Jessica Ruf (EDU)Jessica Ruf is a writer and copy editor for the print magazine at Diverse. She can be reached at [email protected].News RoundupTemple U Hires Outside Law Firm To Probe Leadership at Its College of EducationTemple University has hired an outside law firm to investigate the leadership of Dr. Gregory M. Anderson, dean of Temple’s College of Education and Human Development, following faculty complaints, reports The Philadelphia Inquirer. In July, about half of the college’s 70 full-time faculty signed a letter in which they alerted the university to the dean’s […]January 19, 2021News RoundupCarnegie Mellon Hires Inaugural Vice Provost for Diversity, Equity and InclusionFollowing a national search, Carnegie Mellon University has appointed Dr. Wanda Heading-Grant its inaugural vice provost for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion and chief diversity officer. Currently vice president for DEI at the University of Vermont, Heading-Grant will also hold a faculty appointment as a Distinguished Service Professor in the Heinz College of Information Systems and […]January 19, 2021News RoundupUniversity of Delaware Marching Band to Escort Biden and Harris to White House Following InaugurationThe University of Delaware’s marching band has received the honor of escorting President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris to the White House after they are sworn into office on inauguration day tomorrow, reports 3 CBS Philly. “I didn’t realize that I would end up marching in a presidential inauguration, a historical one for […]January 19, 2021News RoundupFirst Black Faculty Member at Memphis State University Dead at 86Memphis trailblazer and veteran educator Dr. Miriam DeCosta-Willis has died, reports WMC 5 news. She was 86. DeCosta made history by becoming the first Black faculty member at Memphis State University in 1966 — the same school that had denied her admission nine years prior. DeCosta-Willis spent 40 years in education and taught at LeMoyne […]January 8, 2021COVID-19Furloughs To End at University of Arizona After Recent CARES Act FundingFurloughs will come to an end at University of Arizona, thanks to recent CARES Act funding, reports News 4 Tucson. Of the $115 million Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey designated to three Arizona universities, $46 million will go to University of Arizona. In April, the university released a furlough plan, affecting thousands of staff and faculty, […]January 8, 2021News RoundupU of Michigan Students Offer Free, Online Tutoring to Struggling K-12 StudentsUniversity of Michigan students have created a free online tutoring service, called MiTutor, as a way to volunteer their time and help struggling K-12 students from low-income families, reports Michigan Live. “We all know that lower-income families have been hit harder than anyone by the pandemic,” said Alina Bardwell, a UM sophomore who came up […]January 8, 2021News RoundupUniversity College London Apologizes For Role in Eugenics MovementUniversity College London (UCL) issued a formal apology for its role in propagating eugenics and has promised to improve conditions for disabled staff and students as well as emphasize the malevolent nature of the pseudoscience in its curriculum, reports The Guardian. “UCL acknowledges with deep regret that it played a fundamental role in the development, […]January 8, 2021News RoundupFootball Coach Fired After Attacking Stacey Abrams on TwitterThe University of Tennessee at Chattanooga has fired one of its football coaches after he posted a racist tweet targeting Stacey Abrams and falsely accusing her of election fraud on Twitter, reports MSN. “Congratulations to the state GA and Fat Albert @staceyabrams because you have truly shown America the true works of cheating in an […]January 7, 2021News RoundupCreighton University Joins Growing List of Schools Divesting From Fossil FuelsOmaha’s Creighton University will phase out all investments in the fossil fuel industry from its $587 million endowment within the next 10 years. Instead it will channel investments toward sustainable energy, reports the National Catholic Reporter. The decision comes more than two years after students began pressuring the Jesuit university to join the growing list […]January 7, 2021News RoundupTheatre Fellowship at Columbia U To Support Emerging, Diverse ProducersThe diversity-focused Front Row Productions has established a fellowship at Columbia University School of the Arts Theatre Program to support emerging theatrical producers and increase the diversity of Broadway’s professional theater industry, reports DC Metro Theatre Arts. Founded by multiple Tony Award nominees and Olivier Award winners Stephen Byrd and Alia Jones-Harvey, Front Row Productions […]January 7, 2021Previous PagePage 10 of 43Next Page
