Tag: Gender: Page 6

Faculty & Staff

DAVID GOMEZ

DAVID GOMEZ has been named president of Hostos Community College of the City University of New York. He was interim president of Hostos Community College. Gomez earned a bachelor’s from the University of Albany, State University of New York, and a master’s and a doctorate from Columbia University.

July 30, 2015

Students

Charleston Tragedy Inspires S.C. Diversity Programs

Duke Energy and its employees support new diversity initiatives led by Furman University’s Riley Institute in the wake of the fatal June 17 shootings at Mother Emanuel A.M.E. Church in Charleston.

July 28, 2015

Sports

Injured Football Player to Return to Towson University

Towson University must allow a football player to return to the team after a successful liver transplant and an “amazing recovery,” a federal judge in Maryland has ruled.

July 26, 2015

Home

Who Am I?

Summer has brought with it a perfect storm of controversies over “identity.” It began with Bruce Jenner, the iconic Olympian, really coming out as the transgendered and glammed-up Caitlyn on the cover of the July Issue of Vanity Fair. It will end with people still tweeting over Rachel Dolezal, the deposed NAACP chapter president in Spokane, Washington, who grew up a blond girl, attended and sued Howard University and maintains that she identifies as “black.”

July 22, 2015

Home

Camp Girls Learn to Code from the Pros

When organizers of a summer camp that includes a number of disadvantaged high-school girls asked about career plans, none of the girls talked about computer programming.

July 22, 2015

Students

Va. Faith-based School Drops Same-Sex Marriage Hiring Ban

Eastern Mennonite University says it will no longer discriminate against job prospects who are in same-sex marriages.

July 21, 2015

Faculty & Staff

Lawyers in Fired Ohio State Band Director Lawsuit Reined In

COLUMBUS, Ohio ― A judge in the gender discrimination lawsuit of Ohio State University’s fired marching band director says he’s intervening in the evidence-gathering process because of “discouraging” behavior by the lawyers.

July 15, 2015

Faculty & Staff

LEAH BORNSTEIN

LEAH BORNSTEIN has been named president of Aims Community College in Colorado, effective August 1. She was president of Coconino Community College in Arizona. Bornstein earned an associate and bachelor’s from Bradford College in Massachusetts, a master’s from the University of Vermont and a doctorate from the University of Denver.

July 13, 2015

Faculty & Staff

ANDREA LEWIS MILLER

ANDREA LEWIS MILLER has been appointed president of Lemoyne-Owen College in Tennessee, effective September 1. She was chancellor of Baton Rouge Community College. Miller earned a bachelor’s from Lemoyne-Owen, and a master’s and a doctorate from Atlanta University.

July 13, 2015

African-American

Symbolic Gestures Distracting from Black Community’s Key Issues

Many times such nominal gestures wind up having insufficient funds when it’s time to cash them in. We cannot lose sight of the importance of substance.

July 6, 2015

Home

Study: Limited Support for Transgender Census Category

Researchers find that among transgender individuals there may be limited support for the inclusion of a transgender category in the U.S. Census.

July 1, 2015

Students

Rethinking Remediation

Community College of Baltimore County seeing much success with innovative remedial education programs.

July 1, 2015