Tag: Race: Page 43

Students

Report: Student Loan Debt Stratified by Race, Class

New Demos report documents the patterns of student loan debt along racial and class lines with Black, Latino, and low-income students taking out higher loans than Whites and more likely to drop out with debt.

June 4, 2015

Disabilties

Judge Sides with Texas Southern in Discrimination Suit

An African-American applicant who was repeatedly rejected by the Thurgood Marshall School of Law at Texas Southern University has lost his race, gender and disability discrimination case.

May 28, 2015

African-American

Ongoing Debate over Offensive Words Hits NCORE

Panelists and participants at annual conference weighed use of the “N-word,” “Redskin” and “queer.”

May 28, 2015

Students

A Question of Fairness at Heart of Lawsuit Against Harvard

A recent lawsuit alleges that Harvard University’s admissions process discriminates against Asian Americans.

May 28, 2015

Home

Diverse on the Go

Staff Writer Catherine Morris will be among the Diverse contingent attending today through Saturday at the National Conference for Race & Ethnicity in American Higher Education (NCORE) annual conference in Washington, D.C., at the Washington Hilton.

May 26, 2015

Students

Did Columbia University President Snub ‘Mattress Girl’?

No handshake on class day for rape victim/activist, and there’s video.

May 25, 2015

Faculty & Staff

UCLA Diversity Plan Aims to Match Best Practices with Reality

Associate provost Jerry Kang will lead the charge as vice chancellor for equity, diversity and inclusion.

May 19, 2015

Students

More than 10,700 Apply for Tuition-free Technical College

More than 10,700 adults have applied for a state grant that would send them to technical college for free.

May 18, 2015

Faculty & Staff

Black Professor Regrets Comments Critical of White Students

An incoming Boston University professor who called “White college males” a “problem population” and was publicly criticized by the university’s president said late Tuesday she regrets making the remarks.

May 13, 2015

Opinion

Race Relations at a Rocky Impasse

A recent CBS News poll of 1,027 adults taken last week indicated that a majority of people believe that race relations are at their worst in more than two decades.

May 13, 2015

Students

U.Va. Dean Sues Rolling Stone Over Debunked Gang Rape Story

A University of Virginia associate dean sued Rolling Stone magazine on Tuesday for more than $7.5 million, saying a debunked account of an alleged gang rape on campus cast her as the “chief villain.”

May 12, 2015

Latinx

California Producing Too Few Latino College Grads

Broken practices and unproductive policies at California public colleges and universities pose serious barriers to Latino college success and potentially jeopardize the state’s future economy, a new report says.

May 3, 2015