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Section: Demographics
Leadership & Policy
University of Illinois Strengthening Ties with Mexico
URBANA, Ill. — The University of Illinois is strengthening its ties with Mexico through new academic and research partnerships. The (Champaign) News-Gazette reports university President Tim Killeen signed agreements during a trip to Mexico last week. He says they are part of the university’s efforts to diversify international student enrollment and increase its global impact. […]
November 27, 2016
Students
Diverse Conversations: What Professor Esolen Gets Right About Diversity
History professor Anthony Esolen recently came under fire when he penned an article for Crisis magazine that questioned the push for diversity at his workplace: Catholic institution Providence College.
November 22, 2016
Students
Reclaiming Heritage Pays Off for Miami University’s Native American Students
A program at Miami University in Ohio offering language and cultural revitalization for members of the Miami Tribe of Oklahoma has led to graduation rates more than double the national average for Native American college students.
November 22, 2016
Faculty & Staff
IPFW Faculty Senate Gives No Confidence Vote to Chancellor
FORT WAYNE, Ind. — The Faculty Senate at Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne has given a vote of no confidence to Chancellor Vicky Carwein after about half the school’s tenured faculty signed a petition to oust her. The Journal Gazette reports Carwein sent an email to the campus community after the vote stating her intention […]
November 22, 2016
Leadership & Policy
Guiyou Huang Named LSU-Alexandria Chancellor
BATON ROUGE, La. — Louisiana State University-Alexandria has a new chancellor. LSU President F. King Alexander announced in a news release Tuesday Guiyou Huang will take over the chancellor’s post on Jan. 1. Huang is currently the senior vice president for academic affairs, dean of the faculty and professor of English at Norwich University, in […]
November 22, 2016
Students
Yale Settles Lawsuit Over Slain Grad Student
HARTFORD, Conn. — Yale University has agreed to pay $3 million to settle a wrongful death lawsuit filed by the family of a graduate student killed in a research lab days before her wedding. The settlement amount was listed in probate court documents obtained Tuesday by The Associated Press. In a court document filed last […]
November 22, 2016
Students
Former Rutgers Football Players Accused of Sexual Assault
NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J. — A Rutgers University student is alleging in a lawsuit that she was sexually assaulted by two Rutgers football players during her freshman year last fall. The complaint says Marques Ford and John Bowers sexually assaulted the victim at an on-campus apartment that housed several football players on Nov. 14, 2015. It […]
November 22, 2016
Faculty & Staff
Yale College Dean Jonathan Holloway Named Northwestern University Provost
Jonathan Holloway, the Dean of Yale College and the first African American to hold that position, has been named provost of Northwestern University.
November 21, 2016
Students
San Juan College Gets $2M to Help Native Students
FARMINGTON, N.M. — San Juan College, located in northwestern New Mexico, has been awarded more than $2 million in federal grants to help Native American students complete their degrees and to fund scholarships for students in the nursing program. College officials say the funding will be used to remove obstacles that Native American students face […]
November 21, 2016
African-American
Turn the Page from November 8, 2016
We can lament, cry and whine all we want to about this election, but it is too late. We had the chance and the opportunity, but we didn’t seize the moment.
November 20, 2016
Students
Cornel West Returning to Harvard Faculty
Dr. Cornel West—arguably one of the nation’s most visible Black public intellectuals—will rejoin the faculty of Harvard University.
November 20, 2016
Students
Hiring Its Own Graduates Could be Key to HBCUs’ Survival
Who would be a better fit to transform the outcome of HBCUs than qualified HBCU graduates?
November 20, 2016
African-American
‘Apprentice’ Winner Randal Pinkett Sees Diversity Disaster Under Trump
Based on his divisive campaign rhetoric and his cabinet appointments, the forthcoming administration of Donald Trump could potentially spell “disaster to diversity in higher education.”
November 20, 2016
Students
University of New Mexico Professors Seeking Immigrant Student Protections
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A group of professors at the largest university in the nation’s most Hispanic state are asking for more protection of immigrant students joining a movement of campuses around the country. Professors and instructors at the University of New Mexico delivered a letter Friday to the school’s president, Bob Frank, amid uncertainty from […]
November 20, 2016
Students
Wake Forest University Naming Dorm for Poet Maya Angelou
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. — Wake Forest University is naming a new residence hall in honor of famous former faculty member Maya Angelou. The private university in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, said Friday the five-story building now under construction will house more than 200 first-year students when it opens in January 2017. University President Nathan Hatch says Angelou […]
November 20, 2016
Students
Rutgers Confronts Ties to Slavery in Groundbreaking Report
NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J. — Rutgers University is confronting its historical ties to slavery. The New Jersey school founded in 1766 has compiled research that sheds new light on its beginnings, including an untold story of a slave who helped build the university’s iconic Old Queens administration building. The detailed report released Friday is published in […]
November 20, 2016
Faculty & Staff
Diverse Docket: Gender Bias Suit Against Slippery Rock not Reinstated
A tenure-track history faculty member whose contract wasn’t renewed after one year has lost his bid to revive a gender bias suit against Slippery Rock University of Pennsylvania.
November 17, 2016
Students
Trump has Undocumented Students and Their Families Scrambling
By now a great majority of the country seems to have arrived at the stage of the worst political hangover any of us have ever experienced.
November 17, 2016
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