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African-American

Dolezal’s Visit to Omaha University Draws Backlash

OMAHA, Neb. ― Omaha residents have raised concerns about a visit from Rachel Dolezal, who resigned as president of an NAACP chapter in Washington last year after it was revealed that she is White. The Omaha World-Herald reports that University of Nebraska Medical Center professor Dr. Renaisa S. Anthony’s decision to bring her to […]

April 21, 2016

News Roundup

Rainbow-Colored Nooses Removed From Tenn. University Over ‘Hate Symbolism’ Concerns

A university in Tennessee is investigating after six rainbow-colored nooses were found Monday hanging from a tree on campus. Officials at Austin Peay State University in Clarksville, Tenn., said the nooses — red, orange, yellow, green, blue and black — were arranged in a rainbow on a tree outside of a fine-arts building. “This incident is deeply disturbing and […]

April 19, 2016

African-American

Is Affirmative Action Failing the Students It Was Designed For?

Since the “Harvard Revelation,” several scholars have noted the changing racial and ethnic ancestry of Blacks attending selective higher education institutions.

April 14, 2016

International

Israeli Scholar Advocates for Class-based Affirmative Action

Sigal Alon compared the quality and effectiveness of affirmative action policies in the United States and Israel, and arrived at conclusions that have caused American administrators to take notice.

April 12, 2016

African-American

How Gordon Parks’ Photographs Implored White America to See Black Humanity

Gordon Parks is one of America’s most celebrated photographers. He is also one of the most misunderstood. Museums and galleries around the world have celebrated him as the creator of some of the 20th century’s most iconic images. Yet to appreciate only his achievements as an artist is to underestimate his importance as a documentary […]

April 12, 2016

Faculty & Staff

Historian Cobb Joining Faculty at Columbia University

Dr. William Jelani Cobb, a prolific Black historian and journalist, is joining the faculty of Columbia University??s Graduate School of Journalism.

April 7, 2016

Students

Diverse Docket: Title IX Suit Against Stony Brook Moves Forward

Stony Brook University must defend a Title IX suit accusing it of deliberate indifference to the alleged sexual assault of a student, a federal judge in White Plains, N.Y., has ruled.

April 6, 2016

Leadership & Policy

Politicians Sometimes Say the Strangest Things

Primaries and caucuses are events that are happening almost every week now

March 31, 2016

Students

Ole Miss Ex-student Pleads Guilty to Tying Noose on Statue

A former University of Mississippi student could face up to a year in prison after pleading guilty Thursday to placing a noose on the school’s statue of its first Black student. Austin Reed Edenfield waived indictment and pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor charge before U.S. District Judge Michael Mills in Oxford. The charge says Edenfield […]

March 24, 2016

Students

East Carolina University Reviewing Officer Handcuffing Assault Victim

GREENVILLE, N.C. ― A North Carolina university is conducting an internal review after one of its white police officers handcuffed a Black man who had just been brutally beaten by four White people. East Carolina University officials were appalled by the incident, which began off campus, but spilled onto the university when the man running […]

March 24, 2016

African-American

San Jose State Scrambling to Address Racial Tensions

Last week’s campus protest has put new pressure on administrators to hire a chief diversity officer to handle festering racial tensions at the Bay Area university.

March 23, 2016

Faculty & Staff

ELIZABETH L. PAUL

ELIZABETH L. PAUL has been named president of Capital University, effective July 1. She is executive vice president and provost at Stetson University in Florida. She is also a full professor of psychology at the university. Paul holds a bachelor’s and a doctorate from Boston University.

March 22, 2016