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Harvard and UNC Sued Over Their Admission Policies

Lawsuits filed Monday against Harvard University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill argue that affirmative action policies should be banned at colleges across the nation.

November 17, 2014

HBCUs

Carolina Postdoctoral Program Celebrates 30th Anniversary

Hailed as one of the nation’s most successful initiatives in helping recent minority Ph.D.s gain tenure-track teaching jobs, The Carolina Postdoctoral Program for Faculty Diversity is celebrating its 30th anniversary.

November 16, 2014

Faculty & Staff

Alabama-Birmingham, Alabama State Get Cancer Research Grant

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. ― The University of Alabama at Birmingham and Alabama State University have been given a federal grant to research and reduce disparities in cancer rates.

November 11, 2014

HBCUs

Election Diversity Problem Emerges: Faulty Opinion Polling

How polling methods leave out people of color.

November 9, 2014

Students

Noguera Urges Urban Educators to Stand Fast in Wake of Anticipated Cutbacks

In the wake of the sweeping GOP take-over of Congress last week, Dr. Pedro Noguera says he believes that efforts to improve urban education in the United States and other parts of the world will likely be stalled.

November 7, 2014

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Professors Examine Affirmative Action And Racial Stereotypes in Higher Education

According to research done by two law professors at the University of California, Berkley, ending affirmative action in schools will not eliminate racial stereotypes.

November 2, 2014

Students

Inspiring Students to Write Their Way to Self-Discovery

This writers’ project offers students a literary platform to arrive at an understanding of their personal history and to reveal the powerful meanings surrounding their sense of cultural identity.

October 23, 2014

Students

‘Dear White People’ a Satire About Race Relations on Campus

Dear White People addresses a multitude of campus climate issues at Winchester University, a fictitious Ivy League school troubled by racial tension.

October 23, 2014

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College Campus Incidents Undermine Claims of ‘Post-Racial’ America

The latest in a trend of similar incidents on college campuses across the country has again called to question the idea that America has achieved a post-racial society.

October 12, 2014

Faculty & Staff

Darker-Skinned African-American Students Suspended More Frequently

A new study—titled “The Relationship Between Skin Tone and School Suspension for African Americans”—found that darker-skinned African-American students were more likely to be suspended than those with lighter skin tones.

October 6, 2014

Students

Experts: ‘Opportunity Gap’ Key Impediment to Black Male Academic Achievement

Scholars at the International Colloquium on Black Males in Education say there has been a failure to provide the resources and exposure students need to be successful.

October 5, 2014

Students

When a Privileged Scholar Tries to Examine Privilege

I don’t think it’s intellectually honest to discuss how elite education reproduces more elite without considering how race, societal values or the study of primarily White canons help to reproduce this status quo.

September 24, 2014