its connections to slavery, but few universities have followed its lead in examining their own ties.
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Universities Honor First Black Faculty Member, Journalism Graduate With Building Dedications
In October, the University of Missouri named an academic building in honor of its first Black professor, Dr. Arvarh E. Strickland; A little farther east, Ohio University honored its first Black journalism graduate by dedicating a new residence hall in his name last month.
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A Grassroots Effort
Scholars and the public are raising awareness about Ohio’s Newark Earthworks, the world’s largest ancient mound site.
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Universities Are Slow To Reveal Links To Slavery
When Brown University released its landmark report on the institution’s connections to slavery in the fall of 2006, academics and reparations advocates across the country praised the institution, but few universities have followed Brown’s lead in examining their own history with slavery more than one year later.
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Pennsylvania HBCU Seeks to Expand Research Opportunities for Minority Students
Lincoln, a historically Black university in Pennsylvania, has been awarded a five-year grant from the National Science Foundation to design a mentorship program in scientific research as part of a national effort to expand research opportunities for minority students.
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Poll: Majority of Faculty Want Oral Roberts University President Gone
TULSA Okla. More than 80 percent of the faculty at Oral Roberts University do not want Richard Roberts to continue as president of the evangelical school, a new survey shows.
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ORU President Says He Received Prophecy Telling of Troubles
TULSA Okla. Embattled Oral Roberts University President Richard Roberts says he received a prophecy six months ago that troubles were looming.
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Chicano Nationalist Professor Fired Despite Student Protests of Censorship
The teaching contract of a 25-year University of New Mexico instructor, who supports the secession of Southwest states to form an independent Chicano nation, is not being renewed despite protests from students who fear the university is stifling academic freedom.
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