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Getting Published While Black

Minority journals are legitimate and must be valued in the recruitment, retention, and promotion/tenure process.

Diverse Conversations: Are Colleges Doing Enough to Close the Achievement Gap?

When it comes to truly closing the achievement gap between students from all life backgrounds, ethnicities and races, P-12 institutions seem to be held to a higher standard than their 13–20 counterparts.

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The Relevance of HBCUs Tied to Healing

The relevance of HBCUs is tied to a legacy of compensating for a system of education that too often fails to provide students of color with the skills required to succeed in higher education.

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Chang Takes Autism Education to New Level

Dr. Ya-Chih Chang—a 2016 Diverse Emerging Scholar—balances educating graduate students on the methods of teaching children with autism and helping families work with children who have autism.

Georgetown University Revamps Diversity Initiatives

The nation’s oldest Catholic university has initiated a wide range of sweeping reforms in an effort to address racial inequities both on and off campus.

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Support for the Scholarship of Faculty of Color and Minority Journals Vital

We cannot discount and neglect the increasingly diverse nation and scholars and readers of color.

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Sanders is Right: Tuition-free Education for All

His proposal would subsidize attendance to public colleges and universities so that students, and in many cases, their parents, would no longer have to bear the financial burden of college.

University of Oregon Students Rally Against Proposed Tuition Hike

EUGENE, Ore. ― Students at the University of Oregon are protesting a proposed 4.7 percent tuition hike, arguing that the increase isn’t affordable. About 50 students rallied outside the campus administration building Wednesday, undeterred by the afternoon’s rainy weather, reported The Register-Guard. That protest was followed by a tense hour-long meeting in which students accused […]

U. of Iowa Arranges Quiet Places to Pray for Muslim Students

IOWA CITY, Iowa ― The University of Iowa has turned two rooms into prayer spaces for Muslim students. The Muslim Student Association had asked the university for help in finding somewhere to pray on a campus with more than 30,000 students. The Iowa City Mosque is miles away. Dean of students Lyn Redington says two […]

Kentucky President Forms Committee to Consider Controversial Mural

LEXINGTON, Ky. ― University of Kentucky President Eli Capilouto has formed a committee to decide the fate of a controversial Great Depression-era mural that features Black workers toiling in a tobacco field, Black musicians playing for White dancers and a Native American with a tomahawk. After meeting last semester with students who objected to the […]

Chicago State Declares Financial Emergency, Eyes Job Cuts

CHICAGO ― Chicago State University trustees have declared a financial emergency at the troubled school that could make it easier to lay off employees. According to the Chicago Tribune, trustees at the predominantly Black university on Thursday declared a type of emergency that in the academic world means the school faces an imminent threat to […]

NCCU to Become First HBCU in UNC System to Offer Women, Gender Studies

The College of Arts and Sciences at N.C. Central University will introduce a new minor, Women and Gender Studies, in Fall 2016. The move makes NCCU the first historically black college and university in the UNC system to offer a Women and Gender Studies minor subject area. This interdisciplinary program will prepare students to think […]

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