Dr. Ibram X. KendiSUNY College at Oneonta professor Ibram X. Kendi discusses and proposes ideas and programs to further diversify higher education and make it more relevant to all of its students.OpinionFlawed Attacks on the HBCU IdeaRalph Jones Jr., a 16-year-old academic prodigy from Atlanta, recently shocked some Americans when they learned that he choose to enroll at historically Black Florida A&M University instead of Harvard, Stanford, Cornell and more than 40 other elite traditionally White institutions. Critical questions and comments were ringing in public forums. Why would this African-American choose […]October 17, 2010OpinionProtestors Nationwide Rally Against Assassination of Public EducationShould the federal government be spending trillions on the military abroad while cutting social services like education at home? Should education continue sprinting down the path of privatization? On Thursday, thousands of people, particularly college students and faculty across the nation, marched, rallied and held panel discussions to respond with a resounding negative to those […]October 6, 2010OpinionNew Rainbow of Islamic Knowledge and Religious Diversity: Zaytuna CollegeThere are more than 500 colleges and universities in the United States that pledge an affiliation to the Christian churches. There are at least nine Buddhist colleges and universities, and three Jewish institutions of higher education. There is at least one Hindu institution, Hindu University of America in Orlando. Zaytuna College in Berkeley, Calif., founded […]September 16, 2010OpinionBiased Book: An Oxymoron?Brooklyn College is currently hovering under a small, but growing cloud of criticism for requiring its incoming freshmen to read a “polemical” book that “inculcates” students with a particular political perspective. Students have already read Brooklyn College English Professor Moustafa Bayoumi’s How Does It Feel To Be a Problem?: Being Young and Arab in America. […]September 1, 2010OpinionA Pleasant Research Tour of Multiple HBCUsOver the last few weeks, I have had the pleasure of visiting several historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs). I conducted research for a book on the Black Campus Movement, the late 1960s/early 1970s Black student struggle to diversify and make higher education relevant. I gathered a wealth of materials for my study and relished […]August 23, 2010OpinionKKK Leader’s Name Erased, But What About UT’s Confederate StatuesLast week, the University of Texas System Board of Regents voted unanimously to change the name of Simkins Residence Hall at the University of Texas at Austin. In defiance of the 1954 Brown ruling that deemed unconstitutional educational segregation, UT leaders named the newly constructed residence hall after William Stewart Simkins, the deceased longtime UT […]July 21, 2010OpinionLatest Scientific Racist Theory: Africans Intellectually Inferior Due to Prevalence of DiseasesSince the dawn of modern science and the concomitant expansion of global inequalities among nations, genders, ethnicities and races, scientists have sought to explain these inequalities, dancing around their true foundations —poverty, power and perspective. In the last 40 years, historically silenced groups of intellectuals have pushed poverty, power and perspective as explanations of inequality, […]July 12, 2010OpinionExposing the Myth: HBCUs and the Real WorldThousands of students are preparing to attend historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) in August. But some of those students are on the receiving end of blows of ire from friends and family for choosing an HBCU. The loudest critique — HBCUs are not representative of the real world. As someone who attended an HBCU […]June 27, 2010OpinionChallenging Educational Racism Devoid of Racial LanguageThe California Assembly recently approved a bill that would give the state’s public universities the opportunity to consider race, gender and other demographics when they admit students. AB2047, which passed on a 44-24 vote, is now headed to the Senate. Democratic Assemblyman Ed Hernandez introduced the bill to address the education gap in California. Latino and […]June 9, 2010OpinionDigging Deeper for the Roots of Curricula Reforms in the SouthwestA few weeks after Arizona approved a controversial K-12 curriculum change, its sidekick in Texas followed suit. While Arizona banned Ethnic Studies, slamming a controversial king on the table, Texas has pulled out an ace—refashioning its entire social studies curriculum. In Texas, the changes will affect almost 5 million public school students every year over […]May 25, 2010Previous PagePage 4 of 6Next Page