Tag: Public Policy: Page 36

Students

American Flag Ban on College Campus Draws Lawmakers’ Rebuke

California GOP lawmakers are inserting themselves into a heated college campus debate over the right to display the American flag.

March 9, 2015

Students

Anti-Israel Divestment Push Gains Traction at U.S. Colleges

In the United States, Israel’s closest ally, the decade-old boycott-divestment-sanctions, or BDS, movement is making its strongest inroads by far on college campuses.

March 2, 2015

Students

Women As Writers

“Weaving the Stories of Women’s Lives” is the theme this year of Women’s History Month, which is observed in March. This year is also the 35th anniversary of the Women’s History Movement and the National Women’s History Project, which promotes Women’s History Month.

March 1, 2015

African-American

The Lunar New Year Starts and the Day of Remembrance Never Ends

Special times as communities celebrate and commemorate.

February 23, 2015

Faculty & Staff

American History is not Black History; Black History is not America’s

The argument that ‘Black history is American history’ is naïve to the point of insipidity.

February 19, 2015

Faculty & Staff

Celebrating Black History in the New Millennium

There are some compelling issues to be examined regarding Black History Month as we know it to be now.

February 19, 2015

Community Colleges

Congressional Report — by Colleges — Claims They’re Over-Regulated

Review ordered by congressional committee was produced by the American Council on Education.

February 16, 2015

Students

Yale Fraternity Banned for Sex Misconduct Policy Violation

A fraternity has been banned from Yale University’s campus for two years over an initiation ceremony that violated the school’s sexual misconduct policy, the Ivy League university announced Friday.

February 15, 2015

African-American

U.S. Colleges Bringing in Chaplains to Serve the Nonbelievers

Bart Campolo, 51, joined a growing movement of college “humanist chaplains,” arriving at the University of Southern California last September.

February 15, 2015

Students

Clemson University Faculty Senate: Change Tillman Hall Name

Clemson University’s faculty senate is asking administrators to change the name of a building named after the late South Carolina governor and White supremacist Benjamin Tillman.

February 11, 2015

Faculty & Staff

Harvard Bans Professors from Having Sex with Undergraduates

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — Harvard University has instituted a total ban on professors having sex with undergraduate students, strengthening language it said didn’t reflect expectations on relationships between faculty members and students.

February 5, 2015

Faculty & Staff

Scholars: Police, Black Community Disconnect Unresolved

Reports of a Norfolk State University student’s attack by a police dog last week has again brought the issue of police violence against the African-American community to the forefront.

February 5, 2015