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NCORE Director Kathleen Wong(Lau): Path to Inclusion Must Be Carefully Mapped Out

Dr. Kathleen Wong(Lau), who has launched faculty training institutes and administrator training on management and leadership on diversity and innovation, says the curriculum should address participants “from where they are and the theoretical premise of where you want them to go.”

June 2, 2016

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Report Finds Bachelor’s Degrees More Beneficial Than Associate’s

When it comes to various forms of well-being—from financial to physical—associate’s degree holders trail behind holders of bachelor’s degrees across the board, according to a new report released Wednesday.

June 2, 2016

Chicago State University Forges Ahead Despite Financial Headwinds

Chicago State University is continuing to prove its success in producing minority and Black graduates in fields where they are often underrepresented despite the Illinois budget stalemate.

June 2, 2016

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Mellon Foundation Grants Additional $100K to Tuskegee University

The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has granted $100,000 to Tuskegee University, bringing the total gift recently given to the private Alabama historically Black university to $600,000.

June 2, 2016

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All Motion Ain’t Progress

I consider myself very blessed to have grown up in an era when the global political consciousness of Black people was much keener than it appears, to me, to be today.

June 2, 2016

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Utah Police Reviewing BYU’s Handling of Sexual Assault Cases

SALT LAKE CITY ― Utah’s Department of Public Safety has launched an investigation into whether Brigham Young University’s police department is appropriately sharing sexual assault case information. BYU’s police department asked for the investigation so that an external party could examine whether it is correctly sharing these reports with other departments in the school and […]

June 1, 2016

Faculty & Staff

Murder-Suicide Leaves 2 Dead at UCLA

LOS ANGELES ― A shooting that left two men dead at UCLA on Wednesday and led to a massive response on the campus in a bustling part of Los Angeles was a murder-suicide, authorities said. Police Chief Charlie Beck declared the campus safe about two hours after authorities received a 911 call. The shooting happened […]

June 1, 2016

A New Day in New England

Surveying the higher ed diversity landscape in Maine, Vermont, New Hampshire and Rhode Island.

June 1, 2016

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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