Tag: Diversity: Page 156

Students

Texas Program ‘Guarantees’ Technical Jobs After Graduation

As higher education institutions across the nation move to boost enrollment and graduation, Texas is rolling out an unusual program this month aimed at achieving both goals.

November 21, 2016

Students

Oberlin College Employee’s Home Vandalized; Possible Hate Crime

OBERLIN, Ohio —Police say someone vandalized the home of a faculty member at a northern Ohio college and left what appeared to be an anti-Semitic note, and the case is being investigated as a possible hate crime. Oberlin Police Chief Juan Torres tells WJW-TV the homeowners are Jewish and the note implied a reference to […]

November 21, 2016

Students

Salt Lake Tribune to Request BYU Police Records in Court

SALT LAKE CITY — A Salt Lake City newspaper is suing for access to records from Brigham Young University’s police department. The Salt Lake Tribune plans to argue in court Monday that BYU Police are subject to as much public scrutiny as any other public law enforcement agency in Utah because the state granted the […]

November 21, 2016

Students

San Juan College Gets $2M to Help Native Students

FARMINGTON, N.M. — San Juan College, located in northwestern New Mexico, has been awarded more than $2 million in federal grants to help Native American students complete their degrees and to fund scholarships for students in the nursing program. College officials say the funding will be used to remove obstacles that Native American students face […]

November 21, 2016

African-American

Turn the Page from November 8, 2016

We can lament, cry and whine all we want to about this election, but it is too late. We had the chance and the opportunity, but we didn’t seize the moment.

November 20, 2016

Faculty & Staff

Rutgers Professor who Tweeted About White Gun Deaths Placed on Leave

NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J. —A Rutgers University professor who was accused of threatening to kill White people and was taken to a hospital for a psychiatric evaluation is no longer teaching there. NJ.com reports a spokesman for the New Jersey university said Friday that Kevin Allred has been placed on administrative leave. Allred is White and […]

November 20, 2016

Students

Cornel West Returning to Harvard Faculty

Dr. Cornel West—arguably one of the nation’s most visible Black public intellectuals—will rejoin the faculty of Harvard University.

November 20, 2016

Students

Guillermo: Trump’s Son-in-law Benefits from White Affirmative Action

Donald Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner, is an example of another kind of affirmative action—for wealthy Whites.

November 20, 2016

Students

Hiring Its Own Graduates Could be Key to HBCUs’ Survival

Who would be a better fit to transform the outcome of HBCUs than qualified HBCU graduates?

November 20, 2016

African-American

‘Apprentice’ Winner Randal Pinkett Sees Diversity Disaster Under Trump

Based on his divisive campaign rhetoric and his cabinet appointments, the forthcoming administration of Donald Trump could potentially spell “disaster to diversity in higher education.”

November 20, 2016

Students

Trump Agrees to $25M Settlement to Resolve Trump University Lawsuits

SAN DIEGO —President-elect Donald Trump agreed Friday to pay $25 million to settle lawsuits against his now-defunct Trump University for real estate investors, averting a trial in a potentially embarrassing case that he had vowed during the campaign to keep fighting. The agreement came 10 days before jury selection was scheduled to begin in one […]

November 20, 2016

Students

University of New Mexico Professors Seeking Immigrant Student Protections

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A group of professors at the largest university in the nation’s most Hispanic state are asking for more protection of immigrant students joining a movement of campuses around the country. Professors and instructors at the University of New Mexico delivered a letter Friday to the school’s president, Bob Frank, amid uncertainty from […]

November 20, 2016