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Diverse Conversations: Why Doesn’t Minority Faculty Look Like America?

A recent report found that, at some schools, like Harvard, Stanford, the University of Michigan and Princeton, there are more foreign teachers than Hispanic and Black teachers combined.

December 23, 2015

Campus Protests Michigan

Tennessee State Grad Stays On to Promote ‘Brotherhood’

At 23 years old, Michael D. Johnson has already achieved more than some people twice his age. He’s a college graduate, social entrepreneur, federal government employee, mentor and role model.

December 23, 2015

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Indiana Lt. Gov. Eyeing Job Leading Ivy Tech CC System

INDIANAPOLIS ― Indiana Gov. Mike Pence has raised the possibility of an unusual split with his 2012 running mate, suggesting that Lt. Gov. Sue Ellspermann would be an “ideal” candidate to take over the embattled Ivy Tech Community College system. The proposal has raised eyebrows among Indiana political observers who question why someone would […]

December 23, 2015

Concordia College Ending Football Program

SELMA, Ala. ― Another small college in Alabama is shutting down its football program. The Selma Times-Journal reports that board members at Concordia College announced their decision to end the sport on Tuesday. A spokeswoman says the price of travel, equipment and other expenses became too much of a financial stress on the small, historically […]

December 23, 2015

Faculty & Staff

Colorado State Professors Get Raises After Salary Equity Review

FORT COLLINS, Colo. ― Colorado State University has increased salaries for 59 professors after a recent salary equity review. The Coloradoan reports that the review found that 25 percent of full female professors and 11.6 percent of male full professors reviewed weren’t being paid enough. In an email sent to faculty Tuesday morning, CSU officials […]

December 23, 2015

Community Colleges

Rutgers Offering Hand to N.J. Community College Grads

Rutgers joins a host of institutions and cities across the nation that are making college more affordable to qualified students in the surrounding area.

December 22, 2015

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Elizabeth City State Chancellor Announces Resignation

After serving little more than a year on the job, Stacey Franklin Jones abruptly resigned effective December 31 as chancellor of beleaguered Elizabeth City State University.

December 22, 2015

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Cal State, San Bernardino Joins Fight Against Student Food Insecurity

CSUSB is one of a growing number of higher education institutions nationwide that houses a food bank on campus in response to the prevalence of food insecurity among today’s student body.

December 22, 2015

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International Students’ Issue About Food at Oberlin College Boiling Over

CLEVELAND ― A ruckus over the cultural sensitivity of cafeteria food at Ohio’s Oberlin College has led to heaping servings of both derision and sympathy. The complaints of some international students were first published in the Oberlin Review, the college newspaper, in early November. The article discussed a Japanese student’s complaint that rice used in […]

December 22, 2015

Texas Attorney General: Banning Guns in College Dorms Violates New Law

AUSTIN, Texas ― The attorney general of Texas said late Monday that banning guns in college dorm rooms violates the state’s newly approved “campus carry” law, and also opined on setting limits for carrying weapons onto public school grounds and into multiuse government buildings. Republican Ken Paxton’s flurry of nonbinding opinions addressed many much-watched issues, […]

December 22, 2015

University of Kansas Names Director of Multicultural Affairs

LAWRENCE, Kan. ― A longtime member of the Office of Multicultural Affairs at the University of Kansas has been named permanent director of the department, fulfilling one demand of a student group seeking increased attention to diversity issues at the school. Precious Porras, who was named interim director of OMA in May after the department’s […]

December 22, 2015

Students Work Toward Missouri School’s First Latina Sorority

COLUMBIA, Mo. ― University of Missouri students are working to establish the school’s first Latina sorority. Jessica Banuelos, who is studying psychology, has been working for the past two years to establish a chapter of the Lambda Theta Alpha Latin Sorority at the school. The Columbia Missourian reports that it was started in 1975 at […]

December 22, 2015

Activism & Diversity

If Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. had been alive over this past year, he probably would have been dismayed by the state of race relations. He would undoubtedly see the epidemic of shootings of unarmed black men, the killing of nine church members by a white supremacist and the political rhetoric of intolerance as setbacks.

December 22, 2015

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Diverse Conversations: 3 Reasons You Should Care About Hispanic-Serving Institutions

As HSIs grow in number, it’s important for all college educators to realize the effect these schools will have on everyone else and why we should embrace Hispanic-friendly college policies.

December 22, 2015

Why Must International Students Pick Up the Tab for U.S. Higher Education?

The growth in student population does not fully account for the increasing rate of the profits generated by international students.

December 22, 2015

Nursing, Health Care in Recovery Mode in Haiti

Nursing and health care education in Haiti is slowly growing after the catastrophic earthquake of 2010.

December 22, 2015

E. Tennessee State Identifies Certain Restrooms as Gender-neutral

JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. ― East Tennessee State University has updated some restrooms in academic buildings and residence halls with signage that identifies them as gender-neutral restrooms. The university’s Associate Vice President for Facilities Management Bill Rasnick tells the Johnson City Press that the restrooms with the new signs had previously been restrooms that were not […]

December 21, 2015

2 Kansas Fraternities on Probation for Hazing

LAWRENCE, Kan. ― Two fraternities at the University of Kansas are on probation for hazing. The Lawrence Journal-World reports documents obtained through an open records request show Delta Tau Delta and Phi Beta Sigma were placed on probation this spring. Hazing at Delta Tau Delta occurred in fall 2014, and hazing by Phi Beta Sigma […]

December 21, 2015