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There Are No Safe Spaces

Conferences are about reunions with colleagues and friends, presentations on the next innovative research, and new connections made to build your academic community. However, conferences are also about performing in spaces, I argue, that can feel and be unsafe. A space where trauma reignites from our past or future selves.

December 2, 2019

Montclair State University Discovers 112-Year-Old Letter

During a renovation project, Montclair State University in New Jersey found a 112-year-old letter from workers who built the original campus, CNN reported. The letter – dated July 3, 1907 – was stowed inside a beer bottle in an old brick wall. A demolition worker discovered it as he was taking down the wall of […]

December 2, 2019

UNC Agrees to Fund a $2.5M Trust for Care and Preservation of Confederate Statue Silent Sam

Last year, the Confederate statue Silent Sam fell after protests occurred on the University of North Carolina (UNC) at Chapel Hill’s campus. The statue was placed in storage and the location wasn’t revealed until recently. UNC announced last week that the statue would be given to the North Carolina division of the Sons of Confederate […]

December 2, 2019

Sen. Bernie Sanders Proposes Plan to Support HBCUs

After his recent tour of historically Black colleges and universities, Sen. Bernie Sanders, a 2020 presidential candidate released a plan to cancel HBCUs’ public loan debt, make private and public HBCUs free and issue an executive order strengthening the HBCU White House Initiative, Essence reported. He also proposed a $5 billion fund to expand teacher-training […]

December 2, 2019

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University of South Florida Fires Head Football Coach Charlie Strong

The University of South Florida (USF) fired its head football coach, Charlie Strong, following three seasons in which the Bulls won fewer games each year. Strong joined USF in 2017 and began his tenure with a successful first season at 10-2, only to be followed by a six-game losing streak in 2018. The team recently […]

December 2, 2019

White Coats for Black Lives Evaluates Diversity at Select Medical Schools

Diversity is essential to combat healthcare disparities, but a recent report shows that the number of underrepresented minorities graduating from U.S. medical schools is still disproportionally low.

November 30, 2019

Am I Missing Something? How to Make Applying to Graduate School More Affordable

As more universities and graduate programs drop requirements to submit standardized test scores like the GRE, LSAT, and GMAT, the obstacle of having to pay for expensive, unfair testing may no longer be an issue for prospective students.

November 30, 2019

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Campus Staff With DACA Status Face Uncertainty Too

There’s a lot of talk about DACA students, as the U.S. Supreme Court deliberates on the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program (DACA), which protects immigrants who came to the United States as children from deportation. But there’s little conversation about university instructors and staff with DACA status, wrestling with the same uncertainty.

November 29, 2019

SUSAN ANDERSON

SUSAN ANDERSON has been named the first dean of rural medicine at the University of South Dakota (USD) Sanford School of Medicine. She will continue to serve as the director of USD’s Frontier and Rural Medicine Program and as chair of the Department of Family Medicine. Anderson earned her bachelor’s degree from South Dakota State University and her medical degree from USD.

November 27, 2019

MARK KAMIMURA-JIMENEZ

MARK KAMIMURA-JIMENEZ has been appointed associate vice chancellor for student affairs and dean of the Center for Diversity and Inclusion at Washington University in St. Louis. He is currently the assistant vice chancellor of student affairs at Texas Christian University. He holds a bachelor’s in social science from the University of California, Irvine; a master’s in organization and leadership from Columbia University in New York; and a Ph.D. in education from the University of Michigan.

November 27, 2019

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AARON BIRD BEAR

AARON BIRD BEAR has been appointed the first director of tribal relations at the University of Wisconsin-Madison (UW-M). He currently serves as UW-M’s assistant dean for student diversity programs at the School of Education. He holds a bachelor’s degree in physical oceanography from the University of Washington in Seattle as well as a master’s degree in educational leadership and policy analysis from UW-M.

November 27, 2019

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Stony Brook University Receives $957,000 to Support SUNY’s Diverse Faculty Initiative

Stony Brook University (SBU) will receive a $957,000 donation from the State University of New York (SUNY) to put toward increasing faculty diversity. Provided over a three-year period, the funding will support the salaries of six specific faculty members at the university. The donation is part of SUNY’s larger PRODIG (Promoting Recruitment, Opportunity, Diversity, Inclusion […]

November 27, 2019

UCR Launches Veterans Resource Center Website for Veteran and Military-Affiliated Students

This past Veterans Day, UCR’s Veterans Resource Center (VRC) launched their official website for student veterans. The VRC is a UCR service center meant to provide veteran and military-affiliated students with a support system, community resources and networking opportunities. In an interview with The Highlander, Veteran Services Coordinator Tami Thacker said that the website is […]

November 27, 2019

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UWF Students Work on Product to Assist Military Dogs, Their Handlers

The idea sprang from the students’ experience in Hacking for Defense, a UWF summer course in which students work in teams directly with agencies and companies in the defense and intelligence community on issues presented by government and industry partners. “We were given an issue to work on, and we had to figure out a […]

November 27, 2019

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App State’s Army ROTC Program Celebrates 50th Anniversary

BOONE, N.C. — Appalachian State University’s Army Reserve Officers’ Training Corps (ROTC) program, which currently enrolls 140 cadets, culminated its yearlong 50th anniversary celebrations last weekend, with program faculty, students and alumni participating in Heroes Day at the Nov. 23 Appalachian football game against Texas State University. The university’s Mountaineer Battalion first launched in 1969 […]

November 27, 2019

Auburn’s Veterans Resource Center Attempts to Enrich Academic Experience

Kyle Venable has heard every misconception about veterans: They’re all men, they’re all old and they’ve all seen combat. But while there are some veterans who fit this mold, Venable said, the truth is there are many who do not. “Any time women are around, they go to anything that has to do with Veterans […]

November 27, 2019

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President of the PhD Project Plans to Retire

Bernard J. Milano, president of the PhD project, a program to diversify business school faculty, will retire on January 15, 2020. He will also retire as president of KPMG U.S. Foundation, Inc. Milano has been with the PhD project since it was founded by KPMG and other organizations in 1994. Under Milano’s leadership, the PhD […]

November 27, 2019

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New Jersey Low-Income Students Tour University of Pennsylvania and Villanova

New Jersey SEEDS, a nonprofit for low-income students, took 30 alumni on private tours of University of Pennsylvania and Villanova University recently. Students visited the campuses and attended information sessions coordinated by the schools’ admissions offices to help them navigate the college application process. Students on the tours were graduates of New Jersey SEEDS’ Scholars […]

November 27, 2019