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African-American

Mississippi Supreme Court OKs More Student Work for Poor

JACKSON, Miss. ― Law students will be able to do more legal work for poor Mississippi residents under a rule recently approved by the state Supreme Court. Students attending law schools in other states and those who are not getting course credit for the work can now help attorneys representing people who cannot pay, said […]

November 29, 2015

News Roundup

Author Rejects Claim that Records Release Threatens Funding

HELENA, Mont. ― State education officials must disclose the disciplinary records of a former quarterback accused of rape for the public to understand what the University of Montana is doing to protect students from sexual assault, the attorney for Into the Wild author Jon Krakauer said in court filings. Attorney Mike Meloy urged the Montana […]

November 29, 2015

African-American

At UMD, New Frederick Douglass Square Illustrates State’s Racial Duality

Maryland and its flagship campus’ celebration of diversity and inclusion served as an ironic contradiction of the state’s own participation in the limited opportunities for and representations of Black students within its borders.

November 24, 2015

Leadership & Policy

Diverse Docket: African-American Student Loses Bias Suit Against Valparaiso

An African-American nursing student who was dismissed for low grades has lost her racial discrimination suit against Valparaiso University.

November 22, 2015

Leadership & Policy

Students Want Woodrow Wilson’s Name Removed from Princeton

PRINCETON, N.J. ― Students staged a protest Wednesday inside the office of Princeton University’s president, demanding the school remove the name of former school president and U.S. President Woodrow Wilson from programs and buildings over what they said was his racist legacy. Princeton President Christopher Eisgruber told the students he agreed with them that Wilson […]

November 18, 2015

Students

Michigan State University Sued Over Sexual Assault Claims

EAST LANSING, Mich. ― Four Michigan State University students filed a civil rights lawsuit Wednesday accusing the school and its leadership of a slow and inadequate response to their sexual assault complaints. The women said university administrators acted with “deliberate indifference” by failing to properly investigate and by violating school policies meant to prohibit harassment […]

November 18, 2015

Students

Four National Groups to Oppose Laws Allowing Guns on Campuses

IOWA CITY, Iowa ― Four national groups representing college educators and trustees said Thursday they would fight a growing push in state legislatures to allow people to carry concealed guns on campuses. The groups also called for the repeal of measures in several states that already allow for so-called campus carry, arguing that academic institutions […]

November 12, 2015

Faculty & Staff

U. of Illinois OKs Settlement with Professor Over Job Offer

CHICAGO ― The University of Illinois will pay a professor who lost his job offer over a series of anti-Israel tweets $600,000 plus legal costs under an agreement trustees approved Thursday. The agreement settles Steven Salaita’s lawsuit against the university with the school admitting no wrongdoing, the university said. Salaita will not be hired and […]

November 12, 2015

Leadership & Policy

Drexel University Rescinds Honorary Degree for Bill Cosby

PHILADELPHIA ― Drexel University has joined a number of other schools in rescinding an honorary degree awarded to Bill Cosby amid accusations of sexual assault. Drexel President John A. Fry says the misconduct that came to light in a deposition given by Cosby “stands in clear opposition” to the Philadelphia school’s values. He says in […]

November 12, 2015

International

JULIANA STRATTON

JULIANA STRATTON was appointed director of the Center for Public Safety and Justice at the University of Illinois at Chicago. She was executive director of the nonprofit Cook County Justice for Children. Stratton earned a bachelor’s from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and a juris doctor from De-Paul University.

November 4, 2015

Faculty & Staff

South Carolina State Responds to Segregation Lawsuit

South Carolina’s only historically Black public university says that it has immunity and that current and former students who brought a federal court lawsuit alleging that the state operates a segregated system of higher education have no standing to sue.

November 2, 2015

Faculty & Staff

PSYCHE WILLIAMS-FORSON

PSYCHE WILLIAMS-FORSON has been appointed an additional post of chair of the Department of American Studies at the University of Maryland, College Park. She is an associate professor at the University of Maryland, College Park. Williams-Forson earned a bachelor’s from the University of Virginia, and a master’s and a doctorate from the University of Maryland, College Park.

October 20, 2015