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Students

Congressman’s Son a Defendant in Clemson Fraternity-Death Lawsuits

The son of U.S. Rep. John Carney, D-Del., is one of five defendants in two lawsuits seeking at least $50 million stemming from the death of a Clemson University fraternity pledge.

March 31, 2015

LGBTQ+

Bill Protecting Campus Religious Groups Passes Kansas Senate

A proposal in Kansas for protecting religious groups on public college campuses that want to restrict memberships to like-minded believers is advancing in the Republican-dominated Legislature, and a leading gay-rights advocate calls it “a license to discriminate.”

March 22, 2015

Asian American Pacific Islander

Calif. Court Mulls Reversal of Century-old Racist Ruling

The California Supreme Court is mulling whether to reverse a 125-year-old decision to deny a Chinese immigrant’s application to practice law in the state.

March 16, 2015

Students

American Flag Ban on College Campus Draws Lawmakers’ Rebuke

California GOP lawmakers are inserting themselves into a heated college campus debate over the right to display the American flag.

March 9, 2015

Students

Anti-Israel Divestment Push Gains Traction at U.S. Colleges

In the United States, Israel’s closest ally, the decade-old boycott-divestment-sanctions, or BDS, movement is making its strongest inroads by far on college campuses.

March 2, 2015

Home

Report: Ex-Purdue Chancellor’s Forced Retirement Bungled

A newly released report that Purdue University had fought to keep secret concluded that school officials bungled the forced retirement of Indiana-Purdue Fort Wayne’s former chancellor, causing his departure to turn into an “ugly situation.”

February 24, 2015

African-American

The Lunar New Year Starts and the Day of Remembrance Never Ends

Special times as communities celebrate and commemorate.

February 23, 2015

Faculty & Staff

American History is not Black History; Black History is not America’s

The argument that ‘Black history is American history’ is naïve to the point of insipidity.

February 19, 2015

Faculty & Staff

Celebrating Black History in the New Millennium

There are some compelling issues to be examined regarding Black History Month as we know it to be now.

February 19, 2015

Students

Race a Factor in South Carolina State University ‘Mess’

The barriers to the solutions are politics, race, intransigence, corruption and political dysfunction.

February 16, 2015

African-American

U.S. Colleges Bringing in Chaplains to Serve the Nonbelievers

Bart Campolo, 51, joined a growing movement of college “humanist chaplains,” arriving at the University of Southern California last September.

February 15, 2015

Leadership & Policy

Women’s College to Accept transgender, Intersex Students

A small women’s college near Philadelphia says it’ll start accepting transgender women and intersex applicants who don’t identify as male.

February 10, 2015