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Asian American Pacific Islander

Recalling an Affirmative Gesture

The college radio station is where I learned to be me. Maybe that’s because the radio audience doesn’t really see me. I was just a voice. Just like on the page or screen, the words are my voice through you. So you don’t instantly reject them. They could be your thoughts.  But listening to me is like me actually getting inside your ear. It’s more passively invasive. And then it all works on your imagination.

Women

Judson College Meets Fundraising Goals, Stays Open

Judson College, the sixth oldest U.S. women’s college will stay open, having met its fundraising goals, Alabama Political Reporter reported. In December, the all-women Alabama school had said that it would close by the year’s end without $500,000 in donations and $1 million in long-term contributions by Dec. 31. “The Judson community surpassed the $500,000 […]

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Washburn University to Name Law School Plaza After Former U.S. Senator Bob Dole

Washburn University will name a new plaza outside its new law school building after former U.S. Senator Bob Dole, with the Washburn University Alumni Association and Foundation announcing that a $1 million matching gift challenge had been completed, WIBW reported. Mark and Lisa Heitz created the challenge to honor Dole, a war hero, native Kansan […]

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Wayne County Community College District to Cut Tuition for Students Registering Jan. 1 to Jan. 19

Wayne County Community College District will cut their tuition in half across all academic and career programs for students who register between Jan. 1 and Jan. 19, 2021 for the spring semester, according to a WCCCD press release. This comes as part of the “New Day, New Way” initiative. Students already registered for the spring […]

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University of Maryland to Name Two Residence Halls After Four Diversity Trailblazers

The University of Maryland is naming two new residence halls after four students who were trailblazers in helping bring diversity to campus, WJLA reported. The halls will be named after Hiram Whittle, the first African American male to be admitted to the university in 1951; Elaine Johnson Coates, the first African American female to graduate […]

African-American

Michigan State University Launches Database of Enslaved Africans

Michigan State University has launched a record database of enslaved Africans and descendants affected by the North Atlantic Slave Trade, WDET reported. Enslaved.org – launched in December – has “archives, museums and family histories that are uniquely linked together,” WDET reported. “The interesting thing about enslaved.org is it has the capacity to link datasets to […]

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Former Congresswoman Appointed Dean of Regent University School of Government

Former Congresswoman Michele Bachmann will be dean of Regent University’s Robertson School of Government, effective Jan. 1, The Virginian-Pilot reported. She was the first Republican woman from Minnesota elected to the House and ran for president in 2012. Bachmann is known for her advocacy of ultraconservative causes, such as banning abortion “even in cases of […]

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Rutgers University Names Residence Hall after Late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Rutgers University will name a residence hall at Rutgers-Newark after the late U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who was also on the Rutgers law faculty, according to a Rutgers press release. 15 Washington Street – a 17-story building in Newark – will be renamed Ruth Bader Ginsburg Hall. Ginsburg was a professor at […]

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Dr. Amy Waer Named Dean of Texas A&M University College of Medicine

Dr. Amy Waer will be dean of the Texas A&M University College of Medicine, effective Jan. 1, according to a Texas A&M press release. Waer has been serving as interim dean since September 2019. During her tenure as interim dean, Waer continued to operate as executive dean for education and academic programs for the college. […]

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Lubbock Christian U Receives $810,000 Gift For Scholarships, Faculty Development

Lubbock Christian University has received a $810,000 gift to fund student scholarships and faculty development from the estates of Bill and Mildred Crozier and Lewis Wayne Crozier, a family from the nearby city of Midland, Texas, reports KCBD 11 news. “The Crozier family’s significant investment into the students and faculty at Lubbock Christian University is […]

HBCUs

Omnibus Spending Deal Includes $1.3 Billion in Debt Relief for HBCUs

Several of Congresswoman Alma Adams’ (NC-12) equity-oriented higher education priorities are included in the FY21 Omnibus spending deal, including her bill, The HBCU Capital Finance Debt Relief Act, which cancels over $1.3 billion in debt held by historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs). According to Adams’ office, the bill also includes “the largest expansion of […]

Community Colleges

Pennsylvania’s Lehigh Carbon Community College Receives $1M From Late Professor Emeritus

A beloved Lehigh Carbon Community College (LCCC) professor who died this year has left nearly $1 million for the college to use as scholarships for students in technology. Clifford F. Miller, who joined LCCC to teach mechanical technology in 1968, was among the first professors at the Pennsylvania college founded just two years prior. Miller […]

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