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Diverse Docket: Judge Squashes Bias Suit Against Howard University
U.S. District Judge Richard Leon threw out a suit by Jeannette Frett, a $150,000-a-year senior director and chief talent officer in Howard’s Office of Talent Management.
February 24, 2016
Faculty & Staff
Despite Headlines, PWIs Need not Stop Preaching
Faith-based PWIs can salvage their reputations even while sticking to their values when encountered with differences.
February 24, 2016
African-American
Corporations Beginning to See Value of Supporting HBCUs
Recent headlines have shared historic announcements by many leading corporations of their new commitment to supporting greater diversity in science, technology, engineering and math.
February 24, 2016
STEM
Profile of Nation’s Innovators Doesn’t Mirror Those of Gates, Zuckerberg
Study shows more than a third of U.S. innovators were born on foreign soil, and a similar amount completed their undergraduate education at a foreign college or university.
February 24, 2016
Students
4 Students Sue Providence for Ban on Renting House Together
PROVIDENCE, R.I. ― Four college students are suing the city of Providence, Rhode Island, over an ordinance that bans them from living together in a single-family home. The Johnson & Wales University students are joined in the suit filed Tuesday by their landlord, and backed by the American Civil Liberties Union. The city council passed […]
February 24, 2016
Students
Stanford Creates World’s Biggest Scholars Program
PALO ALTO, Calif. ― Nike co-founder Phil Knight is donating $400 million to Stanford University to help create the largest fully-endowed scholarship in the world with the goal of preparing a new generation of global leaders, university officials said Wednesday. With Knight’s gift and donations from alumni and Stanford’s Board of Trustees members, the Knight-Hennessy […]
February 24, 2016
Students
Chicago State to End School Year Early to Save Money
CHICAGO ― Chicago State University has told students and faculty that it was eliminating spring break and shortening the semester because it may have to close down because of a lack of funding amid the prolonged stalemate over a state budget. In a memo to faculty and students on Tuesday, university President Thomas Calhoun said […]
February 24, 2016
Students
Florida State Frat Suspended Following Hazing Investigation
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. ― Florida State officials have suspended the school’s Tau Kappa Epsilon fraternity following a police investigation into hazing allegations. The university reported in a news release Wednesday that the complaint was filed in January through the school’s hazing website. The TKE member said pledges were forced to participate in a drinking game called […]
February 24, 2016
Students
How Low-Income Students Are Fitting in at Elite Colleges
In recent years, college campuses have been rocked by black students protesting racial bigotry, and women’s groups denouncing sexual harassment. But in the age of Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump’s class-based politics, we’re beginning to see something new: the rise of low-income and working-class students protesting longstanding inequalities on campus that in the previous decades […]
February 24, 2016
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Free at Last?
A look at Black history from a Canadian perspective.
February 24, 2016
Students
New Program to Fund Graduate Education for 100 International Students Each Year
Stanford University announced Tuesday the Knight-Hennessy Scholars Program, a graduate-level scholarship to prepare a new generation of global leaders with the skills to address the increasingly complex challenges facing the world. The program is named for alumnus Philip H. Knight, MBA ’62, philanthropist, American businessman and co-founder of Nike Inc., who is contributing $400 million, […]
February 24, 2016
African-American
President Obama Nominates First African-American Librarian of Congress
President Barack Obama has nominated the longtime head of Baltimore’s library system as the next Librarian of Congress. Carla Hayden would be the 14th Librarian of Congress in the institution’s 214-year history and the first woman and the first African-American to hold the position. Obama announced her appointment on Wednesday. If confirmed by the Senate, […]
February 24, 2016
African-American
Booker T. Washington: A Complicated Legacy
Booker T. Washington’s curriculum practice of connecting education to the social life and needs of his students in furtherance of the democratic prospect was powerfully unique and created a vision for future generations of educators.
February 23, 2016
Disabilties
ED Seeks More Accurate Measures of Disproportionality in Special Education
The Department of Education wants states to start using a standardized methodology to determine whether they are identifying minority students for special education services at a disproportionately high rate.
February 23, 2016
Students
Remedial Programs a Weak Spot at Community Colleges
Developmental education has been identified as one of the barriers to improved graduation and completion rates at community colleges, according to a new report from the Center for Community College Student Engagement.
February 23, 2016
Students
Budget plan would cut $8M from University of Missouri system
By Associated Press JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — A Missouri lawmaker proposes cutting $8 million from the University of Missouri system roiled by recent race-related protests at its Columbia campus. The possible cuts were rolled out Tuesday by Republican House Budget Chairman Tom Flanigan of Carthage. The cuts include reducing funding to the Columbia campus by […]
February 23, 2016
News Roundup
How to Help More College Students Graduate
The United States has a dropout crisis. Sixty percent of people go to college these days, but just half of the college students graduate with a bachelor’s degree. Some people earn a shorter, two-year associate’s degree. But more than a quarter of those who start college drop out with no credential. Despite the rising cost of education, […]
February 23, 2016
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PETER RODRIGUEZ
PETER RODRIGUEZ has been named dean of the Jones Graduate School of Business at Rice University. He is senior associate dean for degree programs and chief diversity officer at the School of Business at the University of Virginia. Rodriguez earned a bachelor’s from Texas A&M University, and a master’s and a doctorate from Princeton University.
February 23, 2016
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