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News Roundup
Postsecondary Value Commission Findings Show Disparities in Postsecondary Education Value
The national Postsecondary Value Commission – supported by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and managed by the Institute for Higher Education Policy (IHEP) – released its final findings – using national and institutional data – confirming wide-ranging disparities in the value of a postsecondary education in terms of race, income, and gender. As such, […]
May 12, 2021
Opinion
An Executive Order, an Outcry and an Opening
With everything that has happened since September 22, it would not be a surprise if you missed the hubbub around President Trump’s executive order on “Combating Race and Sex Stereotyping.” If you’re just catching up, the executive order “roil[ed] corporate America” and caused colleges and universities to “cancel diversity, equity, and inclusion programs” and to accuse the Trump administration of censorship . It also prompted Justice Department employees to ask Congress to investigate the “illegal and abusive government directives” in the executive order.
January 8, 2021
African-American
2020 Dr. John Hope Franklin Awardees Recognized by Diverse
Diverse: Issues In Higher Education held its annual Dr. John Hope Franklin award ceremony virtually, honoring three educators whose scholarship and work represents the tradition of the late pioneering historian.
November 16, 2020
Opinion
Is Mispronouncing Kamala Harris’ Name a Jab at Her Citizenship and Heritage?
When Vice President-Elect Kamala Harris was first picked by Joe Biden to be his running mate, for many it was quite exciting for so many reasons. There were those, however, who actually questioned her race, citizenship, and heritage. It was suggested that as a child of immigrants from Jamaica and India, she was somehow less American and less Black. Now some of the same people are mispronouncing her name as a variation on a similar theme. Kamala—something foreign, something different, not your story, not our story, they seem to be saying.
November 10, 2020
Community Colleges
Study Finds Connection Between Public Community College Promise Programs and Enrollment Increases
A new study funded by the American Educational Research Association found a correlation between public community college promise programs and an increase in enrollment among female and underrepresented students.
October 25, 2020
News Roundup
Former Millersville University Dean Files Civil rights Lawsuit Against School
A former Millersville University dean, Dr. Charity Welch, is pursuing a civil rights lawsuit against the school — one year after the university settled another federal racial discrimination lawsuit for $170,000 — alleging discrimination and unfair treatment because of her race, age and gender, reported The Lancaster Online. Welch filed a suit on Oct. 6. […]
October 15, 2020
Community Colleges
Policy Brief Highlights Proposition 209 Impact on California Community Colleges
Education Trust-West released a new policy brief highlighting the impact of Proposition 209, a 25-year-old ban on affirmative action in California. The study, “The Opportunity for Race-Conscious Policy and a More Equitable California,” looked at ways Prop. 209 effected California Community Colleges, which serves over 2 million students.
October 5, 2020
Leadership & Policy
‘Dramatic Change Will Require Leadership.’ A Message to the Next Generation of Leaders
This summer we have all been living and learning through an unprecedented crisis: literally the greatest disruption to daily life in the United States since at least World War II, a rapid economic collapse that is approaching and may exceed the scale of the Great Depression, deeply inequitable impacts from the crisis mapped into pre-existing inequalities of race and class, and a death count conservatively estimated at more than 500,000 and rising.
July 7, 2020
Opinion
How and Where We Exit: Seven Propositions on Black Positionalities in the Pandemics Era
The world has tried to recalibrate after the seismic shift that the COVID-19 pandemic has exacted on key aspects of everyday life, as we once knew it. For certain populations, this shift has been coupled with a cataclysmic jolt. For Black people globally, and specifically for African-Americans in the United States, the battle has been at best—formidable. While the Black gaze focused on the destruction and devastation that COVID-19 was exacting, it was the concomitant spread of a second pandemic, racism, which proved to be just as, if not even more virulent for the Black community.
June 30, 2020
African-American
Another University Professor in the Spotlight for ‘Vile’ Comments on Minorities
Two petitions to fire University of North Carolina Wilmington professor Mike Adams for his inflammatory comments over the years about women and minorities have collected a total of 73,000 signatures as of Monday afternoon. One of the petitions says Adams’ Twitter account “contains threats towards minorities.” The other urges signatories to not financially support or […]
June 8, 2020
Students
A Battle for the Soul of Our Nation
Minneapolis, Minnesota, is a long way from Brunswick, Georgia and Louisville, Kentucky. Yet the three areas are now inextricably linked by the recent tragedies that befell African- American citizens – murdered in those locations by citizen vigilantes or police officers. Each illuminates a teachable moment that we would do well to learn from, and demonstrates that even during a historic pandemic, when we are all supposedly “in this together,” that we still have a long way to go as a society before we truly reach “togetherness.”
June 4, 2020
African-American
American University Starts a New Race, Gender and Culture Studies Department
American University will launch a new Department of Critical Race, Gender, and Culture Studies this coming fall in an effort to build “a truly equitable, visionary university.” The university said in a statement that the department grew out of the former Critical Race, Gender, and Culture Studies Collaborative (CRGC), formed in 2015. “The transformation of […]
May 29, 2020
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