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Section: Opinion
Sports
Sterling and Bundy: And the Racist Beat Goes On
It was just a year ago when millions of Americans were reacting to the crass, old-style racism of former celebrity chef Paula Deen.
May 14, 2014
African-American
Can Stephen Guillermo Graduate Posthumously?
The family’s primary goal is to gain justice in the aftermath of his slaying but to have Stephen be given a degree from San Francisco State would be a very close second.
May 12, 2014
Opinion
It’s Not Just in the Numbers: Making Campus Diversity Work Post-Schuette
It doesn’t matter who comes to your campus unless you work to make sure students are in fact benefiting from diverse environments.
May 12, 2014
Community Colleges
Studying the Humanities Always Will Be Important
For the better part of the last two decades, we have heard from various quarters that studying liberal arts or the humanities in general was a waste of time.
May 6, 2014
Faculty & Staff
LGBTQ Student Success in Higher Education
Too many LGBTQ students feel unsafe, unwelcome, or disconnected from social and/or academic life on their respective campuses.
May 6, 2014
LGBTQ+
When a Young Life Ends Tragically
Why San Francisco State University senior Stephen Guillermo won’t graduate this year.
May 5, 2014
Faculty & Staff
For Minorities’ Educational Needs, Funding Lags Far Behind Effort
Today more than 90 percent of the nation’s population growth is from people of color, yet we are failing to address their educational needs.
May 5, 2014
African-American
Black, Latino Students On Outside Looking In at America’s Top Public High Schools
Not many Black and Latino students are enjoying the benefits of the high schools that are perched atop the US News and World Report rankings.
May 1, 2014
Opinion
Six Supremely Absurd Court Statements on Affirmative Action
On a 6-2 vote in Schuette v. BAMN, the Supreme Court reversed the opinion of the Sixth Circuit Court that struck down the law.
April 29, 2014
Opinion
The Pathology of the ‘Neo-Peculiar Institution:’ Sport, Race and the ‘New Normal’
The Sterling controversy speaks to the very real manner in which folk of color are excluded from the power center of large organizations.
April 29, 2014
Faculty & Staff
Sterling Controversy Shows Race to Be America’s Achilles Heel
Here we are in 2014 and race remains at the top of our social disorders list.
April 28, 2014
African-American
The Bottom Line Not the Answer in College Choice
A recent article in The Atlantic provided without context resulted in yet another negative story about HBCUs.
April 24, 2014
Sports
Did Big Time Football Trump Justice at Florida State University?
Investigation shows Florida State University and Tallahassee cops botched case of rape suspect and Heisman winner Jameis Winston.
April 21, 2014
Students
Enslaving ‘Free Speech Zones’
Whenever I read the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, I am struck by the distance between the American creed and American reality, a distance widening wherever I look.
April 17, 2014
Faculty & Staff
Priority on Sports an Issue Even at Smaller Colleges
Too often in the last decade, the spending by colleges and universities for new jobs and the like has either stayed steady or gone down. That is, except for sports.
April 14, 2014
Sports
Rethinking the Role of College Career Centers for Humanities Graduates
Why do liberal arts graduates, especially humanities majors, suffer from inaccurate and inconsistent portrayals of their attractiveness to employers?
April 14, 2014
Students
President Obama, left, told Rev. Al Sharpton’s civil rights group that the future of voting rights is in grave danger.
Far too many Americans are still reluctant to confront in an honest and direct manner the topic of race.
April 13, 2014
Sports
The NCAA Madness Continues: Are You Ready for Higher Ed’s Civil War?
Is the NCAA running anything but a legal sweat shop?
April 7, 2014
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