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Virginia State Election Board’s Use of Jim Crow-like Student Residency Questionnaire Raises Voting Rights Questions

by Dr. Pamela D. Reed, September 17, 2008

 The New York Timesreports that E. Randall Wertz, the county registrar of voters in Montgomery County, Va., recently issued two outrageous and confusing (at best) press releases with regard to college student voter registration.             The first of the official missives made several patently false claims:  1) the parents of

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Advising Students to the Ph.D.: Are We Equitable in Our Support?

by Dr. Marybeth Gasman, September 15, 2008

A recent report published in Diverse: Issues In Higher Education states that Ph.D. completion varies by gender and race.  Specifically, the 10-year completion rate for Whites was 55 percent, for Hispanics it was 51 percent, for Asian Americans it was 50 percent and for African Americans the rate was only

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Increasing Minority Ph.D. Completion

by diheonline, September 15, 2008

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Black Voter disenfranchisement in 2008: Jim Crow Returns

by Dr. Christopher Metzler, September 11, 2008

The Michigan Messenger reported on Sept. 10, that, “The chairman of the Republican Party in Macomb County, Mich., a key swing county in a key swing state, is planning to use a list of foreclosed homes to block people from voting in the upcoming election as part of the state

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Where are Native Hawaiians and Other Pacific Islanders in Higher Education?

by Dr. J. Kehaulani Kauanui, September 8, 2008

How does your university or college classify Native Hawaiian or other Pacific Islander students and faculty? Most continue to misclassify Pacific peoples within the Asian category, despite the fact that over a decade ago, the federal government issued a policy directive to create the racial category of “Native Hawaiian or

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