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MSIs

Careers in Higher Education Special Report

In this edition, Diverse features Dr. Arnold Mitchem, who recently stepped down as president of the Council of Opportunity in Education after a long and illustrious career, as well as advocate for TRIO programs. Diverse also reports on Dr. Carl Hart, one of the nation’s top neuroscience researchers on drugs, Dr. Kwame Anthony Appiah, philosopher and champion of Black studies, and the number of senior college presidents that are still on the job.

November 8, 2013

LGBTQ+

Black People Are Not Immune From Mental Illness

Recent and tragic national headlines like the Navy Yard shooting has started a dialogue about mental illness, which has been ignored for too long in the Black community.

November 6, 2013

Faculty & Staff

Iran’s President Calls for Academic Freedoms

Iran’s president stepped up his challenge to the country’s hard-line factions on Monday, calling for the lifting of restrictions on academic freedoms and for granting Iranian scholars more opportunity to take part in international conferences.

October 14, 2013

Faculty & Staff

Alabama State Probing Tuberculosis Case

Officials at Alabama State University and the state Department of Public Health say they’re investigating a case of pulmonary tuberculosis at the school.

October 9, 2013

Sports

FAMU Band Back on the Field After Suspension

Florida A&M University’s famed band made its first appearance in a football stadium in nearly 22 months on Sunday after the 2011 hazing death of a drum major.

September 1, 2013

Students

How Should We React to White Student Unions?

White student unions are growing in popularity on college campuses.

August 15, 2013

Students

In $25M Gift, Casino Mogul Bets on Blindness Cure

Las Vegas casino mogul Steve Wynn will donate $25 million to the University of Iowa to accelerate the search for cures to rare eye diseases including the one that hampers his own vision, the school announced Thursday.

August 8, 2013

Health

Feds, Family Reach Deal on Use of DNA Information

Some 60 years ago, a doctor in Baltimore removed cancer cells from a poor black patient named Henrietta Lacks without her knowledge or consent.

August 7, 2013

Community Colleges

Chinese Researcher Sentenced in Research Drug Case

A Chinese researcher was sentenced Tuesday to time served plus two years of probation on charges stemming from the theft of a research drug from a Wisconsin medical school.

August 6, 2013

African-American

Why the ‘Pick Up Your Pants’ Rant Falls Short

We’ve had a reprise of the Bill Cosby rant, most recently by Fox News icon Bill O’Reilly, who was then backed up by CNN’s Don Lemon.

August 5, 2013

Faculty & Staff

Alabama State University Program Creates International Collaboration

This summer, two scientists from Ege University in Izmir, Turkey, traveled to ASU to learn new nanotechnology techniques.

August 5, 2013

African-American

Higher Ed Institutions Help Train Unemployed for Environmental Jobs

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency recently announced its latest grants for that program, totaling $3.2 million, to 16 grantees throughout the nation.

July 30, 2013