Tag: Diversity: Page 165

Campus Climate

Harvard Students Lead Sit-in to Back Striking Dining Workers

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. ― Students at Harvard University are staging a campus sit-in to support the school’s striking cafeteria workers. Dozens of students walked out of classes on Monday and marched to a nearby building where Harvard officials and a labor union for campus dining workers have been in negotiations. The students said they refuse to […]

October 24, 2016

Students

Immigration Status Serves as Barrier for Some Students

SANTA FE, N.M. ― Some students say they’re losing out despite a New Mexico law that allows them in-state tuition at public colleges or universities and state-funded financial aid regardless of their immigration status. The law has been in effect for 11 years but New Mexico’s public universities and colleges operate independently from one another […]

October 23, 2016

Students

University of Virginia Creates Julian Bond Endowed Professorship

The University of Virginia is honoring the late Julian Bond, with an endowed professorship in his name.

October 23, 2016

Opinion

Flirting with Facism, Dancing with Apartheid

The University of Arizona, where I teach, is probably little different than most universities; there’s little support for the GOP nominee here.

October 23, 2016

Sports

Expert: Non-Whites Must Flex Growing Political Muscle Now

Based on longstanding efforts to squelch their voice at the polls, people of color in the U.S. must prepare for the political power they stand to gain through population increase—or risk being ruled by a White minority.

October 23, 2016

African-American

Linda Johnson Rice to Kick Off Howard University Entrepreneurship Speaker Series

Linda Johnson Rice will pay a visit to Howard University on November 9 to launch the John H. Johnson Endowed Chair in Entrepreneurship Speakers Series.

October 20, 2016

African-American

Scholars: Snopes Clears Up Race-based Rumors

Much like the nation itself, the fact-checking website snopes.com increasingly has been dealing with rumors that revolve around issues of race.

October 20, 2016

Students

Online Guide Helps Military-connected Navigate Higher Ed’s Path to Success

There is o¬ften a disconnect between the needs of veterans in regard to higher ed and the actual points of access that will get them to the careers they desire.

October 20, 2016

Students

South African Student Leader Injured in Protest

JOHANNESBURG ― The student council at a leading South African university says a student leader was hit multiple times in the back by police rubber bullets during a protest for free education. The council at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg said on Twitter that Shaeera Kalla, a former council head, was being treated […]

October 20, 2016

Students

Strike Enters 2nd Day at 14 Pennsylvania State Universities

HARRISBURG, Pa. ― Professors at 14 Pennsylvania state universities are expected to hit the picket lines again Thursday as their strike enters its second day. Members of the Association of Pennsylvania State College and University Faculties went on strike at 5 a.m. Wednesday after contract negotiations with the state stalled. The union represents more than […]

October 20, 2016

Students

ITT Tech’s Closing Leaves Many Veterans in Limbo

After the abrupt closure of the ITT Technical Institute last month, the state of some veteran students’ education, many of whom cannot have their GI benefits restored, remains unclear.

October 19, 2016

Faculty & Staff

We Don’t Have a ‘Diversity’ Problem in Education

We do not have a diversity problem. What we have is a diversity symptom. Institutionalized White supremacy is the problem.

October 19, 2016