Welcome to The EDU Ledger.com! We’ve moved from Diverse.
Welcome to The EDU Ledger! We’ve moved from Diverse: Issues In Higher Education.
Subscribe
Students
Faculty & Staff
Leadership & Policy
Podcasts
Top 100
Advertise
Jobs
Shop
Search
Article
Podcast
Video
Awards/Honors
Community Colleges
Demographics
Latinx
Faculty & Staff
Health
Institutions
Leadership & Policy
Military
On the Move
Opinion
Sports
Students
Enter search phrase
Search
Section: Demographics > Latinx
Latinx
More Hispanics Apply to Little Rock Police Department
The Little Rock Police Department said 34 people of Hispanic descent have applied to join the force amid a push for a more-diverse agency.
August 6, 2015
Faculty & Staff
Symbols Shape What We Think and Believe in America
Now that the exhilaration of the removal of the Confederate battle flag has subsided a bit, let’s reflect upon it and pose a question or two.
August 5, 2015
Students
Deal Makes College Possible for Major League Soccer Players
Major League Soccer is striking a multiyear deal with Southern New Hampshire University that will provide full scholarships for players and internship opportunities for the school’s students.
July 30, 2015
Latinx
Education Cuts May Be a Solution to Puerto Rico Debt Crisis
To solve Puerto Rico’s debt crisis, cut spending on education and sell off government real estate, said a report commissioned by 34 hedge funds that own a large percentage of the commonwealth’s bonds.
July 28, 2015
African-American
In Tech Boom, Oldest Chinatown in U.S. Is “Last Frontier”
For a century and a half, San Francisco’s Chinatown, the nation’s oldest, has sheltered waves of immigrants. It’s the birthplace of Chinese America, and to some extent, the broader Asian America.
July 28, 2015
Faculty & Staff
LAWRENCE T. POTTER JR.
LAWRENCE T. POTTER JR. has been appointed dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of La Verne, effective August 10. He was a professor and dean of the College of Liberal Arts at Jackson State University. He earned a bachelor’s from Stillman College, and a master’s and a doctorate from the University of Missouri.
July 28, 2015
Faculty & Staff
DANIELLE CONWAY
DANIELLE CONWAY has been appointed a professor and dean of the University of Maine School of Law. She was the Michael J. Marks Distinguished Professor of Business Law and director of the Hawai‘i Procurement Institute at the University of Hawai’i at Mānoa William S. Richardson School of Law. Conway earned a bachelor’s from New York University, a juris doctor from Howard University and a master’s from The George Washington School of Law.
July 27, 2015
Faculty & Staff
CARLOS PATO
CARLOS PATO has been appointed dean of the College of Medicine at the State University of New York Health Science Center at Brooklyn. He was Franz Alexander Professor of Psychiatry & the Behavioral Sciences and chair of the psychiatry department at the University of Southern California. Pato earned a bachelor’s from Brown University and an M.D. from the University of Cincinnati.
July 27, 2015
Students
U. of Richmond Suspends Fraternity for Policy Violations
Sigma Alpha Epsilon’s chapter at the University of Richmond has been indefinitely suspended for violating the school’s policies.
July 26, 2015
Faculty & Staff
Cosby’s Lawyer Remains Chairman of Temple University Trustees
Bill Cosby, once the very public pride of Temple University, parted ways with the school last year amid allegations that he had drugged and sexually assaulted women.
July 23, 2015
Disabilties
University of Michigan Settles Disability Bias Lawsuit
The U.S. Department of Justice says it has settled a lawsuit against the University of Michigan that accused the school of failing to provide proper job reassignment to employees with disabilities.
July 23, 2015
African-American
Jobs Elusive for Puerto Ricans Flocking to Central Florida
MIAMI — Mayra Rios didn’t want to leave her native Puerto Rico, but the constant bullying that her autistic son faced at school and the lack of services available to him were the last blows. “Over there, it’s almost impossible to live,” she said in Spanish at her modest two-bedroom Orlando apartment. “There’s a blow […]
July 21, 2015
Leadership & Policy
Clemson Trustees Call Tillman ‘Repugnant,’ Fail to Remove Name
COLUMBIA, S.C. ― Clemson University trustees passed a resolution Friday calling the racist views of one of its founders, Benjamin Tillman, “repugnant to our values and our fundamental purpose,” but did not call for removing the name of the late governor and U.S. senator from a key campus building. Instead, the trustees unanimously agreed to […]
July 19, 2015
Faculty & Staff
ANDREA LEWIS MILLER
ANDREA LEWIS MILLER has been appointed president of Lemoyne-Owen College in Tennessee, effective September 1. She was chancellor of Baton Rouge Community College. Miller earned a bachelor’s from Lemoyne-Owen, and a master’s and a doctorate from Atlanta University.
July 13, 2015
Faculty & Staff
NAACP Growing Youth Numbers
Despite criticism that the NAACP has not done enough to bring more youth into the organization, the NAACP has seen its youth numbers increase in the wake of the recent deaths of unarmed Black men.
July 12, 2015
Faculty & Staff
UNC Law Professor Open New Anti-poverty Research Project
In the wake of the controversial closure of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s anti-poverty center, the law school professor who had led the center has launched a research fund outside the domain of university leaders.
July 6, 2015
African-American
University of California’s Fall 2015 Freshman Numbers Sound an Alarm
Has an exodus of Blacks from the state impacted higher education?
July 5, 2015
African-American
Same-Sex Fight Not Over
Obama’s polarizing Friday shows the fight for same-sex equality still isn’t over.
June 29, 2015
Previous Page
Next Page
