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Leadership & Policy

University of Texas to Consider Taking Klansman’s Name Off Dorm

The president of the University of Texas will ask the school’s regents to remove the name of a former professor and Ku Klux Klan member from a campus dormitory.

July 14, 2010

Students

Amid Criticism, Tennessee HBCU President Announces Retirement

Citing family and personal reasons, Dr. Melvin N. Johnson announced that he would be stepping down as president of Tennessee State University at the end of the year.

July 13, 2010

Asian American Pacific Islander

Spreading the Word on Asian American Diversity

Kiran Ahuja, a former litigator and an alumnus of a historically Black college, leads the White House Initiative on Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders.

June 22, 2010

Latinx

Georgia Colleges Working To Verify Students’ Status

Georgia’s 35 colleges and universities are working to carry out a mandate from their governing body and verify the citizenship status of nearly 316,000 students by mid-August.

June 20, 2010

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Author Spotlight: Dr. Joyce A. Ladner

Dr. Joyce A. Ladner, author of The Death of White Sociology: Essays on Race and Culture, published by Black Classic Press, has written numerous books on education, urban issues, public policy and transracial adoption.

June 17, 2010

African-American

South Carolina State President Ousted After Two Years at Helm

The board of South Carolina State University has fired the president of the historically Black college after just two years at the helm.

June 15, 2010

African-American

Thurgood Marshall’s Legacy Takes Center Stage in Washington

Drawing upon an extraordinary legal career and an affiliation with Howard University, the one-man play “Thurgood”, starring actor Laurence Fishburne, has opened in the nation’s capital where much of the heroic life of the late Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall unfolded.

June 8, 2010

Students

Becoming a Force for Diversity and Inclusion

Rosemary E. Kilkenny is Georgetown University’s vice president for institutional diversity and equity, a position that was created for her in 2006, and she has become the university’s most visible cheerleader for diversity and inclusion.

June 7, 2010

Faculty & Staff

Kagan Known for Openness, Assertiveness at Harvard

Elena Kagan, President Barack Obama’s pick for the Supreme Court, gets high marks as a peacemaker for the fractious faculty of Harvard Law School while she was dean. But even her supporters here say she also has a temper.

May 20, 2010

Leadership & Policy

Thurgood Marshall Connection Invites Admiration, Criticism of Supreme Court Nominee

While conservatives have criticized Elena Kagan’s relationship with the late justice, for whom she clerked in 1987 to 1988, some liberals and African-Americans have praised Kagan for her connection to the pioneering jurist.

May 18, 2010

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Senate Panel Advances Law Professor’s Bid for Federal Appellate Judgeship

University of California-Berkeley professor Goodwin Liu, who is President Barack Obama’s pick for a San Francisco-based appeals court, survived his first Senate test Thursday but still faces strong Republican opposition.

May 13, 2010

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Supreme Court Nominee’s Rapid Ascent Tied Largely to Career in Academe

Elena Kagan’s reputation for bringing together liberals and conservatives on Harvard’s notoriously fractious law school faculty appears to hold the key to her rapid rise. She could one day play a similar role on an ideologically divided Supreme Court.

May 10, 2010