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LGBTQ+
Reaching Out to Diverse Students with Mental Health Services
Perspectives: Reaching diverse students with critical mental health services requires innovative and culturally competent outreach.
December 19, 2010
Faculty & Staff
Belmont University Faculty Wants Discussion of Sexual Identity Issues
Professors at Belmont University in Tennessee, where a gay soccer coach recently resigned, want a campus discussion of sexual identity issues.
December 7, 2010
African-American
Desegregation Offers Lessons for Gay Troops Debate
Though the military may now seem to lag behind America’s acceptance of gays in civilian life, the armed forces led the charge in ending racial segregation in the 1940s and ’50s.
October 31, 2010
Students
Higher Education Seeks Common Ground Among the Religious Faithful
Faced with America’s wide-ranging religious landscape, colleges and universities are working to embrace spiritual diversity through inclusive discourse, initiatives and programs.
October 12, 2010
LGBTQ+
Support, Counseling, Education Urged for Gay Youth
Support and other resources for gay young people are out there, sometimes only a click or a phone call away, but advocates said the recent suicide of Rutgers University freshman Tyler Clementi and other teens who were believed to have been victims of anti-gay bullying point to the need for even more widespread help.
October 4, 2010
Students
Perspectives: It’s About Common Sense and Decency
The events leading to Rutgers University freshman Tyler Clementi’s death speaks to a continuing myopia and homophobia, a decline of decency and a lack of critical-thinking skills among some college students.
October 3, 2010
LGBTQ+
N.J. Student’s Suicide Illustrates Internet Dangers
The shocking suicide of a college student whose sex life was broadcast over the Web illustrates yet again the Internet’s alarming potential as a means of tormenting others and raises questions whether young people in the age of Twitter and Facebook can even distinguish public from private.
September 30, 2010
Students
ACLU: GSU’s E-Mail Policy Violates Constitution
A First Amendment issue is brewing at Grambling State University in the wake of the president’s summer e-mail message to students, prohibiting political expression via e-mail.
September 23, 2010
Students
Rev. Jackson Debunks ‘Post-Racial’ Idea at Minority Legal Scholar Conference
The Rev. Jesse Jackson, the civil rights leader who twice ran for president, mocks the notion that the mere fact that a Black person is sitting in the White House means the nation has entered a “post-racial” era.
September 12, 2010
Students
Opinion: Diversity in the Curriculum is the Next Step for Leadership in a Globally Interconnected World
To achieve full-blown diversity and fulfill the fundamental mission of higher education in America, the curriculum must change to keep pace with the dynamic of an increasingly diverse student body and professoriate.
July 18, 2010
African-American
Taking Diversity to the Next Level
With expanded management and planning responsibilities, high-ranking chief diversity officers are heading their institutions’ comprehensive approach to inclusiveness.
June 8, 2010
Students
Becoming a Force for Diversity and Inclusion
Rosemary E. Kilkenny is Georgetown University’s vice president for institutional diversity and equity, a position that was created for her in 2006, and she has become the university’s most visible cheerleader for diversity and inclusion.
June 7, 2010
Students
Asian American Studies at a Crossroads
Scholars fear the evolution of Asian American studies toward ethnic-specific courses means students miss broader, fuller understanding of the pan-Asian experience.
May 24, 2010
LGBTQ+
Virginia Attorney General Seeks Records of Former UVA Climate Scientist
Conservative Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli is investigating a former University of Virginia professor’s climate change research.
May 5, 2010
Disabilties
Conference Panelists: Disabled Students Would Benefit From Universal Instruction Design
In the diversity movement, nearly every identity is part of the conversation but disability remains a condition many fail to acknowledge, higher education disability advocates said Tuesday.
April 13, 2010
Faculty & Staff
Virginia HBCUs Struggle With Legal Opinion That Bars Protection for Gays
Virginia’s historically Black colleges and universities are reeling after a controversial legal opinion by Attorney General Kenneth Cuccinelli that would invalidate any policy erected by public colleges that bans discrimination against gays and lesbians.
March 9, 2010
LGBTQ+
AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES & EDUCATIONAL PSYCHOLOGY: Untangling The Web
You may face rejection and naysayers, but that voice that says “no” should not be inside of you.
January 6, 2010
LGBTQ+
Supreme Court to Decide if College Group Must Allow Gays
The Supreme Court said Monday it will decide whether a California law school violated the constitutional rights of a Christian group by denying it recognition as an official campus organization because it excludes gays and lesbians.
December 7, 2009
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