Tag: Diversity: Page 157

Students

Wake Forest University Naming Dorm for Poet Maya Angelou

WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. — Wake Forest University is naming a new residence hall in honor of famous former faculty member Maya Angelou. The private university in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, said Friday the five-story building now under construction will house more than 200 first-year students when it opens in January 2017. University President Nathan Hatch says Angelou […]

November 20, 2016

Students

Rutgers Confronts Ties to Slavery in Groundbreaking Report

NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J. — Rutgers University is confronting its historical ties to slavery. The New Jersey school founded in 1766 has compiled research that sheds new light on its beginnings, including an untold story of a slave who helped build the university’s iconic Old Queens administration building. The detailed report released Friday is published in […]

November 20, 2016

Leadership & Policy

A Great Choice for University President, Until She Doesn’t Want to Be Bossed

Just as we saw immense sexism, including internalized sexism among White women, we are seeing sexism at HBCUs.

November 17, 2016

Faculty & Staff

Diverse Docket: Gender Bias Suit Against Slippery Rock not Reinstated

A tenure-track history faculty member whose contract wasn’t renewed after one year has lost his bid to revive a gender bias suit against Slippery Rock University of Pennsylvania.

November 17, 2016

Students

Trump has Undocumented Students and Their Families Scrambling

By now a great majority of the country seems to have arrived at the stage of the worst political hangover any of us have ever experienced.

November 17, 2016

Students

Education Department Graduate Earnings Data Rekindles Controversy

New data shows graduates from public undergraduate certificate programs earn an average $9,000 more per year than counterparts at for-profit programs.

November 17, 2016

Students

Melania Trump’s College Experience Amended on Bio

America’s future First Lady Melania Trump “paused her studies” to pursue a modeling career in Milan and Paris. That’s according to her new biography on President-elect Donald Trump’s transition website, GreatAgain.gov. The biography states that Melania Trump “would pursue a degree at the University of Ljubljana in Slovenia, but paused her studies to advance her […]

November 17, 2016

Students

Mississippi Initiative to Help Former College Students Finish Degrees

JACKSON, Miss. —Leaders of Mississippi’s universities and community colleges say as many as 67,000 Mississippians who never graduated may have passed enough courses for a degree. They announced a plan Thursday to encourage those people to obtain degrees, as well as another 200,000 who dropped out short of the needed classwork over the last 15 […]

November 17, 2016

Students

College Students Protest Donald Trump’s Deportation Plans

College students at campuses around the United States marched and rallied Wednesday, urging administrators to protect students and employees against immigration action under a Donald Trump presidency. Rallying supporters on social media with the hashtag #SanctuaryCampus, organizers said actions were planned at more than 80 schools, including Vermont’s Middlebury College, where about 400 people gathered, […]

November 17, 2016

Leadership & Policy

Eduardo Padrón to Receive Presidential Medal of Freedom

Dr. Eduardo Padrón reached another milestone in his celebrated career in higher education when it was announced Wednesday that he will receive the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation’s highest civilian honor.

November 16, 2016

African-American

TMCF to Trump: Let Supreme Court Reflect Diversity

There is huge merit to diversifying a Court that will increasingly make decisions impacting everyday Americans.

November 16, 2016

Students

For-profit Colleges Decry ‘Demonization’ by Obama Administration

As speculation continued over how a Trump administration might treat for-profit colleges, supporters and critics of the institutions sparred Thursday over whether the institutions got a bum rap under the Obama administration.

November 16, 2016