Tag: Minorities on Campus: Page 46

Faculty & Staff

SEELPA KESHVALA

SEELPA KESHVALA has been appointed president of Lone Star College-Cy-Fair. She was president of the Warsaw Campus of Ivy Tech Community College. Keshvala earned a bachelor’s, a master’s and a doctorate from the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee.

January 12, 2016

Students

Diverse Conversations: How UCF Built Diversity into its Rapid Growth

In the past two decades, the University of Central Florida tripled its enrollment numbers to 63,000 students last fall, quietly becoming the largest undergraduate institution in the country.

January 6, 2016

Faculty & Staff

Professor Facing Termination Over Religious Views Disputes Wheaton College’s Account

CHICAGO ― The professor of a Christian college who asserted Christians and Muslims worship the same God said Wednesday that her views are in line with the suburban Chicago college’s mission and disputed university accounts of interactions with administrators who’ve taken steps to fire her. Larycia Hawkins, who’s Christian, was placed on leave at Wheaton […]

January 6, 2016

African-American

Investigators Find No Evidence that Missouri State Discriminated

SPRINGFIELD, Mo. ― An investigation has found no evidence that Missouri State University discriminated against the top Black official at the school. The Missouri State Board of Governors hired outside investigators after an online petition alleged that Ken Coopwood, vice president of diversity and inclusion, was subjected to “despicable and hostile” behavior by his staff. […]

January 4, 2016

Faculty & Staff

Former Spanish Lecturer Sues Amherst College Over Dismissal

NORTHAMPTON, Mass. ― A former Spanish language lecturer at Amherst College alleges in a lawsuit against the school and her ex-supervisor that she lost her job after sticking up for teaching assistants who said they were encouraged to sleep with students to increase enrollment. The suit filed in Hampshire Superior Court by Dimaris Barrios-Beltran seeks […]

December 29, 2015

Leadership & Policy

Texas Campus Carry Law Gets Green Light

Texas campus carry law gets boost as the new year promises legal shootout over guns in colleges.

December 28, 2015

LGBTQ+

In Case You Missed It…

Omnibus Bill a Win for HBCUs, Minority Institutions Why Must International Students Pick Up the Tab for U.S. Higher Education? Diverse Conversations: 3 Reasons You Should Care About Hispanic-Serving Institutions Dishonor Roll ― The Schools that Sought Exemptions To Legally Discriminate Against LGBT Students

December 24, 2015

Students

International Students’ Issue About Food at Oberlin College Boiling Over

CLEVELAND ― A ruckus over the cultural sensitivity of cafeteria food at Ohio’s Oberlin College has led to heaping servings of both derision and sympathy. The complaints of some international students were first published in the Oberlin Review, the college newspaper, in early November. The article discussed a Japanese student’s complaint that rice used in […]

December 22, 2015

Students

University of Kansas Names Director of Multicultural Affairs

LAWRENCE, Kan. ― A longtime member of the Office of Multicultural Affairs at the University of Kansas has been named permanent director of the department, fulfilling one demand of a student group seeking increased attention to diversity issues at the school. Precious Porras, who was named interim director of OMA in May after the department’s […]

December 22, 2015

Students

Students Work Toward Missouri School’s First Latina Sorority

COLUMBIA, Mo. ― University of Missouri students are working to establish the school’s first Latina sorority. Jessica Banuelos, who is studying psychology, has been working for the past two years to establish a chapter of the Lambda Theta Alpha Latin Sorority at the school. The Columbia Missourian reports that it was started in 1975 at […]

December 22, 2015

Students

E. Tennessee State Identifies Certain Restrooms as Gender-neutral

JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. ― East Tennessee State University has updated some restrooms in academic buildings and residence halls with signage that identifies them as gender-neutral restrooms. The university’s Associate Vice President for Facilities Management Bill Rasnick tells the Johnson City Press that the restrooms with the new signs had previously been restrooms that were not […]

December 21, 2015

Students

Desegregation Not Same as Diversity and Inclusion

Do colleges and university senior administrators have a coherent definition of diversity that moves beyond demographics?

December 17, 2015