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Section: Opinion
Opinion
The Battle for America’s Soul
Citizens of America, we are under siege and on the battlefield against each other. We live in the same United States, but we live in a divided country. America, what is happening to us?
March 26, 2018
HBCUs
Uplifting HBCUs As Models of Student Success
To help counter the false narrative that often is bestowed upon historically Black colleges and universities, these institutions should make it a priority to highlight their unique strengths and accomplishments as often as possible.
March 26, 2018
Students
Recruitment Changes Needed to Expand Access to Higher Ed
Admissions policies in higher-ranking universities and colleges favor high-achieving applicants. While much has been written about access, affordability, diversity and student loans, the focus on GPA, aptitude tests and the reputation-enhancing concept of “selectivity” has negatively impacted minorities and underprivileged applicants.
March 25, 2018
Recruitment & Retention
Success Formula for Student Recruitment and Retention
How does a college determine its student enrollment strategy to effectively impact growth, meet net tuition revenue goals and increase graduation rate? To properly grow and maintain enrollment in a competitive future, try this formula.
March 22, 2018
Latinx
Program Preps Latinx Students for Professoriate in Humanities
The Penn Center for Minority Serving Institutions recently held its inaugural Cross-Institutional Conference for the HSI Pathways to the Professoriate Program, a $5.1-million grant initiative sponsored by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation that aims to diversify the professoriate by supporting 90 students at three Hispanic Serving Institutions as they prepare to apply and matriculate into doctoral programs in the humanities.
March 22, 2018
Opinion
Not Yet Just, Not Yet Free
“Black women saved America.” Those words peppered post-election analysis of the hotly contested 2017 Alabama Senate race, when Black women cast 98 percent of their votes for the winner. Black women are a cohesive and consistent voting bloc, but what have they received in return?
March 20, 2018
Opinion
Federal TRIO Programs Work
There are many students in America who benefit from TRIO, and there are many more who need TRIO services. I am living proof that TRIO works.
March 19, 2018
Opinion
On Youth Activism and My Active-Shooter Training
There’s a new set of loud, defiant voices that arrived on the scene last week that makes diversity a whole lot more inclusive. Make way for the heretofore-ignored minors of all stripes and sizes. They are now their own group, the post-millennials, persons under the age of 18, who after Parkland can no longer be ignored, especially as they age and become generally woke, politically active adults.
March 18, 2018
Opinion
The Risk of Displeasure: How to Write Without Permission
At the age of 13, the first Chicana Ph.D. I had ever met handed me The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros. In the inside cover, she wrote: “We offer this book to reflect on life’s journey. We hope you enjoy it. May you continue to pursue and follow all your dreams so that you go away to come back for the ones who cannot out.”
March 18, 2018
Opinion
#SpringRelease Clears Clutter, Eases Stress
At any moment in time, the state of our mental health depends on any number of simple and complicated internal and external factors. Stress is a major source of and contributor to that state of mental health. Whether mental or physical, clutter creates stress. Here’s a fun, rewarding way to declutter.
March 15, 2018
Women
Why Colleges Must Fight the Wage Gap
The saying goes, “You should never wake a sleeping baby.” Today, the average wage gap between women and men is almost 80 cents to the dollar. If the “baby” is gender inequality in the workforce, the U.S. has done an exceptional job of keeping the baby asleep.
March 15, 2018
Opinion
Five Things More Effective Than Political Panic
I have a confession to make: I’m a hard-core nerd fascinated by all things political. While political panic may seem like a natural response to our current state of political affairs, I offer five responses more effective than that.
March 14, 2018
HBCUs
What About Cheyney University? We Rose First!
Education is the most powerful weapon you can use to change the world, Nelson Mandela said in his 2003 speech, “Lighting Your Way to a Better Future.” Enslaved people who sought freedom through education and abolitionists who used education as a catalyst to end slavery understood this idea. So did Quaker philanthropist Richard Humphreys, who […]
March 13, 2018
Opinion
A Teacher, a Double Identity, Hatred and Justice Advocacy
A recent exclusive story on Huffington Post.com was a detailed exposé about Dayanna Volitich, a 25-year-old social studies teacher at Crystal River Middle School in Florida who turns out to be a White supremacy advocate and has been removed from the classroom pending an investigation of radical views she has espoused.
March 12, 2018
Opinion
Time for Elected Officials to Act Against Gun Violence
School shootings in the United States have made me numb, almost with a sense of hopelessness. Recently, this country has been reduced to the wild west because of senseless acts of violence. It is time for something to be done by elected officials.
March 11, 2018
Health
Assessing the Relationship Between Gun Violence and Health Equity
Gun violence has become a crucial national problem that negatively affects health equity in the United States. The American Medical Association has declared U.S. gun violence a public health crisis requiring a comprehensive public health response and solution.
March 8, 2018
Opinion
Don’t Touch My Hair: Black Women Navigating the Ivory Tower
Solange’s “Don’t Touch My Hair” is a powerful anthem that resonates with women of color. Her hair is her crown and symbolizes a refusal to compromise her beliefs and identity to accommodate others. Unfortunately, for female scholars of color, particularly those in higher education, our crown is as much a curse as it is a gift.
March 7, 2018
Opinion
The Man Who Yells Outside My Window
It’s 4:38 a.m. One to three times a week, I am awakened by a man yelling outside my window. While my first reaction is to yell back, “Please be quiet!” I stop myself. This man of color, living with mental illness, has two things in common with my brother.
March 6, 2018
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