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Section: Opinion
Sports
Super Bowl Halftime Show Picture of Diversity
Bruno Mars, with a Puerto Rican-Hungarian and Filipino background, shows entertainment’s growing diversity as well as his status as a world-class entertainer.
February 3, 2014
Sports
Russell Wilson Reps Higher Education Well
It is impossible not to be impressed by the maturity, poise, confidence and leadership consistently demonstrated by the 25-year-old.
February 2, 2014
Students
Why College Football Should Be Banned
For-profit college athletics are married to institutions ostensibly built for higher learning and operating under protection of non-profit umbrellas. It is a time for a divorce.
February 2, 2014
Opinion
Being Your Child’s Friend Could Cost You Both in Long Run
Today’s parents can take a lesson from the old school in battling “affluenza.”
January 28, 2014
Faculty & Staff
Prepared to Be a Professor, Not a Pioneer
One of the major challenges women of color faculty face is being pioneers or trailblazers in their departments or universities, often voluntarily and without guidance.
January 28, 2014
Students
Richard Sherman, Stanford Communications Major and Super Bowl Lout
You can study communications. But it doesn’t mean you’ve mastered it.
January 26, 2014
Opinion
Americans More Accepting of Interracial Couples and Marriages
Mildred and Richard Loving were a mixed-race couple from Virginia who were arrested by local law enforcement in July 1958 for violating the then state’s Racial Integrity Act of 1924, which prohibited White-Black marriages.
January 23, 2014
Opinion
Which Way Forward? President Obama and Higher Education
Higher education needs colleagues. There are some big decisions ahead.
January 23, 2014
Faculty & Staff
In Our MOOC Moment, Public Opinion about Teacher Quality Irrelevant
MOOCs will most likely remain apart of the education landscape as President Obama’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology have urged him to let market forces develop better systems to employ the technology.
January 21, 2014
African-American
‘12 Years a Slave’ Shows Real Value of Ethnic History
This isn’t a movie that beats around the bush with style or euphemism.
January 19, 2014
Faculty & Staff
HBCUs Need to Seek Leaders from Nontraditional Sources
In this environment of limited educational funds, stable leadership is the key to ensuring the health of any university. However, unsteady leadership acutely impacts historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs). With the recent departure of Alcorn State University’s former president, M. Christopher Brown, another HBCU has seen a change in leadership. Unfortunately, some of these […]
January 19, 2014
Community Colleges
Fighting Inequality: Is Higher Ed Creating a New Class of Highly Educated Poor?
In this era where college tuition is pretty much an automatic $40,000 a year, even with scholarships, the average middle-class family still struggles.
January 13, 2014
Students
Baraka’s Legacy: Let’s Not Forget Inaugural Black Studies Professor
A major chapter is often left out in the recent attempts to share Amiri Baraka’s story and define his legacy — pioneering, prominent professor.
January 13, 2014
Community Colleges
Let’s Not Underestimate Undermatch
Some of the small details of undermatch have big implications for higher education reform.
January 7, 2014
African-American
Harris-Perry’s Apology May Be Too Smart for Right-Wing Zealots
I saw her apology and hope it was enough to kill the fake outrage over a joke made on her show about Mitt Romney’s adoptive Black grandchild.
January 6, 2014
African-American
Here’s Hoping That the Current Racial Climate Will Improve
Another year is upon us and it is time to reflect on how racially intense the year 2013 was.
January 2, 2014
Asian American Pacific Islander
‘Anchorman 2’ and the Normalization of an Ethnic Slur
Filipino dog-eater joke no different from tired, old jokes about Blacks eating watermelon and fried chicken.
December 29, 2013
Sports
Every Student Needs a Success Plan
Is it OK to just put our goals and dreams on auto pilot and think that we will achieve them? Of course not.
December 26, 2013
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