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African-American

Fisk University’s Hazel O’Leary to Continue Helping Fisk after Retirement

Fisk University president Hazel O’Leary said earlier this week that she plans to continue helping the financially embattled institution after her retirement, which is scheduled for the end of 2012.

February 23, 2012

Community Colleges

Commentary: Florida’s Community Colleges Provide a History Lesson

Not only is the history of the civil rights movement inadequately taught to students today, but primary sources documenting the events of that era are being lost, an English professor at Florida’s Broward College writes.

February 23, 2012

Dr. Rivka Spiro

African-American

Cataloging the Pan-African Experience

A longtime collector of books and rare items by and about African-Americans, Charles L. Blockson donated an art and artifact collection to Temple University that helps students and teachers grasp the history of peoples of African descent.

February 23, 2012

Charles L. Blockson

Infrastructure, Funding Key to Higher Education Diversity Plans, Experts Say

A former dean of diversity, Dr. Keenan Grenell says he has developed a good sense of what works when it comes to major diversity initiatives.

February 22, 2012

Dr. Keenan Grenell

University of Maryland Turns to Diversity Trailblazer

Dr. Kumea Shorter-Gooden, the new chief diversity officer at the University of Maryland-College Park, focuses on helping the school develop, execute and sustain a plan for better recruitment and retention of tenured and tenure-track women and people of color.

February 22, 2012

Dr. Kumea Shorter-Gooden

African-American

Officials Lead National African-American History and Culture Museum Groundbreaking

In a project hailed as a milestone in the nation’s history, President Obama joined celebrities, political luminaries and scholars Wednesday for the symbolic groundbreaking of the National Museum of African American History and Culture.

February 22, 2012

Museum groundbreaking

Monitoring of Muslim Students Sparks Outrage

Yale University and student groups are condemning the monitoring of Muslim college students across the Northeast by the New York Police Department, while Rutgers University and leaders of Muslim groups are calling for investigations.

February 21, 2012

African-American

Civil Rights Veterans Teach the Movement

Robert Moses and Charles Cobb are among the 1960s civil rights activists who have made the transition to academia, helping students born in a different era understand how the freedom struggle transformed America.

February 21, 2012

U.S. Supreme Court to Hear Texas Affirmative Action Case

The hot-button issue of affirmative action in college admissions is heading back to the U.S. Supreme Court in a case that may have a significant impact on post-secondary institutions.

February 21, 2012

U.S. Supreme Court

Obama Takes Tougher Stance on Higher Education

The Obama administration is pushing a fundamental higher education agenda shift that aggressively brings a new question into the debate: What are people getting for their money?

February 20, 2012

Mills College President Alecia DeCoudreaux Committed to Women’s Education

As the first Black woman president of Mills College, Alecia DeCoudreaux leads an undergraduate program dedicated solely to women, one of fewer than 60 such U.S. institutions left in this country.

February 20, 2012

Alecia Decoudreaux

African-American

University of Pennsylvania Names W.E.B. DuBois Honorary Emeritus Professor

After barring W.E.B. DuBois as a young sociologist from a teaching job more than a century ago, the University of Pennsylvania has now granted the late scholar an honorary professorship.

February 20, 2012

Dr. W.E.B. DuBois

Muslim Students Across Northeast Monitored by NYPD

Detectives trawled Muslim student websites every day and, although professors and students had not been accused of any wrongdoing, their names were recorded in reports prepared for Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly.

February 19, 2012

An Appreciation – Patricia Stephens Due, Student Civil Rights Activist

When Patricia Stephens Due was a student in 1960 at Florida A & M University (FAMU) in Tallahassee, she and other FAMU students organized the first student sit-ins in the city.

February 19, 2012

Tanarive and Patricia Due

Asian American Pacific Islander

Commentary: Jeremy Lin Phenomenon Shows Us We Don’t Know Asian Americans

In a time when there are more Asians and Asian Americans on college campuses than ever before, Lin’s explosion into our pop consciousness as an NBA basketball star is allowing society a new pathway to see Asian Americans.

February 19, 2012

African-American

Fisk University President Hazel R. O’Leary to Retire in December

News of O’Leary’s departure announcement comes as the school manages to maintain a small, solid academic program while continuing to lose enrollment and thirst for a huge infusion of money to keep its doors open.

February 19, 2012

UC Davis Pays $1.35M to Settle Title IX Case

The settlement came after a federal judge in Sacramento ruled on a broader question in August and found that the university had violated Title IX, the federal law passed in 1972 that requires equal athletic opportunities for men and women.

February 19, 2012

Title IX and women athletes

The Poetic Gift – Karen An-Hwei Lee

Dr. Lee's highly acclaimed 2004 book of poetry, In Medias Res, was described by publisher Sarabande Books as “an investigation into how God hides in language.” In Medias Res won the 2005 Norma Farber First Book Award from the Poetry Society of America and was a Kathryn A. Morton Prize winner.

February 17, 2012