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Sports

Diversity a Winner at Olympics

If you believe in diversity like I do, the Olympic Games set a really high bar.

August 21, 2016

African-American

Journalism Giant George Curry Dies

George E. Curry, an award-winning veteran journalist and a fierce advocate for the Black press, died from an apparent heart attack on Saturday evening. He was 69.

August 21, 2016

African-American

Sheriff Clarke’s Roots in Controversy Run Deep

Diverse reporter offers first-hand account of when the Milwaukee County conservative firebrand began implementing practices that reflect the mindset of the sheriff who says, “Stop trying to fix the police. Fix the ghetto.”

August 21, 2016

Students

Senior Lecturer: Milwaukee Uprising Illustrates Need for Socialism

Senior lecturer Ahmed Mbalia says the violence that unfolded in Milwaukee in the wake of the fatal police shooting of Sylville K. Smith is symptomatic of a failed capitalistic system that needs to be replaced by socialism.

August 18, 2016

Students

‘A Different World’ Still Pulls Fans into HBCU Experience

If Dr. Bill Cosby’s greatest contribution to the Black community was his creation of The Cosby Show, then the spin-off to the popular 1980s television sitcom about a fictitious HBCU in Virginia almost certainly comes in close behind.

August 18, 2016

Students

National Science Foundation Awards $2.9 Million to National Diversity-Serving Organizations

The National Science Foundation has awarded to $2.9 million to several national engineering diversity organizations in a collaborative effort to increase the number of underrepresented engineering faculty across all institutional types. The organizations Great Minds in STEM (GMiS), American Indian Science and Engineering Society (AISES), MAES: Latinos in Science and Engineering , National Society of […]

August 17, 2016

Students

HBCUs Still Providing Students Extra Nudge Toward Success

While still maintaining high standards and stellar graduation rates, some HBCUs have created programs that allow promising students who may not meet the traditional requirements to enter and flourish.

August 17, 2016

Students

Scholar: Rankings of High School Systems Follows Lines of Economic Disparity

WalletHub — a personal finance website — has released data comparing the quality of education in the 50 states and the District of Columbia in its annual report “States with the Best & Worst School Systems.”

August 17, 2016

African-American

Eli Jones Inducted into Ph.D. Project Hall of Fame

Texas A&M University Mays Business School Dean Eli Jones was honored twice recently by two national organizations for his work as a role model and mentor.

August 16, 2016

Leadership & Policy

HBCUs Struggling to Find Stability at Top

As the new fiscal year began July 1 for most of the nation’s institutions, at least 10 HBCUs were looking for permanent chief executives, according to data collected by the Washington, D.C.-based Thurgood Marshall College Fund.

August 16, 2016

Faculty & Staff

Diverse Conversations: Professoriate Still Lacking in Diversity

According to the National Center for Educational Statistics, only 16 percent of full-time professors at postsecondary institutions are minorities.

August 15, 2016

Students

Report: Americans More Concerned About Wealth-based Achievement Gaps Than Racial Inequities

Americans are more concerned about—and more supportive of—proposals to close wealth-based achievement gaps among students than they are about Black-White or Hispanic-White gaps, according to a new report.

August 14, 2016