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Section: Opinion
Opinion
Sexual Harassment Leaves Lasting Emotional Scars
Sexual harassment is nothing new. It didn’t just come on the scene recently. Women and some men have been victims of sexual abuse for years and have not fought back. Their voices remained silent while their minds were crying out.
November 30, 2017
Opinion
Fifty Years After Thurgood Marshall Joined the Supreme Court
Thurgood Marshall Legacy Award recipient says recruitment is not enough — it must include retention, mentoring and social programs designed to foster an environment in which people of all backgrounds feel comfortable and can thrive.
November 27, 2017
Opinion
Listen to Students About Sexual Harassment On Campus
It’s the age of digital promiscuity where everyone it seems is swiping left and right, but it turns out the people who are the real problems in establishing what’s acceptable on campus are those still mired in the analogue world.
November 26, 2017
Opinion
A Private Institution Fulfilling a Public Obligation
During these times of economic uncertainty when resources for professional development are scarce, elite private universities—especially those in urban areas—have a public obligation to the future of higher education.
November 26, 2017
Opinion
Win Your Students Back
Customer service should be the top priority for every HBCU because it ensures their livelihood. Students are faced with a myriad of educational opportunities, and their decision to choose an HBCU largely depends on how they are treated.
November 20, 2017
Opinion
Perversity and Diversity—Does Higher Ed Have a Role in a New Kind of Sex Education??
The bad stories that bring shame, we usually keep to ourselves. It’s a sign of a real change in our culture that every day it seems we hear of a victim coming forward. They’re telling tales of the sexual kind that display how we as humans treat each other badly. And they’re setting off a […]
November 13, 2017
Opinion
Finally a Greek Ban—But Just at FSU? Why Not Permanently for All Campuses?
There’s way too much death lately in American society. After the terrorism incident in New York, and then Sunday’s Texas church shooting, which appears to be motivated by a domestic family situation, it would be easy for a university administrator to let the noise of the day obscure a real problem on campus.
November 7, 2017
Opinion
An Open Letter to NFL Owners, Coaches, Commissioners, Front Office People, Papa John’s et. al
While protesting in the NFL may be new to you, protesting in general is not. Black college students and college students in general have engaged in protests for decades.
November 6, 2017
Sports
Pro Athletes Have a Unique Platform and They’re Using It
Certainly, before Colin Kaepernick’s gesture, you didn’t see cameras scanning the crowd to see who was standing and who was sitting.
October 31, 2017
Students
Guillermo: National Free Speech Center Too Academic for Words
When faced with a real-life issue on campus like protecting free speech, the largest public research university system has come up with the only thing it knows how to do. Let’s study it!
October 30, 2017
Opinion
Black Scholarship Matters
Yes, Black Lives Matter, but so do Black scholarship and Black professors, too.
October 29, 2017
Opinion
Double Agents in Journalism
A number of purportedly “liberal/progressive” journalists were actively involved in assisting the Breitbart machine, in particular, serving as a conduit of sorts to right wing provocateur Milo Yiannopolous.
October 24, 2017
Students
Celebrate Latino High School Graduation, but Work Toward College Degree Attainment
While there is much to rejoice, there’s a drastic chasm in graduation from 4-year colleges among Hispanics and other racial and ethnic groups.
October 18, 2017
Students
Two Higher Education Goals Deferred
An expert notes that some higher education goals have seemingly arbitrary timelines and are inattentive to the range of diversity in U.S. populations as well as their varying levels of degree attainment.
October 18, 2017
Students
Beyond an Uncritical Attachment to Free Speech
Campuses need to aspire to free speech while moving beyond an uncritical attachment to it as a salve for an assortment of difficult conversations, and to be especially critical of free-speech claims that promote speech that is willfully uninformed or intentionally harmful and hateful.
October 17, 2017
Faculty & Staff
As Educators at PWIs, Are We Doing Enough for Students of Color?
Researchers reveal it is not uncommon for students of color, particularly African-American students, who elect to attend PWIs, to describe their in- and out-of-classroom experiences as “chilly,” unwelcoming and inhospitable.
October 12, 2017
Students
Parents Need Charters, Change and Choice
While much progress has been made, the promise of equal access to quality education has not been fully fulfilled.
October 9, 2017
Opinion
A Seat at the Table
As soon as Donald Trump was elected President, the tacit comparisons to 1930s Germany began. Many people quoted—via memes—the famous line by Martin Niemöller, a Protestant pastor who spoke out against Adolf Hitler and who paid for it by spending the last seven years of his life in a concentration camp.
October 8, 2017
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