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Sports

Expert: Non-Whites Must Flex Growing Political Muscle Now

Based on longstanding efforts to squelch their voice at the polls, people of color in the U.S. must prepare for the political power they stand to gain through population increase—or risk being ruled by a White minority.

October 23, 2016

Students

Trump-inspired Mural Causes Controversy at University of Minnesota

ST. PAUL, Minn. ― A Donald Trump-inspired mural on the University of Minnesota campus has created a controversy. The university’s College Republicans group painted “Build The Wall” on a campus bridge last week. Student groups paint signs and messages on the Washington Avenue pedestrian bridge every fall. But WCCO-TV reports the mural was soon defaced, […]

October 4, 2016

Faculty & Staff

Court Orders Board to Probe Professor’s Complaint About Dues

The Pennsylvania Labor Relations Board erred when it refused to investigate a college professor’s complaint involving the use of teacher union dues to promote the candidacy of Gov. Tom Wolf, a state appeals court ruled Thursday. State law prohibits public employee unions from using union funds to support political candidates. Mary Trometter, an assistant professor […]

September 8, 2016

African-American

The Donald Discovers Diversity

His new team is scouring the data like stock-pickers looking for undervalued buys, and they’ve finally stumbled on something Trump has ignored all campaign. People of color.

August 21, 2016

Students

Rallying Millennials to Vote

Despite their large population (83 million), millennials vote at lower rates than their share of the population.

August 16, 2016

Faculty & Staff

Black Intellectuals Ponder How Best to Share Knowledge

A recurring theme was how the world beyond the academy has to affect how a Black intellectual views his or her teaching and research within a broader societal context.

April 14, 2016

Faculty & Staff

Thought Leader

Diverse salutes community college pioneer Terry O’Banion, the 2016 recipient of the Diverse Champion Award.

April 4, 2016

Leadership & Policy

Putting Emory Chalk Talk in Perspective

The students felt terrorized by a number of chalk graffiti markings that indicate a preference for the presidential candidacy of Donald Trump.

March 28, 2016

Leadership & Policy

A Positive thing about Donald Trump’s Presidential Run

While people point to Donald Trump tapping the anger of the American electorate, you always know that, in the political physics, Newton’s third law still applies, that for “every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction.”

March 21, 2016

Faculty & Staff

Trump, Enabler of American Political Hooliganism?

If you like your politics raucous and raunchy, Donald Trump has been your candidate this year.

March 14, 2016

Asian American Pacific Islander

Fight for the Diversity Vote Intensifies as Week’s Primaries Focus on Michigan and Mississippi

Late last week, Def Jam entrepreneur Russell Simmons announced he was supporting Hillary Clinton after reaching out to Bernie Sanders.

March 7, 2016

Leadership & Policy

Diverse on the Go

Vice President Ralph Newell is attending the ACPA Convention in Montreal through Wednesday, an event attended by approximately 3,500 American College Personnel Association members and guests.

March 7, 2016