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News Roundup
Howard University Mourns the Death of Alumnus and ‘Black Panther’ Star Chadwick Boseman
Howard University is in mourning after actor and alumnus Chadwick Boseman, 43, died on Friday following a private, four-year fight with colon cancer. He rose to international fame after starring as T’Challa in the groundbreaking 2018 film “Black Panther,” becoming a beloved Black icon for fans, young and old. “Boseman was a man of grace […]
August 31, 2020
News Roundup
UMass Amherst to Furlough Nearly 850 Employees This Fall Due to Projected Budget Loss of $168.6 Million
The University of Massachusetts Amherst plans to indefinitely furlough “nearly 850” employees this fall due to a projected budget loss of $168.6 million due to the ongoing pandemic, the university announced Thursday, calling it “one of the greatest financial challenges in our 157-year history.” Among those most affected are dining hall workers and residence hall […]
August 31, 2020
African-American
The RNC’s Diversity of Thought or Just Misleading?
Clarence Henderson is a proud, self-proclaimed HBCU grad and a civil rights protestor from the ‘60s. He was also used by the Republicans last week at its convention to perpetrate another half-truth about the Republican Party. And every time it happens, it’s important that someone chime in to correct it.
August 31, 2020
News Roundup
Hundreds Break Local COVID-19 Regulations to Attend Pool Party Near U of South Carolina
Roughly a couple hundred people violated coronavirus regulations in Columbia, S.C., to attend an over-crowded pool party near the University of South Carolina (USC) on Saturday, reports The State. “It was almost like Mardi Gras,” Columbia Fire Department’s Fire Chief Aubrey Jenkins told the newspaper. After receiving calls from concerned neighbors, the department broke up […]
August 31, 2020
Other News
More Than 550 Positive Coronavirus Cases Have Been Reported at Colleges Across Virginia
More than 550 positive cases of the coronavirus have been reported among students, faculty and staff at Virginia colleges and universities as they’ve reopened their campuses for the fall semester. At Virginia Commonwealth University, 44 positive cases within the athletics department forced the university to create 110 beds’ worth of space in the Honors College […]
August 31, 2020
Other News
‘Shame and Blame’: Are College COVID-19 Cases the Fault of Campuses Full of Reckless Partiers? Experts, Students Say No.
Sweaty, drunken revelers spilled into the street below Addy Miller’s campus-adjacent apartment on the Saturday after North Carolina State University’s first week of classes. Miller, 20, viewed the late-night ruckus from her balcony, and others like it via news articles and viral videos. The locations vary, but the images are the same: throngs of college […]
August 31, 2020
Other News
Some Central Ohio Colleges Won’t Publicly Report COVID Cases
Several central Ohio colleges and universities are working to share on-campus COVID-19 statistics to keep students, employees and the larger community informed on the number of positive cases they have. But not all of them are publicly reporting those statistics. The Dispatch reached out to Capital University, the Columbus College of Art & Design, Denison […]
August 31, 2020
Other News
On Who Matters – and Who Doesn’t – in Higher Education
As COVID-19 continues to devastate communities across the U.S., colleges and universities must brace for what is sure to be a hectic Autumn semester, including making difficult decisions that may put many lives on the line. In some instances, institutions are committing to online-only classes in order to not risk the spread of the disease. […]
August 31, 2020
Other News
Is it Safe to Go to College? Health Experts Weigh In
For many students, college is a time of firsts. And now colleges and universities are having their own firsts, trying to grapple with reopening and educating while battling Covid-19. School is only just beginning and there are thousands of coronavirus cases linked to colleges in dozens of states. Classes, labs, dorms, parties, sports, arts. New […]
August 31, 2020
Mental Health
California Colleges Increase Online Mental Health Services to Serve Expected Student Need
With surveys showing that the pandemic is worsening anxiety and depression among college students, campus counseling centers across California are bracing for an expected sharp rise in the numbers of students seeking mental health services. Like most college and university classes, psychological therapy sessions switched to online — or on telephone — in March. The […]
August 31, 2020
Disparities
ACHA Issues New Guidance on Protecting Vulnerable Populations Amid COVID-19 Pandemic
Along with careful and ambitious plans to reopen for the fall semester amid a pandemic have come pledges from campus leaders to keep all of their students safe. But new guidance from the American College Health Association (ACHA) urges college officials to also protect, support and engage those who are most vulnerable in the campus […]
August 31, 2020
African-American
The Black Professor at Historically White Colleges and Universities
While many still refuse to acknowledge the presence and destructive impact of racism, there is a growing multi-racial movement that is challenging the points of view, values and policies that perpetuate racism. However, among the places where racism can be present and remain largely unchallenged is at historically White colleges and universities.
August 30, 2020
African-American
Marquette Students Protest Police Violence, Present List of Demands to University
Several dozen Marquette University students protested and marched through the Milwaukee, Wisconsin school’s campus on Thursday, denouncing police brutality and demanding the university do more to address racism, reports the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. The hours-long protest began with students blocking traffic near campus for more than 40 minutes, shouting “stop the violence,” along with the […]
August 30, 2020
News Roundup
Diversity Training For Students, Faculty and Staff at the University of Oklahoma Now Mandatory
The University of Oklahoma (OU) now requires online diversity training for all students, faculty and staff at its three campuses, reports The Oklahoman. The announcement is cause for celebration for Black student leaders who demanded faculty complete such training after two professors used the N-word in class this year. Previously, in 2015, the school had […]
August 30, 2020
Latinx
Despite the UC System’s Largest Latino Class, Some Say California Voters Should Repeal Affirmative Action Ban
Twenty-five years after California banned consideration of race or ethnicity in public education, Latinos became the largest ethnic group among freshmen admitted to the University of California system for the first time. But some affirmative action advocates are wary of celebrating, saying that affirmative action is still necessary, reports The Sacramento Bee. “How many years, […]
August 30, 2020
News Roundup
The University at Buffalo Graduate School of Education to Host Virtual Event to Discuss Systemic Racism
The University at Buffalo (UB) Graduate School of Education plans to host a two-day virtual event to discuss activism, racial injustice and systemic racism in higher education. As part of the instruction, “Make Good Trouble” Now: Teach-In for Racial Equity,” over 80 sessions will be held Sep. 3-4. Some speakers include authors Drs. Bettina L. […]
August 30, 2020
COVID-19
ACHA Issues New Guidance on Protecting Vulnerable Populations Amid COVID-19 Pandemic
In a Q&A, Diverse speaks with Dr. Jean Chin, an associate clinical professor of medicine at Augusta University/University of Georgia Medical Partnership, about the American College Health Association’s “Supporting Vulnerable Campus Populations During the COVID-19 Pandemic” guidelines.
August 30, 2020
Students
College Students Among Justice Advocates in D.C. for Historic March
More than 200,000 people rallied on Friday at the Lincoln Memorial on the 57th anniversary of the historic 1963 March on Washington where Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his famous “I Have a Dream” speech. This time, they came to demand an end to systemic racism in the wake of the police shootings of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor and Jacob Blake, among others.
August 30, 2020
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