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Harvard Taking More Steps to Acknowledge its Ties to Slavery
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. ― Harvard’s president says the Ivy league university will do more to acknowledge its ties to slavery. University President Drew Faust announced Wednesday in an op-ed in the student newspaper that the nearly 400-year-old institution will install a plaque next month at the former home for college presidents to recognize the slaves who […]
March 31, 2016
News Roundup
George Mason University Naming its Law School for Scalia
ARLINGTON, Va. ― George Mason University plans to name its law school for the late Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, following an anonymous $20 million donation from a Scalia admirer and a $10 million donation from the foundation of industrialist and philanthropist Charles Koch. The law school announced Thursday that its anonymous donor approached the […]
March 31, 2016
Sports
Emmert: North Carolina Law Could Make NCAA Turn Away
HOUSTON ― For the second straight year, NCAA President Mark Emmert faced questions at his Final Four news conference about a state’s religious exemption law that critics say allows discrimination against gays, lesbians and others. And for the second straight year, Emmert said the association is prepared to refrain from doing business in that state […]
March 31, 2016
Students
I Went From Borderline Homeless to College-Bound
My academic achievements, my athletic achievements, problems I’ve solved that make me look like the premier candidate — these are all things I could talk about in this essay. But I think the most important thing I need to share is my background. My background is what has shaped me. Once you’ve understood what I’ve […]
March 31, 2016
Students
More Students Seeing the World Without Getting Credits
A survey found that roughly half of the 227 institutions responding reported an increase in the number of students who participated in non-credit education abroad for the 2012-13 academic year over the previous year.
March 30, 2016
Students
UVA Student Group Supporting Undocumented Students Finds Its Footing
A new student group at the University of Virginia—DREAMers on Grounds—is working to create a support network for students who are either undocumented or who have received DACA benefits.
March 30, 2016
Students
Pitt Settles Locker Room Case with Transgender Student
JOHNSTOWN, Pa. ― The University of Pittsburgh has settled a lawsuit brought by a transgender student who said he was wrongfully expelled from its Johnstown campus after a dispute over his use of a men’s locker room. Television station WJAC first reported the settlement Wednesday between the university and Seamus Johnston. Settlement terms haven’t been […]
March 30, 2016
Leadership & Policy
WWU Trustees Pick OSU Provost as Only Finalist for President
BELLINGHAM, Wash. ― The Western Washington University board of trustees has picked the provost at Oregon State University as the preferred candidate to become the school’s 14th president. Sabah Randhawa is OSU’s second ranking administrator. He is in line to replace retiring WWU President Bruce Shepard. In addition to being the school’s chief academic officer, […]
March 30, 2016
African-American
Glaude’s Book Examines Devaluing of Black Lives
Text examines how Black lives continue to be rendered insignificant in an era when many thought that the election of the nation’s first Black president would signify a dramatic shift in race relations.
March 30, 2016
Students
Lawmakers Fight Over Free Tuition for National Guardsmen
AUGUSTA, Maine ― The Maine House is divided along party lines over how to fund a program that gives National Guard soldiers and airmen free tuition in the state’s higher education system. Republicans say the University of Maine System and the Maine Community College System can pay for their tuition out of the agency’s existing […]
March 30, 2016
Students
Chicago State Backs Off Request that Employees Turn in Keys
CHICAGO ― Chicago State University backtracked Wednesday from a plan to collect keys from faculty and staff members, instead announcing that it would take an inventory of keys that might have to be collected should layoffs be necessary amid the state’s financial crisis. Administrator Aleshia Renee Terry had asked deans on Monday to begin collecting […]
March 30, 2016
Students
Minority Scholars to be Among Those Honored by AERA
Several minority scholars will be among those recognized next week when the largest gathering of educational researchers assemble in the nation’s capital for the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association.
March 29, 2016
Students
Group Calls Remedial Education ‘Bridge to Nowhere’
Complete College America, dedicated to improving graduation rates nationally, has dubbed remedial education a “bridge to nowhere” because the majority of students who begin remedial education never make it to credit-bearing courses.
March 29, 2016
African-American
Report: Many Black, Hispanic Science Majors Err in Choosing Elite Cal Campuses
Many of the Black and Hispanic undergraduates majoring in sciences at the two most selective University of California campuses during the 1990s might have been better off academically and financially if they had attended lower-ranked UC counterparts.
March 29, 2016
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Non-tenure-track Faculty Making Their Voices Heard
As the academic landscape evolves, non-tenure-track faculty see a boost in their impact as well as job longevity.
March 28, 2016
Students
HBCUs One Answer to Selective Public High Schools’ ‘Diversity Problem’
Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) have a longstanding commitment to social justice issues—such as educational equity and opportunity.
March 28, 2016
Leadership & Policy
Putting Emory Chalk Talk in Perspective
The students felt terrorized by a number of chalk graffiti markings that indicate a preference for the presidential candidacy of Donald Trump.
March 28, 2016
Students
Fraternity Suspended at University of South Carolina
COLUMBIA, S.C. ― The University of South Carolina says the Sigma Chi fraternity has been suspended temporarily from the Columbia campus. It’s the fifth chapter closed or suspended since fall 2014. The reason for the suspension has not been released. USC spokesman Wes Hickman told local media that the school has been told by the […]
March 28, 2016
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