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A New Day in New England
Surveying the higher ed diversity landscape in Maine, Vermont, New Hampshire and Rhode Island.
June 1, 2016
News Roundup
The Common Habit That Undermines Organizations’ Diversity Efforts
In 2003, a journalist named Katherine Rosman was at a party where she felt awkward and out of place. So she struck up a conversation with someone else who seemed to feel out of place. He was one of the few African-Americans there, and turned out to be a state senator. Later that evening, Rosman […]
June 1, 2016
Women
Less Women in STEM Equals Trouble for Silicon Valley
Silicon Valley has recognized the importance of women and is taking a stand to bring more women into the field.
June 1, 2016
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Diverse on the Go
Sydnee Vann, Marketing Manager, and Ralph Newell, Vice President Business Development/Technology, are representing Diverse at NCORE 2016 at the Hilton of San Francisco Union Square through Saturday. Among other activities, they will host a demonstration of the “Keep it Real” board game that stimulates discussion of diversity.
June 1, 2016
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Atkins Focuses on Broadening Diversity at Keene State
Dr. Kemal Atkins has helped to keep Keene State College on a steady forward progression in the months following the infamous Pumpkin Fest in 2014.
June 1, 2016
Disparities
U.S. Threatens to Cut Off Funds at South Dakota Hospital
SIOUX FALLS, S.D.— The U.S. government on May 23 threatened to cut off Medicare and Medicaid funding to a government-run hospital in Rapid City — the third South Dakota hospital serving Native Americans that’s been found to have serious deficiencies in recent months. Inspectors with the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, which administers the […]
May 31, 2016
Policies
Reports on Deaths of 9 Disabled Went to Defunct Private Email Address
MINEOLA, N.Y. — There may be a reason a prosecutor’s office says it never received nine reports of suspicious deaths of developmentally disabled people in state care over the past three years: A state oversight agency acknowledged on May 20 that it sent them to an assistant prosecutor’s personal email, an account that apparently had […]
May 31, 2016
Policies
72 percent of Americans in Poll Support Paid Family Leave
CHICAGO — Time off from work to care for a child or relative is codified in federal law. Now, an overwhelming majority of Americans 40 and older want that time away from the job to be paid. An Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research poll released May 20 said 72 percent support paid family […]
May 31, 2016
Disparities
Checkmate! Chess Expands Options for Children in Ferguson, Missouri
ST. LOUIS — Ten-year-old Tyson Stegall stared intently at the chess board as his opponent, grandmaster Alejandro Ramirez, pondered a move. The fourth-grader gave a little grimace, then a smile, when Ramirez finished him off with a checkmate. “He trapped me,” Tyson said. Tyson is among dozens of students from the Ferguson, Missouri, area who […]
May 31, 2016
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Rutgers New Jersey Medical School Wins Disability Discrimination Lawsuit
Rutgers New Jersey Medical School didn’t violate the Americans with Disabilities Act or Rehabilitation Act when it dismissed a student who failed her medical licensing exams, a federal judge in New Jersey has ruled.
May 30, 2016
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For-profit College Students Earning Less After Attendance
With the exception of students who study cosmetology, students who attend for-profit colleges end up earning less money five to six years after attendance than they did before they enrolled, a new paper released Monday claims.
May 30, 2016
Students
Only Solution for Baylor University—Dump “Big-Time” Sports
The best way for Baylor University to rectify a scandal over its failure to implement Title IX standards throughout the university is to get rid of “big-time” sports.
May 30, 2016
Students
Meet the First Black Valedictorian at the World’s First School of Dentistry
Established in 1840 as the Baltimore College of Dental Surgery, the University of Maryland School of Dentistry is known as the first dental college in the world. This past week, the school again made history when it graduated the first black valedictorian in its 176-year existence. As graduation approached, Tera Poole knew she was among the top […]
May 28, 2016
Students
Poor Responses to Sex Assault Cases Sink Baylor President Ken Starr, Football Coach Art Briles
A scathing report as the result of an independent investigation into Baylor University’s handling of student sex assault allegations has led to the ouster of President Kenneth Starr and the suspension of football coach Art Briles with his firing expected to follow.
May 27, 2016
African-American
Dr. Manisha Sinha Points Perception of Abolitionist Movement in Another Direction
Dr. Manisha Sinha’s new book The Slave’s Cause: A History of Abolition provides a counter to the historical narrative that is often presented of abolitionists as only being White, bourgeois reformers who were burdened by racial paternalism and economic conservatism.
May 27, 2016
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In Case You Missed It…
End Racial Profiling of Asian American Scientists and Academics Scholars Find Texas Automatic Admissions Create College Mismatches Former Florida A&M President Ammons Named Provost at Delaware State Raymond Burse Abruptly Quits as Kentucky State University President
May 27, 2016
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Clinton, Sanders Higher Education Policies Similar; Trump’s Remains a Mystery
On the same day that presidential candidate Donald Trump secured enough delegates to clinch the Republican nomination, his campaign skipped a forum meant to illuminate how the 2015 presidential hopefuls would set education policy and budget priorities.
May 26, 2016
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Diverse on the Go
Senior Writer Jamal Eric Watson will be among the staffers representing Diverse at the American Association for Access Equity and Diversity national conference and annual meeting Friday at the Sheraton Tysons Hotel in Vienna, Va. Watson will moderate a panel discussion entitled “Black Lives Matter: Bridging Opportunities in the Time of Unrest & Challenges” from […]
May 26, 2016
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