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African-American
Temple University Plans to Put $1M Toward Antiracist Education
This fall, Temple University pledged to put a million dollars toward anti-racist education and programming in the wake of this summer’s Black Lives Matter protests.
November 4, 2020
Students
UC Santa Barbara Launches Racial Justice Fellowship Program for Graduate Students
Incoming graduate students at the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) can now qualify for the Racial Justice Fellowship program, which was established in response to the ongoing police violence and systemic racism protests across the country.
November 4, 2020
Sports
Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Conference to Proceed with 2021 Winter and Spring Sports
The Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (SIAC) announced Tuesday that it will proceed with 2021 winter and spring sports. Basketball – both men’s and women’s – will begin Jan. 9 for a 12-14 game schedule, ending with the SIAC Basketball Championship Tournament. Spring 2021 will have men’s and women’s tennis, golf, men’s and women’s track and […]
November 4, 2020
News Roundup
California Voters Reject Affirmative Action Measure in Tuesday’s Election
Voters rejected Proposition 16, a statewide ballot measure that would allow affirmative action programs to be reinstated in California, during the Nov. 3 election, the Los Angeles Times reported. Proposition 16 – put on the ballot by California’s Democrat-controlled legislature – would permit public universities and state and local governments to consider race, sex, color, […]
November 4, 2020
African-American
Clemson University Works to Identify 604 Unmarked Graves in Campus Cemetery
Clemson University is working to learn the identities of those buried in 604 unmarked graves on its campus’ Woodland Cemetery, Greenville News reported. The graves may date back more than 200 years ago and may belong to “enslaved peoples, domestic workers, sharecroppers and convict laborers who lived, worked and died on the university’s land in […]
November 4, 2020
Opinion
Learning Critical Empathy: A Lesson From Journalism
We can never know what it was like to be George Floyd, but the reward for trying is that we cultivate our humanity. There is evidence that we also build a stronger public good.
November 4, 2020
Opinion
The Tight Battle for Diversity’s Vote
The anxiety from watching America’s electoral sense of itself trickle in was nearly unbearable. But all the electoral map readers are saying the election boils down to four battleground states: Florida, Georgia, North Carolina, and possibly Arizona. At this time, no one has 270 electoral votes yet.
November 3, 2020
HBCUs
Final 2020 Presidential Election Results Still Unknown
The Presidential Election is too close to call, thanks largely to the unprecedented number of people who mailed in absentee ballots and conducted early voting out of heightened concern for their safety amid a global pandemic. At press time, Democrat Joe Biden was leading in the Electoral College vote count — with results in North Carolina and Pennsylvania among other states still up in the air.
November 3, 2020
African-American
Evanston Mayor Calls On Northwestern University to Reimburse School for Incurred Police Costs Amid Student Protest
After Northwestern University student protests escalated Saturday, Evanston Mayor Steve Hagerty called on the school in a letter Sunday to reimburse the city for the police costs, the Chicago Tribune reported. The protests are part of an effort by NU Community Not Cops, a student-led group pushing NU “to abolish or defund the campus police […]
November 3, 2020
African-American
Black Greek Organizations Head to Polls With #StrolltothePolls Movement
Women from four historically Black Greek organizations are getting recognition as they make their way to voting sites to fight voter suppression with their “Stroll to the Polls” movement for the 2020 election, Yahoo Life reported. Maisha Land, a member of Alpha Kappa Alpha (AKA) started the movement in early October, having been inspired by […]
November 3, 2020
African-American
NBA Legend Charles Barkley Pledges $1 Million to Tuskegee University
NBA Hall of Famer Charles Barkley is donating $1 million to Tuskegee University, Advance Local reported. It’s his fifth major donation to a historically Black college (HBCU). In 2016, he donated $1 million each to Alabama A&M University and Clark Atlanta University, with another $1 million to Morehouse College in 2017. Earlier in 2020, he […]
November 3, 2020
COVID-19
Amid COVID-19 Higher Education Experts Call on Institutional Leaders and Policymakers to Support Transfer Students
COVID-19 has heightened higher education’s existing barriers for students, and transfer students are no exception. Last week, 25 higher education reform and research organizations signed a call to action to persuade higher ed leaders and lawmakers to prioritize streamlining the transfer process.
November 3, 2020
Other News
More Rapid Tests Are Here. There’s No National Strategy to Use Them
A wealth of new COVID-19 tests could soon help states more broadly track people in schools, dense workplaces and vulnerable populations. In October, the supply of rapid-result COVID-19 tests, also known as antigen tests, shot up to more than 150 million — six times the number of tests of any kind performed in August and […]
November 2, 2020
Other News
‘Stressed And Overwhelmed’: Hawaii’s College Students Confront The Pandemic
As a pandemic check-in every week, University of Hawaii public health professor Denise Nelson-Hurwitz asks her freshman and sophomore students to anonymously submit words that describe their feelings as they work from home. The colorful word cloud that pops up on her screen displays “stressed” and “overwhelmed” every time. Read More
November 2, 2020
Other News
UW Campuses Grapple with Whether Reopening Led to Community Spread of COVID-19
Wisconsin colleges and universities are confronting the uncomfortable question of how much their decision to reopen this fall at least partially drove some spread of the coronavirus to their communities. In a new study that has not yet been formally peer-reviewed, researchers at Gundersen Health System found genetic links between large outbreaks among La Crosse college […]
November 2, 2020
Latinx
$3M Grant for Big Bend Community College to Foster Latino Student Success
The Big Bend Community College in Moses Lake, Washington — a Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSI) — was awarded a $3 million grant from the Department of Education, reported iFIBER One News. This new Title V grant will be divided among the next five years to benefit low-income and Hispanic students, expanding educational opportunities and access to […]
November 2, 2020
Other News
18 Trump Rallies Have Led to 30,000 COVID-19 Cases: Stanford University Study
A new study from Stanford University found that 18 of President Trump’s campaign rallies have led to over 30,000 confirmed coronavirus cases and likely led to over 700 deaths. Researchers examined rallies held between June 20 and Sept. 22, 2020, only three of which were held indoors. Read More
November 2, 2020
Other News
The Best COVID-19 Warning System? Poop and Pooled Spit, Says One Colorado University
Carol Wilusz’s mornings often start at 4 a.m., scanning the contents of undergraduates’ feces. Specifically, scanning the data on how much coronavirus they flushed into the shadows, destined to be extracted from 17 manholes connected to dorm buildings on Colorado State University’s Fort Collins campus. “There are quite extensive numbers of poop jokes,” said Wilusz, a […]
November 2, 2020
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