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Scholars Find AERA Meeting Perfect for Seeking Answers

One attendee called the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association (AERA), a family reunion where she doles out hugs and kisses to her colleagues that she only gets to see about once a year.

April 30, 2017

Faculty & Staff

Montreat College Mandates Staff Opposition to Gay Marriage

MONTREAT, N.C. — A private North Carolina Christian college is insisting that its faculty and staff sign a document that opposes same-sex marriage and abortion. One faculty member says she and eight of her colleagues have refused to sign it and are leaving the school. News media outlets report that part of Montreat College’s “Community […]

April 30, 2017

Students

Silvers Continues to Lead Way for Disabled

Now completing her 50th year at San Francisco State University, Dr. Anita Silvers is a nationally prominent champion of disability rights.

April 26, 2017

Students

Return of the Teach-In: Lessons Learned from Opening up Communication

At Keene State College, as well around the country, there was a sense that people on all sides of the political spectrum felt concerns that needed to be expressed.

April 24, 2017

Sports

Athletic Director: Complaints, Not Bias, Led to Iowa Coach’s Firing

DES MOINES, Iowa — University of Iowa athletic director Gary Barta said Monday that three rounds of complaints from parents and field hockey players prompted an investigation into the program that ultimately led to the firing of coach Tracey Griesbaum in 2014. Griesbaum’s termination is a central piece of a lawsuit filed by former top […]

April 24, 2017

Students

Report: Anti-Semitism Rises, but Violence Against Jews Falls

TEL AVIV, Israel — Violent attacks on Jews dropped for a second straight year in 2016, but other forms of anti-Semitism are on the rise worldwide, particularly on U.S. university campuses, according to a report released Sunday. Researchers at Tel Aviv University said assaults specifically targeting Jews, vandalism and other violent incidents fell 12 percent […]

April 23, 2017

African-American

North Carolina Civil Rights Center Faces Conservative Ire

RALEIGH, N.C. — A center founded at the University of North Carolina by a civil rights attorney to help the poor and disenfranchised is the latest institution to come under fire from conservatives as they work to leave their mark on the state’s higher education system. African-American attorney Julius Chambers, who endured firebomb attacks in […]

April 23, 2017

Students

North Carolina Women’s College Addresses Student Concerns

WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. — A North Carolina women’s college is working to meet a series of demands made by students after protests that lasted for more than a week, the school’s president said. Salem College president Lorraine Sterritt told the Winston-Salem Journal that the school is committed to the value of diversity, and that bias and […]

April 20, 2017

Faculty & Staff

Pakistan Professor from Minority Ahmadi Sect Fatally Stabbed

LAHORE, Pakistan — Pakistani police say a university professor from the Ahmadi sect was found stabbed to death in what may be the latest in Islamic militant attack on members of the minority group. Officer Mohammad Ali says the 61-year-old microbiology professor Tahira Malik was found slain in the eastern city of Lahore, with several […]

April 18, 2017

Students

Georgia Tech GRIOT Leadership Series Highlights Black Male Achievement

The GRIOT Series highlights the achievements and success of African-American males in various leadership positions at the institution.

April 17, 2017

Faculty & Staff

Marching for Science? Bring a Mirror

I implore you to take a hard look at the politics within your supposedly apolitical, objective science. These barriers to scientific advancement existed well before Trumpland.

April 17, 2017

Students

Wisconsin Students Push for Hmong-American Studies Program

MADISON, Wis. — A group of Hmong-American undergraduates is pushing administrators at the University of Wisconsin-Madison to hire more faculty who study the ethnic group and to launch a program through which students can earn a certificate in Hmong-American studies. The Wisconsin State Journal reports that several students of Southeast Asian descent formed the Hmong-American […]

April 17, 2017