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Faculty & Staff

CRISTINA M. RODRIGUEZ

Cristina M. Rodriguez was named the Leighton Homer Surbeck Professor of Law at Yale Law School. She was a professor of law at Yale. Rodriguez earned a bachelor’s and a juris doctor from Yale. She also earned a master’s from Oxford University.

March 1, 2015

HBCUs

In Case You Missed It…

Philadelphia Futures Paying Off With College Access Race a Factor in South Carolina State University ‘Mess’ Paul Quinn College to Undergo Massive Makeover USC Researchers to Issue Hollywood Diversity Report Card

February 19, 2015

Students

Race a Factor in South Carolina State University ‘Mess’

The barriers to the solutions are politics, race, intransigence, corruption and political dysfunction.

February 16, 2015

Leadership & Policy

Report: University of Texas President OK’d Applicants Over Objections

A “select handful” of University of Texas applicants are approved each year at the direction of the school president over the objections of the admissions office, a longtime practice that has grown in recent years, according to details of an investigation commissioned by the school’s Board of Regents and released Thursday.

February 12, 2015

African-American

MLK, ‘Selma,’ and the Feeling

There should be as many in line to see this movie as there were people lining up to march across the Edmund Pettus Bridge.

January 18, 2015

African-American

Race Relations at Forefront of National Debate

A poll indicated that 13% of those interviewed believed that race relations are the most important issue facing the nation.

January 13, 2015

Faculty & Staff

University of Illinois Faculty: Reconsider Professor’s Job

A committee of University of Illinois faculty members is recommending that the school reconsider its decision to rescind a job once offered to a Native American studies professor.

December 23, 2014

Home

Expert Advocates Freeing Minds of Prisoners to See Potential

Higher education during incarceration is spotlighted through Max Kenner’s Bard Prison Initiative.

December 10, 2014

African-American

Students Nationwide Hold ‘Die Ins’ for Justice

Students joined other protestors this week in demonstrations for the lives that have been lost in controversial confrontations with police.

December 4, 2014

Leadership & Policy

Bill Cosby resigns from Temple University board

Bill Cosby resigned Monday as a trustee of Temple University following a string of allegations that accused him of drugging and sexually assaulting women over many years.

December 1, 2014

Faculty & Staff

University of Wisconsin-Whitewater Professors Examine Winter Driving

People who were perfectly fine driving on snow at the tail end of winter go sliding all over the streets and highways when the first snowfall makes things slippery the next winter.

November 26, 2014

Community Colleges

Federal Judge Throws Out Bias Suit Against Cincinnati State Tech

U.S. District Judge Sandra Beckwith ruled that Alicia Revely failed to offer sufficient evidence to proceed with any of her employment bias claims.

November 18, 2014