November 2, 2017
When Dr. Russell H. Fazio, a psychology professor at The Ohio State University, examined interracial relationships between Black and White dormitory roommates a while back, he found that the relationships were more likely to dissolve if the White student had a “negative racial attitude.”
October 31, 2017
New results -- showing majority of white people believe they face discrimination -- surprise many. But attitudes, especially about college admission, don't always reflect the bias and disadvantages experienced by nonwhites or actual enrollment trends.
October 27, 2017
When Amy Chua published “The Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother ” in 2011, a book about how she raised two high-achieving daughters, people took notice. Chua is Chinese American and both daughters were on their way to Harvard, with an impressive roster of activities that included excelling at piano and violin.
October 27, 2017
In order to prepare students for the complex situations they will face in the world and the workplace, higher education leaders and government officials must resist efforts to restrict free speech on campus and keep colleges as places of “ongoing intellectual challenge,” a university president testified at a Congressional hearing Thursday.
September 20, 2017
BATON ROUGE, La. — A proposal aimed at protecting controversial speakers’ appearances at Louisiana colleges and calling on campuses to penalize students who disrupt them has been vetoed by Gov. John Bel Edwards, who described the bill as a “solution in search of a problem.”
September 12, 2017
The number of people living in rural (nonmetro) counties stood at 46.1 million in July 2016—14 percent of all U.S. residents spread across 72 percent of the nation’s land area.
September 5, 2017
Study finds that students who deliver microaggressions are also likely to harbor racist attitudes.
August 22, 2017
Study finds adherence to gender norms around femininity is linked to gender disparities in selection of programs of study.
August 22, 2017
Study of top public universities finds limited faculty diversity, yet signs of progress -- except for African-Americans in STEM.
August 17, 2017
The University of Florida has denied the National Policy Institute’s request to rent event space for Richard Spencer, the white supremacist who leads the organization, to speak on campus, the university’s president said in a statement on Wednesday.
August 14, 2017
A bombshell report in The New York Times Tuesday night revealed that the U.S. Justice Department plans to investigate and sue colleges over their affirmative action policies in admissions.
June 30, 2017
When colleges talk about diverse hiring, much of the focus — and the funding — goes to recruiting and retaining faculty members from underrepresented minority groups. But a program in the works at the University of California at Berkeley is looking at new ways to elevate an overlooked cohort: minority staff in nonacademic areas, like student-affairs administrators and office managers.
June 27, 2017
Report by Civil Rights Project at UCLA, Center for Education and Civil Rights at Penn State finds intense segregation of Black and Latino students. Charter Schools are more segregated for Black and Latino Students.
June 26, 2017
The federal Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) that helps low-income individuals and families purchase food is less likely to be used by eligible farmworkers who are immigrants, Hispanic, male, childless or residing in California, new research shows.
June 5, 2017
The shift in public attitude is part of the larger context in which LGBTQ Presidents in Higher Education continues its efforts to empower LGBTQ individuals in academe to navigate their way toward leadership positions and, ultimately, to presidencies at institutions of higher education.
May 22, 2017
Immediately after last year's presidential election, Canadian universities started to report record traffic on their websites, coming from American high school students. Then the universities started to report more trips to campus from south of the border. And more applications.
May 9, 2017
A professor of music theory at Elon University is walking away from the job she loves and moving back to Canada with no immediate other employment prospects. Why? Racism in the U.S. is taking a toll on her family.
May 9, 2017
Professor calls diversity training workshop to which colleagues were invited a “waste,” setting off debate about inclusiveness and civility.
May 5, 2017
In 1972, Rowena Tomaneng’s parents moved their family from the Philippines to the Los Angeles area. Six years later, Thuy Thi Nguyen and her family were among “boat people” who left Vietnam. Each is a first-year college president.
May 2, 2017
Three campuses are experiencing heightened racial tensions following recent incidents: 1. Sit-In at St. Olaf; 2. Bananas have again become a source of racial tension at American University; 3. Mexican Stereotypes at Baylor Party.
April 13, 2017
On March 29-April 2nd, 2017, Penn State MANRRS Chapter traveled to Pittsburgh for the National MANRRS Conference.
April 5, 2017
Companies are listing bachelor’s degrees as requirements on vacancy announcements. In addition, as technology replaces the work of employees in certain traditionally unskilled labor positions, the number of opportunities for those with just a high school diploma only seems to shrink.
March 20, 2017
After meeting with President Trump and members of Congress in late February, presidents of historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) hoped that there might be more support for their institutions. Those hopes were not realized when the administration rolled out its budget proposal on Thursday.
March 16, 2017
Of all the students who visited the food pantry at Montgomery College in recent times, one that stood out for pantry worker and honors student Elizabeth Zabala is the young man who came to get something to eat for a specific assignment.
March 15, 2017
The task of making college students feel welcome on campus has been greatly complicated by both the election of President Trump and the political currents that helped put him in office, said campus diversity officers who gathered here on Tuesday.
March 2, 2017
Black law professor who gained national exposure for having predicted Donald J. Trump’s election victory in an eight-month series of 2016 television appearances and Harvard Law Record articles, has filed federal civil rights charges against Campbell University.
January 31, 2017
Many colleges and universities have for years been stating that they are trying to attract more minority faculty members. And for just as long, critics have been saying that colleges aren't doing all they can.
January 31, 2017
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor on Monday said future diversity on college campuses is a key to diversifying society at large, noting that the number of Black students at the University of Michigan is a “real problem.”
January 10, 2017
Many colleges and universities pride themselves on their commitment to diversity, yet that commitment often seems to be superficial, writes Macy Wilson.
January 6, 2017
About 70 percent of people who take the race version of the Implicit Association Test prefer faces with typically European-American features over those with African-American features.
