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Tennessee Democrats Call for Diversity Training for Lawmakers

Democratic leaders point to insulting comments made by two Republican lawmakers to the Legislature’s Black caucus in calling for legislators to undergo diversity and sensitivity training.

September 9, 2012

MSIs

From the Democratic National Convention: Ideas on Fixing Higher Education

Speaking at a higher education policy forum during the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, experts shared their ideas on ways to improve degree attainment for students.

September 6, 2012

Leadership & Policy

An Appreciation: Arthur Johnson

Community and higher education leaders in Detroit credit Arthur Johnson with helping them see their community – Motor City – in broader, positive ways.

November 2, 2011

HBCUs

Lecture: Learning, Educational Attainment Rest on Belief in Students

Dr. Gloria Ladson-Billings offered polite criticism, weighty research insights, and humor on Thursday at the Eighth Annual Brown Lecture in Education Research in Washington.

October 27, 2011

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Justice Breyer Honors Federal Judge Responsible for Helping Desegregate Virginia Schools

Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer spoke at a ceremony dedicating the law school’s moot courtroom in memory of the late U.S. District Judge Robert R. Merhige Jr., whose orders to desegregate Virginia’s public schools in the early 1970s were highly unpopular among some Whites.

October 9, 2011

African-American

VCU Launches Project on Massive Resistance

Virginia Commonwealth University is launching an oral-history project that explores the Massive Resistance policy in Virginia during the 1950s and ‘60s.

October 6, 2011

Latinx

Undocumented Students Face Obstacles Even After College

Many undocumented college students, and recent college graduates, have no immediate pathway to legal status and, under current federal immigration law, employers cannot legally hire them.

October 3, 2011

Faculty & Staff

Proven Leader Takes the Helm at Emerson College

Harvard-educated scholar of English and poetry, Dr. M. Lee Pelton puts a prominent face on changes that are under way at Boston’s Emerson College.

September 21, 2011

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Michigan State Student Wins Prize for Research on Supreme Court

After a year of sifting through hundreds of legal documents, Sydney Hawthorne discovered bad news for people who are poor: Their cases are less likely to get heard by the U.S. Supreme Court.

September 19, 2011

Students

Conservative Group Says UW-Madison Admissions Favor Minorities

Black and Hispanic applicants were more likely to be accepted to the University of Wisconsin-Madison even though they had lower average test scores than White and Asian applicants, according to the Center for Equal Opportunity.

September 13, 2011

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UC Berkeley Professor Goodwin Liu Confirmed to Calif. High Court

The state’s three-member Commission on Judicial Appointments unanimously voted for Liu’s nomination, and Gov. Jerry Brown was scheduled to swear Liu in on Thursday.

September 1, 2011

African-American

Tulsa Remembered

During the events surrounding the John Hope Franklin Park groundbreaking in November 2008, the late Dr. Franklin, in one of his last public interviews, talks about his hometown of Tulsa, Oklahoma, the site of the newly dedicated park, and his long held hope for racial harmony in the U.S. (video courtesy of the John Hope Franklin Center for Reconciliation.)

September 1, 2011