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Section: Demographics
Faculty & Staff
BYU Professor Denied Spot in GOP Race for Chaffetz Seat
SALT LAKE CITY — A judge has denied a Brigham Young University professor’s emergency request to be allowed to run in a packed Republican field to replace outgoing Rep. Jason Chaffetz. Chia-Chi Teng is teaching in China this summer. He tried to file to run in a special election via video conference before last week’s […]
June 4, 2017
Leadership & Policy
First Female and First Black President to Lead St. Petersburg College
PETERSBURG, Fla. — A 30-year employee of St. Petersburg College rode an overwhelming tide of public support to be named the school’s first female and first black president. The Tampa Bay Times reports that 53-year-old Tonjua Williams was named recently as the school’s new leader. Williams will take the reins amid faculty discontent and financial […]
June 4, 2017
Leadership & Policy
Tuskegee Turns Again to Morris as Interim President
The Tuskegee University Board of Trustees has appointed Dr. Charlotte P. Morris to serve as the interim president of the institution beginning July.
June 1, 2017
Students
63 Years after Brown, Segregated Schools Fight Takes Interesting Turn
Brown vs Board of Education removed the barrier of denying people of color their right to an education, but 63 years later the fight to ensure that students attend a “good school” continues.
June 1, 2017
Faculty & Staff
Remembering Samuel DuBois Cook
Higher education stalwart Dr. Samuel DuBois Cook, a political scientist and human rights activist, died Monday in Atlanta at age 88.
June 1, 2017
Faculty & Staff
Princeton Professor Cancels Lectures After Speech Leads to Threats
TRENTON, N.J. — A Princeton University professor says she canceled lectures this week after receiving death threats following a commencement address in which she called President Donald Trump “a racist and sexist megalomaniac.” Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, an assistant professor of African American Studies at the Ivy League school in New Jersey, spoke to graduates at Hampshire […]
June 1, 2017
Students
Threat Closes Evergreen State College After Protests Over Race
OLYMPIA, Wash. — A small college in Washington state closed abruptly Thursday in response to a threat following a recent series of protests that have drawn national attention to student allegations of racism on the progressive campus. It comes as many defenders of the First Amendment say they see signs that free speech is losing […]
June 1, 2017
Women
Muslim Activist Critical of Israel is Cheered at Graduation
NEW YORK — A Muslim-American activist whose role as a commencement speaker had come under protest from critics opposing her stance on Israel was given a standing ovation by graduating students Thursday after she told them they must commit to demanding change. “We in this room together must commit to never being bystanders to poverty, […]
June 1, 2017
Leadership & Policy
Cox Appointed to Alabama A&M Board of Trustees
Dr. William E. Cox, president & CEO of Diverse: Issues In Higher Education, has been appointed to the board of trustees of his alma mater, Alabama A&M University.
May 31, 2017
Leadership & Policy
Pogue Retires from Cheyney University, Ready for Next Challenge
A successful veteran higher-education executive who has been characterized by peers as among a group of “presidents-for-rent” has retired for the fifth time, saying he already has plans to continue working in higher ed.
May 31, 2017
Women
Daughter of Woman Central to South Korea Scandal Returns to Seoul
SEOUL, South Korea — She is probably the most loathed 20-year-old in South Korea, the privileged daughter of the woman at the center of a political scandal that brought down a president. After several months in detention in Denmark, Chung Yoo-ra returned to her home country in a hoodie and handcuffs Wednesday to be questioned […]
May 31, 2017
Leadership & Policy
Bynum Named Jackson State President Despite Opposition
JACKSON, Miss. — College Board trustees are naming William Bynum as the next president of Jackson State University despite opposition from some students and alumni. The board had already named Bynum, now president of Mississippi Valley State University, as its preferred candidate last week. Bynum says he can lead Jackson State out of financial difficulties, […]
May 31, 2017
Students
Gender-inclusive Locker Room Planned for UC Berkeley
BERKELEY, Calif. — The University of California, Berkeley plans to build a gender-inclusive locker room at its campus gym. When the locker room opens next year it will include private changing rooms, showers, lockers and bathrooms stalls. It will also serve as a gender-neutral access point to the campus swim facility. Campus officials say men, […]
May 31, 2017
Students
Baylor Adds Officers, Counselors Amid Sex Assault Lawsuits
WACO, Texas — Baylor University’s outgoing president says additional police officers have been hired and the number of campus counselors doubled as the school works to improve its response to sexual assault complaints. Interim President David Garland also says in the Waco Tribune-Herald column that additional staff members have been added to the Title IX […]
May 30, 2017
Faculty & Staff
Diverse Docket: Bias Suit Against Va. Union May Proceed
A White former assistant professor can seek damages from Virginia Union University for alleged discrimination in its decision not to renew her contract but not for a reprimand she received, a federal judge ruled.
May 30, 2017
Leadership & Policy
LGBTQ College Presidents: Work Not Over for Those Who are ‘Out’
When Dr. Raymond E. Crossman, president of Adler University, first helped to launch LGBTQ Presidents in Higher Education back in 2010, it began with only a dozen or so members.
May 30, 2017
Students
Advocates View HBCUs’ Future Warily
TMCF President Johnny C. Taylor, Jr. suggested that HBCUs and their advocates need to begin planning what the institutions need to look like 50 years from now, to ensure they are keeping up with the constant changes in the generations to come.
May 29, 2017
Leadership & Policy
Tuskegee University Fires President Johnson
Tuskegee University — the private Alabama institution founded by Booker T. Washington — has fired its current president.
May 29, 2017
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