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Section: Demographics > African-American
Faculty & Staff
ELIZABETH L. PAUL
ELIZABETH L. PAUL has been named president of Capital University, effective July 1. She is executive vice president and provost at Stetson University in Florida. She is also a full professor of psychology at the university. Paul holds a bachelor’s and a doctorate from Boston University.
March 22, 2016
African-American
NADINE SHIGEZAWA
NADINE SHIGEZAWA was appointed director of the Veterans in Transition to Academic Leadership (VITAL) program at the University of Hawaii at Manoa. She was a psychologist for the Veterans Administration. Shigezawa holds a bachelor’s, a master’s and a doctorate from the University of Hawaii at Manoa.
March 22, 2016
Students
The Benefits of Campus Activism
Student unrest and campus activism historically has been responsible in many ways for bringing about justifiable and positive changes in academe.
March 21, 2016
Leadership & Policy
A Positive thing about Donald Trump’s Presidential Run
While people point to Donald Trump tapping the anger of the American electorate, you always know that, in the political physics, Newton’s third law still applies, that for “every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction.”
March 21, 2016
African-American
Bridges Improving Chicago Economy Through Small Business Program
Vasco Bridges III has taken his academic background and his commitment to social change and community development into a career that is improving the economic landscape in Chicago.
March 21, 2016
African-American
Professor Says Only Law Can Cure Bias, Racism in Health Care
Dayna Matthew says that, when it comes to eliminating the racial disparities that plague America’s health care system, the cure is to be found in the law.
March 18, 2016
African-American
In Case You Missed It…
Controversy Often Accompanies Executive Search Firms Study: Many Colleges’ Financial Outreach Coming at Pell Grant Recipients’ Expense University of Missouri Unrest Reverberates at ACE Trump, Enabler of American Political Hooliganism?
March 18, 2016
Sports
UC Berkeley to Review Head Coach’s Role in Harassment Case
BERKELEY, Calif. ― Officials at the University of California, Berkeley, are reviewing whether the men’s head basketball coach correctly handled sexual harassment allegations against one of his assistants. The review aims “to dispel any doubts” about Coach Cuonzo Martin’s role in the case that led to the firing of assistant coach Yann Hufnagel, athletic director […]
March 17, 2016
Students
Missouri Interim President: Faculty on Frontline of Quest for Diversity
The National Association of Diversity Officers in Higher Education and the American Council on Education held joint sessions at their co-located annual meetings on Tuesday with a heavy diversity emphasis.
March 16, 2016
Students
50 Years of Access in Jeopardy
Voting rights, money to attend college and diversity are so common today that many of us forget they were not always hallmarks of American identity.
March 15, 2016
Faculty & Staff
Board Upholds Firing of Missouri Professor who Protested
KANSAS CITY, Mo. ― The University of Missouri’s Board of Curators upheld its decision to fire an assistant professor whose run-ins with student journalists and the police during race-related protests last fall drew widespread attention, the university system said Tuesday. The board found that Melissa Click’s appeal “brought no new relevant information,” the university system […]
March 15, 2016
Sports
Blacks Playing Men’s Hoops, Football Lag Behind in Degrees
PHILADELPHIA ― Young Black men playing basketball and football for the country’s top college teams are graduating at lower rates than Black male students at the same schools ― despite having financial and academic support that removes common hurdles preventing many undergraduates from earning a degree, a new report has found. While 58 percent of […]
March 15, 2016
Students
University of Missouri Unrest Reverberates at ACE
Handling unrest among underrepresented students was a hot topic of discussion at the 98th American Council on Education Annual Meeting which concludes today.
March 15, 2016
Students
Delaware State Cutting 23 Degree-granting Programs
Delaware State University, the sole historically Black public college in Delaware, is “deactivating” 23 degree granting programs it identified as low enrollment.
March 14, 2016
Students
Harvard Agrees to Retire Law School Shield Tied to Slavery
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. ― Harvard University is retiring the official shield of its law school following complaints over its ties to an 18th-century slaveholder. The university’s governing body announced the decision Monday, supporting a campus committee’s previous recommendation to remove the shield. The shield was approved in 1937 and depicts three bundles of wheat. It’s modeled […]
March 14, 2016
African-American
Senate Votes to Confirm King to Head Education Department
WASHINGTON ― The Senate narrowly voted Monday to confirm John B. King Jr. as the nation’s education secretary. The vote was 49-40. King has served as acting secretary at the Education Department since Arne Duncan stepped down in December. As secretary, King will oversee the department as it puts in place a bipartisan education law […]
March 14, 2016
Faculty & Staff
Trump, Enabler of American Political Hooliganism?
If you like your politics raucous and raunchy, Donald Trump has been your candidate this year.
March 14, 2016
African-American
Controversy Often Accompanies Executive Search Firms
Value, effectiveness and objectives constantly under scrutiny in competitive realm of higher education executive search firms.
March 13, 2016
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