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Section: Opinion
Opinion
Becoming Latino: Why Our Safe Spaces Matter
Growing up in the Bronx, I was accustomed to identifying as Puerto Rican. I was surrounded by communities of color and went to school where the student body was predominantly Puerto Rican, Dominican, Mexican, and Black.
January 17, 2018
Opinion
Recent Trump Comments Smack of Racism
Last week, a number of journalists, radio hosts, pundits and ordinary folk have worked themselves into an understandable frenzy over President Donald Trump’s alleged reference to Haiti, Nigeria, El Salvador and other Third World countries as “shithole” nations. He did not stop there. He argued that the United States should make an effort to recruit immigrants from Norway. Just think about it! The statement alone speaks volumes. It is the most blatant and arrogant form of racism.
January 16, 2018
Opinion
Trump’s Comment Should Outrage Us All
One of my favorite things to do at the beginning of each semester is to review the class rosters and scan all my students’ beautiful names-names like Samrawit, Priyanka, and Chukwuemeka to name a few. That is because I teach at Montgomery College in Takoma Park, Maryland. Out of the approximately 60,000 students who will take classes this year, 159 different countries will be represented, including countries that President Trump called “shitholes.”
January 14, 2018
Opinion
When Promises Are Not Enough
Promise scholarships have been regarded as key to economic growth in many states and municipalities. The idea of providing funding for college-bound students within a designated area as an incentive for remaining in that same area post-college seems harmless enough.
January 11, 2018
Opinion
What If the MLK Holiday Were April 4?
Since its first observance in 1986, the Martin Luther King federal holiday has become an important moment for the nation to reflect on King’s historical importance and the broader significance of the Civil Rights Movement. The observance of the MLK holiday on the third Monday of January has become an almost taken for granted memorial tradition for classrooms and government offices. The decision to establish a federal holiday for King was far from inevitable. It was the subject of heated debated within the U.S. Senate. Passage of the holiday came 15 years after Representative John Conyers first proposed the idea in legislation and 13 years after Congress received an unprecedented 6 million signatures in support.
January 10, 2018
Opinion
Praying for Kindness in 2018
I can remember people many years ago making New Year’s resolutions. These were things we wanted to either start doing or possibly do better. Yes, I too, began making these New Year’s resolutions. Quite honestly, I didn’t start to make the resolutions until New Year’s Eve. And during some years, I didn’t make them until New Year’s Day.
January 9, 2018
Opinion
Educators Should Care About “Fire and Fury”
If you’re in higher ed and are trying to ignore Michael Wolff’s Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House, you shouldn’t.
January 8, 2018
Opinion
Home for the Holidays
Imagine what it is like to dread going home for the holiday break because all semester you struggled academically and questioned whether you belong at your institution. As a first-generation, low-income student in college, this is what I went through. You see, upon acceptance to Cornell University several years ago, I became a beacon of pride for my family and everyone wanted to know how I was doing in college—and quite frankly, I was embarrassed
January 4, 2018
Opinion
Memory and Racism
In refusing to let America forget her asthmatic father’s death at the hands of a New York cop using an illegal chokehold, Erica Garner seized the narrative that writes history. Dead at 27 after a heart attack, her persistence and zeal apparently has taken its toll.
January 2, 2018
Opinion
What Are You Really Saying?
Whether your interaction with a prospective student is via telephone or face-to-face, respectively, tone and body language are key during the initial stages of the service experience.
December 18, 2017
Opinion
Through Mayor Ed Lee, Diversity Served a Community, a City, a Nation
San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee, who died early Dec. 12 after collapsing from a heart attack, was more than the city’s first mayor of Chinese descent. At age 65, he had become a symbol of Asian American diversity, one of the first in his generation to break through barriers to show what happens when those of us previously shut out can do for everyone in society.
December 17, 2017
Opinion
A Letter to Today’s Undergrads
Ph.D. student pens a letter to undergraduate students.
December 12, 2017
Opinion
Higher Education Devalued Under Trump/GOP Tax Bill
The truth is anything connected to higher ed got the shaft in this massive legislation that the GOP is jamming through Congress.
December 10, 2017
Opinion
“No, I Do Not Work Here”
Dr. Melissa Harris-Perry’s powerful speech at ASHE has empowered me to change the way I see these instances; to not only disrupt my own thinking of feeling less than, but to also elevate and honor the experiences of those who hold the jobs that I am mistaken to have.
December 6, 2017
Opinion
Newspaper Profile Reinforces White Supremacy
Much of social media –- as well as some private citizens and mainstream media –whipped themselves into a frenzied tizzy over the article written by New York Times reporter Richard Fausset called “A Voice of Hatred in America’s Heartland.”
December 6, 2017
Opinion
How the Country’s First Black Collegiate Greek-lettered Fraternity Changed the Nation
Exactly one hundred and eleven years ago, the country’s first Black collegiate Greek-lettered fraternity was founded. On that Tuesday, in 1906, the decision by a group of young Black collegiate men at Cornell University was made to transform their organization into a fraternity. In doing so, Henry Arthur Callis, Charles Henry Chapman, Eugene Kinckle Jones, George Biddle Kelley, Nathaniel Allison Murray, Robert Harold Ogle, and Vertner Woodson Tandy altered the landscape of America’s colleges and universities.
December 4, 2017
Opinion
Dems Stopped Hillsdale College in Tax Bill, But Lost the War for Education
It seemed like an exercise straight out of college life. It wasn’t an all-nighter, but close. It was caffeine-driven senators—ultimately, a simple majority of 51–looking like a bunch of delinquent crammers trying to finish a term paper by deadline.
December 3, 2017
Opinion
Building Community Without Greek Life
Our focus on unity is the primary reason why Greek organizations would not work at Earlham. At their best and at their worst, fraternities and sororities are focused on their exclusivity.
November 30, 2017
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