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News Roundup

Three-Fold Increase in Bias Incidents at Colorado State U in 2018-2019

Colorado State University (CSU) has experienced a three-fold increase in reports of bias, according to a review of 2018 and 2019 reports by the student-run newspaper, The Collegian, reported The Colorado Sun. In the fall of 2018, the university changed its bias reporting model to track not just hate crimes, but incidents of bias as well. […]

March 30, 2020

COVID-19

U of California Issues Guidance: Don’t Use Term “Chinese Virus”

The University of California (UC) system has issued a ‘guidance document’ advising campus officials, faculty, administrators, students and staff to not use the term “Chinese virus” to describe the coronavirus, according to a copy of the document posted on the UCLA medical school website. “Do not use terms such as ‘Chinese Virus’ or other terms […]

March 24, 2020

Asian American Pacific Islander

The President’s Diversity Values Stink

While there is no vaccine for COVID-19 we do have a vaccine for the ignorance of xenophobia. It’s called knowledge. President Trump can use a little of that right now, instead of shooting from the lip as he did numerous times on live television last week.

March 24, 2020

Students

Pitt’s School of Education’s Department-Wide Book Club Discusses Racial Inequity in Education

At the University of Pittsburgh (Pitt), the School of Education has adopted a mission-vision of creating equity in schools. To practice, teach and link those values of “innovating, agitating and disrupting inequitable educational structures,” Dr. Valerie Kinloch, Dean of the School of Education at Pitt, established a school-wide book club.

March 22, 2020

Latest News

Medieval Studies Struggles Against White Supremacist Elements in the Field

As the International Congress on Medieval Studies (ICMS) planned its 2019 convention in Kalamazoo, Michigan, scholars noticed a common theme among the rejected presentations: “Race and the Medieval,” “Decentering Privilege,” “How to be a White Ally in Medieval Studies 101,” “Globalizing Medieval Pedagogy,” “Translations of Power: Race, Class, and Gender Intersectionality in the Middle Ages” […]

March 18, 2020

News Roundup

First Black Graduate of UVA’s School of Law Dies at 87

John F. Merchant, the first Black graduate at the University of Virginia (UVA) School of Law and the first African American to serve on the United States Golf Association’s executive committee, died earlier this month at 87, reports The Richmond Free Press. Born in 1933, Merchant paved a way out of poverty by pursuing education. […]

March 18, 2020

COVID-19

Asian Students Continue to Face Racism Amid COVID-19 Fears

As fear surrounding COVID-19 continues to grow, Asian students continue to face racist and xenophobic behavior from their peers at various institutions. On Monday, Pipe Dream, the student paper at Binghamton University in New York, reported various recent racist incidents on its campus as a result of the virus. When the Kappa Phi Lambda, an […]

March 17, 2020

News Roundup

Fresh Bias Incident at Syracuse University

Even as student protests continue against racist incidents of late last year at Syracuse University (SU), a new bias incident was reported on campus Saturday, reported CNY Central. In what was the ninth bias incident this year, a flyer about the coronavirus was found vandalized, with racist invective directed at Chinese people, said the university’s […]

March 9, 2020

News Roundup

U of Kentucky Bans a Fan of its Basketball Team for Racial Slur

Yesterday, the University of Kentucky said it is banning a fan of its basketball team from all future events of the team for shouting a racial slur at a visiting team’s supporter during a game, reported NBC News. The university also apologized for the incident. “An incident like the one that took place last night […]

March 6, 2020

News Roundup

50 Years Later, U of Mississippi Awards Diplomas, Apologizes to Arrested Students

This week, fifty years ago, 89 African American students were arrested on the University of Mississippi’s campus while taking part in a peaceful demonstration to protest inequality at the institution. Yesterday, some of those former students returned to the campus to receive a formal apology — and their diplomas — from the university, which is […]

February 26, 2020

African-American

Social-Emotional Learning for Black Students is Ineffective When it is Culture-Blind

Educational professionals ill-prepared to work in culturally relevant ways with students of color in their capacity as mental health professionals (e.g., counselors, social workers, psychologists), and teachers, administrators, and policy makers can contribute to and even exacerbate SEL issues for students of color.

February 6, 2020

Opinion

2020 Vision: The Importance of Focusing on Accompliceship in the New Decade

Over the years, organizations have sought to address, bias, discrimination and racism in the workplace by implementing a variety of diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives with goals to address and fix these issues in order to make their organization’s more inclusive.

February 6, 2020