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Leadership & Policy
University of Kansas Chancellor Addresses Diversity Issues
LAWRENCE, Kan. — The University of Kansas’ chancellor says hiring a new provost and addressing campus concerns about race are among her top priorities. The Lawrence Journal-World reports Chancellor Bernadette Gray-Little was hired by the university in 2009. She says it is expected to take six to nine months to hire a new provost. […]
November 30, 2015
African-American
Tradition of Exclusion at PWIs Harmful for Diversity
The success that HBCUs, tribal colleges, Hispanic-Serving Institutions and other minority-serving colleges have with maintaining diversity on their campuses can be attributed to their mission, sense of community and inclusion.
November 30, 2015
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Faculty & Staff
White Boys’ Club? White Faculty Still Dominates in National Stats
Numbers buttress student protestors’ diversity demands.
November 29, 2015
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African-American
Race Amity Over Enmity Focus of Recent Conference
Expert says, although history books and contemporary media are replete with accounts of enmity between the races, there is a long history of race amity that has not received the same level of attention.
November 29, 2015
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African-American
Black Youth Filling the Leadership Void
Black youth have endured a complicated assault of abuse, criticism and relative political abandonment by Black political, spiritual and even educational leadership.
November 29, 2015
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African-American
Mississippi Supreme Court OKs More Student Work for Poor
JACKSON, Miss. ― Law students will be able to do more legal work for poor Mississippi residents under a rule recently approved by the state Supreme Court. Students attending law schools in other states and those who are not getting course credit for the work can now help attorneys representing people who cannot pay, said […]
November 29, 2015
Students
Colleges Trying to Find Ways to Deal with Racial Incidents
WASHINGTON ― Officials were slow to handle racial incidents at the University of Missouri, and that contributed to protests, a student hunger strike, a threatened boycott by the football team and ultimately, the resignations of two administrators. At the University of Oklahoma, damage over a racist chant that was caught on video was kept to […]
November 29, 2015
Students
UVa Looks to Private Donors to Fund Student Financial Aid
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. ― The University of Virginia is increasingly looking to private donors to cover tuition costs for low-income students amid shrinking state funding. Virginia’s flagship public university currently raises more than $10 million a year for need-based scholarships, UVa spokesman Anthony de Bryun told the Charlottesville Daily Progress. That’s up from $1.5 million that […]
November 29, 2015
African-American
In Case You Missed It…
Lincoln University Tells Parent’s Association to Back Off Diverse Docket: African-American Student Loses Bias Suit Against Valparaiso A Lesson in Isolation: Being Hopi in Higher Education In Malaysia, Obama Says Education an Anti-Terrorism Strategy
November 24, 2015
African-American
At UMD, New Frederick Douglass Square Illustrates State’s Racial Duality
Maryland and its flagship campus’ celebration of diversity and inclusion served as an ironic contradiction of the state’s own participation in the limited opportunities for and representations of Black students within its borders.
November 24, 2015
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African-American
Time to Save Our HBCUs Ourselves
Business as usual is dead and it is time for HBCUs to adapt to a new environment never seen before.
November 24, 2015
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Students
The Folly of Safe Space on Campus
If college is supposed to prepare one for life “in the real world,” should we continue to expect these things to change on campus?
November 24, 2015
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Students
Washington University Cancels Classes Over Hate Speech
SEATTLE  — After a racist thread on social media sparked outrage on a quiet Washington state campus, college officials sent students home a day early for the Thanksgiving holiday. Western Washington University sent out an alert cancelling classes and an email to students just after 6 a.m. Tuesday from President Bruce Shepard. It is unknown […]
November 24, 2015
Students
University of Kentucky to Cover Controversial Campus Mural
LEXINGTON, Ky. ― Nine years after his predecessor rejected calls to remove a controversial Great Depression-era campus mural that featured Black workers toiling in a tobacco field, University of Kentucky President Eli Capilouto has decided to cover the painting until a more permanent solution is found. Capilouto wrote on the school’s website Monday that he […]
November 24, 2015
Students
NYC Mayor: Yale Should Drop Name of Slavery Defender
NEW YORK ― New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio is siding with his son who wants Yale University to drop the name of a U.S. vice president who defended slavery from a residential hall. The Democratic mayor and Yale alumnus told reporters on Monday he “absolutely” favors stripping the name of John C. Calhoun […]
November 24, 2015
African-American
Diverse Conversations: 4 Ways HBCUs Can Prepare Students for Lack of Workplace Diversity
There has to be a blending of what is actually happening in the workplace with what the ideal can be with the right people who work for it.
November 23, 2015
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Leadership & Policy
Diverse Docket: African-American Student Loses Bias Suit Against Valparaiso
An African-American nursing student who was dismissed for low grades has lost her racial discrimination suit against Valparaiso University.
November 22, 2015
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African-American
In Malaysia, Obama Says Education an Anti-Terrorism Strategy
After Paris, Obama speaks to college students in the YSEALI Program in Malaysia.
November 22, 2015
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