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African-American

Obama’s 2017 Budget Freezes Funding for Most Low-income Student Aid Programs

President Barack Obama’s proposed fiscal 2017 budget freezes funding for most higher education and student aid programs that serve low-income and minority students, according to a budget analysis released Thursday on Capitol Hill.

March 31, 2016

Harvard Taking More Steps to Acknowledge its Ties to Slavery

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. ― Harvard’s president says the Ivy league university will do more to acknowledge its ties to slavery. University President Drew Faust announced Wednesday in an op-ed in the student newspaper that the nearly 400-year-old institution will install a plaque next month at the former home for college presidents to recognize the slaves who […]

March 31, 2016

Emmert: North Carolina Law Could Make NCAA Turn Away

HOUSTON ― For the second straight year, NCAA President Mark Emmert faced questions at his Final Four news conference about a state’s religious exemption law that critics say allows discrimination against gays, lesbians and others. And for the second straight year, Emmert said the association is prepared to refrain from doing business in that state […]

March 31, 2016

More Students Seeing the World Without Getting Credits

A survey found that roughly half of the 227 institutions responding reported an increase in the number of students who participated in non-credit education abroad for the 2012-13 academic year over the previous year.

March 30, 2016

Courtney Allen Allen said her non-credit educational activities in Panama helped better prepare her for the workforce.

UVA Student Group Supporting Undocumented Students Finds Its Footing

A new student group at the University of Virginia—DREAMers on Grounds—is working to create a support network for students who are either undocumented or who have received DACA benefits.

March 30, 2016

Pitt Settles Locker Room Case with Transgender Student

JOHNSTOWN, Pa. ― The University of Pittsburgh has settled a lawsuit brought by a transgender student who said he was wrongfully expelled from its Johnstown campus after a dispute over his use of a men’s locker room. Television station WJAC first reported the settlement Wednesday between the university and Seamus Johnston. Settlement terms haven’t been […]

March 30, 2016

African-American

Glaude’s Book Examines Devaluing of Black Lives

Text examines how Black lives continue to be rendered insignificant in an era when many thought that the election of the nation’s first Black president would signify a dramatic shift in race relations.

March 30, 2016

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Chicago State Backs Off Request that Employees Turn in Keys

CHICAGO ― Chicago State University backtracked Wednesday from a plan to collect keys from faculty and staff members, instead announcing that it would take an inventory of keys that might have to be collected should layoffs be necessary amid the state’s financial crisis. Administrator Aleshia Renee Terry had asked deans on Monday to begin collecting […]

March 30, 2016

African-American

Report: Many Black, Hispanic Science Majors Err in Choosing Elite Cal Campuses

Many of the Black and Hispanic undergraduates majoring in sciences at the two most selective University of California campuses during the 1990s might have been better off academically and financially if they had attended lower-ranked UC counterparts.

March 29, 2016

HBCUs One Answer to Selective Public High Schools’ ‘Diversity Problem’

Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) have a longstanding commitment to social justice issues—such as educational equity and opportunity.

March 28, 2016

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Leadership & Policy

Putting Emory Chalk Talk in Perspective

The students felt terrorized by a number of chalk graffiti markings that indicate a preference for the presidential candidacy of Donald Trump.

March 28, 2016

Faculty Criticize UC Berkeley Over Sexual Harassment Claims

BERKELEY, Calif. ― University of California, Berkeley faculty members are condemning the university’s handling of yet another sexual harassment case. The San Francisco Chronicle reports Monday that in a letter to Vice Provost Janet Broughton, tenured professors in Berkeley’s South and Southeast Asian Studies department say they are frustrated that numerous complaints against an assistant […]

March 28, 2016

Student Who Says He Was Expelled for Rough Sex Wins Lawsuit

McLEAN, Va. ― A student who said he was wrongly expelled from George Mason University for engaging in consensual, sadomasochistic sex has won a federal lawsuit demanding his reinstatement. The student, who is identified only as John Doe in the lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court in Alexandria, was expelled in 2014. His ex-girlfriend said […]

March 28, 2016

African-American

After Protest, ‘The Bell Curve’ Author Sails Through Lecture

But for all the things the protesters at Virginia Tech had to say about Murray and his writings, when the time came to say something directly to Murray during the Q&A, the protesters offered not a peep.

March 27, 2016

U. of California Boss to Monitor Campus’ Anti-harassment Plan

BERKELEY, Calif. ― University of California President Janet Napolitano announced Saturday it will closely monitor UC Berkeley’s efforts to address sexual harassment complaints and assaults on campus following an outcry over what some saw as light-handed discipline of faculty members who sexually harassed students and staff. Napolitano said in a statement that UC Berkeley Chancellor […]

March 27, 2016

Mizzou Diversity Officer Ready ‘to Help Effect Transformational Change’

Dr. Kevin McDonald’s appointment comes amid a challenging year for the University of Missouri System.

March 27, 2016

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Leadership & Policy

Cornell Taps Former Leader After President’s Death

ITHACA, N.Y. ― Cornell University says Hunter Rawlings III will once again serve as interim president while the school seeks to replace its deceased leader. Rawlings is a 71-year-old professor emeritus of classics who was Cornell president from 1995 to 2003 and interim president in 2005 and 2006. He is taking the interim presidency again […]

March 24, 2016

California Jury Rejects Graduate’s Suit Against Law School

SAN DIEGO ― A jury found Thursday that a San Diego law school did not mislead a graduate who sued on the grounds she was lured to the school by false promises that her degree would land her a job after graduating. The San Diego Superior Court jury rejected Anna Alaburda’s claim against the Thomas […]

March 24, 2016