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Sports

MLB’s Diversity Hiring Score Unchanged

Baseball is a game played at a slow pace and is deliberate when it comes to changing the way it is played. The same can be said for Major League Baseball (MLB) and its racial and gender hiring practices.

April 15, 2019

Latest News

Chan Zuckerberg Initiative Invests $6.9M to Replicate Meyerhoff Scholars Program at UC Berkeley, UC San Diego

Due to a newly announced $6.9 million investment from the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI), the University of California at Berkeley and the University of California at San Diego (UCSD) will enhance their efforts to successfully recruit, retain and graduate more underrepresented students in the fields of science, technology, engineering and mathematics.

April 9, 2019

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Moving the Needle Forward on Legal Diversity

Now entering into its fourth year, the Dillard University Center for Law and Public Interest Pre-Law program is furthering its goal to move the needle on diversity in legal education and ultimately, the legal profession.

March 28, 2019

Students

March Madness? It’s Not Just Basketball

March Madness — higher ed’s Springtime PR-fest known as the NCAA men’s basketball tournament — usually refers to when the spotlight catches underdogs like the University of California Irvine (UCI) Anteaters.

March 25, 2019

African-American

Scholar Builds New Department at Columbia University

Dr. Farah Griffin, is wearing two hats as the inaugural chair of Columbia’s new African-American and African Diaspora Studies Department and director-elect of Columbia’s Institute for Research in African-American Studies.

March 18, 2019

Students

Rutgers-Newark Honors Program Takes New Approach to Developing Citizen Leaders

Christopher Latonnel is among 220 students ages 17 to 50 in Rutgers-Newark Honors Living-Learning Community, which began as a pilot cohort of 30 scholars in 2015. The access-and-success initiative seeks to recruit future leaders, especially those in Newark, and bring them to live and learn together within a network of academic, financial and emotional support so that they can thrive in college and graduate as societal change agents.

March 15, 2019

Latest News

Dr. Shaun R. Harper Receive Top Honors at Higher Education Conferences

Dr. Shaun R. Harper received two major awards this past week for his ongoing research focused on race, diversity, and equity and inclusion work.

March 14, 2019

MSIs

Report Offers Lessons from MSIs for Preparing Teachers for Diverse Schools

Schools of education are increasingly prioritizing efforts to diversify the teacher workforce, but they can do a better job preparing teacher candidates to be culturally competent and effective instructors, particularly for students in diverse schools and communities, according to a new report this week from Bellwether Education Partners.

March 12, 2019

Opinion

Diversity and Rep. Ilhan Omar

To show my San Francisco State journalism class what diversity means instantly, I provide a visual: I draw a square on a white board. That’s the media. All White. Diversity is to see the white board obliterated with dots representing a multitude of voices.

March 11, 2019

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Ponce Health Sciences University to Expand Enrollment, Build New Campus

A recent conditional authorization to increase its class size from 90 to 150 students will make Ponce Health Sciences University (PHSU) the most attended medical school in Puerto Rico and one of the largest private medical schools in the United States.

March 8, 2019

Latest News

Diverse ‘Changemakers’ Share Insights in Campus Conversation

Four leaders from different walks of life talked about purpose, resilience and navigating life as a person of color at a community conversation Tuesday at American University.

March 5, 2019

African-American

The Perception of Diversity at HBCUs: Is It Real or Imaginable?

The landscape of education has changed greatly in the last 10 years. In the wake of soaring college costs, falling state support, a decrease in high school graduates and an unstable economy, college enrollment is down across the board. HBCU enrollment is no exception.

February 27, 2019