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Disparities
Report: Junk Food TV Ads Focus More on Hispanic, Black Adolescents Than Other Groups
According to a new report by University of Connecticut, Drexel University and the University of Texas Health Science Center, TV advertising costs for restaurants, food and beverages decreased by 4 percent, whereas spending for the same advertising directed at Black teens increased by 50 percent. “Food companies hardly ever market fruit and vegetables, water or […]
January 16, 2019
Other News
An Interview with Phill Wilson, Founder, Former President of Black AIDS Institute
Phill Wilson, the founder and president and CEO of the Black AIDS Institute (BAI) since its inception in 1999, has recently retired. The Institute is the only national HIV/AIDS think tank in the country that’s focused on African-Americans. Diverse: Issues In Higher Education recently interviewed Wilson about his time at the Institute, and what’s next for him and the Institute. Diverse: […]
January 16, 2019
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The Benefits of Lifting the Federal Pell Ban for Incarcerated People
Greater access to a postsecondary education due to Pell Grant awards would equip incarcerated individuals with the job skills they need to compete in the workforce, increase formerly incarcerated individuals’ employment rates and earnings and reduce recidivism, saving states a combined $365.8 million in prison costs each year. That’s the findings of a new study from the Vera Institute of Justice and the Georgetown Center on Poverty and Inequality (GCPI).
January 15, 2019
News Roundup
UNC-Chapel Hill Chancellor to Resign Before Months End
The University of North Carolina (UNC) Board of Governors has accepted UNC-Chapel Hill chancellor Dr. Carol Folt’s resignation, several months earlier than expected. The board of governors gave Folt until Jan. 31 to leave her position. Originally, Folt had planned to stay at UNC-Chapel Hill through its 2019 spring graduation, according to The News & […]
January 15, 2019
Latest News
Hampshire College May Merge in June
Citing financial concerns, Hampshire College president Dr. Miriam Nelson announced in an email that the school would like to merge with another higher education institution by June.
January 15, 2019
News Roundup
Associate’s Degree in Cowboy Arts now Available at Mesalands Community College
Students at Mesalands Community College, located in Tucumcari, New Mexico, will now be able to pursue an associate’s degree program in Cowboy Arts. The program started around eight years ago as one class, a spur making class, and recently evolved into an associates of applied science degree, Cowboy Arts lead instructor Eddy Mardis told ABC7 […]
January 15, 2019
News Roundup
UC Irvine Fraternity Placed on Suspension After Student Found Dead Near Campus
The Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity chapter at University of California (UC), Irvine has been suspended after Irvine police found student and fraternity member Noah Domingo dead in a home near campus. Irvine police received a call around that Domingo, 18, was unresponsive and found him dead at the scene, Kim Moher, a police spokeswoman told […]
January 15, 2019
Women
Education in Spite of It All: A Black Woman’s Journey
My mother, Dr. Mildred Pratt, died in 2012. I think about her often. She was one of the first-generation of Black women to become a full professor at a predominantly White institution. When she became a full professor in the 1970s, Black women represented 1 percent of all full professors. As of 2016, Black women, like me, represent 2 percent of all full professors. In fact, out of all the full-time faculty in degree-granting postsecondary institutions, Black women only represent 3 percent of all faculty. We need more.
January 15, 2019
African-American
‘Mascu’sectionality: Theorizing an Alternative Framework for Black Males
The theorizing and theoretical frameworks speaking to the male experience, particularly the Black male experience has tended to emanate from a place of deficit thinking and pathology. Hence, for Black males and those who study this population, engaging in critical discourse about their epistemological and ontological being is at best lopsided.
January 15, 2019
News Roundup
Roger Williams University Host Dinner for Families Affected by Government Shutdown
Roger Williams University (RWU), a private, liberal art university in Bristol, Rhode Island, recently hosted a dinner on campus for Coast Guard members and their families affected by the U.S. government shutdown. The U.S. Coast Guard is the only military branch affected by the government shutdown. The dinner welcomed all active-duty members of the Coast […]
January 15, 2019
Veterans
Scottish Universities Partner to Help Vets Transition to Careers, Civilian Life
Scottish universities Glasgow Caledonian University (GCU) and Edinburgh Napier University (ENU) have partnered with Veterans Scotland to help armed forces veterans find careers and transition to civilian life after their service ends. On Tuesday, Jan. 15, the universities and Veterans Scotland will host an event in Glasgow to show how higher education institutions can support […]
January 15, 2019
Academics
300 Marines, Sailors Complete Groundwork in Establishing Latin American Task Force
A small group of Marines and sailors have recently returned from a six-month deployment in Central America that could be the groundwork of a new multinational task force focusing on everything from natural disaster to security responses. Three-hundred Marines and sailors with the Special Purpose Marine Air Ground Task Force – Southern Command were deployed […]
January 15, 2019
Policy
Roger Williams University Host Dinner for Families Affected by Government Shutdown
Roger Williams University (RWU), a private, liberal art university in Bristol, Rhode Island, recently hosted a dinner on campus for Coast Guard members and their families affected by the U.S. government shutdown. The U.S. Coast Guard is the only military branch affected by the government shutdown. The dinner welcomed all active-duty members of the Coast […]
January 15, 2019
Funding
Hudson Valley Couple Receive Award For Accomplishments with Latino Scholarship Fund
Eddie and Norma Ramirez have been named the recipients of the 2019 Richard K. Wager Inclusive Champion Award for their work with the Hudson Valley Latino Scholarship Fund in upstate New York.
January 15, 2019
Community Colleges
Report Outlines Persistence of Community College Transfer Students
A new report from the Jack Kent Cooke Foundation (JKCF) aims to dispel misperceptions about the success and perseverance of community college students, particularly those who transfer to selective four-year institutions.
January 14, 2019
African-American
A Revived “North Star” Emerges
Beginning next month, an updated North Star, founded by activist journalist Shaun King and edited by noted scholar Dr. Keisha Blain, will emerge online with content created by progressives seeking to agitate for justice in the spirit of Frederick Douglass and the movement he inspired.
January 14, 2019
News Roundup
Lilly Endowment Inc. Donates $900K Grant to Spelman College
As part of Lilly Endowment Inc.’s Thriving in Ministry Initiative, the foundation has donated a $900,000 grant to Spelman College to help establish or strengthen programs that help female pastors network with other clergy and lead them through leadership challenges in congregational ministry to prepare them for their future career. Spelman College’s Women in Spiritual […]
January 14, 2019
STEM
Microbiologist Dr. Floyd L. Wormley Jr. Named AAAS Fellow
Dr. Floyd L. Wormely Jr., the Microsoft President’s Endowed Professor in the University of Texas – San Antonio College of Sciences, was recently named a fellow to the American Association for the Advancement of Science. His election by his peers recognizes his distinguished contributions to the field of medical mycology, immunology and host-pathogen interactions.
January 14, 2019
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