Jamaal Abdul-AlimAfrican-AmericanFranklin Award Winner John Lewis Says Time is Now for ‘Good Trouble’Speaking at a reception where he received the John Hope Franklin Award from Diverse, U.S. Rep. John Lewis urged those in attendance to continue to fight the good fight at a time when many essential services are at stake.March 13, 2017Leadership & PolicyACE Speaker Shares Approach to Uncovering Bias in Tenure, Promotion“It’s not enough to hire diverse faculty,” said Stephen Jordan, president of Metropolitan State University of Denver. “You’ve got to get them to promotion and tenure.”March 13, 2017HomeExpert: Minority Rights in Jeopardy Absent Consent Decrees for PoliceAmid concerns that the U.S. Department of Justice won’t pursue consent decrees to hold police departments accountable for use of excessive or deadly force, a law professor who negotiated consent decrees under President Obama said the rights of minorities are at stake.March 9, 2017Faculty & StaffStakeholders Divided Over Expected Elimination of Teacher Prep RegulationsThe teacher prep regulations that the Obama administration pushed for years to establish in order to hold schools of education more accountable for the K-12 teachers they produce are now one presidential pen stroke away from becoming history. The organization that represents educator preparation programs could not be more delighted with the U.S. Senate’s vote […]March 8, 2017StudentsDual Enrollment Movement Seeks Bigger Role in EducationThe effort to make more students aware of dual enrollment schools such as Bard High School Early College Baltimore is getting a boost thanks to a new coalition called the College in High School Alliance.March 8, 2017StudentsMaricopa Community Colleges Giving ‘Step’ Compensation System the BootMaricopa Community Colleges seeks to usher in a new system that will change the way the school system compensates, recognizes and rewards its employees.March 6, 2017StudentsResearch Counters Trump View of ImmigrationMonica Gomez Isaac, executive director of the Institute for Immigration Research at George Mason University, says, “The contributions of immigrants permeate nearly every facet of American society.”March 5, 2017StudentsScholars: DREAMer’s Arrest a Threat to Rights of AllExperts say the arrest of a DREAMer and aspirant university math professor who had just spoken out about the impact that immigration enforcement was having on her family has had a chilling effect on other DREAMers and is likely to reverberate beyond the community of undocumented students.March 2, 2017StudentsUMB Students Enjoy Day of DiscoveryFour University of Maryland, Baltimore students spent the last day of Black History Month adding important pieces to the puzzles of their ancestry.March 1, 2017StudentsAdvocates Call for Schools to Stand By Undocumented StudentsAt a time of escalating fears of deportation, faculty and administrators should align themselves with undocumented students and actively fight to secure their future in the United States, according to a recent panel.February 28, 2017Previous PagePage 14 of 80Next Page
