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Section: Demographics > African-American
Faculty & Staff
Study: Higher Ed Would Pay Steep Price for Unionized Adjuncts
As adjuncts throughout the nation continue to organize themselves into collective bargaining units and push for more resources, two university professors have publicly questioned whether it’s wise for institutions to cave in to their demands.
March 31, 2016
Students
March Madness: The Rest of the Story
March harkens the smell of roses, cut grass and light spring rains for most folks. For me, March ushers in the smell and shine of hardwoods, leather and tennis shoes—and sheer Madness.
March 31, 2016
African-American
Obama’s 2017 Budget Freezes Funding for Most Low-income Student Aid Programs
President Barack Obama’s proposed fiscal 2017 budget freezes funding for most higher education and student aid programs that serve low-income and minority students, according to a budget analysis released Thursday on Capitol Hill.
March 31, 2016
Students
Harvard Taking More Steps to Acknowledge its Ties to Slavery
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. ― Harvard’s president says the Ivy league university will do more to acknowledge its ties to slavery. University President Drew Faust announced Wednesday in an op-ed in the student newspaper that the nearly 400-year-old institution will install a plaque next month at the former home for college presidents to recognize the slaves who […]
March 31, 2016
Students
More Students Seeing the World Without Getting Credits
A survey found that roughly half of the 227 institutions responding reported an increase in the number of students who participated in non-credit education abroad for the 2012-13 academic year over the previous year.
March 30, 2016
Students
UVA Student Group Supporting Undocumented Students Finds Its Footing
A new student group at the University of Virginia—DREAMers on Grounds—is working to create a support network for students who are either undocumented or who have received DACA benefits.
March 30, 2016
African-American
Glaude’s Book Examines Devaluing of Black Lives
Text examines how Black lives continue to be rendered insignificant in an era when many thought that the election of the nation’s first Black president would signify a dramatic shift in race relations.
March 30, 2016
Students
Chicago State Backs Off Request that Employees Turn in Keys
CHICAGO ― Chicago State University backtracked Wednesday from a plan to collect keys from faculty and staff members, instead announcing that it would take an inventory of keys that might have to be collected should layoffs be necessary amid the state’s financial crisis. Administrator Aleshia Renee Terry had asked deans on Monday to begin collecting […]
March 30, 2016
African-American
Report: Many Black, Hispanic Science Majors Err in Choosing Elite Cal Campuses
Many of the Black and Hispanic undergraduates majoring in sciences at the two most selective University of California campuses during the 1990s might have been better off academically and financially if they had attended lower-ranked UC counterparts.
March 29, 2016
Students
HBCUs One Answer to Selective Public High Schools’ ‘Diversity Problem’
Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) have a longstanding commitment to social justice issues—such as educational equity and opportunity.
March 28, 2016
Leadership & Policy
Putting Emory Chalk Talk in Perspective
The students felt terrorized by a number of chalk graffiti markings that indicate a preference for the presidential candidacy of Donald Trump.
March 28, 2016
African-American
After Protest, ‘The Bell Curve’ Author Sails Through Lecture
But for all the things the protesters at Virginia Tech had to say about Murray and his writings, when the time came to say something directly to Murray during the Q&A, the protesters offered not a peep.
March 27, 2016
Students
Mizzou Diversity Officer Ready ‘to Help Effect Transformational Change’
Dr. Kevin McDonald’s appointment comes amid a challenging year for the University of Missouri System.
March 27, 2016
Students
Ole Miss Ex-student Pleads Guilty to Tying Noose on Statue
A former University of Mississippi student could face up to a year in prison after pleading guilty Thursday to placing a noose on the school’s statue of its first Black student. Austin Reed Edenfield waived indictment and pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor charge before U.S. District Judge Michael Mills in Oxford. The charge says Edenfield […]
March 24, 2016
Students
East Carolina University Reviewing Officer Handcuffing Assault Victim
GREENVILLE, N.C. ― A North Carolina university is conducting an internal review after one of its white police officers handcuffed a Black man who had just been brutally beaten by four White people. East Carolina University officials were appalled by the incident, which began off campus, but spilled onto the university when the man running […]
March 24, 2016
African-American
UConn’s Residential Learning Community Comes Under Fire
Two dissident members of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights have accused the University of Connecticut of promoting “racial isolation” by planning a space to increase the low retention of African American male students.
March 24, 2016
African-American
ED Secretary: U.S. Higher Ed Becoming ‘Caste System’
John King warned that the U.S. is becoming a “caste system of colleges and universities” in which more affluent students have advantages while poorer students “get shortchanged.”
March 24, 2016
Students
UMKC Takes Issue with Education Trust Report Conclusion
According to UMKC, the university is concerned primarily with providing full access to all members of the community, and that Education Trust’s numbers do not tell the full story.
March 23, 2016
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