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Section: Demographics > Latinx
Latinx
Experts: K-12 Population Shift Toward Students of Color Will Shed Light on Resource Inequalities
The population shift is bringing forth challenges, such as higher poverty rates among students and the need for more English-language instruction for children of immigrant families.
August 17, 2014
Leadership & Policy
David Gipp Named Representative of American Indian College Fund
The chancellor of the tribal college in Bismarck has been named as a representative of a scholarship program that is part of a $3.4 billion government settlement with Native American landowners.
August 12, 2014
Latinx
Ebola Survivor in Guinea Shunned by Boyfriend, Medical School
The medical school professors no longer want Kadiatou Fanta in the classroom. Her boyfriend has broken up with her. Each day the 26-year-old eats alone and sleeps alone. Even her own family members are afraid to touch her months after she survived Ebola.
August 12, 2014
Students
Navy Professor Resigns After Racy Photo Inquiry
A U.S. Naval War College professor has resigned following an investigation into a complaint that he took a racy photo that wound up online.
August 11, 2014
Latinx
San Jacinto College Focusing on Promoting STEM to Its Underserved Minority Student Body
To keep up with demand for STEM jobs, administrators, faculty and staff created the STEM Council to coordinate STEM efforts across the two-year college’s three campuses.
August 3, 2014
Latinx
Fired Band Director Says He Was Repairing Ohio State University’s Vulgar Culture
Jonathan Waters said he was working to fix a vulgar culture “in dire need of change” before he was dismissed last week, he said in a document released by his attorney.
July 31, 2014
Latinx
Millennials Even More Left of Center Than in 2012
Even political pollsters have joined in the ongoing critique of this age demographic.
July 30, 2014
African-American
Rethinking President Obama’s My Brother’s Keeper Initiative
The initiative lacks components that would aggressively respond to the pervasiveness of institutional and structural racism that yet persists in America.
July 28, 2014
Students
Hine Awarded 2013 National Humanities Medal at White House
Dr. Darlene Clark Hine, a pioneering scholar in the field of African American women’s history, was among a group of individuals honored Monday at the White House.
July 28, 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
Latinx
U.S.-Cuban Relations on Higher Ed Level Continue to Grow
Exchange students from the communist island nation are slowly trickling in to U.S. universities.
July 2, 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
African-American
Generation X: The Distinguished Generation
A recent study conducted by the Pew Research Center earlier this spring focused on Generation X. This is the group of Americans born between 1965 and 1979.
June 22, 2014
Leadership & Policy
Randolph-Macon College’s Less Heralded Congressional Candidate Puts Education Atop Agenda
Democratic nominee Jack Trammell will take on fellow Randolph-Macon professor David Brat, who barreled into the political spotlight with an upset of incumbent Eric Cantor, in Virginia’s seventh district race.
June 17, 2014
Students
Ruby Dee’s Legacy of Activism, Acting Mourned
For Ruby Dee, acting and activism were not contradictory things. They were inseparable and they were intertwined.
June 12, 2014
African-American
Ex-Offender/Law School Grad’s White House Access Plight Brings Reality to Table
When a delegation went to the White House recently to deliver a set of policy recommendations related to President Barack Obama’s “My Brother’s Keeper” initiative, one brother was kept out — ostensibly because of his background as an ex-offender.
June 8, 2014
Latinx
NCORE Provides Forum, Spark for Difficult Conversations About Inclusion and Diversity
For nearly three decades, the National Conference on Race and Ethnicity in American Higher Education (NCORE) has been the go-to place to help rejuvenate those in the academy.
June 1, 2014
Students
Scholars Reflect on Passing of Maya Angelou
Legendary poet, pioneering civil rights activist mourned by many in the academy and beyond.
May 28, 2014
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