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Grants & Gifts

The AMERICAN COUNCIL ON EDUCATION has received $250,000 from the Wal-Mart Foundation to help support ACE’s Initiative for Severely Injured Veterans, which helps veterans from Iraq and Afghanistan pursue a college education. COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY TEACHERS COLLEGE (N.Y.) has received a $20 MILLION gift, the largest in its history, from John and Pat Klingenstein to further […]

April 2, 2008

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Current LGBT Students Find Sororities, Fraternities More Hospitable Than Past Graduates

While there have always been members of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community in fraternities and sororities, it is only in the last decade that they have been acknowledged.

April 2, 2008

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When Diversity Training Goes Awry

Done incorrectly, what should be a useful exercise can and has backfired on some colleges and universities.

January 23, 2008

Latinx

Transformations Through

In a day when top radio show hosts hurl sexist and racist remarks at women college athletes and White college students don Afro wigs and gold teeth at parties, it is clear that many are in need of diversity training.

January 23, 2008

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When Diversity Training Goes Awry

Done incorrectly, what should be a useful exercise can and has backfired on some colleges and universities.

January 23, 2008

LGBTQ+

Columbia Law School’s Sexuality and Gender Law Clinic Sets a Precedent

So far this year, Columbia University Law School’s Sexuality and Gender Law Clinic has secured political asylum in the U.S. for a gay Jamaican man and for a lesbian from Turkmenistan, who feared persecution for her sexual orientation and political opinions in that mostly Muslim country. These are just two of the cases being handled by the fledgling clinic embarking on an emerging field — sexuality and gender law.

November 24, 2007

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In Brief: Schools Chief Tells Principals No Assemblies for Ethnic Groups

Complaints about a meeting to improve Black and Hispanic test scores leads to mandate to end assemblies for ethnic groups; the incidence of hate crimes rose 8 percent last year, according to FBI; Jackson State University student is missing.

November 20, 2007

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University of Delaware Halts Controversial Diversity Program

DOVER, Del. Amid growing public scrutiny, the University of Delaware last week halted a controversial residence hall program that critics say tried to force students to accept university-approved ideologies on moral and social issues.

November 4, 2007

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University of Delaware Accused of Indoctrinating Students

DOVER Del. The University of Delaware has come under fire by a civil rights group that claims the school is trying to force dormitory residents to adopt university-approved ideologies on moral and social issues.

October 30, 2007

LGBTQ+

Perspectives: Hanging Nooses, Hate Pose a National Health Risk

Addressing, preventing and eradicating hate is not just a “Black issue,” it is a human rights issue, says this group of psychology faculty from Pepperdine University. If we, as a nation, fail to address it, we are at risk for regression, for descending into a previous state of unhealthy functioning. Choice and free will are important concepts in mental health. What is our will as a nation? Do we choose to ignore these signs of impending illness and let the sickness of racism ravage the soul of our nation?

October 30, 2007

LGBTQ+

Follow-up Planned to 1968 Race Relations Report

CAMBRIDGE, Md. Four decades ago, a federal advisory panel released a prominent report on the causes of race riots in seven U.S. cities. Now, researchers are planning a follow-up.

October 24, 2007

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New Guide to Find Most Gay-friendly Campuses

Colleges and universities are increasingly finding ways to provide safe and welcoming environments to students of all sexual orientations.

October 9, 2007