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Ole Miss Ex-student Pleads Guilty to Tying Noose on Statue
A former University of Mississippi student could face up to a year in prison after pleading guilty Thursday to placing a noose on the school’s statue of its first Black student. Austin Reed Edenfield waived indictment and pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor charge before U.S. District Judge Michael Mills in Oxford. The charge says Edenfield […]
March 24, 2016
Students
University of California OKs Statement Against Anti-Semitism
SAN FRANCISCO ― The University of California’s governing board adopted a statement condemning anti-Semitic behavior on Thursday, becoming the first public university system to do so since campaigns for academic and economic boycotts of Israel have taken root on many U.S. college campuses. The board also unanimously and without discussion adopted a companion report urging […]
March 24, 2016
Students
East Carolina University Reviewing Officer Handcuffing Assault Victim
GREENVILLE, N.C. ― A North Carolina university is conducting an internal review after one of its white police officers handcuffed a Black man who had just been brutally beaten by four White people. East Carolina University officials were appalled by the incident, which began off campus, but spilled onto the university when the man running […]
March 24, 2016
Students
U.S. Government Cuts Grants to Jewish College, Citing Fraud
WEST BLOOMFIELD, Mich. ― The federal government has barred a Jewish college in suburban Detroit from participating in a popular grant program after finding that thousands of students lived full-time in Israel and weren’t taking classes through the school. The Michigan Jewish Institute broke its fiduciary duty to the U.S. Education Department, which supplies Pell […]
March 23, 2016
Students
NRA Leader Praises Liberty U. for Allowing Concealed Carry
LYNCHBURG, Va. ― The CEO of the National Rifle Association is praising Liberty University for allowing qualified students to carry concealed handguns on campus. Wayne LaPierre said Liberty was one of the safest places in the country at the college’s regular three-times-weekly convocation on Wednesday. The News & Advance reports that LaPierre praised students who […]
March 23, 2016
Students
UMKC Takes Issue with Education Trust Report Conclusion
According to UMKC, the university is concerned primarily with providing full access to all members of the community, and that Education Trust’s numbers do not tell the full story.
March 23, 2016
Students
University of California Approves Anti-Semitism Statement
SAN FRANCISCO ― A University of California committee agreed Wednesday to single out anti-Semitism as a form of intolerance that campus leaders should challenge but rejected a more far-reaching denouncement of arguments against Israel’s right to exist. A year in the making, the formal position opposing anti-Semitic behavior comes amid a wave of impassioned campus […]
March 23, 2016
Students
Report: Black Student Graduation Rates Improving at Slower Rate Than Whites
A recent report released by the Education Trust found that Black student graduation rates improved by 4.4 percent compared to 5.6 percent for White students.
March 22, 2016
Students
Program to Help Pay for Community College for Detroit Grads
By Associated Press DETROIT — Detroit will start using state education tax dollars to fund a program that will pay for two years of community college for the city’s high school graduates. Detroit Promise scholarships will be available to students starting in 2018. The program follows promise zone legislation passed years ago by state lawmakers […]
March 22, 2016
Students
Baylor Professor Holds Infant for 55-Minute Lecture After Student’s Sitter Falls Through
When Baylor University professor Darryn Willoughby saw Katy Humphrey’s 4 1/2-month-old daughter starting to fuss in the front row of his class, he didn’t think twice about scooping up the little one and and cradling her during his 55-minute lecture. Humphrey, who is a wife and full-time mother, brought Millie to class earlier this month […]
March 22, 2016
Students
TANAYA M. WALTERS
TANAYA M. WALTERS has been appointed vice president for student affairs at Clark Atlanta University. She was dean of students at Johnson and Wales University in North Carolina. Walters earned a bachelor’s and a master’s from Johnson and Wales.
March 22, 2016
Students
The Benefits of Campus Activism
Student unrest and campus activism historically has been responsible in many ways for bringing about justifiable and positive changes in academe.
March 21, 2016
Students
Diverse Docket: Nigerian-born Student Loses Bias Suit
A Nigerian-born graduate student who failed his doctoral qualifying exam three times has lost a lawsuit accusing Golden Gate University of discrimination and other claims.
March 18, 2016
Students
Diverse on the Go
Vice President Will Cox is representing Diverse at the AAC&U Diversity, Learning, and Student Success 2016 Conference in Philadelphia today through Friday.
March 18, 2016
Students
Free Speech Bill Withdrawn After Islamic State Comments
NASHVILLE, Tenn. ― A Republican lawmaker on Thursday defended his comments that free speech rights on Tennessee college campuses should apply to everyone ― even recruiters for the Islamic State group. State Rep. Martin Daniel of Knoxville said on the floor of the state House that he supports First Amendment rights for people and groups […]
March 17, 2016
Students
Meet the Teen Who Just Won $150,000 for Inventing a Device to Diagnose Lung Disease
California student Maya Varma has won the top prize for innovation at one of the nation’s largest and most prestigious high school science competitions, taking home $150,000 for inventing a new device to diagnose chronic lung diseases. “I’m so excited. I didn’t expect to receive an award, and it was such a surprise,” Varma said […]
March 16, 2016
Students
Former Oregon Basketball Players Sue After Rape Accusations
LANE COUNTY, Ore. ― Two former University of Oregon basketball players dismissed in 2014 as a result of rape allegations involving a freshman student are suing the university for $10 million each. The lawsuit was filed Tuesday by Dominic Artis and Damyean Dotson in Lane County Circuit Court, The Oregonian reported. More than four months […]
March 16, 2016
Students
Missouri Interim President: Faculty on Frontline of Quest for Diversity
The National Association of Diversity Officers in Higher Education and the American Council on Education held joint sessions at their co-located annual meetings on Tuesday with a heavy diversity emphasis.
March 16, 2016
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