Tag: Race: Page 57

Faculty & Staff

Judge Limits Professor’s Suit against North Park University

Dr. Maria Reyes will be allowed to sue NPU for race discrimination and breach of contract, but cannot proceed with Title VII violations and retaliation claims.

February 3, 2013

LGBTQ+

Divided We Fail: Replicating the Successes and Avoiding the Mistakes of Desegregation

On June 28, 2007, the U.S. Supreme Court handed down a ruling that officially ended the era of school desegregation that followed Brown v. Board of Education.

January 30, 2013

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New MOOC Expands Civil Rights Instruction

Civil rights historian and award-winning author Taylor Branch is on a mission to make the Civil Rights Movement more prominent in higher education—and he’s teaching a new MOOC on Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. to do it.

January 27, 2013

Opinion

4 False Racial Ideas for President Obama’s First 4 Years

I think I can speak for many Africana Studies professors when I say President Barack Obama has been ever on the lips of my students the last four years.

January 22, 2013

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Group Finds Texas Admissions Policy Does Not Lead to Increased Diversity

The Texas law that guarantees admission into a public university for students who graduate in the top ten percent of their high school class “lives up to some of the expectations of its proponents,” but there is little evidence that the law leads to notable increases in diversity.

January 22, 2013

Students

Looking Up: Dr. Adia Harvey Winfield

Dr. Adia Harvey Wingfield Follows Examples of Her Parents; Explores Race, Class And Gender Issues.

January 10, 2013

HBCUs

FAMU Student Paper Faces Hazing-Related Libel Suit

Florida A&M University’s student newspaper has delayed publication of its first spring semester edition, due in part to a libel suit over a hazing story.

January 9, 2013

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Semester-long Exploration of Race Underway at University of Michigan

The University of Michigan has launched the Understanding Race Project to showcase a wide-ranging selection of public exhibitions, lectures, performances, symposia and other events exploring the role of race in American society.

January 7, 2013

Students

Faculty Diversity a Topic of Discussion at MLA Annual Convention

The 128th Modern Language Association convention features hundreds of sessions covering a variety of topics related to American and European literature.

January 3, 2013

Faculty & Staff

Judge Rebuffs Discrimination Suit Against Spokane Falls CC

A federal judge in Washington state has rebuffed a race and national origin discrimination suit by an economics instructor who was denied tenure at Spokane Falls Community College.

January 1, 2013

Opinion

Who Really Receives Racial Preferences in Admissions? Not Blacks

As a scholar of race and education, I am enjoying the national public debate over affirmative action. Like any professor who discusses race in their classrooms and publishes on race, I simply enjoy when we discuss race in public.

December 4, 2012

Faculty & Staff

FAMU asks lawsuit from hazing death be dismissed

Attorneys for Florida A&M University on Wednesday asked a judge to dismiss a civil lawsuit brought by the family of a drum major who died last year after being hazed by fellow band members, claiming Robert Champion was a willing participant in the ritual.

November 28, 2012