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Section: Opinion
Students
Whose Responsibility Is It? The Role of Faculty in Student Success
As college professors, we hear it all the time, especially during the end of the semester, when it seems thatās the only time students decide to pay you an office visit. āCan you tell me how Iām doing in your class?ā
June 26, 2018
Opinion
āTafuā for Snafu and iPhones at Graduation
Yes, itās complicated. Which is why no government should attempt to carry out an ad hoc zero tolerance immigration plan at the border that includes an ad hoc separation of children from parents without a way to reconnect said children to parents.
June 24, 2018
Opinion
When Changing a Schoolās Name Is a Lesson in History and Progress
In 1971, I was a fifth-grade student at J.E.B. Stuart Elementary School in Richmond, Va. My younger brother and sister and I left our home in the morning and walked the leafy avenues to the two-story brick building with the handsome rotunda greeting us on arrival. I donāt know if it was triumphant or tragic that we got to go to a school named for a racist Confederate general, but I do know it never should have come to be.
June 23, 2018
Native Americans
As American as Apple Pie
America isnāt divided by pundits and peddlers. It isnāt divided by vacuous political labels that tell us little about peopleās commitment to mutual progress. Our country is divided because promoting the politics of exclusion is as American as apple pie.
June 21, 2018
Asian American Pacific Islander
Asian Americans: Right to Be Angry at Harvard, Not African-Americans
People of all backgrounds become so angry about affirmative action that it is difficult to discuss the subject. The current emphasis is on Asian American applicants to Harvard College and younger Asian American students competing for entry to the magnet high schools of New York City.
June 20, 2018
Opinion
White People Need Diversity, Too
Many campuses approach issues of diversity and equity like it is something just for people of color. Institutions still operate under the mentality that simply increasing the number of ādiverseā students, faculty and staff on campus, providing them a multicultural center and offering a few programs will effectively meet the goal of providing an inclusive and diverse campus.
June 19, 2018
HBCUs
Title IX Pathway to More Male Students and Tuition Dollars
In order to fully utilize athletics to help with financial and enrollment stability, HBCUs should tackle head-on and even embrace what some see as a legal obstacle to expanding menās athletics ā Title IX.
June 18, 2018
Opinion
Increase in American Suicides Has Historical Roots
Recent research indicates that the recent rise in suicides across the nation can be attributed partly to historical social and psychological issues, including rural isolation and high veteran populations, pressure to live up to stereotypes, disillusion with the American dream and racism.
June 15, 2018
HBCUs
PWIs and HBCUs Need to Create Partnerships, Not Competition
Collaborative efforts between predominantly White institutions and historically Black colleges and universities that utilize the strengths of both institutions can provide quality educational experiences and support for Black students.
June 15, 2018
Opinion
The Guilt of Not Responding to Microaggressions
Having navigated institutions where I was one of very few Latinos, I have become hyper-aware of all my interactions with people. So when a āharmlessā joke is said toward me during a political and racial climate where people like me are often associated with thieves, criminals or even animals, these types of interactions do matter.
June 14, 2018
Opinion
My Father to Me, Is the Father He Never Had
I have had the privilege of having my father in my life. Like my best friend, my fatherās father was absent from his life. My father to me, is the father he never had.
June 13, 2018
STEM
Diversity, Discourse, and Compromise as Core to Higher Education
The issues of tolerance, respect for difference, and discourse within higher education are important. In many ways, our sector bears responsibility for modeling what we hope to see across our country, even when we do not see it.
June 13, 2018
Asian American Pacific Islander
The Dilemma of Diversity
Opponents of racial diversity often style themselves as proponents of intellectual diversity. These positions are not mutually exclusive. No doubt there are advocates who wish to hear multiple viewpoints being expressed on campus without the speakers suffering adverse consequences, who are sincere in their beliefs. Racial diversity and intellectual diversity, however, are related.
June 12, 2018
Opinion
Can We Stop Telling Faculty to Only Focus on Writing for Scholarly Outlets?
As a junior scholar, I certainly understand the āpublish or perishā mantra in higher education, so I would not want to tell future scholars not to focus on peer-reviewed publications. However, many are on paid publisher sites, which limits the readership. As a result, many of the people who would benefit most from our findings do not have access.
June 12, 2018
Students
Promoting Diversity Using Motivation-Based Admissions Screening
Motivation is the most critical element to success. It is this highly valuable consequence of motivation that makes it a primary concern for managers, teachers, religious leaders, coaches, parents and others concerned with mobilizing others to act. Motivation is particularly valuable in education.
June 11, 2018
Opinion
The Fragile State of Student Mental Health
Iām still processing the coincidence of the noteworthy suicides of two rich and famous people and the release of new statistics from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention that say suicides grew at a 25-percent rate nationally from 1999 to 2016. And then I thought about my students.
June 11, 2018
Recruitment & Retention
Fresh Insights on First-Generation College Students: A Need to Change the Language of Retention
Itās true that first-generation students might be naĆÆve to standard operating procedure in higher educationāI know I was when I stepped onto campus as the first in my family to go to college. But there is power in this naivete, as it offers the chance to reflect on why things are done a certain way. Too often, though, we focus on and track the ways first-generation students are ādeficient,ā emphasizing potential negative outcomes. The goal is to protect them from their own shortcomings. However, this mindset misses the opportunity to capitalize on an influx of new perspectives. And, continually being shown the ways you are expected to fail is not especially motivating.
June 10, 2018
Health
For Colored Folks Who Have Considered Suicide
The high-profile deaths of celebrities Avicii, Kate Spade and Anthony Bourdain have forced important conversations about mental illness. Many of those conversations focus on how people who seemingly āhave it allā could feel so isolated that ending their life seemed like the only solution.
June 9, 2018
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