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Section: Demographics > African-American
African-American
More Women, Minorities in New Congress
WASHINGTON — The 114th Congress that convenes today will count more minorities and women than ever, although lawmakers remain overwhelmingly White and male in the Republican-controlled House and Senate.
January 5, 2015
Students
Let’s See Leniency for Oregon Duck ‘Satirists’
Oregon player chant deserves applause not discipline.
January 4, 2015
Faculty & Staff
Second Review Sought in Case Against Professor
A northwest Missouri prosecutor is seeking another court hearing in a case against a former university professor who was arrested on drug charges after he posted insensitive remarks on Facebook.
January 1, 2015
African-American
Harvard Law Agrees to Sex Harassment Resolution
Harvard Law School has agreed to revise its sexual harassment and assault policies and to review sexual harassment complaints dating to the 2012-2013 school year after U.S. education officials found the school in violation of federal law.
December 30, 2014
Students
Florida State/Jameis Winston Case is Higher Ed’s Year in Review
Winston gets a pass on student code, and playing this week. Surprised?
December 28, 2014
Faculty & Staff
Virginia Commonwealth University Group Seeks to Increase Number of Black Faculty
RICHMOND, Va. — A group at Virginia Commonwealth University is working to reverse a decline in Black faculty members. Black Education Association president and psychology teacher Faye Z. Belgrave tells the Richmond Times-Dispatch that the percentage of Black faculty is lower today than it was a decade ago. A report presented to the Board of […]
December 28, 2014
Students
HBCU Stakeholders List Financing Programs, Affordability as Top Issues
The 2014 State of HBCUs Report reflects concern about the health of the institutions in the wake of shrinking enrollment and a fairly steady decline in federal funding.
December 28, 2014
African-American
Tennessee State University Alumnus Receives NASA Award
NASHVILLE, Tenn. ― A Tennessee State University alumnus and NASA engineer is being recognized for outstanding contribution to the agency. Ron Cobbs is a 1989 graduate of TSU and avionics chief engineer to the International Space Station operations. He recently received the NASA Johnson Space Center Director’s Commendation Award. The award recognizes the center’s civil […]
December 25, 2014
Students
Jackson State’s 2-Year Executive Ph.D. Program Marks 10 Years of Success
The 167 graduates of the Executive Ph.D. program in urban higher education were honored this month at the 10th anniversary celebration of the program.
December 25, 2014
Sports
Giving Black Boys a Framework for Success
I am waking up and going to bed asking the same question: What is going on, America?
December 23, 2014
African-American
Howard University: Hospital Deal All About Maintaining the Mission
The presidents of Howard University and Paladin Healthcare Capital emphasized the importance of Howard University Hospital’s historic mission to serve the underserved in a conference call with Diverse on Monday.
December 22, 2014
African-American
Experts Divided Over Impact of Absent Father-themed College Admission Essays
When high school students from low-income households craft their college admission essays, chances are good that many of them will focus on or at least mention the absence of their fathers.
December 21, 2014
Faculty & Staff
Drug Evidence Against Professor Ruled Inadmissible
A Missouri appeals court has upheld a lower court’s ruling that evidence of a marijuana-growing operation found in a university professor’s home can’t be used against him because of an invalid search warrant.
December 16, 2014
African-American
Effigies of Blacks Found Hanging by Nooses at UC Berkeley
Three cardboard cutouts of Black people were found hanging by nooses Saturday on the Berkeley campus of the University of California.
December 14, 2014
Sports
Is Higher Ed Culture Discouraging to Student-Athlete Activism?
The Georgetown University men’s basketball team Wednesday became the first collegiate team to protest against the recent failures to indict officers in Ferguson, Mo., and the New York City deaths of two Black men at the hands of police officers.
December 14, 2014
African-American
Spelman College Suspends The Cosby Chair for the Humanities Indefinitely
Spelman College has decided to suspend a prestigious professorship funded in part by Bill and Camille Cosby.
December 14, 2014
African-American
Bob Jones University Releases Report on Handling Sex Abuse Complaints
An independent report on how Bob Jones University has dealt with sexual abuse over several decades concluded that university employees weren’t properly trained to handle such cases and victims seem to have been blamed.
December 11, 2014
African-American
FDA Gives Approval for Marijuana Oil Study
The Food and Drug Administration has given the University of Alabama at Birmingham permission to study the use of a marijuana derivative to treat seizures.
December 10, 2014
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