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Sports
After Racism Allegations, a Coach to Leave U of Iowa With $1.1 Million
A University of Iowa coach will leave his position after allegations of racism. And, in a separation agreement with the university, he will get $1.11 million, which is equivalent to 15 months’ salary, reported ESPN. Chris Doyle, the university’s football strength coach, will leave effective immediately, according to the agreement signed Sunday and announced Monday. […]
June 15, 2020
Native Americans
Protestors Tear Down Controversial Pioneer Statues at U of Oregon
As protests against systemic racism continue around the country, activists on Saturday tore down two ‘pioneer’ statues on the University of Oregon campus that many say represent a legacy of the murder of Native Americans, reported KLCC. Following the toppling of the statues, the university issued a statement saying it does not condone what happened, […]
June 15, 2020
Students
Federal Judge Blocks Ed Dept. Limits on COVID-19 Aid for Many Washington State Students
A federal judge in Spokane, Washington, has for the most part blocked an education department rule that restricts emergency CARES Act pandemic aid to students eligible for federal student aid, giving more college students in the state a lifeline during the pandemic. The injunction granted by the judge late on Friday does not however apply […]
June 15, 2020
LGBTQ+
Supreme Court Rules That Federal Law Protects LGBTQ Workers From Discrimination
The Supreme Court ruled on Monday that federal law protects LGBTQ workers from discrimination. In a landmark decision, the top court said Title VII of the Civil Rights Act, which bars discrimination on the basis of sex, also applies to sexual orientation and gender identity. The 6-3 opinion was written by Justice Neil Gorsuch and […]
June 15, 2020
COVID-19
College Resource Centers Step Up to Support LGBTQA+ Students
College campuses can provide lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, asexual and ally (LGBTQA+) students an outlet to find or become more comfortable with their identities and sexual orientation, especially if they’re from households with unaccepting family members. However, the coronavirus pandemic, which shut down colleges and universities across the country, has forced those same students […]
June 15, 2020
Sports
Dozens of College Athletes Test Positive for COVID-19 Since Their Voluntary Return
Dozens of student-athletes at more than 12 colleges have tested positive for COVID-19 since some of them returned to campus for voluntary workouts starting June 1, reported The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. The following schools have reported varying numbers of positive cases since allowing athletes back on campus: Marshall University, Oklahoma State University, Arkansas State University, Auburn […]
June 15, 2020
Other News
For Stressed-Out Black Americans, Mental Health Care Often Hard to Come By
If there is one thing that recent police brutality protests have demonstrated, it is that life for black people in America is steeped in stress. And while it might seem logical to assume that all that stress would translate into higher rates of mental health conditions like depression and anxiety, that doesn’t seem to be […]
June 15, 2020
Other News
Judge Mostly Dismisses George Washington U’s Lawsuit Against its Hospital Partner
A D.C. Superior Court judge has partially dismissed a lawsuit George Washington University filed against Universal Health Services Inc., its corporate partner at GWU Hospital in Foggy Bottom, alleging UHS inappropriately diverted $100 million from the hospital to pay itself. The suit, filed in December by GWU and affiliated physician group GW Medical Faculty Associates, alleged that […]
June 15, 2020
Other News
Public Health, Medical Professionals Support Protests, Highlight Health Inequities in Letter
Public health experts and health care providers say a recent wave of protests and unrest across the United States is a response to the kinds of inequities they see in their jobs on a daily basis. More than 1,000 physicians, professors, public health experts and students studying medicine or public health, including some from the […]
June 15, 2020
Other News
Kinsey Institute and The Trevor Project Establish New Research Partnership on LGBTQ Mental Health
The critical need for research on LGBTQ youth mental health and suicide prevention — made even more critical by the COVID-19 pandemic — has led to a new partnership between the Kinsey Institute at Indiana University, the premier research institute on human sexuality and relationships, and The Trevor Project, the world’s largest suicide prevention and crisis […]
June 15, 2020
Other News
Health Experts Weigh in on Best Practices as Athletes Return to College Campuses for Workouts
College campuses are beginning to reawaken. They did last week and this week, and more will be apparent in coming weeks. Some collegiate athletes, many of whom have been home for two-plus months due to COVID-19, are beginning to return to school for voluntary workouts. The NCAA, in late May, approved the resumption of voluntary […]
June 15, 2020
Other News
Colleges Debate Whether to Detail Positive COVID-19 Tests for Student-Athletes
Over the past two weeks, as college athletes have returned to campuses to work out and prepare for sports later this year, a handful of them have tested positive for the coronavirus. Arkansas State. Houston. Boise State. Iowa State. Oklahoma State. More than a dozen schools in all. Just how many positive tests isn’t known, however, […]
June 15, 2020
Other News
College Graduates Question Universities’ Commitment to Mental Health
The coronavirus pandemic has drawn renewed attention to mental health problems on college campuses and to the services institutions are providing to address the soaring rates of anxiety and depression among students. Now, a new survey suggests that more attention to mental health resources by American colleges is sorely needed, at least in the opinion […]
June 15, 2020
Students
$5 Million Aid Fund for Chicago’s Undocumented Immigrants, College Students
Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot this week announced a $5 million fund that will distribute cash assistance to the city’s 300,000 undocumented immigrants, including college students and others blocked from receiving federal COVID-19 emergency aid. “The Chicago Resiliency Fund is going to help ensure that our undocumented residents, students, and others excluded from federal aid don’t […]
June 12, 2020
Students
Universities Plan Fall Initiatives to Address Systemic Racism and Police Brutality
As protests continue across the nation after the deaths of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor and other Black Americans at the hands of police officers, universities are analyzing their own biases and implementing initiatives and conversations on campus for the fall semester to address systemic racism and police brutality.
June 12, 2020
News Roundup
Gallaudet U Suspends Fraternity That Has ‘Become the Face of Systemic Racism’
Gallaudet University has suspended a fraternity that has “become the face of systemic racism” in the campus community with its social media photographs of members doing what appears to be the Nazi salute and wearing Ku Klux Klan-like robes. News of the suspension of Kappa Gamma, the fraternity in question, broke after Deaf Vee earlier […]
June 12, 2020
News Roundup
Clemson U to Remove Name of Pro-Slavery Political Leader From its Honors College
Clemson University will remove the name of John C. Calhoun, a pro-slavery political leader and a former U.S. vice president, from its Honors College, in a move consistent with a nationwide outcry against racism since the death of George Floyd due to police brutality. Calhoun Honors College, named so since 1982, will now be called […]
June 12, 2020
African-American
Campus Police Are Under Scrutiny for Racial Profiling. It Isn’t the First Time
As protests continue across the U.S. in memory of George Floyd, a Black man in Minnesota who died after an officer pinned his neck to the ground, the country is embarking on a national conversation about racism in policing, causing universities to reflect on their own campus policing practices.
June 12, 2020
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