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News Roundup: Page 239
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Swastikas Painted on Wall Outside of Professor’s Office Triggers Investigation
Dr. Elizabeth Midlarsky, a Jewish professor at Columbia University’s Teachers College who teaches and researches the Holocaust, was heading to her office on Wednesday when she found two swastikas, an painted on the walls outside her office. “I was in shock. I stopped for a moment, because I couldn’t believe what I was seeing,” Midlarsky […]
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Data Shows Pay Gap Still Exist for British Women With Degrees
A recent data analysis by the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) shows that women who attended a university in England benefit more than women without degrees who earn similar incomes of men in the same age group who didn’t attend university after high school. The data that was used in the analysis comes from longitudinal […]
Women
Report Shows Continued Discrimination for Women, People of Color in U.S. Businesses
A recent research report by Bentley University’s Gloria Cordes Larson Center for Women and Business (CWB) details the reasons why women and women of color are disappearing from the career pipeline. Such factors include structural barriers and unconscious bias against working mothers. Using research and media coverage, the CWB found that entry-level women make 20 […]
Women
Michigan State University Police Department Appoints First Female Chief
Deputy Chief Kelly Roudebush, a 24-year veteran of the Michigan State University Police Department will make history and become the first woman to be the chief of the department, effective Jan. 1, 2019. Roudebush has previously served in the department as a field training officer, canine handler, threat assessment team commander, and uniform division captain, […]
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Mt. Ida College Sued by Three Former Students
Three former Mt. Ida College students have filed a lawsuit against the college, former administrators and trustees, claiming they were victims of misrepresentation, fraud and invasion of privacy. Mt. Ida College students were forced to find another institution to attend after the school closed in May as a result of merger discussions with Lasell College. […]
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University of Maryland Faced with Adenovirus Outbreak
One week after a freshman at the University of Maryland died from complications related to the adenovirus, the university reported the disease has affected three more students. Eighteen-year-old Olivia Paregol died on Nov. 18 at Johns Hopkins Hospital after being in and out of the hospital after developing a cough and then pneumonia earlier in […]
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Small-Scale Model of Booker T. Washington Monument to be Restored
After Tuskegee University (TU)’s most well-known campus landmark, the Booker T. Washington Monument was renovated in April, the small-scale model of the sculpture is now being remodeled. Since the monument was placed on the campus in 1922, the statue had gathered tons of layers of grime, tree sap and other impurities, according to a Tuskegee release. […]
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Chick-fil-A No Longer an Option at Rider University
After polling its student body about what restaurant they wanted on campus, Rider University, a private institution located in central New Jersey, removed Chick-fil-A as an option based on the restaurant being “widely perceived to be in opposition to the LGBTQ+ community.” Rider administrators sent a letter to the campus community stating that they intended […]
Sports
FSU President Responds to Racist Facebook Image Targeting Willie Taggart
Following Florida State University (FSU)’s loss against University of Florida, 14-41, on Saturday, a Facebook user posted a racist image targeted at head football coach Willie Taggart. The photograph shows a man hanging from a noose with coach Taggart’s face photoshopped over the victim’s head with the caption, “#JustDoIt” and “#FireTaggart” according to WCTV News. […]
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Brown University to Evaluate new Proposed Revisions to Title IX Regulations
In the wake of the release of the U.S. Department of Education’s proposed revisions to Title IX regulations, Brown University has announced that it will assess the proposal and provide feedback to the Department on the revisions. The Department of Education’s proposed changes would alter how higher education institutions and public schools investigate sexual misconduct […]
Sports
Grant to Support Sports-Related Concussion Research
Winston-Salem State University (WSSU) was awarded grant funding to support the university’s involvement in the largest-ever study of sports-related concussions, led by the Department of Defense and the NCAA. WSSU is one of 30 universities in the U.S. that is participating in the study, and is the only historically Black college or university involved with […]
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Study Shows Lack of Gender Equity in Higher Ed Leadership
Women in Massachusetts represent half of all provosts and deans in the state, and more than one-third of institutions have never had a female president. Among all of the colleges and universities surveyed, 26 have less than 30 percent female board members. That was the findings of the a new report released by the Eos […]
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