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Race, Power, Privilege in the Marketplace Are Focus of Interdisciplinary Network’s Research

A group of scholars has set out to change how marketing researchers understand how race, power and privilege affect marketplace policies and practices.

February 4, 2018

HBCUs

Experts: Freshmen Should Receive an Honest Account of What Takes Place on College Campuses

When Anthony Grant, associate director of admissions at Earlham College in Indiana, attended a college fair in New Mexico this past summer, a student asked him to tell her more about the discrimination she heard had taken place on campus recently.

November 8, 2017

Students

Confederate Posters Found at American University

WASHINGTON — American University says 10 confederate flag posters with cotton attached to them have been reported on the school’s Washington, D.C. campus. University President Sylvia Burwell said in a statement on Wednesday that video shows “the perpetrator(s) coming on to the campus and hanging the posters.” University police are investigating and have released an […]

September 27, 2017

Faculty & Staff

Runstedtler Thrives at Intersection of Race, History and Sports

Dr. Theresa Runstedtler has led Critical Race, Gender and Culture Studies Collaborative at American University as chair since fall 2015.

September 6, 2017

Students

Correa Helping First-generation Students Find Their Way

Vanessa Correa thrives on guiding and assisting students transitioning into higher education in her role as the associate director for first-generation initiatives in the Office of Diversity, Inclusion, and Multicultural Education (ODIME) at George Mason University (GMU).

August 3, 2017

Faculty & Staff

Student Evaluations at Center of American University Tenure Fight

Carolyn Brown, an assistant professor at American University, is appealing the provost’s decision to reject her tenure application, saying the rejection is based upon a “flawed and biased” analysis of her teaching efficiency.

June 22, 2017

Students

American University Student President Targeted with Online Harassment

WASHINGTON — American University in Washington is providing campus police officers to protect the student body president and her family now that she’s getting harassed online after enduring racist taunts earlier this week. AU officials say a “White supremacist” wrote a post asking people to harass Taylor Dumpson. She’s the first Black woman to be […]

May 7, 2017

Students

Colleges are Hotbeds for Inappropriate Behavior

It appears that racism has no boundaries. It rears its distasteful head in too many places and spaces that we hold dear to us.

May 4, 2017

African-American

Black Members of Congress Demand Probe of Nooses at American University

WASHINGTON — The hanging of bananas from nooses with hateful messages at American University in Washington, apparently targeting the first Black woman to serve as the student body president, prompted members of Congress to call for federal civil rights investigations on Thursday. At least five bananas with nooses were found hanging from trees and lampposts […]

May 4, 2017

Students

Hundreds March at American University after Noose Incident

WASHINGTON — Hundreds of students have been marching at American University in Washington a day after bananas were found hanging from string in the shape of nooses on campus. Television station WRC-TV reports that students walked out of a town hall meeting administrators were holding Tuesday, a day after the bananas were found at several […]

May 2, 2017

Leadership & Policy

Sylvia Burwell named next president of American University

WASHINGTON — Former U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services President Sylvia Matthews Burwell has been named next president of American University in Washington. The school announced this week that the former President Barack Obama administration official will become the first woman to lead the school when she takes over on June 1. The Hinton, […]

January 29, 2017

Students

Faculty Engaging More in New Era of Activism

Staff and faculty are attempting to understand and even participate in student activism.

January 2, 2017