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Students

Fraternity Chapter in Arkansas Suspended After Blackface Photo Surfaces

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. ― An Arkansas fraternity chapter has been suspended and one of its members expelled after a photo surfaced of the fraternity member wearing apparent blackface. The Sigma Tau Gamma fraternity suspended its chapter at the University of Central Arkansas on Saturday after learning about the photo. The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette reports that the […]

October 30, 2016

Students

Report Underscores Racial, Class Disparities in College Degree Attainment

The figures the clearinghouse released Thursday reveal a stark reality that frustrates efforts to contravene the notion that “demography is destiny” when it comes to college degree attainment.

October 27, 2016

Students

No Surge Seen in High School Seniors’ Science Proficiency

Racial and gender gaps in science proficiency have narrowed modestly amid overall improvements at the 4th and 8th grade levels since 2009, but not much change has taken place among high school seniors.

October 26, 2016

Opinion

How Did the Republicans Lose Their Hope and Their Party?

The political posturing and back and forth will come to a screeching halt on Tuesday, November 8.

October 24, 2016

Opinion

Flirting with Facism, Dancing with Apartheid

The University of Arizona, where I teach, is probably little different than most universities; there’s little support for the GOP nominee here.

October 23, 2016

Sports

Expert: Non-Whites Must Flex Growing Political Muscle Now

Based on longstanding efforts to squelch their voice at the polls, people of color in the U.S. must prepare for the political power they stand to gain through population increase—or risk being ruled by a White minority.

October 23, 2016

Faculty & Staff

We Don’t Have a ‘Diversity’ Problem in Education

We do not have a diversity problem. What we have is a diversity symptom. Institutionalized White supremacy is the problem.

October 19, 2016

Students

Study Shows Computer Science Gap Begins Early

Black students are less likely than White students to have computer science courses in middle or high school — 47 versus 58 percent, a new study released Tuesday shows.

October 18, 2016

Students

Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity Suspended at Missouri University S&T

ROLLA, Mo. ― The Missouri University of Science and Technology has suspended the small Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity and is making students move out of the fraternity house after two new members were hospitalized. The students were injured Thursday during an event at the fraternity house in Rolla, university spokesman Andrew Careaga said, adding that […]

October 18, 2016

Students

San Francisco State University Slams Posters Attacking Professor

SAN FRANCISCO ― San Francisco State University officials are condemning posters accusing a professor specializing in Palestinian studies of collaborating with terrorists. The posters by the David Horowitz Freedom Center single out an ethnic studies associate professor Rabab Ibrahim Abdulhadi, The San Francisco Chronicle reported Tuesday. University President Les Wong sent a campus-wide email Friday […]

October 18, 2016

Sports

Abdul-Jabbar: Poverty Biggest Barrier to Higher Ed

Author and NBA legend Kareem Abdul-Jabbar cited poverty as the biggest barrier that threatens to block the shots that low-income students have at higher education.

October 17, 2016

Faculty & Staff

Subjectively Objective: Tenure and the Underrepresented Minority Faculty

Nearly half a century of research speaks to the microaggressively institutionalized practices that contribute to the lack of equitably tenured and promoted underrepresented minorities in academe.

October 16, 2016