cmaadmin (EDU)Hi this is my profile and bio information.Latest NewsPanelists at CBCF Slam White House Education PoliciesWASHINGTON – Trump administration education policies are hostile to civil rights and are intentionally dismantling protections intended to help students, and the efforts must be countered by voting and other civic involvement.September 13, 2018OpinionResearch Design Flaws Identified in Study Suggesting That Chief Diversity Officers “Hurt” DiversityLast week, numerous media outlets highlighted a working paper submitted to the National Bureau of Economic Research contending that Chief Diversity Officers have no influence on faculty diversification and that their presence inversely influences the diversity of tenured faculty. The articles were widely shared in social media and received a visceral response from diversity experts who questioned the motivation for the study, analytic approach, its theoretical underpinnings, and interpretation of the results.September 13, 2018African-AmericanScholars Believe Supreme Court Likely to End Affirmative Action with KavanaughScholars from coast to coast expect the Senate Judiciary Committee to confirm Supreme Court nominee Judge Brett Kavanaugh – and they expect him to help end affirmative action by ruling against it in cases that reach the high court.September 13, 2018African-AmericanBlack Smith College Student Says Trauma is Ongoing After Police Were Contacted Because She Reportedly Looked Out of Place on CampusOumou Kanoute, a Smith College student, spoke to Refinery29 about her ongoing emotional trauma stemming from a July incident involving campus police. An employee of the Massachusetts-based college reportedly called police on Kanoute, because she looked out of place as she was eating and using her iPad in a campus dining hall. As a result Kanoute, […]September 13, 2018News Roundup$50 Million Commitment Fuels Detroit Cradle-Career PartnershipA $50 million commitment from the Kresge Foundation is propelling an all new cradle-to-career education collaborative that will benefit some 1,000 students in a Detroit neighborhood. Beginning in 2019, the P-20 Partnership will benefit children in Livernoise-McNichols, a Detroit district undergoing revitalization. The foundation collaborated with the University of Michigan, Detroit Public Schools Community District, Starfish […]September 13, 2018African-AmericanStudy: Black Students Who Show Interest in Black Activism Face Admissions BarriersBlack students who show a penchant for Black activism in inquiry emails to historically and predominately White colleges have a greater chance of being ignored by college admissions counselors at those universities, according to research findings published in an academic article this month.September 12, 2018STEMQEM Network’s NSF Symposium Coaches HBCUs on Seeking STEM Research GrantsWASHINGTON – When it comes to National Science Foundation grants, historically Black colleges and universities must step up their game to get more of the millions of STEM research dollars available to them.September 12, 2018StudentsStudy: One in Three College Freshmen Reports Mental Health DisorderMore than one-third of first-year university students in eight industrialized countries around the globe report symptoms consistent with a diagnosable mental health disorder, according to research published by the American Psychological Association. Lead author Dr. Randy P. Auerbach of Columbia University and his co-authors analyzed data from the World Health Organization’s World Mental Health International […]September 12, 2018Asian American Pacific IslanderStop Reducing International Students to Toddlers on Your CampusesAccording to several studies, international students find it difficult to make trustworthy friends to talk to about personal problems, and are too shy to ask for clarifications and help when they need support. This can cause social alienation and segregation.September 11, 2018African-AmericanHBCU Fellows to Receive Entrepreneurial FellowshipThe Center for Minority Serving Institutions at the University of Pennsylvania, along with recruiting marketing platform The Whether, has formed a new initiative focused on increasing the number of entrepreneurs who graduated from Historically Black Colleges and Universities. Twenty-five fellows from 17 HBCUs will receive the Mary Ellen Pleasant Entrepreneur Fellowship which offers them the […]September 11, 2018Previous PagePage 306 of 3226Next Page
