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Students
UPenn and Stanford Seniors Named 2019 Rhodes Scholars
Anea B. Moore, a senior sociology and urban studies major at University of Pennsylvania (UPenn); and Kristina Correa, a senior biology major honors student at Stanford University; have been named 2019 Rhodes Scholars. Moore, who lost both her parents while in high school and college, is a first-generation college student and has served as co-president […]
November 19, 2018
Students
USC Center Helps Advance Racial Equity
Five months after a group of students at DePauw University angrily confronted their college president following a string of racially charged incidents on campus, Dr. D. Mark McCoy was sitting in front of his office computer actively processing the incident with Dr. Charles H. F. Davis, who was some 2,000 miles away.
October 18, 2018
Latest News
A Social Scientist Committed to Inclusive Research
Dr. Margaret Beale Spencer’s scholarship is fueled by a responsibility to make her research on human development inclusive for youth of color. In doing so, she has resisted the traditional, stereotypical notions about the development of diverse children throughout her decades-long career.
September 24, 2018
News Roundup
UPenn’s College of Liberal & Professional Studies to Offer Bachelor’s Degree Online
The School of Arts and Sciences’ College of Liberal and Professional Studies (LPS) at the University of Pennsylvania has announced it will create an option for students to pursue a bachelor’s degree at the institution online, beginning Fall 2019. The goal of the new program is to make Arts and Sciences education more available and […]
September 18, 2018
Students
UPenn Provides Support Services for First-Generation and Low-Income Students
The University of Pennsylvania’s advocacy for education accessibility among first-generation and low-income students is one of the reasons why it has been ranked as one of Diverse’s Top 100 undergraduate and graduate degree programs for minorities.
August 31, 2018
MSIs
Penn Program Preps Future MSI Presidents
Currently, 60 percent of university presidents are over the age of 60, and people of color and women are underrepresented among their ranks, according to the Penn Center for Minority Serving Institutions (CMSI) which developed the Minority Serving Institutions (MSI) Aspiring Leaders program after receiving a $745,000 grant from the ECMC Foundation and the Kresge Foundation. […]
August 10, 2018
Latest News
Academics React to UPenn’s Ties to Slavery
The University of Pennsylvania has become the latest in a series of institutions of higher learning that have dug into their past, unearthed significant ties to slavery and begun trying to figure out how to address repercussions of the historical injustice.
July 2, 2018
Opinion
“You Don’t Look Like a Professor”
Routinely experiencing gendered-raced microaggressions in institutions of higher education is nothing new to women of color. How do we contest such incidents? My remedy is “micro-affirmations.”
March 29, 2018
Latinx
Stellar Academic and Business Leader Tapped to Lead Whittier College
Dr. Linda Oubré will become Whittier College’s 15th president, taking office July 1, 2018, college officials announced this week. She will be the first person of color to serve as president in Whittier’s 131-year history.
March 28, 2018
Latinx
Study Reports Wide Gender Disparity Among MSI Presidents
A new report from the Penn Center for Minority Serving Institutions explores the dearth of women in presidential positions at Minority Serving Institutions. At 650 such schools, less than 12 percent of presidents are women.
March 27, 2018
Sports
Education of Student-Athletes a Hot Topic at Panel Discussion
For all the heightened chatter this year about whether college student-athletes should be paid, Dr. Kenneth Shropshire suggests that making their education a priority is more important than a microscopic focus on financial compensation.
March 18, 2018
Latinx
Pathways Program Seeks to Diversify the Academy
PHILADELPHIA – After graduating from college in 2002, Johanna Lopez spent a decade working in the banking industry before enrolling in community college. Now, she’s a fellow in a program created to increase the number of Latino professors working in the humanities at colleges and universities across the nation.
March 4, 2018
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