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COVID-19
Emory University Names Gregory L. Fenves New President
Emory University on Tuesday announced that its board appointed Gregory L. Fenves the institution’s new president. Fenves, who is currently president of the University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin), will begin his new position at Emory on August 1. He will succeed Claire E. Sterk, who announced her retirement last November after serving as […]
April 7, 2020
African-American
A Primer on Asian Americans
Asian Americans fight against “the perpetual foreigner syndrome.” That is the sentiment that no matter how much they try to be American — or in fact have always been American — they must be secretly loyal to another nation.
April 7, 2020
COVID-19
Officials and Advocates Seek to Halt Title IX Rule Changes Amid COVID-19 Disruptions
Three Senators joined 18 state attorneys general and a leading academic association to urge the Department of Education and the Office of Management and Budget to suspend changes to Title IX rules on dating violence, domestic abuse and stalking. Citing the closures of schools and colleges around the country due to the COVID-19 pandemic and […]
April 6, 2020
Native Americans
How a Small Tribal College Stepped up to Make Face Shields For Health Workers
Bay Mills Community College, a tribal college in Michigan, got a request from its community two weeks ago, to make face masks for local workers providing key services as the coronavirus spreads. The school’s advanced manufacturing program got to work, designing a lightweight, reusable face shield. Using 3D printing technology, they plan to produce 3,000 shields in three weeks.
April 6, 2020
COVID-19
Many U of Chicago Students Want 50% Tuition Cut During Pandemic
A student group at the University of Chicago is demanding a 50% tuition cut and the elimination of student fees for the duration of the coronavirus pandemic, reported the Chicago Sun-Times. The group, called UChicago for Fair Tuition, is threatening to not pay spring quarter tuition if the university refuses to negotiate with it on […]
April 6, 2020
COVID-19
More Than 120 Faculty Want GWU President to Resign Over ‘Racist’ Comments, Leadership Style
More than 120 faculty of George Washington University renewed calls for the institution’s president, Dr. Thomas J. LeBlanc, to resign over past comments of his they call racist and amid concerns about his vision for the school, reported The Washington Post. The racism charges stem from a comment LeBlanc made February in response to a […]
April 6, 2020
COVID-19
Amid Pandemic, Santa Clara U Offers Test-Optional Undergraduate Admissions for Two Years
Santa Clara University is offering two-year test-optional admissions for first-year and transfer students seeking enrollment beginning in the winter 2021 and fall 2021 terms, the institution said in a statement, adding that it’s relaxing requirements keeping in mind the difficulties students are facing due to the coronavirus pandemic. That means scores on standardized tests such […]
April 6, 2020
Other News
NAACP President Derrick Johnson Says ‘Stay Safe’ as Michigan Releases Racial Breakdown of Coronavirus Cases
Michigan released the racial breakdown of its 10,791 confirmed novel coronavirus (COVID-19) cases on Thursday, prompting NAACP President Derrick Johnson to urge people to “pay attention.” African Americans made up 35 percent of the state’s overall confirmed cases and accounted for 40 percent of Michigan’s 417 deaths related to the contagious respiratory virus, according to data from the Michigan […]
April 6, 2020
Other News
Maryland Lawmakers Urge Release of Racial Data on Virus
Maryland lawmakers have joined politicians nationwide in asking for the release of data on coronavirus cases by race in order to address potential disparities in the response to the pandemic. Maryland Del. Nick Mosby called for such racial data to be made available in a series of social media posts Sunday. The Democrat, who is […]
April 6, 2020
Other News
Racial Breakdown Of NYC’s COVID-19 Cases Necessary To Track The Pandemic’s Inequities
Concerned that New York City’s communities of color are being disproportionately exposed to the deadly COVID-19 virus, Public Advocate Jumaane Williams has asked the de Blasio administration to turn over data breaking down coronavirus cases by race. “What it appears is that, as usual, certain communities are gonna get hit hard and that doesn’t have […]
April 6, 2020
Other News
Myron Rolle, Now a Doctor Treating Coronavirus Patients, Draws on Football Background in Crisis
Myron Rolle’s hands are used to moving from one unalike task to another. He has batted away footballs and wielded a blade in neurosurgery with equal deftness at the top levels, so dealing with the novel coronavirus would be just another stretch, if not for an unsettling major difference: He is being asked to play without a helmet. Rolle […]
April 6, 2020
Other News
Health Issues for Blacks, Latinos and Native Americans May Cause Coronavirus to Ravage Communities
Blacks, Latinos and Native Americans have many underlying health conditions, including asthma and heart disease, that could make them more vulnerable to complications from the coronavirus, leaving advocates, lawmakers and public health experts worried these long marginalized communities won’t get equal access to tests and treatment as the outbreak spreads. “The virus is an equal-opportunity crisis … but the impact and […]
April 6, 2020
Other News
How Racial Health Disparities Will Play Out in the Pandemic
The federal government has failed its populace in many ways since the COVID-19 pandemic reached American soil. It began early on with an inadequate supply of test kits being provided to clinicians, compounded when the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention enacted strict criteria for which patients could even receive one. Dr. Uché Blackstock notes […]
April 6, 2020
Other News
The Coronavirus Doesn’t Discriminate, But U.S. Health Care Showing Familiar Biases
The new coronavirus doesn’t discriminate. But physicians in public health and on the front lines say that in the response to the pandemic, they can already see the emergence of familiar patterns of racial and economic bias. In one analysis, it appears doctors may be less likely to refer African Americans for testing when they […]
April 6, 2020
Latest News
Meet Dr. Walter R. Allen, A Dr. John Hope Franklin Award Recipient
When Dr. Walter R. Allen takes on a research project, there must always be a larger purpose — something he discusses with graduate students and young academics. According to Allen, African American scholars cannot live in an ivory tower. All research — including his more than 150 publications — must, in some way, illuminate the challenges that communities of color face.
April 6, 2020
Asian American Pacific Islander
SFSU Asian American Studies Chair Documents Trump’s “Chinese Virus” Hate
From March 20- April 1, Dr. Russell Jeung and community activists set up a “Stop-AAPI-Hate” website to record incidents of discrimination toward Asian Americans.
April 6, 2020
COVID-19
How Do Joe Biden and Bernie Sanders Compare on the Student Debt Crisis
Coming to the end of a long winnowing process, now only two Democratic presidential candidates remain, Sen. Bernie Sanders and former Vice President Joe Biden. Their plans for higher education policy differ in clarity and breadth, experts say, at a time when higher education policy may be more critical to voters than ever, as universities, their students and graduates prepare for an economy impacted by the coronavirus.
April 5, 2020
COVID-19
Meharry Medical College Enters Global Race for an Antiviral Drug to Treat COVID-19
For Meharry’s Dr. Donald Alcendor, finding an effective antiviral strategy not only for COVID-19, “but for current viruses within that family and future viruses within that family, is the ultimate strategy.”
April 5, 2020
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