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News Roundup: Page 93
News Roundup
GWU Professor Resigns Amidst Backlash Over Years Of Lying About Being Black
CNN reported that George Washington University (GWU) announced that Dr. Jessica Krug has resigned from her faculty position at the university. This resignation came less than a week after university officials decided that she would not be teaching this semester after it was revealed that she had been lying for years about being Black. “Dr. […]
African-American
VSU Possibly Offering Nation’s First-Ever History Course on HBCUs
As the fall semester is already underway virtually for students at Virginia State University, one VSU history course, History 349 – HBCU History, “is getting national attention because it may be the country’s first-ever class to teach about the origins of Historically Black Colleges and Universities,” WWBT-TV reported. According to WWBT-TV, “this new 300 level course […]
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GW Faculty Senate to Debate Resolution on Censure of President LeBlanc
The Faculty Senate will debate a resolution to censure George Washington University President Thomas LeBlanc over the appointment of Heather Swain at its meeting Friday, The GW Hatchet reported. According to The GW Hatchet, “Swain, who was hired last month as the new vice president for communications and marketing, withdrew her offer after widespread criticism […]
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Syracuse University Restarts Initiative to Hire Faculty from Minority Groups
The Daily Orange reported that a Syracuse University (SU) initiative “to recruit and retain faculty from underrepresented groups has restarted this fall despite a faculty hiring freeze.” According to the The Daily Orange, LaVonda Reed, Syracuse’s associate provost for faculty affairs, said that SU “enacted hiring freezes for faculty and staff in the spring to […]
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SIUE Hiring New Faculty Members to Increase Diversity in Educators
Southern Illinois University Edwardsville (SIUE) is hiring four new faculty members at the urging of Dr. Robin Hughes, dean of the SIUE school of education, health and human behavior, KMOV4 reported. The cluster hire was requested by Hughes, “who stressed the need for hiring more faculty of color,” according to KMOV4. “We know that it […]
Sports
Catana Starks, the First African American Woman to Coach a Collegiate Men’s Golf Team, Dead at 75
Dr. Catana Starks, a Tennessee State University golf coach and alumna, died on Sunday at the age of 75. She leaves behind a legacy of being the first African American woman to coach an all-men’s team at the collegiate level, reports WMC5 News. Starks coached the TSU men’s golf team from 1986 to 2005, leading […]
COVID-19
‘Disappointed’ UW-Madison Student Leaders Ask the University to Move All Classes Online
Elected student government leaders at the University of Wisconsin-Madison are asking that the school move to an all-virtual format, amid other requests, saying it is “disappointed with the University’s leadership in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic.” In a letter, later published by WKOW news, the Associated Students of Madison wrote, “The University must understand […]
News Roundup
West Virginia U Suspends In-Person Classes After Increase in Cases and Holiday Weekend Parties
West Virginia University is suspending in-person classes at its main campus in Morgantown through Sept. 25 following a recent spike in COVID-19 infections among students there, reports NBC news. All courses, besides graduate-level and professional courses, will be online during that period. According to university officials, the decision was in direct response to both the […]
News Roundup
GW History Dept. to Dr. Jessica Krug: Resign
George Washington University’s Department of History has responded to the news that one its faculty members, Dr. Jessica Krug, lied about having an Afro-Caribbean identity throughout her entire career as an African and Latin American studies professor. She is a White woman. In a statement released Thursday, the department described itself as “shocked” and “appalled,” […]
Sports
St. Louis Cardinals’ Lou Brock, ‘The Greatest Base-Stealer Ever Known’, Dead at 81
Lou Brock, the St. Louis Cardinals’ Hall of Fame outfielder who “became the greatest base-stealer the major leagues had ever known,” died on Sunday at age 81, reports The New York Times. By the end of his 1961-1979 career, Brock held a batting average of .293, had hit 149 home runs and had scored 1,610 […]
News Roundup
College Promise, ETS Report Identifies the Needs of Five Student Populations
The College Promise and Educational Testing Service (ETS) have published the results of a multi-year study intended to identify and understand the “supports and services” essential to student success in five different student populations: traditional students (high school to college – predominantly first generation); new and returning adult students; DREAMers; student veterans; and justice-impacted students. “This report […]
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White Professor of African Studies Confesses to Having Lied About Being Black For Years
An African and Latin American studies professor at George Washington University recently revealed that she is actually a White woman who has lied about being Black throughout most of her adult life and professional career. In her own post to Medium, associate professor Dr. Jessica Krug, confessed that, “To an escalating degree over my adult […]
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