Tag: Race: Page 44

Latinx

Students Challenge Columbia University’s Alleged Limiting Use of Spanish

According to a petition circulating among the Columbia University community, dining service workers are forbidden from speaking in Spanish and were forced to eat their meals in a closet during their breaks for multiple months.

April 27, 2015

African-American

Court Allows Racial Bias Suit vs. Metropolitan State to Proceed

Metropolitan State University of Denver must continue to defend a racial discrimination case by a Black student who won the most votes for student government president but was disqualified on the basis of campaign violations.

April 26, 2015

African-American

In U.S., Black Men Still in Fight for Citizenship

This past weekend, the city of Baltimore became a protesting ground. The message was the same as it has been around the country in recent months: Black lives matter.

April 26, 2015

African-American

Welcome!

The Diverse team looks forward to playing host today to Dr. William “Smitty” Smith, founding executive director of the National Center for Race Amity. Smith’s organization, based at Wheelock College in Boston, promotes racial understanding through education, theater and dialogue.

April 22, 2015

Faculty & Staff

MIA TUAN

MIA TUAN has been appointed dean of the College of Education at the University of Washington. She was a professor of education studies and former interim dean of the College of Education at the University of Oregon. Tuan earned a bachelor’s from the University of California, Berkeley, and a master’s and a doctorate from the University of California, Los Angeles.

April 18, 2015

Students

Racism a Lingering Problem Among Collegiate Millennials

Kayla Tarrant loves the University of Maryland. But the campus tour guide says a racist email and photo attributed to her schoolmates makes her reluctant to encourage other black students to enroll “in a place where you feel unsafe and no one cares about you.”

April 5, 2015

Latinx

NYC Cop Apologizes for Racist Rant Against South Asian

Good enough or not so fast? Video is a reminder of the deep hate in everyday life.

April 5, 2015

African-American

Inequalities in Education Continue to Fuel Wealth Gap in U.S.

A recent report titled “The Racial Wealth Gap” examined, in conjunction with other factors, the role education plays in the persistent wealth gap between minorities and their White counterparts in this country.

April 5, 2015

Students

Congressman’s Son a Defendant in Clemson Fraternity-Death Lawsuits

The son of U.S. Rep. John Carney, D-Del., is one of five defendants in two lawsuits seeking at least $50 million stemming from the death of a Clemson University fraternity pledge.

March 31, 2015

Opinion

Stanford’s Admission Rate at 5 Percent But Why Stop There?

How to be an elite school and still look egalitarian.

March 29, 2015

Opinion

Starbucks #Race Together a Conversation That Whites Need to Have

Far too many efforts to address the issue of racism in our contemporary culture are often misguided, distressingly adrift, naive and tone deaf.

March 25, 2015

African-American

Dori Maynard Was a Champion for Diversity in Journalism

Despite her passing, fight for more journalists of color must continue.

March 1, 2015