Jessica Ruf (EDU)Jessica Ruf is a writer and copy editor for the print magazine at Diverse. She can be reached at [email protected].Asian American Pacific IslanderLearn How This Woman’s Journey Has Made Her ‘a Pillar of Stanford’s Asian American Community’As the child of Chinese immigrants, Cindy Ng wanted to fit in. She wanted to, as Andrew Yang puts it, “out-American the Americans.” That would change though as Ng entered college at the University of California, Berkeley in the early ’70s. It was there she became “sidetracked by activism.”May 28, 2021TenureNikole Hannah-Jones No Longer Has Immediate Tenure at UNC. What Happened?After graduating from the University of North Carolina’s (UNC) Hussman School of Journalism and Media in 2003, Nikole Hannah-Jones could not have possibly known that her alma mater would one day ask her to return as a faculty member. She also could not have known the controversy that appointment would bring.May 20, 2021Community CollegesNational Competition Showcases STEM Capabilities of Community College StudentsCommunity college students will flex their STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) skills on a national stage with the return of the Community College Innovation Challenge after it was canceled due to COVID-19 last year. Last week, the NSF and AACC named 10 final teams for their proposed solutions to timely issues such as the pandemic, policing behavior and climate change.May 17, 2021Latest NewsPreserving the Past and Building the Future: Meet Historian Rhonda GonzalesDr. Rhonda Gonzales has one eye on the past and the other on the future. As a professor and chair of the Department of History at the University of Texas, San Antonio (UTSA), Gonzales is passionate about sharing the diverse histories and cultures of societies in pre-colonial Africa for future generations. Meanwhile, as an administrator, she is also passionate about how we envision the future for first-generation students.May 9, 2021Latest NewsHigher Ed’s Most Common Rationale for Diversity Favors White Students More than BlackAsk a university administrator why they value diversity and they’ll likely give you one of two rationales. One is instrumental: “diversity provides viewpoints that are educationally fruitful for everyone.” The other is moral: “diversity is just and intrinsic to undoing years of systemic racism.” But is one rationale better than the other? And which one do students prefer? These were the driving questions behind a recent study conducted by Princeton researchers.May 6, 2021News Roundup15 New Racial Healing Centers To Come to Campuses, Following Gifts to AAC&UThe Association of American Colleges and Universities (AAC&U) will establish fifteen new Truth, Racial Healing & Transformation (TRHT) Campus Centers across the country after receiving a total of $777,339 in funding from various foundations in support of the centers. Twenty-nine colleges and universities currently host TRHT centers which, according to the AAC&U, are “community-integrated, campus-based […]May 4, 2021Latest NewsHoward Architecture Professor Builds Representation of People, Ideas in the FieldIt takes just one person to change the trajectory of someone’s life. For Bradford Grant, professor of architecture at Howard University’s College of Engineering and Architecture, that person was the first African American teacher he had as a middle schooler in the California Bay area.April 27, 2021HomeHigher Education Institutions Speak Out Against Restrictive Voting LegislationInstitutions and corporations across all sectors have felt increasingly moved to take public stands on political issues they might have previously remained quiet about. So, when Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp signed controversial voting legislation, SB 202, into effect on March 25, various sectors responded — and higher education was no exception.April 22, 2021News RoundupUW-Madison Appoints DeVon Wilson to Newly-Created Associate Dean for DEI PositionDeVon Wilson has been appointed associate dean for diversity, equity and inclusion at the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s College of Letters and Science (L&S). It’s a newly-created position viewed as a “top administrative priority” by Dr. Eric Wilcots, dean of L&S. Wilson is currently the L&S assistant dean as well as diversity coordinator and director for […]April 12, 2021News RoundupKentucky’s Centre College Promotes Dr. Andrea Abrams to VP for DEICentre College has promoted Dr. Andrea Abrams to vice president for diversity, inclusion and equity, recognizing “the momentous work that Andrea has led at Centre and the importance of our chief diversity officer as a senior leader in the College’s administration.” Abrams has been serving as the college’s chief diversity officer since 2018. At the […]April 12, 2021Previous PagePage 7 of 43Next Page
