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Faculty & Staff

Special Focus: Black History Month

In this Black History Month-focused edition, Diverse takes a look at MIT professor Craig Steven Wilder’s new book, Ebony and Ivy, exploring the long history of slavery and Ivy League institutions.

February 17, 2014

Faculty & Staff

Hampton University President Harvey Giving $1M-Plus to Talladega College

Dr. William R. Harvey and his wife, Norma, have given the money to help establish a museum that will be home to the renowned Hale Woodruff Amistad Murals.

February 5, 2014

Faculty & Staff

Korean Julia Sun-Joo Lee Brings New Face to Black Literature

Inspired by growing up in racially tense ’90s L.A and with help from mentors like Henry Louis Gates Jr., this 2014 Diverse Emerging Scholar is leaving her mark in the academic world of African-American literature.

January 29, 2014

Leadership & Policy

University of Michigan Names Mark Schlissel New President

Brown University Provost Mark Schlissel was named Friday as the new president of the University of Michigan, vowing to strengthen what he called a “jewel” of higher education in the U.S.

January 26, 2014

Faculty & Staff

Eduardo González Putting UMass Boston on Map With Grants and Success

This Diverse 2014 Emerging Scholar is exactly where he wanted to be, doing high-level research on theoretical math that has attracted the attention of his peers and federal grantmakers.

January 26, 2014

Community Colleges

Humanities Majors Don’t Fare as Badly as Portrayed, New Earnings Report Says

People who major in the humanities and social sciences don’t earn as much as their classmates in the physical and natural sciences, math or engineering, but the gap is not as wide as has been portrayed.

January 26, 2014

Faculty & Staff

Review for Colorado University Professor Who Teaches Deviance Course

Patti Adler was ordered to stop teaching the class following complaints about a prostitution role-playing skit.

January 21, 2014

Faculty & Staff

In Our MOOC Moment, Public Opinion about Teacher Quality Irrelevant

MOOCs will most likely remain apart of the education landscape as President Obama’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology have urged him to let market forces develop better systems to employ the technology.

January 21, 2014

African-American

‘12 Years a Slave’ Shows Real Value of Ethnic History

This isn’t a movie that beats around the bush with style or euphemism.

January 19, 2014

Sports

‘Culture of Disrespect’ Among Athletes Fuels Military Academy Sex Assaults

A culture of bad behavior and disrespect among athletes at U.S. military academies is one part of the continuing problem of sexual assaults at the schools, according to a new Defense Department report.

January 9, 2014

Faculty & Staff

Baraka’s Controversial Legacy

Black academicians, activists and artists remember the life of Amiri Baraka, one of the nation’s most prominent Black writers, who died at the age of 79.

January 9, 2014

Faculty & Staff

Scholars Gather in Bid to Preserve History’s Role

Hundreds of historians made their way to the nation’s capital for the American Historical Association’s 128th annual meeting.

January 5, 2014