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Section: Opinion
Students
Sisters, Other-Mothers and Aunties: The Importance of Informal Mentors for Black Women Graduate Students at Predominantly White Institutions
Mentoring is paramount to the success of Black women pursuing graduate degrees. Unfortunately, mentors at predominantly White institutions who provide formal mentoring for Black women graduate students are few and far between.
July 10, 2018
Opinion
Trump Administration Takes Affirmative Action to Ignore Race and Law
In case you missed it: while you were celebrating all the progress we’ve achieved in America – 242 years of opportunity resulting in a burgeoning sense of equality and diversity – the Trump administration placed a cherry bomb in your inbox.
July 9, 2018
Opinion
Genocide to Exodus: Why the Average Joe Should Care About Puerto Rico
Puerto Rico and the ongoing colonization of the island is nothing new. 1898 marks the official year in which the genocide of the Puerto Rican people became a legal act of the United States. Fast forward to today, we are in the same situation.
July 6, 2018
Asian American Pacific Islander
Diversity of Convenience in Higher Education
As I sat, looking through a window in a bookstore at a prestigious university, I could not help but notice how monolithic the institution was. It was nothing like how it was advertised on their brochure and website, where they presented a diverse campus filled with people from different racial and cultural backgrounds.
July 6, 2018
Asian American Pacific Islander
Being a Tourist is Not the Same as Being a Minority
I recently returned from China. I spent the summer teaching American law, in English. As a Chinese American, I must confess one of the most annoying statements that White Americans make is that, after they have been a tourist overseas, they understand what it is like to be a minority back home.
July 5, 2018
Opinion
Supporting International Students in the Age of Trump
“Will I be safe in America?” “Am I welcome?” “Is the U.S. my best option?” These are the unsettling questions we in college admissions now often hear from prospective international students. Concerns over the political climate and uncertain immigration policies have heightened anxieties among foreign students and their families – and chilled a decade-long growth in international student enrollment.
July 3, 2018
HBCUs
He Said, He Said: Black Male Cross-Generational Conversations on Perspective, Place and Positionality
What began as an informal chat between college faculty member and undergraduate student morphed into a complex and multi-layered exploration of topics that challenged us both to think deeply about issues ranging from diversity, equity, identity, masculinity, positionality and social justice to Trump and Wakanda.
June 30, 2018
Opinion
The Opposite of Progress
The slate of 2018 decisions by the U.S. Supreme Court has a direct impact on questions previously settled in American history. The failure to protect access to voting, representation and labor return us to bygone eras when the interests of underrepresented groups were deemed insignificant.
June 28, 2018
Students
Realizing My Potential Through the Higher Education Opportunity Program
When done correctly, opportunity programs foster a sense of community on campus where students feel safe to struggle and know that they have the support necessary to overcome the obstacles that come along with being underprepared for college – not by choice, but by circumstance.
June 27, 2018
Sports
Black Students, College Choice and HBCUs: Enrolling the Next Generation
In 2017, historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) saw an increase in freshman student enrollment and substantial increases in enrollment for a small number of HBCUs, including North Carolina A & T State University, Kentucky State University and Spelman College.
June 27, 2018
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 that’s the only time students decide to pay you an office visit. “Can you tell me how I’m doing in your class?”
June 26, 2018
Opinion
‘Tafu’ for Snafu and iPhones at Graduation
Yes, it’s 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 School’s 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 don’t 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 isn’t divided by pundits and peddlers. It isn’t divided by vacuous political labels that tell us little about people’s 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 “diverse” 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 men’s athletics – 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
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