Tag: Race: Page 49

Asian American Pacific Islander

Experts: Intentional Race-conscious Outreach Needed in Admissions Process

Test scores alone and skewed admissions criteria seen as roadblocks to achieving diversity.

May 19, 2014

Opinion

It’s Not Just in the Numbers: Making Campus Diversity Work Post-Schuette

It doesn’t matter who comes to your campus unless you work to make sure students are in fact benefiting from diverse environments.

May 12, 2014

African-American

Texas House Panel Set to Vote on Hall Impeachment

A group of state lawmakers is set to vote on whether to recommend removing Wallace Hall from office as University of Texas System regent.

May 11, 2014

LGBTQ+

When a Young Life Ends Tragically

Why San Francisco State University senior Stephen Guillermo won’t graduate this year.

May 5, 2014

Faculty & Staff

Dr. Peniel Joseph

Peniel E. Joseph is a tenured professor of history at Tuft s University and the author of several award-winning books, including Waiting ‘Til the Midnight Hour: A Narrative History of Black Power in America and Dark Days, Bright Nights: From Black Power to Barack Obama. He is a frequent commentator on issues of race, democracy […]

May 1, 2014

Opinion

Six Supremely Absurd Court Statements on Affirmative Action

On a 6-2 vote in Schuette v. BAMN, the Supreme Court reversed the opinion of the Sixth Circuit Court that struck down the law.

April 29, 2014

Faculty & Staff

Sterling Controversy Shows Race to Be America’s Achilles Heel

Here we are in 2014 and race remains at the top of our social disorders list.

April 28, 2014

Faculty & Staff

Dr. Beverly Tatum – President, Spelman College

Recognized as a scholar, teacher, race-relations expert and leader in higher education, Tatum became the ninth president of Spelman College in 2002. She is also known as a promoter of racial identity development theory and as the author of the best-selling Can We Talk About Race? And Other Conversations in an Era of School Resegregation. […]

April 28, 2014

Students

Gilda R. Daniels – Associate Professor of Law, University of Baltimore

A voting rights expert, Daniels is an associate professor of law at the University of Baltimore School of Law, where she teaches critical legal theory, election law and civil procedure. Her scholarship focuses on the intersections of race, law and democracy. Her law review articles have appeared in the Cardozo Law Review, the Denver University […]

April 25, 2014

Home

California Bill Re-ignites Affirmative Action Fight

A proposal to rescind the state’s affirmative action ban has sparked a backlash that is forging a new divide in the state’s powerful Democratic Party.

April 23, 2014

Home

Higher Ed Diversity Advocates Focus on Big Picture After Supreme Court Setback

In the wake of the court upholding the legality of Michigan’s voter-approved ban of affirmative action, stakes are higher for Fisher v. University of Texas.

April 22, 2014

Students

President Obama, left, told Rev. Al Sharpton’s civil rights group that the future of voting rights is in grave danger.

Far too many Americans are still reluctant to confront in an honest and direct manner the topic of race.

April 13, 2014