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African-American
San Diego State Leading Effort to Document Status of Minority Males in Community Colleges
The Minority Male Community College Collaborative is utilizing a survey designed to help community college faculty, staff and administrators understand how campus climate and racial identity affect the college experience of minority male students.
July 7, 2014
Students
Fierce Feminist Tanisha Ford Brings Style to Her Scholarship
The University of Massachusetts Amherst assistant professor is strictly 21st century in her approach to writing and teaching about the lives of Black women in the U.S., Britain and the African diaspora.
July 6, 2014
Leadership & Policy
Howard-Vital Steps Down as Cheyney University President
Cheyney University is the latest HBCU to experience a swift change in leadership, about a month before undergraduate students are scheduled to return to campus.
July 3, 2014
Faculty & Staff
Process to Pick New College President in Philadelphia Proves Problematic
The unconventional search process for a new community college president at CCP managed to both frustrate faculty and embattle a mayor and new president.
July 3, 2014
Students
Free Speech Suit Targets Student Code at Ohio University
A lawsuit challenging Ohio University’s student conduct code alleges administrators violated constitutional free speech rights by telling students not to wear T-shirts bearing a sexually suggestive double entendre, though the school denies that officials made such comments.
July 2, 2014
Faculty & Staff
Saginaw Valley State Gives Police Data on City’s Crime Trends
Saginaw Valley State University professors and students have shared with police their recent work to identify crime trends in Saginaw, noting poverty and vacant homes as key factors in the city.
July 2, 2014
Faculty & Staff
Napolitano Aims to Grow University of California Role in Fighting Hunger
University of California President Janet Napolitano said Tuesday that she plans to leverage the state’s role in agriculture and research to tackle one of the world’s most pressing problems: food.
July 1, 2014
Students
Booker T. Washington Descendant: Fight for Quality Education Constant
Amanda Washington, Booker T. Washington’s great-great granddaughter, assesses the state of education 50 years after the signing of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
July 1, 2014
African-American
Diverse Conversations: Is a 4.0 at an HBCU the Same as a 4.0 at a PWI?
One of the biggest struggles, perhaps, is the equalizing of values, of recognition and importance.
June 30, 2014
African-American
Freedom Summer Conference: Black Vote Still an Issue in Mississippi
Last week’s Freedom Summer 50th Anniversary Conference at Tougaloo College brought national attention to the fight for Black voting rights in Mississippi just as a pivotal Republican Senate primary runoff election likely was decided by African-American Democrats.
June 30, 2014
African-American
Freedom Summer Conference: Black Vote Still an Issue in Mississippi
Last week’s Freedom Summer 50th Anniversary Conference at Tougaloo College brought national attention to the fight for Black voting rights in Mississippi just as a pivotal Republican Senate primary runoff election likely was decided by African-American Democrats.
June 29, 2014
African-American
Confrontation Between Campus Security, Professor Puts Arizona State in Spotlight
Physical encounter involving Dr. Ersula Ore reignites an age-old discussion among academics about how minorities — including minority faculty — are policed by campus officers who are charged with safeguarding the university and its surrounding areas.
June 29, 2014
African-American
In Case You Missed It…
Course Correction Uncertain for Increasing Black Enrollment in Higher Ed Financial Help Not Likely on Horizon for Tribal Colleges Panel: Community-Based Programs Vital for Black Male Educational Achievement Help for the Armchair Athletic Director
June 26, 2014
Students
Cornell University Alumni Endow First Africana Studies Center Lectureship
Cornell University alumni Reuben A. Munday and Cheryl Casselberry Munday have created an endowment that will allow the university’s Africana Studies and Research Center to bring in a leading scholar of African and African-American studies to the Ithaca campus for an annual lecture.
June 25, 2014
African-American
Freedom Summer 50th Anniversary Highlights Tougaloo College’s Civil Rights Role
The Freedom 50 conference on the Tougaloo campus commemorates the 50th anniversary of the bloody 1964 Freedom Summer in Mississippi.
June 25, 2014
Leadership & Policy
Alum Donates School-Record $3M to Huston-Tillotson University
Huston-Tillotson University alum Ada Cecilia Collins Anderson donated $3 million to her alma mater Monday.
June 24, 2014
African-American
Black Achievement Stats Belie South Africa’s Post-Apartheid Success Story
Though overall Black enrollment in South Africa’s colleges and universities is up, one leading scholar says the raw numbers mask a series of other disparities that plague the nation’s institutions of higher learning.
June 24, 2014
African-American
The Redskins Fight and the Legacy of Richard Oakes
It’s amazing how even some young people at the school, and even some regular folks in the city I asked at random, had no idea who Oakes was.
June 23, 2014
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