Tag: Affirmative Action: Page 9

Leadership & Policy

Soccer Players Suspended for a Match after Blackface Incident

Five members of the women’s soccer team at a private Christian university in Washington state were suspended for one match Wednesday after a social media post surfaced showing them dressed in blackface and afro wigs.

September 3, 2015

African-American

Black Lives Matter Movement Crucial in Drawing Attention to Issues

It has been all but impossible to not to notice the Black Lives Matter movement

September 2, 2015

African-American

Study Outlines Benefits of Refinancing Student Loans

Recent college graduates should consider refinancing their student loans as one of the many options that might help them to save money in the long term.

August 26, 2015

African-American

Former Spanish Teacher in Leading Role in the FBI

As a schoolteacher in the late 1980s, Diego Rodriguez applied to join the FBI, but when it called hoping to recruit a Spanish speaker as part of a diversity drive, his response was, “I’m really happy teaching. Thanks, but no thanks.”

July 28, 2015

Faculty & Staff

With Africa Tour, Obama Establishes Himself as the “Diversity” President

And you thought President Obama singing “Amazing Grace” at the Rev. Clementa Pinckney’s wake in Charleston was a bold statement of his identity as an African- American president.

July 26, 2015

Faculty & Staff

Feds Investigate Hiring Practices at Police Department in Kentucky

The U.S. Department of Justice says it is investigating hiring practices at the Bowling Green Police Department.

July 14, 2015

Students

South Carolina’s Action on Flag Leads NCAA to Lift Ban

As a result of the South Carolina’s decision to remove the Confederate battle flag from its capitol grounds, the NCAA is ending a nearly 15-year ban on the state playing host to sanctioned championship events.

July 9, 2015

Home

Baylor University Lifts Ban on ‘Homosexual Acts’

Baylor University, the world’s largest Baptist university, dropped language in its sexual conduct policy that banned “homosexual acts.”

July 8, 2015

Home

Baylor University Lifts Ban on ‘Homosexual Acts’

Baylor University, the world’s largest Baptist university, dropped language in its sexual conduct policy that banned “homosexual acts.”

July 8, 2015

African-American

University of California’s Fall 2015 Freshman Numbers Sound an Alarm

Has an exodus of Blacks from the state impacted higher education?

July 5, 2015

African-American

CIA Announces Plan to Do Better on Diversity

WASHINGTON, Jun 30, 2015 (AP) – The CIA is failing to hire and promote enough minorities despite years of vowing to do so, Director John Brennan said Tuesday, announcing a new effort to tackle the problem of a largely white workforce whose lack of diversity he says is undercutting the spy agency’s intelligence mission. Brennan […]

July 1, 2015

Latinx

Out for Justice

Thrust in limelight by Freddie Gray case, Marilyn Mosby and husband Nick say HBCU helped prepare them to lead in crisis.

June 4, 2015