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Students

Navy Professor Resigns After Racy Photo Inquiry

A U.S. Naval War College professor has resigned following an investigation into a complaint that he took a racy photo that wound up online.

August 11, 2014

Latinx

Fired Band Director Says He Was Repairing Ohio State University’s Vulgar Culture

Jonathan Waters said he was working to fix a vulgar culture “in dire need of change” before he was dismissed last week, he said in a document released by his attorney.

July 31, 2014

Latinx

Millennials Even More Left of Center Than in 2012

Even political pollsters have joined in the ongoing critique of this age demographic.

July 30, 2014

African-American

Rethinking President Obama’s My Brother’s Keeper Initiative

The initiative lacks components that would aggressively respond to the pervasiveness of institutional and structural racism that yet persists in America.

July 28, 2014

Students

Hine Awarded 2013 National Humanities Medal at White House

Dr. Darlene Clark Hine, a pioneering scholar in the field of African American women’s history, was among a group of individuals honored Monday at the White House.

July 28, 2014

Students

Fierce Feminist Tanisha Ford Brings Style to Her Scholarship

The University of Massachusetts Amherst assistant professor is strictly 21st century in her approach to writing and teaching about the lives of Black women in the U.S., Britain and the African diaspora.

July 6, 2014

African-American

The Redskins Fight and the Legacy of Richard Oakes

It’s amazing how even some young people at the school, and even some regular folks in the city I asked at random, had no idea who Oakes was.

June 23, 2014

Leadership & Policy

Randolph-Macon College’s Less Heralded Congressional Candidate Puts Education Atop Agenda

Democratic nominee Jack Trammell will take on fellow Randolph-Macon professor David Brat, who barreled into the political spotlight with an upset of incumbent Eric Cantor, in Virginia’s seventh district race.

June 17, 2014

Students

Scholars Reflect on Passing of Maya Angelou

Legendary poet, pioneering civil rights activist mourned by many in the academy and beyond.

May 28, 2014

Latinx

Isla Vista Rampage: Has Higher Ed Dropped the Ball, Again?

UC Santa Barbara-area killings make it clear that colleges must stay vigilant on mental health issues.

May 26, 2014

Leadership & Policy

Dream Catcher

In this issue, Diverse salutes Dr. Jerry Sue Thornton, the influential former president of Cuyahoga Community College.

May 22, 2014

Faculty & Staff

Social Activism Loses ‘Peaceful Warrior’ Vincent Harding

He was a renaissance man. A productive scholar, who wrote about the Civil Rights Movement, not as a distant outsider but as one who was intimately involved in the day-to-day struggles of Blacks in the American South.

May 20, 2014