Tag: Diversity: Page 201

Students

Ole Miss Ex-student Pleads Guilty to Tying Noose on Statue

A former University of Mississippi student could face up to a year in prison after pleading guilty Thursday to placing a noose on the school’s statue of its first Black student. Austin Reed Edenfield waived indictment and pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor charge before U.S. District Judge Michael Mills in Oxford. The charge says Edenfield […]

March 24, 2016

Students

University of California OKs Statement Against Anti-Semitism

SAN FRANCISCO ― The University of California’s governing board adopted a statement condemning anti-Semitic behavior on Thursday, becoming the first public university system to do so since campaigns for academic and economic boycotts of Israel have taken root on many U.S. college campuses. The board also unanimously and without discussion adopted a companion report urging […]

March 24, 2016

Students

East Carolina University Reviewing Officer Handcuffing Assault Victim

GREENVILLE, N.C. ― A North Carolina university is conducting an internal review after one of its white police officers handcuffed a Black man who had just been brutally beaten by four White people. East Carolina University officials were appalled by the incident, which began off campus, but spilled onto the university when the man running […]

March 24, 2016

Faculty & Staff

Bill to Defund University of Tennessee Diversity Office Withdrawn

Lawmakers, angry over web postings by the Office of Diversity and Inclusion of the University of Tennessee, want to strip the office of all state funding for the coming fiscal year.

March 24, 2016

Students

U.S. Government Cuts Grants to Jewish College, Citing Fraud

WEST BLOOMFIELD, Mich. ― The federal government has barred a Jewish college in suburban Detroit from participating in a popular grant program after finding that thousands of students lived full-time in Israel and weren’t taking classes through the school. The Michigan Jewish Institute broke its fiduciary duty to the U.S. Education Department, which supplies Pell […]

March 23, 2016

Students

University of California Approves Anti-Semitism Statement

SAN FRANCISCO ― A University of California committee agreed Wednesday to single out anti-Semitism as a form of intolerance that campus leaders should challenge but rejected a more far-reaching denouncement of arguments against Israel’s right to exist. A year in the making, the formal position opposing anti-Semitic behavior comes amid a wave of impassioned campus […]

March 23, 2016

African-American

San Jose State Scrambling to Address Racial Tensions

Last week’s campus protest has put new pressure on administrators to hire a chief diversity officer to handle festering racial tensions at the Bay Area university.

March 23, 2016

African-American

University of Missouri Announces New Diversity Official

COLUMBIA, Mo. — The University of Missouri has named a diversity official to help the four-campus system recover from racial protests at the flagship campus in Columbia. The school announced Wednesday that Kevin McDonald has been tapped to serve as the first ever chief diversity, equity and inclusion officer. President Michael Middleton said McDonald would […]

March 23, 2016

Students

TANAYA M. WALTERS

TANAYA M. WALTERS has been appointed vice president for student affairs at Clark Atlanta University. She was dean of students at Johnson and Wales University in North Carolina. Walters earned a bachelor’s and a master’s from Johnson and Wales.

March 22, 2016

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IZETTA SLADE

IZETTA SLADE has been named associate director in the Office of Equity & Diversity at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. She was human resources officer and director of extension evaluation and staff development at the University of Tennessee Institute of Agriculture. Slade earned a bachelor’s from the University of South Carolina and a master’s from Texas A&M University.

March 22, 2016

Students

Diverse on the Go

Vice President Will Cox is representing Diverse at the AAC&U Diversity, Learning, and Student Success 2016 Conference in Philadelphia today through Friday.

March 18, 2016

Students

Free Speech Bill Withdrawn After Islamic State Comments

NASHVILLE, Tenn. ― A Republican lawmaker on Thursday defended his comments that free speech rights on Tennessee college campuses should apply to everyone ― even recruiters for the Islamic State group. State Rep. Martin Daniel of Knoxville said on the floor of the state House that he supports First Amendment rights for people and groups […]

March 17, 2016