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Section: Opinion
Students
New Approach to Criminal Justice Education
The challenges that confront law enforcement these days are great and heading towards a crisis.
August 22, 2017
Opinion
Charlottesville Evokes Memories of the Sixties
I am a product of the 1960s and grew up in a Southern city. Segregation, separate but equal, we sat upstairs and they sat downstairs at the movies all happened during my early years. However, it didn’t stop us from believing and achieving.
August 16, 2017
Students
Faculty Chemistry Pays Off at Georgia Gwinnett College
Can you imagine a new state college having a junior faculty member chairing an open rank chemistry search committee?
August 16, 2017
Opinion
Alternative Facts and Faulty Citations: Urging Students to Use the Library
Like many others who have not been living in a dark-tinted bubble for the past year, I have noticed that it has become increasingly difficult at times to differentiate between fact and fiction when reading U.S. news headlines.
August 13, 2017
Opinion
Whites Use Asian Americans as Human Shields in New Affirmative Action Fight
Don’t be fooled by the news about Asian Americans fighting affirmative action. Asian Americans as a whole are still in favor of affirmative action by a large majority, and have been for a long time. The National Asian American Survey produced by AAPI Data in 2014 had the approval number at 70 percent. What’s changed in 3 years?
August 7, 2017
Students
I Failed the System: Representation, Meritocracy and Changing Education from the Top Down
I couldn’t fit the “college mold”, so I just gave up. I thought I failed the system and not the other way around. And, there are many first-generation, working-class youth giving up every day because they feel the same way.
August 2, 2017
LGBTQ+
Trump Relegates Transgender Americans to Ranks of Second-Class Citizens
On July 26, 2017, President Donald J. Trump announced — via Twitter, of course — that transgender people will be banned from serving in the military in any capacity.
July 26, 2017
Students
Has California Found the Answer to More Equitable Developmental Education?
California Bill AB 705 aims to reduce the burden of performing well on a standardized test as the singular opportunity for students to get into credit-bearing courses.
July 26, 2017
Opinion
Mizzou’s Policy May Disadvantage Low-Income Students
In an effort to curb student debt, the University of Missouri (Mizzou) has taken a controversial step: placing limits on what students can charge on their university accounts. Earlier this month, the university announced a new policy that will bar students from using a financing option known as “student charge” to make non-academic purchases. The […]
July 23, 2017
Students
Math Big Factor in Diversifying STEM Pipeline
The common denominator for entry into most STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) majors is the ability to successfully complete high-level math courses. There is no getting around this requirement in order to obtain degrees in majors like engineering, computer science and chemistry. There may not be one magic bullet that will increase the diversity […]
July 20, 2017
African-American
‘Just in Case,’ Is That Our New Anthem These Days?
In 2017, Black men in America walk a dangerous walk. The relationship between Black men and the police is problematic, at best.
July 17, 2017
Students
Mexican American or Mexican Mexicano?
I remember a student of mine at the University of Arizona once defined himself as a Mexican Mexicano, this in contrast to Mexican American, as was the case for many of his classmates. I understood that identity.
July 17, 2017
Native Americans
Conference Explores Educational Sovereignty for the Navajo Nation
More than 70 Navajo teachers, administrators and counselors from four states convened at the Navajo Nation Museum in Window Rock, Arizona, on June 20 and 21 to explore challenges and strategies for promoting educational sovereignty for the Navajo Nation. Assistant Superintendent Dr. Timothy Benally set the tone for the conference by challenging the participants to […]
July 16, 2017
HBCUs
When the News of Demise Is Greatly Exaggerated
In the same state, under the same accrediting agency, two schools in the past few years have been on probation, and their media treatment has been very different.
July 11, 2017
African-American
Law Enforcement Violence for 2017 ‘Normalized’
Police abuse remains pandemic in this country with no signs of abating and with no signs of accountability. This, in an era of video recordings of killings that go viral, with little, if no effect, in the courtroom.
July 9, 2017
Students
Students of Color Near 74 Percent of U. of California’s Fall Freshman Class
If you want to see what diversity might look like in the future, just go to the campuses of the University of California come September.
July 6, 2017
Students
The Value of ‘an HBCU Experience’
During my junior year in high school, my assistant principal pulled me aside and told me something I didn’t quite understand at the time: “Will, you can have a college experience, or you can have an HBCU experience.”
July 3, 2017
Opinion
Frozen Place University
I wrote in March about the concept of “The Sunken Place” as portrayed in the movie “Get Out.” This piece will lay out some of the characteristics of a “Frozen Place,” where a person feels stuck in a certain position or station and is unable to progress.
June 27, 2017
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