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Silent No More?
A look at the college athlete and campus activism.
April 19, 2016
2016
Andraya Carter - Basketball
April 19, 2016
News Roundup
House Votes to Strip University of Tennessee Diversity Funding
The Tennessee House of Representatives voted Monday to approve a bill that would strip state funding from the University of Tennessee’s Office of Diversity and Inclusion. The bill passed with a 66-22 vote after almost an hour of passionate debate punctuated by rounds of applause for speakers on both sides of the issue. The vote fell […]
April 19, 2016
News Roundup
Rainbow-Colored Nooses Removed From Tenn. University Over ‘Hate Symbolism’ Concerns
A university in Tennessee is investigating after six rainbow-colored nooses were found Monday hanging from a tree on campus. Officials at Austin Peay State University in Clarksville, Tenn., said the nooses — red, orange, yellow, green, blue and black — were arranged in a rainbow on a tree outside of a fine-arts building. “This incident is deeply disturbing and […]
April 19, 2016
Male Winner
Paul Pitts III - Football
April 19, 2016
Students
University, Colleges Must Seek Help to Better Assist Students
A university president shares advice on how to balance the need to increase completion rates and maintain quality at the Association of Governing Boards’ national conference Monday.
April 18, 2016
African-American
Federal Judge: Firing of Black Faculty Member Not Discriminatory
A federal judge in Indianapolis has ruled that an Indiana university did not discriminate against a Black tenured faculty member when he was fired for falsifying his credentials.
April 18, 2016
HBCUs
University Mistakenly Sends 5,000 Students Acceptance Emails
BUFFALO, N.Y. — More than 5,000 prospective students have mistakenly been notified by email that they’ve been accepted into an upstate New York university. University at Buffalo spokesman John DellaContrada says the mistaken email was sent Wednesday to students whose applications hadn’t been fully reviewed. He says the university sent a second email about three […]
April 18, 2016
Students
NCAA Board Must Reject Satellite Camp Ban
Satellite camp? Sounds like something high tech, space station kind of stuff. Practically STEM-ed. Never heard od it before? It’s a big deal if you’re a young kid in high school with the dream of playing college football. But if you’re talking good old boy, big time college football, then the idea is just a major annoyance. […]
April 17, 2016
Students
Melton Breaks Down Diversity Barriers in Intercollegiate Sports
Nicole Melton has spent the last four years of her budding career in higher education teaching students the importance of breaking barriers in the intercollegiate sports arena.
April 17, 2016
Sports
Strategies for Diversity and Inclusion Key to Collegiate Sports Programs
The message at this year’s NCAA’s Inclusion Forum is simple: diversity and inclusion are essential components to building a successful collegiate sports program.
April 17, 2016
African-American
Young Girls of Color Still Facing Challenges on the Road to Higher Ed
Academicians, public policy officials and community advocates gather to discuss the numerous disparities that continue to plague young girls of color.
April 17, 2016
Faculty & Staff
Black Intellectuals Ponder How Best to Share Knowledge
A recurring theme was how the world beyond the academy has to affect how a Black intellectual views his or her teaching and research within a broader societal context.
April 14, 2016
Latinx
Retention Grant Keeping Dreams Alive at Georgia State
Georgia State University’s Panther Retention Grant program is helping students who lack the funds to pay for their last few semesters of school.
April 14, 2016
African-American
Is Affirmative Action Failing the Students It Was Designed For?
Since the “Harvard Revelation,†several scholars have noted the changing racial and ethnic ancestry of Blacks attending selective higher education institutions.
April 14, 2016
Students
Secret Harvard Club Breaks Silence, Followed by an Apology
BOSTON — A Boston business chief who broke the public silence of a 225-year-old Harvard all-male club apologized after critics said his comments blamed women for sexual assault. Charlie Storey, the president of Boston’s Harpoon Brewery, wrote a letter to Harvard’s student newspaper defending the school’s social clubs for refusing to accept women. He was […]
April 14, 2016
Leadership & Policy
President Obama to Deliver Howard University Commencement Address
President Barack Obama will deliver the commencement address at Howard University in Washington next month, the university announced Thursday. The president, who will deliver the remarks May 7, will be speaking at commencement of a historically Black college or university for the third time during his administration. He also has been the featured speaker at […]
April 14, 2016
Sports
CTE Students in Arkansas Found to Have Edge
A study shows that students who took more career and technical education courses were slightly more likely to finish high school, attend a two-year college and earn more money.
April 14, 2016
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