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Community Colleges

Intel Putting $5M Toward Georgia Tech Diversity Push

The Georgia Institute of Technology will receive $5 million over the next five years from Intel to increase the number of minorities and women going into engineering and computer science.

August 4, 2015

Sports

Georgetown Track Coach Resigns Following Investigations

Georgetown announced the resignation of the director of its track and field and cross country programs following investigations of reports of hazing and sexual misconduct.

August 2, 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

Students

MILTON OVERTON

MILTON OVERTON has been appointed director of intercollegiate athletics at Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University. He was senior associate athletics director at the University of Alabama. Overton earned a bachelor’s and two master’s degrees from the University of Oklahoma.

July 28, 2015

Students

Tony Brown Going into Black Journalists’ Hall of Fame

Tony Brown, a renowned journalist and educator, has been selected for induction into the National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ) Hall of Fame, the organization announced Wednesday.

July 22, 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

Health

Meharry, Vanderbilt Medical Schools to Expand AIDS Research

Nashville’s two medical schools, along with the state of Tennessee, have established the Tennessee Center for AIDS Research.

July 15, 2015

Faculty & Staff

SHEILA RADFORD-HILL

SHEILA RADFORD-HILL has been named chief diversity officer of Dominican University in Illinois. Radford-Hill was executive director of the Diversity Center at Luther College in Iowa. She earned a bachelor’s from DePaul University, a master’s from the University of Pennsylvania and a doctorate from Columbia Commonwealth University.

July 13, 2015

Students

Fraternity Tied to Racist Chant Hires Diversity Director

The fraternity connected to a racist video featuring University of Oklahoma students that surfaced this spring announced that it has hired a director of diversity and inclusion.

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

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STELLA FLORES

STELLA FLORES has been named director of access and equity in the Steinhardt Institute for Higher Education Policy and an associate professor of higher education at New York University. She was associate professor of public policy and higher education at Vanderbilt University. Flores earned a bachelor’s from Rice University, a master’s from The University of Texas at Austin, and a master’s and a doctorate from Harvard University.

July 1, 2015

Faculty & Staff

MICHAEL KIM

MICHAEL KIM has been named director of the School of Music at the University of Minnesota, effective July 31. He is acting associate vice president (external) and dean of the School of Music at Brandon University. Kim earned a bachelor’s from the University of Calgary, and a master’s and a doctorate from The Juilliard School.

June 29, 2015