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Students

Rodriguez: Language and Civilizational Clashes

For many years many academics and writers had avoided using the term racism or, more precisely, had avoided calling people racists because many believed that such terms had lost their meaning and power due to overuse.

March 16, 2017

Women

UW-La Crosse Dispatcher Fired Over Trump Offered Job Back

LA CROSSE, Wis. — A University of Wisconsin-La Crosse police dispatcher who says she was fired for supporting President Donald Trump’s travel ban will get her job back. Chancellor Joe Gow says the university system’s legal counsel recommended dispatcher Kimberly Dearman be rehired. Dearman was fired on Monday following a university investigation into a complaint […]

March 16, 2017

Faculty & Staff

Plenty of Work Remains in Effort to Close Higher Ed Gender Pay Gap

New evidence suggests some colleges and universities are taking bold steps to even out the playing field when hiring and retaining female faculty and staff.

March 15, 2017

African-American

Federal Judge Rejects Bias Suit Against Portland State

A federal judge in Oregon has rejected a race and national origin discrimination suit by a student who failed a final chemistry exam after Portland State University officials determined he had sent someone else to take the test.

March 15, 2017

Students

700 Michigan State University Workers Won’t Help Immigration Agents

EAST LANSING, Mich. — Roughly 700 Michigan State University employees have signed a statement vowing not to help federal immigration officials seeking to apprehend or deport students. The Lansing State Journal reported Wednesday the faculty and staff members signed the “statement of solidarity” with students who are refugees, immigrants or children of immigrants. The statement […]

March 15, 2017

Sports

Let’s Also Be Mad, and Not Solely Mesmerized by March Madness

Instead of solely being mesmerized by March Madness, we should also be concerned about the pervasive inequalities that exist within revenue-generating collegiate athletics, especially as it pertains to Black male athletes.

March 15, 2017

Leadership & Policy

ACE Speaker Shares Approach to Uncovering Bias in Tenure, Promotion

“It’s not enough to hire diverse faculty,” said Stephen Jordan, president of Metropolitan State University of Denver. “You’ve got to get them to promotion and tenure.”

March 13, 2017

Faculty & Staff

Guillermo: Asian American Professors Suit May Expose University of Michigan

A married Asian American couple — both a former and current faculty member of the University of Michigan — have charged the school with violations of the Michigan Elliott-Larsen Civil Rights Act.

March 12, 2017

Home

Expert: Minority Rights in Jeopardy Absent Consent Decrees for Police

Amid concerns that the U.S. Department of Justice won’t pursue consent decrees to hold police departments accountable for use of excessive or deadly force, a law professor who negotiated consent decrees under President Obama said the rights of minorities are at stake.

March 9, 2017

Women

Study: Female Participation in Workforce Far from Globally Embraced

As the world celebrates International Women’s Day, a new report finds that only half of women worldwide participate in the workforce, compared to more than three-quarters of men.

March 8, 2017

Students

Rodriguez: We Need Autonomous and ICE-free Institutions

For communities of color and for indigenous peoples, many of the rights that Americans take for granted have never applied to us.

March 8, 2017

Students

Black Junior to Lead Student Government at University of Alabama

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — A Black University of Alabama student supported by a secretive campus group long controlled by Whites has been elected student government president, breaking a barrier that seemed unlikely to fall a few years ago. Junior marketing major Jared Hunter won the office in balloting Tuesday, carrying 54 percent of the vote in […]

March 8, 2017