Search | The EDU Ledger

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.

Central Park Five Prosecutor Resigns Vassar Trustee Board

Amidst a swarm of controversy over a Netflix series about a wrongful conviction in a high-profile New York City rape case, author and former prosecutor Linda Fairstein has resigned as a trustee of her alma mater, Vassar College. Fairstein, who graduated in 1969, was a prosecutor in the 1989 case commonly known as the “Central […]

June 6, 2019

Lavender Graduations Set to Celebrate 25th Anniversary Next Year

Lavender Graduations have now become commonplace on many colleges campuses in the United States and abroad. But it wasn’t always that way.

June 6, 2019

Deceased Amherst Alum’s $25M Gift Benefits Dickinson Museum

William Vickery, who died Feb. 4, has given Amherst College a $25-million gift, with about $22 million of the amount designated for use by the Emily Dickinson Museum. It’s the largest donation the museum, which was founded in 2003, has ever received and will be known as the William McCall Vickery ’57 Emily Dickinson Fund. […]

June 6, 2019

Michigan Eases Voting Restrictions, Helps College Students

The state of Michigan has agreed to help college students vote while away at school, a victory for Democrats who sued last year to overturn a law that made it harder for students to vote, according to a report in the The Washington Post. Jocelyn Benson, Michigan’s secretary of state, said Wednesday that her office […]

June 6, 2019

London Literature Scholar Receives Norway’s Holberg Prize

Dr. Paul Gilroy of King’s College London has been presented the Holberg Prize by Crown Prince Haakon of Norway. Gilroy, professor of American and English literature, was feted at an award ceremony Thursday at the University Aula in Bergen in Norway. The honor, for outstanding international research, is a cash prize of approximately $700,000. “I […]

June 6, 2019

Leadership Must Possess Soul

During the 1970s, the concept of “soul” was on full display. Perhaps at the most basic level, “soul” pertained to a gracefully elegant, even rhythmic way of life that exhibited a confident cultural swagger manifested in various ways by Blacks.

June 6, 2019

091917_Cornelius_Gilbert-256×300

San Antonio College’s Dr. Robert Vela Leading with Intention

Dr. Robert Vela’s presidency at San Antonio College (SAC) has resulted in a more diverse administration that reflects the student body, increased engagement with the surrounding community and a soon-to-be-developed diversity initiative that aims to embed a commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion across the college’s divisions.

June 5, 2019

Georgia Universities, Family Services Agency Partner on Child Welfare

The schools of social work at the University of Georgia and Georgia State University and the Georgia Division of Family and Children Services are teaming up for the next four years in an initiative aimed at boosting the state’s capacity to provide high-quality child welfare services.

June 5, 2019

Social work class, UGA Gwinnett Campus

AMA Announces Recipients of $15M Reimagining Residency Initiative

The American Medical Association selected eight award recipients to participate in its newly developed Reimagining Residency Initiative. AMA’s $14.4 million award will fund eight projects from medical schools, residency programs and health systems that have a goal to improve residency training. Each project will receive $1.8 million over five years. “After establishing a framework for […]

June 5, 2019

James L. Madara

Survey Shows More Americans Don’t Care About Coworkers’ Sexuality

A new research study shows that an increasing number of Americans don’t care about their coworkers’ sexuality or gender expression. A survey in May of more than 2,000 employees revealed that 60 percent of Americans have no preference about with whom they work, compared to 55 percent the prior year, according to Bospar, a California-based […]

June 5, 2019

CMSI Selects New Cohort of MSI Aspiring Leaders, Presidential Mentors

The Penn Center for Minority Serving Institutions in the Graduate School of Education at the University of Pennsylvania has selected the next cohort of mid-career aspiring leaders for the second MSI Aspiring Leaders Forum. The forum, slated for Nov. 1-3, will include a range of sessions such as fiscal management, strategic fundraising, presidential fit and […]

June 5, 2019

The ‘Weaker Sex’? #FACTS

As my last blog post, I want to leave you with a challenge – a challenge that, in the spirit of this blog, is at the intersection of diversity, education and health, and, I believe that, if accepted, can help initiate change we are sorely in need of today. The challenge is based on a question that I have asked myself on and off throughout my life. This question has been on my mind more and more recently as a result of the political and social climate in the US and my work focused on women’s health. The question?“Who is the ‘weaker sex?’”

June 5, 2019

‘Discrimination’ and Discrimination

At the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston, discrimination is out in the open — and it’s fine. When you arrive, the sign above the lobby counter indicates that anybody named “Isabella” may enter without charge. I’d never seen anything like it.

June 4, 2019

FrankWufeatured

Dr. Julian Vasquez Heilig Named Dean at University of Kentucky

Julian Vasquez Heilig has been named dean of the College of Education at the University of Kentucky, pending approval from the university’s Board of Trustees. Vasquez Heilig comes to the university from California State University, Sacramento, where he served as professor of educational leadership and policy studies and director of the Doctorate in Educational Leadership […]

June 4, 2019

(Sacramento State/Steve McKay)

Study: Young Americans’ Wages Same As Decade Ago

Adjusted for inflation, young Americans are earning the exact wages their counterparts were paid a decade ago and are feeling left behind economically, according to a study released Tuesday by Young Invincibles.

June 4, 2019

Soncia Colemanfeatured

Georgia State Names Dr. Stephanie Y. Evans as WGSS Director

Dr. Stephanie Y. Evans has been named the next director of the Institute for Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies at Georgia State University.

June 4, 2019

Dr. Stephanie Y. Evans

Rutgers Under Criticism for Defunding Student Newspaper

The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) has called on Rutgers University to restore funding to The Daily Targum and reform its “unconstitutional funding policy” after a referendum vote stripped the student newspaper of its funding. FIRE officials cited four ways in which the university violated students’ rights, singling out the referendum vote that […]

June 4, 2019

Freedom Summer of ’64 Award Bestowed on Historic Church

Miami University in Oxford, Ohio will present the historic Mt. Zion United Methodist Church in Mississippi with the Freedom Summer of ’64 Award to honor the legacy of three Freedom Summer volunteers killed 55 years ago by the Ku Klux Klan. The Freedom Summer award will be presented at Mt. Zion on June 16 – […]

June 4, 2019

freedom-summer-hoxie-singing-presser