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Faculty & Staff

Southern University Faculty Bristles Over Faculty Appointment

Southern University at Baton Rouge Chancellor Kofi Lomotey defends hiring of renowned scholar Lisa Delpit for a $120,000-a-year position at a time when staff are being laid off amid budget cuts.

October 3, 2010

African-American

Perspective: Leadership Steps for Bold Change at HBCUs

Rewriting the narrative of HBCUs requires a transformation in the behaviors and culture of many of these institutions.

September 28, 2010

African-American

Pioneering Black Physician Honored in New York City

Celebrated during his lifetime as an anti-slavery leader, Dr. James McCune Smith, the nation’s first professionally trained African-American doctor, fell into obscurity after his death in 1865.

September 26, 2010

Faculty & Staff

PhD Project Tackles Business School Deanship Diversity

After making an indelible impact on business faculty ranks, The PhD Project sets its sights on diversity among business school deans.

September 23, 2010

Students

Special Report: Puerto Rico’s Eleven Campuses, One University, Many Strikes

The two-month-long student strike that shuttered 10 of 11 University of Puerto Rico campuses this year has been settled, but the underlying issues that contributed to the unrest are far from resolved.

September 22, 2010

Sports

Lawsuits Seek to Compensate College Athletes

Ed O’Bannon was a star basketball player at UCLA. His lawsuit seeks a share of the money the NCAA earns from licensing former players’ images in commercials, DVDs, video games and elsewhere. (photo courtesy of UCLA)

September 20, 2010

Leadership & Policy

University of Maryland Names First Asian American To Assume School’s Presidency

Dr. Wallace D. Loh, the provost of the University of Iowa, has been named president of the University of Maryland’s flagship campus in College Park, officials announced this week.

August 18, 2010

Students

Influential Lumina Foundation Drives Higher Education Change, Innovation

The Lumina Foundation has a larger impact on the national debate about how to improve higher education, particularly community colleges, than its financial size suggests it should.

August 17, 2010

Leadership & Policy

Perspective: Huntington University Directs Diversity Movement at Campus, Hometown

Huntington University president realized he couldn’t improve diversity on campus without addressing racial hostility off campus.

August 16, 2010

Students

Opinion: University of Texas at Austin Continues Its Progress on Diversity

In response to a recent Diverse blog by Dr. Ibram Rogers, the chief diversity officer at The University of Texas at Austin elaborates on the recent decision by The University of Texas System Board of Regents to change the name of Simkins Residence Hall.

July 29, 2010

Students

Hometown Hero Clyburn Brings Federal Spending to South Carolina

U.S. House Majority Whip James E. Clyburn brings federal financial support to better Morris College and its surrounding communities in his native Sumter, S.C. This is the second of two features DiverseEducation.com has published this week on Clyburn.

July 22, 2010

Faculty & Staff

UC-Berkeley Mathematician Dr. David Blackwell Dead at 91

Dr. David Blackwell, a pre-eminent mathematician and the first Black scholar in the National Academy of Sciences, has died. He was 91.

July 20, 2010