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Faculty & Staff

Welcome Aboard!

Please join the staff in welcoming Donald Washington as the Executive Director of Advertising for Diverse: Issues In Higher Education. His extensive management experience in image/branding/recruitment advertising has led to building successful business enterprise opportunities. Donald has worked for three major media companies including NPR, The Washington Post and The Chronicle of Higher Education. In […]

January 27, 2015

African-American

University of Colorado Humanities Classes Dwindle

Enrollment in arts and humanities classes at the University of Colorado is dwindling, mirroring a national trend that professors are trying to grasp.

December 9, 2014

African-American

Poet, Professor Claudia Emerson Dies at 57

Claudia Emerson, a Pulitzer Prize-winning poet and professor at Virginia Commonwealth University, died early Thursday morning at age 57 after a long battle with cancer, the university said.

December 4, 2014

Students

Virginia Commonwealth University Dept. Chair Themes Art Around Hair

Comb through the life story of Sonya Clark and it’s easy to see how she came to craft works of art themed around hair, a provocative and politicized thread of identity.

November 5, 2014

Faculty & Staff

Toni Morrison’s Papers to be Housed at Princeton University

Toni Morrison donates her papers to Princeton University’s Permanent Library Collection.

October 21, 2014

Faculty & Staff

‘Authentic’ Blackness Debate Continues

The fact is that most of us who are Black, regardless of socioeconomic status or educational level, will be confronted with the reality that our skin color will render us vulnerable to the fact that we are the “other” in the eyes of some Whites and some other non-Blacks.

August 7, 2014

Community Colleges

Bar None? Not After $1M Gift for Texas Campus Pub

Wealthy alumni usually finance new football stadiums or libraries at their old colleges. Tom and Leti Contreras are donating nearly $1 million to build a bar.

July 27, 2014

Students

Ruby Dee’s Legacy of Activism, Acting Mourned

For Ruby Dee, acting and activism were not contradictory things. They were inseparable and they were intertwined.

June 12, 2014

Home

Welcome Aboard!

Please join us in welcoming three new members to the Diverse: Issues In Higher Education team: Catherine Morris, Shannon Lambert and Elena Maconaughey.

June 10, 2014

Faculty & Staff

Career Services Associate Director of Career & Pur

For more information and to apply visit: jobs.olemiss.edu. Only applicants who apply online will be considered. Review of applications will begin immediately and continue until position is filled or until an adequate applicant pool is established. http://tisch.nyu.edu/faculty/faculty-positions

June 8, 2014

Students

Takeover Triggers Debate Over Georgia State University Radio Station

The staff at Georgia State University’s student-run radio station has a go-to April Fool’s joke. They dream up a buyer for the university’s FCC license—a New Age station or maybe talk radio.

June 1, 2014

Students

Scholars Reflect on Passing of Maya Angelou

Legendary poet, pioneering civil rights activist mourned by many in the academy and beyond.

May 28, 2014