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Section: Demographics > African-American
Students
Survey Forecasts More Heat for College Campuses
Findings from a new report suggest that participation in demonstrations may intensify in the coming months.
February 11, 2016
Students
ANNE EHRLICH
ANNE EHRLICH has been appointed vice president for student development at Knox College. She is dean of students at Woodbury University in California. Ehrlich received a bachelor’s from the University of California, San Diego, a master’s from the University of Michigan and a doctorate from the University of California, Los Angeles.
February 11, 2016
Faculty & Staff
GLADIS KERSAINT
GLADIS KERSAINT has been appointed dean of the Neag School of Education at the University of Connecticut, effective in July. She is associate dean of the College of Education and a professor at the University of South Florida. Kersaint holds a bachelor’s and a master’s from the University of Miami, and a doctorate from Illinois State University.
February 11, 2016
Students
Skidmore College’s Wiley Embraces Being ‘Professor of Place’
Dr. Amber N. Wiley, a 2016 Diverse Emerging Scholar, says travel experiences ignited her interest in architecture.
February 10, 2016
Students
Diversity Groups Turning Up Heat at University of Chicago
Dozens of student organizations are demanding that the university suspend Alpha Epsilon Pi fraternity after racist and misogynistic emails were leaked to the media.
February 10, 2016
African-American
Voices for Our Fathers Keeping Memory of Horrific Study Alive
As painful as the memories of the past can be, some descendants are working to make sure that the horrific Tuskegee syphilis experiment is not forgotten.
February 10, 2016
Faculty & Staff
Passing On Our History to the Next Generation
There are some compelling questions to be asked regarding Black History Month as we know it now.
February 10, 2016
Students
North Carolina’s NCAA Academic Case Stuck in Holding Pattern
CHAPEL HILL, N.C. ― North Carolina’s long-running academic fraud scandal case seems stuck in procedural limbo. The NCAA charged the school in May with five violations, including lack of institutional control, but there has been little movement since. The NCAA is reviewing information reported by UNC in August and could amend the Notice of Allegations […]
February 10, 2016
Faculty & Staff
Wheaton College to Name Scholarship After Ex-professor Larycia Hawkins
CHICAGO ― A suburban Chicago Christian college will create a scholarship named for a former political science professor who asserted Christians and Muslims worship the same God. The Daily Herald reports that Wheaton College officials made the announcement Wednesday in Chicago with Larycia Hawkins. The school was moving to fire her until it announced Saturday […]
February 10, 2016
African-American
Couple Donates Largest Individual Gift to Morgan State
A Las Vegas couple is expected to make the largest individual contribution to Morgan State University, a Historically Black College and University headquartered in Baltimore.
February 9, 2016
African-American
Black Students Choosing Low-paying Majors
Although African-Americans have increased access to higher education, African-American students tend to choose college majors that don’t pay very much, according to a new Georgetown study released Tuesday.
February 9, 2016
Students
Getting Published While Black
Minority journals are legitimate and must be valued in the recruitment, retention, and promotion/tenure process.
February 8, 2016
Students
The Relevance of HBCUs Tied to Healing
The relevance of HBCUs is tied to a legacy of compensating for a system of education that too often fails to provide students of color with the skills required to succeed in higher education.
February 7, 2016
Faculty & Staff
Demarcus Cousins Cries Foul and We All Lose
Monday, February 8, is the start of the Lunar New Year and, for Asian Americans of Chinese descent, a very big deal.
February 7, 2016
Students
Georgetown University Revamps Diversity Initiatives
The nation’s oldest Catholic university has initiated a wide range of sweeping reforms in an effort to address racial inequities both on and off campus.
February 7, 2016
Faculty & Staff
Professor Who Wore Headscarf to Leave Christian College
By Associated Press CHICAGO — A professor at a Christian college who asserted Christians and Muslims worship the same God will leave her post, the school near Chicago announced. In a statement posted on Wheaton College’s website, the school and Larycia Hawkins said they “have reached a confidential agreement under which they will part ways.” […]
February 7, 2016
Students
Support for the Scholarship of Faculty of Color and Minority Journals Vital
We cannot discount and neglect the increasingly diverse nation and scholars and readers of color.
February 4, 2016
Students
Kentucky President Forms Committee to Consider Controversial Mural
LEXINGTON, Ky. ― University of Kentucky President Eli Capilouto has formed a committee to decide the fate of a controversial Great Depression-era mural that features Black workers toiling in a tobacco field, Black musicians playing for White dancers and a Native American with a tomahawk. After meeting last semester with students who objected to the […]
February 4, 2016
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