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Tag: Anti-Racism
African-American
Tufts University Takes Steps, Pledges $25 Million, to Become Anti-racist
Tufts University is pledging $25 million over five years to become an anti-racist institution, Boston.com reported. Over seven months, Tufts reviewed five areas – campus safety and policing, public art, an institutional audit and targeted action, compositional diversity and equity and inclusion – resulting in more than 180 recommendations. Tufts President Dr. Tony Monaco said […]
March 16, 2021
Opinion
Why We Can’t Let The Current Moment of Change Through Our Fingers
The murder of George Floyd by the police in Minneapolis and the outrage from not just the Black community but communities throughout the entire country have created an energetic moment for universities to do some serious transformations.
February 18, 2021
COVID-19
George Mason University Offers Anti-Racist Professional Development Program for Educators
Educators are now welcome to gain professional development pertaining to anti-racist practices at George Mason University through the school’s Transformative Teaching cohort program.
February 16, 2021
Opinion
Time for Anti-Racism: A Way Forward for America and Higher Education
Anti-racism seems to have found its moment, although Classical Studies in specific has some heavy lifting to undo the role of its legacy as a bastion of white supremacy. Vassar College classics professor Curtis Dozier acknowledges this and has an online platform, Pharos, whose “first purpose is to document appropriations of Greco-Roman culture by hate groups online.”
January 21, 2021
African-American
The University of Dayton Publishes Historic Letter that Chronicles Systemic Racism
The University of Dayton recently uncovered and published a historic 1930 letter from the university’s president that was written to noted civil rights leader, scholar and author Dr. W.E.B. Du Bois. In it lies language and messaging that reflects systemic racism at the institution through past discriminatory admissions policies and practices, according to university officials. […]
October 13, 2020
News Roundup
Pitt Introduces Mandatory Anti-Racism Course for Freshmen
Starting this fall, all incoming freshman will be required to take a one-credit course focused on anti-racism at the University of Pittsburgh, according to the New York Daily News. The course, “Anti-Black Racism: History, Ideology, and Resistance,” was developed by a 12-member committee of faculty and students. Other interested students can opt to take the […]
August 21, 2020
Students
Online Anti-Oppressive Orientation During COVID-19
With the COVID-19 pandemic shutting down physical college campuses in the spring, many institutions are planning to continue their fall semester in an online setting. In May 2020, we restructured a previously in-person program to an asynchronous and synchronous anti-oppressive orientation program entitled, Power, Privilege and Positionality (PPP) to address recent national uprisings at the intersection of COVID-19.
August 3, 2020
Students
Some Princeton Grad Students Say Name Change Isn’t Enough to Address Racism
While Princeton University’s decision to remove Woodrow Wilson’s name from its school of public policy roughly a week ago came as good news to many, the school’s graduate students continue to stress that “changing the name, though long overdue, cannot and will not be enough” to address systematic racism. In a letter written before the […]
July 6, 2020
Students
Law Deans Establish Call to Action Website to Address Racism in Higher Education
Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, many Black women law deans stayed connected on Zoom and discussed their academic work and the challenges of remote instruction. However, after the death of George Floyd due to police brutality, they started talking about how to confront racism at colleges and universities.
June 17, 2020
COVID-19
Texas A&M System Creates $100 Million Fund to ‘Address Diversity Issues’
The Texas A&M University System will create a special $100 million scholarship fund “to address diversity issues” and assist students who have been economically affected by the COVID-19 pandemic, the institution said on Monday. The scholarship program at the 11-university system will provide $10 million annually over the course of 10 years for scholarships to […]
June 16, 2020
Opinion
At a Loss for Words After George Floyd: Three Actions in Lieu of Statements
Race is foundational to our nation, its original sin. We live in a racist society, so we all do racists things. Racism, moreover, is systemic. We can no more escape it than we can avoid breathing in polluted air.
June 16, 2020
Opinion
Pledging to Disrupt Systemic Racism in Higher Education Advocacy
I have sat uncomfortably on raised chairs during enough panels with only other White speakers. I have rolled my eyes at enough invitations to events on education issues for which only White people would share their views. I have witnessed enough higher education researchers and advocates who make their living on equity work perpetuate cycles of mistreatment of graduate students and early-career colleagues.
June 12, 2020
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