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Opinion

How and Where We Exit: Seven Propositions on Black Positionalities in the Pandemics Era

The world has tried to recalibrate after the seismic shift that the COVID-19 pandemic has exacted on key aspects of everyday life, as we once knew it. For certain populations, this shift has been coupled with a cataclysmic jolt. For Black people globally, and specifically for African-Americans in the United States, the battle has been at best—formidable. While the Black gaze focused on the destruction and devastation that COVID-19 was exacting, it was the concomitant spread of a second pandemic, racism, which proved to be just as, if not even more virulent for the Black community.

June 30, 2020

HBCUs

HBCU Fall Preview: Colleges Plan a Phased Return to Campus

Starting today, Diverse will provide occasional news-roundups and interviews from historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) and other minority-serving institutions, as campus leaders plot a course for teaching, learning and working during the pandemic. This first installment features a look at plans from Morgan State University in Baltimore, Maryland.; Tennessee State University in Nashville, Tennessee.; and Claflin University in Orangeburg, South Carolina.

June 29, 2020

COVID-19

More Than 300 Colleges Outline What They Want to See in Applicants During COVID-19

University leaders from more than 300 colleges and universities on Monday issued a statement in which they outlined what they do and don’t expect from applicants during the COVID-19 pandemic. The statement also underscored these colleges leaders’ commitment to equity and encouraged students to focus on self-care, balance, meaningful learning and care for others during […]

June 29, 2020

COVID-19

Colleges Cancel Fall Study Abroad Programs, Look at New Ways of Global Engagement

With many international borders remaining closed to tourists and non-essential travelers to contain the spread of COVID-19, colleges and universities nationwide are making the decision to cancel fall study abroad programs.

June 26, 2020

Students

10 Concrete Policy Changes PWIs Can Enact to Show Black Lives Matter

As senior leaders prepare for the fall semester, I would like to provide 10 concrete policies and practices that could positively impact the institutional climates for their Black populations.

June 25, 2020

African-American

McDonald’s Starts $500,000 Fund to Help HBCU Students Return to College Amid COVID-19

McDonald’s USA has started a $500,000 fund to help students attending historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) continue their education this fall amid the COVID-19 pandemic. The Black & Positively Golden Scholarship Fund will be facilitated by the Thurgood Marshall College Fund, and scholarships will be distributed for the 2020-2021 academic year. “This year, donations […]

June 25, 2020

Sports

American Athletic Conference May Limit Marching Bands, Spirit Squads for Fall Football

The American Athletic Conference (AAC) will implement “strict” football game day guidelines for marching bands and spirit squads, according to a Memphis newspaper, The Commercial Appeal. Though the AAC has not made an official announcement, an anonymous source “with knowledge of the situation” confirmed the restrictions on Wednesday. If true, the AAC would be the […]

June 25, 2020

News Roundup

At Bowdoin College, Freshmen Only on Campus in the Fall

Bowdoin College has a new twist on the fall semester. The Maine institution said it will, for the most part, allow only freshman and transfer students on campus in the fall in an effort to reduce the density of people and to keep students, faculty and staff safe amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Why only freshmen […]

June 22, 2020

African-American

Our HBCUs Need Additional Congressional Support

As we approach June 30th, a date that marks the end of the annual or biennial fiscal years for forty-six of the nation’s fifty states, governors and state legislatures are being forced to make some extremely tough decisions in order to balance their budgets. If past precedent serves as any guide, we can readily anticipate that higher education will be forced to endure an outsized portion of those cuts and, as a consequence, our largely tuition-dependent, public HBCUs will, inevitably, suffer an even greater hardship from those state funding cuts than better-resourced flagship institutions.

June 22, 2020

COVID-19

Stepping Away from The Brink: COVID-19 Pushed

COVID-19 has exacerbated and accelerated for many colleges and universities the challenges they already faced – rising cost, declining enrollment, not enough financial resources to support the operational structure, and a competitive market – to name a few.

June 21, 2020

Opinion

COVID and George Floyd: The CDC and Colleges Must See Institutional Racism as National Disease

Education, business, politics, COVID and the economy cannot continue to be discussed as separate entities.  A common nexus unites all of them in an apparatus so strong and forceful, that we, an American culture, are loathe to accept its reality: That nexus is a new form of White nationalism that is permeating the structures and thoughts of society more and more.

June 18, 2020

COVID-19

COVID-19 Aid Restrictions Rule Won’t Apply to California Community Colleges

California’s community colleges don’t have to abide by a Department of Education rule that prevents many college students from receiving emergency federal COVID-19 grants, ruled a federal judge in California on Wednesday. The decision means those emergency grants can now reach a much wider group of students at California’s community colleges, including undocumented students. This […]

June 17, 2020