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Section: Opinion

Paradox of Gun Reactions to Connecticut Shooting

Our academics who live to think need to figure a comprehensive approach to gun control.

December 18, 2012

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Faculty & Staff

HBCUs’ Self-Inflicted Wounds, Friendly Fire and Other Consequential Outcomes

.The high turnover rate in leadership at the nation’s Historically Black Colleges and Universities has reached the crisis stage.

December 16, 2012

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Cooper Protests for Free Tuition and a ‘Better Future’

“We live in a world where massive student debt and the rising cost of higher education remain unchecked, where students are treated as customers and faculty as contractors. Cooper Union’s mission of free education affords quality and excellence and offers an alternative for a better future of higher education.”

December 12, 2012

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Cooper Protests for Free Tuition and a ‘Better Future’

“We live in a world where massive student debt and the rising cost of higher education remain unchecked, where students are treated as customers and faculty as contractors. Cooper Union’s mission of free education affords quality and excellence and offers an alternative for a better future of higher education.”

December 11, 2012

Affordability, Access for All Should Be Obama’s Education Goals

In her rousing speech at the Democratic National Convention, First Lady Michelle Obama explained the reasons that the American people should re-elect her husband to office.

December 6, 2012

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Black Men Face Cycle of Hostility, Vulnerability and Victimization

There’s something very disturbing about how many people devalue and disregard Black life—in particular, Black male life—in this nation.

December 6, 2012

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Who Really Receives Racial Preferences in Admissions? Not Blacks

As a scholar of race and education, I am enjoying the national public debate over affirmative action. Like any professor who discusses race in their classrooms and publishes on race, I simply enjoy when we discuss race in public.

December 4, 2012

Tie Government Funding to Ending College Athletics’ Discriminatory Hiring Practices

Research shows that 90 percent of college presidents, 87.5 percent of athletic directors, and all of the commissioners of the 11 major conferences, representing 120 schools, are White.

December 4, 2012

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Embree Exposes Plight of Minority Head Football Coaches

On November 26, 2012, Jon Embree’s emotions and character were on display for all to see. After a dismal 1-11 season, which included several embarrassing losses such as a 70-14 drubbing at the hands of the Oregon Ducks, the University of Colorado held a press conference announcing that Embree had been fired as the head coach of the football team.

December 3, 2012

HBCUs, Places for All to Learn

Many Historically White Institutions (HWIs) continue to struggle to provide environments that are welcoming to students of color and conducive to their holistic development.

December 3, 2012

New Mind-Boggling Evidence Proves SAT Bias

After reading a recent post I wrote, a Diverse reader pointed me toward a study which strongly supports the viewpoint that the “merit plea” is inherently racist.

December 2, 2012

HBCU Football Sees Abysmal Attendance

In a year filled with band scandals and mediocre football teams, there have been few bright spots in HBCU football. Winston-Salem State has been one of them. The Rams have completed back-to-back undefeated regular seasons, won the CIAA title both years, and made it to the national semifinals of the Division II football playoffs in […]

November 29, 2012

A Crisis in Black Studies at Temple University

In the last few days, the graduate students in the Department of African American Studies (AAS) at Temple University have dispatched a carefully written letter to thousands of faculty across the nation in an effort to publicize what they call “a crisis.”

November 25, 2012

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Community Colleges

A Guide for Embracing Diversity at Elite Institutions

Elite institutions are often criticized for their historical legacy of excluding specific populations and facilitating privilege.

November 21, 2012

Prescient ‘First Black President’ Still Trying to Steer Youth in Positive Direction

A quarter-century before Barack Hussein Obama was elected as president, he was portrayed by Dennis Rahiim Watson on college campuses across the country.

November 21, 2012

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Wilberforce Needs to Consider Student Voices

Wilberforce University is an American treasure. Founded in 1856, when African-Americans virtually had no access to education due to the horrors of slavery, Wilberforce offered a salvation to Blacks in the North.

November 19, 2012

‘Merit Plea’ Inherently Racist as Argument Against Affirmative Action

As many of you know, the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Cincinnati on Thursday declared Michigan’s ban on affirmative action in college admissions to be unconstitutional.

November 19, 2012

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Leadership & Policy

Romney’s (In)Correct: Obama’s “Gifts” for Young People

It is not often I agree with Mitt Romney. Actually, I have yet to remember an occasion when I agreed with Romney. But all good things (or bad things depending on your perspective) come to an end.

November 15, 2012