Search | The EDU Ledger

Welcome to The EDU Ledger.com! We’ve moved from Diverse.

Welcome to The EDU Ledger! We’ve moved from Diverse: Issues In Higher Education.

Section: Opinion

Race is Indeed an American Dilemma

Over a century ago, Black intellectual extraordinaire of his day, WEB DuBois, stated that the problem of the 20th century would be the problem of the color line. He was right on target.

August 18, 2015

By Julian Bond’s Example, We all Need to do So Much More

It was 1:03 a.m., California time, early Sunday morning. That’s when my cell phone alerted me with the news bulletin that Julian Bond, the long-time fighter for civil rights, had died.

August 17, 2015

African-American

Expanding Postsecondary Opportunities for Incarcerated Americans

In the past three decades the United States’ incarceration rate has exploded, with seven million people currently behind bars, on probation, or parole.

August 12, 2015

GOP Still Needs Lesson in Diversity

GOP debate reveals party hasn’t learned its diversity lesson

August 10, 2015

Decreasing Leaks in the Postsecondary Pipeline

A leaky postsecondary pipeline has enormous adverse implications for students, their families, local communities, and the nation.

August 10, 2015

Adolescent Mentorship Programs: Does Race Matter?

It is critical to understand how issues of power and social difference play out between mentor and mentee.

August 6, 2015

080715_Maria_Hengeveld

Faculty & Staff

Symbols Shape What We Think and Believe in America

Now that the exhilaration of the removal of the Confederate battle flag has subsided a bit, let’s reflect upon it and pose a question or two.

August 5, 2015

GOP has had an Ongoing Rendezvous with Racial Politics

Over the past few several weeks, well-known businessman, TV celebrity and presidential candidate, Donald Trump has sent the Republican Party in a political whirlwind. His ascendance to the top of the 2016 Republican presidential polls has proven to be a real dilemma for the GOP establishment.

August 5, 2015

Celebrating the 125th Anniversary of the Morrill Act of 1890

The Morrill Act of 1890 aimed to further expand access to higher education and the promise of opportunities that accompany such an education.

August 3, 2015

Making Schools Accountable for Bad Loans May Pay Off

A bipartisan push to make schools share in the debt burden may help financial aid problems.

August 2, 2015

African-American

A New Day Marked by New Mourning

It appears as though people of color are unable to have even a full week of mourning our fallen brothers and sisters before another one joins the tragic list.

July 31, 2015

Anaconda’s Grip: How Body Shaming Is Strangling Black Women’s Self-Esteem

Fueled by a short-lived twitter war between Nikki Minaj and Taylor Swift, the topic of what constitutes ideal body sizes between mainstream White America and Black women was re-ignited.

July 28, 2015

African-American

Remembering Dr. George E. Cooper

When I met Dr. Cooper in September 2013, he had just been named Executive Director of the White House Initiative on HBCUs.

July 27, 2015

Faculty & Staff

With Africa Tour, Obama Establishes Himself as the “Diversity” President

And you thought President Obama singing “Amazing Grace” at the Rev. Clementa Pinckney’s wake in Charleston was a bold statement of his identity as an African- American president.

July 26, 2015

African-American

Young Men and the Epidemic of Anger, Violence

It is truly an alarming and disturbing state of affairs.

July 21, 2015

Fresh Off the Boat to Grad School

Taking on non-native speakers as graduate students definitely is a challenge, but your grad program must step up to give them a fair chance to build a career in the U.S.

July 20, 2015

Transcripts of Cosby’s 2006 Deposition? Check Out His Words from 2004

Criticism of Black parents set up Dr. Cosby’s hypocrisy.

July 19, 2015

African-American

Using History to Become Constructively Critical

In history as well as other disciplines, the need to corroborate the narrative is simply a given.

July 16, 2015