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Amherst College President Urges Students to Call Police if Racially Harassed

Amherst College president Biddy Martin has, in a letter this week, urged students and other community members to call the campus or local police if they are the target of racial harassment in the wake of the coronavirus. “Students, staff, and faculty who become the target of bias, harassment, or assault – verbal or physical […]

April 9, 2020

Portrait of President Biddy Martin in her office. Photo by Maria Stenzel.

Rev. Al Sharpton Asks Harvard if it Has Black Endowment Managers

Civil rights leader the Rev. Al Sharpton last month asked Harvard University to disclose whether it has any Black asset managers on its $40.9 billion endowment fund, reported the university’s newspaper The Harvard Crimson. In a letter to Harvard president Dr. Lawrence S. Bacow, Sharpton asked the university to issue a report disclosing these details […]

April 9, 2020

Clemson University Says Students Gathering on or Off Campus Subject to Code of Conduct

A Clemson University student last week hosted a party with 100 attendees at their rented home in downtown Clemson, flouting social distancing guidelines issued to curb the spread of the coronavirus, reported Greenville News. Police broke up last Friday’s party after neighbors complained, and on the following Wednesday, the university released a message saying students […]

April 9, 2020

Dual Enrollment Works. But Who Is It Working For?

Dual enrollment allows students to get ahead and ease into college with a familiar, supportive framework. But the experts who analyze these programs are still asking themselves how to design these opportunities to serve the students who need them most.

April 9, 2020

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2020 Diverse Champion: How Dr. Curtis L. Ivery Transformed Wayne County Community College District

Dr. Curtis L. Ivery has become somewhat of a celebrity in Detroit, using his high-profile status as the chancellor of the Wayne County Community College District (WCCCD) to champion opportunity and educational equity for the 70,000 students enrolled at the multi-campus college.

April 9, 2020

Study: Minority Student Enrollment Hasn’t Kept Pace With Demographic Trends in States That Have Affirmative Action Bans

Enrollment of underrepresented minorities at public universities has not kept pace with demographic trends in states that have banned affirmative action, a new study finds. In these states, the portion of underrepresented minorities among students admitted and enrolling in public universities has steadily lost ground relative to changing demographic trends among high school graduates, based […]

April 8, 2020

Coronavirus Brings Extra Uncertainty For DACA Students Awaiting a Supreme Court Decision

DACA students have been in limbo for months, as the U.S. Supreme Court continues to deliberate on whether to uphold the Trump administration’s 2017 decision to end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrival program. Now, amidst the coronavirus crisis, both DACA and undocumented students face even more questions about their future.

April 8, 2020

Meet Frank Wu, A Dr. John Hope Franklin Award Recipient

During his childhood, Frank Wu planned on being an architect. His parents even bought him a drafting table at a garage sale. But as a teenager, a local hate crime and homicide in Detroit changed his mind. With Detroit being known as the “motor city,” residents depended on the larger automobile companies for employment. After […]

April 8, 2020

Coronavirus Debt Relief for 300,000 Private Student Loan Borrowers in New York

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Tuesday announced relief for as many as 300,000 borrowers of private student loans who are left out of the ambit of the federal Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act, or CARES Act. These 300,000 borrowers can now contact their student loan servicer to defer student loan payments for […]

April 8, 2020

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Black Pennsylvania Student Wins $40,000 Damages in Racial Discrimination Lawsuit

A district judge ordered a Pennsylvania restaurant to pay $40,000 in damages to a Black Lebanon Valley College student who alleged the eatery called him the N-word and refused to serve him, reported Penn Live. Ricky Lee Bugg Jr. was a junior at the college in 2017 when the incident occurred at Just Wing It, […]

April 8, 2020

Fewer Enrollments, Lost Income to Pressure Universities’ Finances: Moody’s

Lower student enrolments and lost income will pressure higher education institutions worldwide, due to the global coronavirus pandemic, said bond ratings agency Moody’s Investors Service. Public U.S. universities will be under more pressure because of potential government funding cuts and lower income from investments, said the agency. Decreased investment income is especially on the cards […]

April 8, 2020

Report: Congress Needs to do a Lot More to Ensure Educational Equity During the Pandemic

To help small businesses, higher education institutions and individuals recover from the economic impact of the coronavirus pandemic, Congress recently passed a $2 trillion stimulus package.

April 7, 2020

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Campuses Might Still Be Closed in the Fall. How Should Universities Prepare?

While there’s hope campuses will re-open come fall, no one knows for certain. In the meantime, university leaders are girding themselves for the possibility they’ll have to offer another semester online and asking themselves how to best prepare for more long-term remote learning.

April 7, 2020

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Meet Kimberlé Crenshaw, a Dr. John Hope Franklin Award Recipient

Dr. Crenshaw famously coined the term “intersectionality” in 1989 to describe how race, gender, class and other individual characteristics intersect, when she published an article titled, “Demarginalizing the Intersection of Race and Sex” in the University of Chicago Legal Forum.

April 7, 2020

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Prominent Literary Scholar Dr. Cheryl A. Wall Dead at 71

Dr. Cheryl A. Wall — a well-known champion of Black women writers and a longtime professor at Rutgers University-New Brunswick — died on April 4, 2020. She was 71. An expert in African American literature, American literature and feminist criticism, Wall was the Board of Governors Zora Neale Hurston Professor of English at Rutgers-New Brunswick, […]

April 7, 2020

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Black Enterprise Founder Earl G. Graves Passes Away at 85

Earl G. Graves Sr. — arguably one of the nation’s most successful Black entrepreneurs — died on April 6., after a long battle with Alzheimer’s. He was 85. In 1970, Graves founded Black Enterprise magazine, the first major publication to report on African American businesses, drawing a loyal readership in the millions. Later, the pioneering […]

April 7, 2020

Democratic Senators Urge Companies to Provide Relief For Private Student Borrowers

Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and 13 other Democratic Senators on Tuesday urged student loan companies to relax repayments for private student borrowers left out of the $2.2 trillion coronavirus stimulus package. The stimulus package allows the suspension of federal student loan repayments for six months, until the end of September. The Democratic Senators urged student […]

April 7, 2020

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Jackson State U’s Sonic Boom Marching Band Gets First Hispanic Drum Major

Jackson State University (JSU) said last week that freshman Marvin Garcia Meda has become the first Hispanic member of J5, the drum major squad for the school’s well known Sonic Boom of the South Marching Band. “Having a Hispanic drum major speaks to the influence the Sonic Boom has on all ethnicities, not just African […]

April 7, 2020

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