Recently I collaborated with a colleague on a presentation of a paper. In preparing for the presentation she was concerned about offering a theoretical discussion of our work because she thought it would alienate the audience. Her rationale for this perspective was based in her belief

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Too Fat to Graduate? Lincoln University’s Fitness Requirements

by Dr. Marybeth Gasman, November 30, 2009

News media recently reported that Lincoln University in Pennsylvania was requiring their students who have a body-mass index (BMI) over 30 to pass a physical fitness course in order to graduate. This policy, which has been in existence for a few years, is just now getting media attention and is

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‘See What Had Happened Was…’

by Dr. Murali Balaji, November 30, 2009

Lincoln's fall semester ends in early December, which means Thanksgiving is just a brief respite before the rush of the last week of classes.Over the past few days, I've been getting my share of e-mails from students concerned about passing my courses. When the semester began, I made my expectations

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Understanding Identity Politics in a Classroom

by Dr. Murali Balaji, November 19, 2009

When I taught at Penn State and Temple universities, my classrooms were mostly White save for a handful of Black and Brown faces.The toughest thing for me to come to grips with was the fact that I was a person of color teaching students who had rarely interacted with minority

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Creating an Army of Latino College-goers

by Deborah Santiago, November 18, 2009

I recently attended a football game and was struck by the assertive approaches by military recruiters to engage the males in attendance. It reminded me of several focus groups we held with Latino students across the country and their comments that the military was more aggressive

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