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University of Missouri Football Players Boycott

More than 30 football players from the University of Missouri have decided to boycott all team activities until President Tim Wolfe resigns or is fired.

African-American

HBCU Leadership: Black Colleges Still Matter

HBCU leaders, alumni and supporters gathered in Philadelphia last week for a town hall to discuss the way ahead for historically Black colleges.

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Faculty & Staff

Union Push Gains Steam Among Yale, Harvard Grad Students

Efforts to unionize graduate students at private universities are gaining momentum as the National Labor Relations Board shows new openness to arguments that they are not just students, but also school employees.

5 Stabbed, Attacker Killed at U. of California, Merced

An assailant stabbed five people as students headed to class at a rural university campus in central California before police shot and killed him, authorities said Wednesday.

Faculty & Staff

CINDY D. KAM

CINDY D. KAM was named William R. Kenan Jr. Chair in the Department of Political Science at Vanderbilt University. She also serves as senior associate dean for faculty in the College of Arts and Science and is the director of the Research on Individuals, Politics & Society Laboratory at Vanderbilt. Kam holds a bachelor’s from Princeton University, and a master’s and a doctorate from the University of Michigan.

Community Colleges

MILAGROS PEÑA

MILAGROS PEÑA has been appointed dean of the College of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences at the University of California, Riverside. She was associate dean for behavioral and social sciences at the University of Florida College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. Peña earned a bachelor’s from Iona College in New York, a master’s from the Union Theological Seminary in New York, and a master’s degree and a doctorate from Stony Brook University of the State University of New York.

Community Colleges

DAVID M. STEELE-FIGUEREDO

DAVID M. STEELE-FIGUEREDO has been named president of Woodbury University, effective Nov. 16. He was dean of San Jose State University’s Lucas College & Graduate School of Business. He earned a bachelor’s and a doctorate from Birmingham University in England.

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Community Colleges

DWIGHT C. WATSON

DWIGHT C. WATSON has been named provost and vice president for academic and student affairs at Southwest Minnesota State University in Marshall, Minnesota. He was dean of the College of Education at the University of Northern Iowa. Watson earned an associate from the University of South Carolina Sumter, a bachelor’s and a master’s from the University of South Carolina in Columbia, and a doctorate from North Carolina State University.

Faculty & Staff

Yale University Devotes $50M to boosting Faculty Diversity

Yale University says it will devote $50 million over the next five years to increasing the diversity of its faculty.

Faculty & Staff

Welcome Aboard!

Iraolyn Humphreys has joined the Diverse family as an Advertising Account Manager. She has 10 years of sales and account management experience in the government and commercial space. She is a writer and music enthusiast and enjoys college football.

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Leadership & Policy

Harvard Law Professor Larry Lessig Ends Presidential Bid

Harvard law professor Larry Lessig is ending his bid for the Democratic presidential nomination.

Faculty & Staff

South Carolina State Responds to Segregation Lawsuit

South Carolina’s only historically Black public university says that it has immunity and that current and former students who brought a federal court lawsuit alleging that the state operates a segregated system of higher education have no standing to sue.

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