Tag: Diversity: Page 58

Students

U. of Michigan Implementing Free Tuition Program for Some In-state Students

The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor campus has implemented a free tuition program, called “Go Blue Guarantee,” for in-state students and applicants with families earning up to $65,000 a year.

July 9, 2017

Students

Guillermo: U. of California Achieves Diversity Despite Prop. 209

In 1996, Californians passed a law written and supported by right-wing zealots trying to stop diversity and affirmative action efforts throughout the state.

July 9, 2017

African-American

Law Enforcement Violence for 2017 ‘Normalized’

Police abuse remains pandemic in this country with no signs of abating and with no signs of accountability. This, in an era of video recordings of killings that go viral, with little, if no effect, in the courtroom.

July 9, 2017

Students

Mills College Faces Layoffs, Restructuring Programs

The venerable Oakland, California-based, all-women’s school is faced with a growing deficit of more than $9 million out of an annual operating budget of $57 million.

July 9, 2017

Students

Baylor Settles Lawsuit with Woman Who Alleged Sexual Assault

AUSTIN, Texas — Baylor University has agreed to settle a federal lawsuit with a former student who accused the nation’s largest Baptist school of fostering a “hunting ground for sexual predators” and mishandling her alleged attack in 2015. A settlement notice was filed in federal court in Waco, Texas on Thursday. No details were released, […]

July 9, 2017

Faculty & Staff

Protesters: Rehire Adjunct Fired for Fox News Commentary

LIVINGSTON, N.J. — Activists are imploring New Jersey lawmakers to demand a college rehire an instructor who was fired last month after officials said she made racially insensitive remarks during a Fox News interview. About a dozen protesters, including members of Black Lives Matter, showed up at a Thursday night meeting of county legislators to […]

July 9, 2017

Students

When Study Abroad Ends in Death, U.S. Parents Find Few Answers

NEW DELHI — When Elizabeth Brenner’s 21-year-old son died while hiking during a study-abroad trip in India, she began searching for other cases and found only partial data and anecdotal records. “Nobody was keeping track of this at all,” she said. Brenner’s son, Thomas Plotkin, was one of the millions of American students who have […]

July 9, 2017

Students

Judge Tosses Texas Professors’ Lawsuit Over Guns on Campus

AUSTIN, Texas — A federal court has dismissed a lawsuit by three University of Texas professors who argued that a new state law allowing concealed handguns on campus could have a “chilling effect” on classroom debate. Sociology professor Jennifer Lynn Glass and English professors Lisa Moore and Mia Carter sued last summer, before the law […]

July 9, 2017

Students

Alabama Program Aims to Recruit Hispanic Nurses

TUSCALOOSA, Ala. — The University of Alabama is launching a program to increase the number of Hispanic nurses involved in health care. The Capstone College of Nursing has received a $1.7 million grant for the Bama-Latino Project, which aims to recruit Hispanics into baccalaureate nursing programs. Alabama nursing professor Normal Cuellar says in a statement […]

July 9, 2017

Students

Samford to Forego Funds from Baptist Group After LGBT Flap

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — Samford University will refuse an anticipated $3 million annual budget allocation from the Alabama Baptist State Convention next year, university officials said. The university’s Board of Trustees executive committee approved the decision Friday after consultation with state convention leaders. The move is effective Jan. 1. “I believe the action taken by our […]

July 9, 2017

Students

Report: International Student Yield for U.S. Colleges Holds Steady

Despite fears that international students might stay away from the U.S. because of President Donald Trump’s proposed travel ban, which has been partially permitted pending Supreme Court review, that doesn’t appear to be happening this fall, a new survey has found.

July 6, 2017

Faculty & Staff

CCNY, UTEP Team Up to Increase Hispanic Faculty in STEM

City College of New York and the University of Texas at El Paso have joined forces in an effort to increase the number of Hispanic faculty in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) programs at higher education institutions.

July 6, 2017