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Students

Guillermo: Michelle Obama Delivers Message of Diversity and Hope

If it weren’t for the FBI Director James Comey’s actions, the political highlight of last week would have been Michelle Obama’s speech at Wake Forest University.

October 30, 2016

Opinion

Standing Rock Standoff Just Latest in Pipeline Crises

The struggle at Standing Rock is about the water, the air, the Earth and, in the end, it is about our bodies and their dehumanization by the state and private capital.

October 30, 2016

Students

Fraternity Chapter in Arkansas Suspended After Blackface Photo Surfaces

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. ― An Arkansas fraternity chapter has been suspended and one of its members expelled after a photo surfaced of the fraternity member wearing apparent blackface. The Sigma Tau Gamma fraternity suspended its chapter at the University of Central Arkansas on Saturday after learning about the photo. The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette reports that the […]

October 30, 2016

Students

University of Kansas Group to Explore Issues Faced by Religious Minorities

LAWRENCE, Kan. ― The University of Kansas Student Senate is forming a group to explore issues members of religious minorities face on campus. The committee will create a survey to gauge students’ accommodations for religious holidays and access to reflection spaces on campus, student body president Stephonn Alcorn said Thursday in a letter to student […]

October 30, 2016

Students

Brigham Young University Stops Honor-code Reviews of Sex Abuse Victims

SALT LAKE CITY ― Students at Brigham Young University who report sexual assault will no longer be investigated for possible violations of the strict honor code that bans drinking and premarital sex, the Mormon-owned school announced in a major reversal to a practice that drew widespread scrutiny. The college on Wednesday accepted several recommendations made […]

October 27, 2016

Asian American Pacific Islander

UCLA Celebrates Public Access to Key Japanese-American Incarceration Collection

Now, educators and the general public can view documents and legal memoranda retrieved during Aiko Herzig-Yoshinaga’s years of research and gathering evidence proving that the mass incarceration of Japanese-Americans was unnecessary.

October 25, 2016

Women

College of Southern Idaho Settles VP’s Lawsuit for $650K

TWIN FALLS, Idaho ― The College of Southern Idaho has agreed to pay a former vice president $650,000 to settle a discrimination lawsuit. The Times-News reports in a story on Tuesday that the settlement with Edit Szanto was made through the college’s insurer, the Idaho Counties Risk Management Program. The college in a statement denies […]

October 25, 2016

Opinion

Flirting with Facism, Dancing with Apartheid

The University of Arizona, where I teach, is probably little different than most universities; there’s little support for the GOP nominee here.

October 23, 2016

Sports

Expert: Non-Whites Must Flex Growing Political Muscle Now

Based on longstanding efforts to squelch their voice at the polls, people of color in the U.S. must prepare for the political power they stand to gain through population increase—or risk being ruled by a White minority.

October 23, 2016

Faculty & Staff

We Don’t Have a ‘Diversity’ Problem in Education

We do not have a diversity problem. What we have is a diversity symptom. Institutionalized White supremacy is the problem.

October 19, 2016

Disabilties

Ex-Wichita State University Worker Files Discrimination Suit

WICHITA, Kan. ― A former Wichita State University administrative assistant filed a federal lawsuit accusing the university of discrimination under the Americans with Disabilities Act. Vicki Huntoon said in the lawsuit that she was fired from the university because of her generalized anxiety disorder after two doctors diagnosed the disorder and she requested to work […]

October 19, 2016

Students

San Francisco State University Slams Posters Attacking Professor

SAN FRANCISCO ― San Francisco State University officials are condemning posters accusing a professor specializing in Palestinian studies of collaborating with terrorists. The posters by the David Horowitz Freedom Center single out an ethnic studies associate professor Rabab Ibrahim Abdulhadi, The San Francisco Chronicle reported Tuesday. University President Les Wong sent a campus-wide email Friday […]

October 18, 2016