Tag: Diversity: Page 132

Sports

Virginia State University Goes Hollywood to Promote Athletics

Virginia State University has turned to a small team of producers with big accolades to put together polished, in-house generated content that helps VSU stand out above much of the work going on in Division II in terms of promoting athletics.

January 26, 2017

Students

Diverse Docket: Court Upholds North Carolina A&T Firing

The North Carolina Court of Appeals has rejected a wrongful termination suit by the former executive assistant to the dean of the School of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences at North Carolina A&T University.

January 26, 2017

Students

Obama’s Commutations Give Advocates Hope for Future

Prison sentencing reform advocates hope that President Barack Obama’s commutation of first-time, nonviolent offenders will serve as an incentive to his successor, President Donald Trump, to continue aggressively with the practice.

January 26, 2017

Students

NLRB Orders Union Elections for Yale Graduate Students

NEW HAVEN, Conn.  — The National Labor Relations Board has granted petitions for graduate students in nine departments at Yale University to vote on whether they want union representation. The order Wednesday from the NLRB regional director in Boston calls for nine separate elections. Local 33-UNITE HERE sought elections first in departments where union support […]

January 26, 2017

Students

Ex-Baylor Officer Sues School Claiming Retaliatory Firing

WACO, Texas — A former financial aid officer at Baylor is suing the university claiming it fired her in retaliation after she sought to reinstate a football player’s scholarship. Lyn Kinyon filed the federal lawsuit Wednesday in Waco, arguing Baylor violated federal Title IX protections when she was fired last year. The lawsuit says the […]

January 26, 2017

Students

University of Oregon Building Name Will Stay Despite Man’s Pro-slavery Stance

EUGENE, Ore. — The president of the University of Oregon said he will not change the name of the oldest building on campus, which honors the school’s founder. The name became controversial because of the founder’s pro-slavery views. The school’s Black Student Task Force demanded in November 2015 that Deady Hall be renamed, reported The […]

January 26, 2017

Students

Ala Qattawi Constantly Fine-tuning Approach to Teaching

Dr. Ala Qattawi, selected by Diverse as a member of the 2017 Class of Emerging Scholars, is a University of California, Merced assistant professor and the United States’ first female doctoral grad in automotive engineering.

January 25, 2017

Faculty & Staff

Cornel West: We’re All Responsible for ‘Gangster’ Trump

In his lecture at Harvard, Dr. Cornel West waxed introspective about the courage he believes is necessary to speak truth to power during Donald Trump’s presidency.

January 25, 2017

Students

Delaware State Aviation Program Soaring Again

With airlines expected to hire thousands of pilots and mechanics over the next decade, Delaware State University is ramping up its aviation program to answer that call.

January 25, 2017

Faculty & Staff

We’re Always Athletes: Microaggressions of Black Males Navigating Academia

The assumption often is that Black males within higher education contexts are athletes or related to athletics and could not possibly be there for anything else.

January 25, 2017

Students

Janet Napolitano Avoids Health Talk, Focuses on University Issues

SAN FRANCISCO — University of California President Janet Napolitano focused on future challenges for the 10-campus system rather than her health as she opened a governing board meeting Wednesday, a week after being hospitalized for side effects from her cancer treatment. Napolitano, 59, urged the board of regents to approve the first tuition increase in […]

January 25, 2017

Students

$5M Lawsuit Lodged Against For-profit Nursing School

PORTLAND, Maine — Aspiring registered nurse Stephanie Kourembanas says she first heard of for-profit InterCoast Career Institute through a friend, and liked the nursing program’s rolling admissions policy and its apparent accreditation. But colleges she’s applied to won’t accept her credits, she says in a recently filed federal lawsuit, because the licensed practical nursing program […]

January 25, 2017