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Students

Southern Illinois University Leader Condemns Racist Video

CARBONDALE, Ill. ― Racial tension on the Southern Illinois University in Carbondale campus is high after a series of recent incidents that include an anonymous video posted on YouTube that called for the lynching and beating of Black students. The video drew condemnation from the university’s leader, and YouTube removed it Monday for violating the […]

April 25, 2016

African-American

Prince Pushed the Envelope and Delivered

Prince, at one point The Artist formerly known as Prince before reclaiming his name in 1998, was a complex human being on many levels.

April 25, 2016

African-American

Everybody has a Favorite Prince Song, and Mine Isn’t ‘Purple Rain’

The one song that I think encapsulates Prince is “Controversy,” from the album of the same name.

April 24, 2016

Students

Purdue Faculty Say Cuts Will Hurt Areas with Most Diversity

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. ― Some Purdue University faculty say a plan to overhaul graduate education negatively affects disciplines with the most minority and female graduate students. A five-year initiative laid out last semester by College of Liberal Arts Dean David Reingold would raise graduate teaching assistants’ pay and trim their teaching loads by reducing incoming […]

April 24, 2016

Faculty & Staff

Why It’s Important to Say #BlackGirlsMatter

The AERA panel was a production of love, a production of authenticity, and a shared sense of belonging and mattering.

April 22, 2016

Students

U. of Michigan’s New Multicultural Center Gets $3M Boost

ANN ARBOR, Mich. ― A $3 million gift will help fund a new building at the University of Michigan’s main campus that will house the William Monroe Trotter Multicultural Center. The funding from Mark Bernstein, a member of the Board of Regents, and his wife, Rachel Bendit, was announced at a board meeting Thursday. […]

April 21, 2016

African-American

Dolezal’s Visit to Omaha University Draws Backlash

OMAHA, Neb. ― Omaha residents have raised concerns about a visit from Rachel Dolezal, who resigned as president of an NAACP chapter in Washington last year after it was revealed that she is White. The Omaha World-Herald reports that University of Nebraska Medical Center professor Dr. Renaisa S. Anthony’s decision to bring her to […]

April 21, 2016

Students

University of Iowa Officials Re-evaluate Chalking Policy

IOWA CITY, Iowa ― University of Iowa officials are re-evaluating the university’s 6-year-old chalk art policy after an anti-abortion group’s sidewalk art caused a skirmish last week. The Students for Life group says its members drew 3,200 hearts on a university walkway with the intention of showing pedestrians the number of abortions occurring in the […]

April 21, 2016

Leadership & Policy

The World Mourns Loss of Influential Prince

Undoubtedly we have lost a monumental talent and an artist for whom love of all kinds seems to undergird his decades-worth of unique talent and creativity.

April 21, 2016

Students

RAJEEV PARIKH

RAJEEV PARIKH has been named executive vice president for academic affairs at American International College. He was dean of the Walker College of Business and Management at Mercyhurst University. Parikh received a bachelor’s and a master’s from the Indian Institute of Technology and a doctorate from the State University of New York at Buffalo.

April 20, 2016

Students

Middleton: Higher Ed Leaders Should Take Heed to Student Protesters

Higher education leaders should take heed to the concerns of student protesters and use them as a springboard for conversation, a group of panelists said Tuesday at a convening of the Association of Governing Boards.

April 19, 2016

News Roundup

House Votes to Strip University of Tennessee Diversity Funding

The Tennessee House of Representatives voted Monday to approve a bill that would strip state funding from the University of Tennessee’s Office of Diversity and Inclusion. The bill passed with a 66-22 vote after almost an hour of passionate debate punctuated by rounds of applause for speakers on both sides of the issue. The vote fell […]

April 19, 2016