Protests by the Black Lives Matter movement against racism at predominantly white colleges have led to a different set of conversations on historically black campuses, says Walter M. Kimbrough, president of Dillard University, in New Orleans. And they may also be leading to a renewed interest in minority-serving institutions from students of color and their parents, he says in a Chronicle interview.
A Texas law allowing people with concealed-carry licenses to bring their weapons on college campuses is slated to go into effect for public four-year institutions on Monday.
The state’s colleges and universities have been communicating their policies on the new law to students, faculty, and staff members for several months. But those communication strategies take on added urgency now that “campus carry” is the law, and students are preparing to arrive for the new academic year.
In the summer of 2013, the journalist Jessica Luther watched news unfold on two alleged gang rapes involving college football players, one at Vanderbilt University and the other at the United States Naval Academy. She started poking around, searching for similar cases, and she was surprised at just how prevalent the pattern was, she says.
Then, two months later, another sexual-assault case made national headlines — Jameis Winston, now a professional quarterback who at the time played at Florida State University, was to be investigated for an alleged rape in 2012. The local police had investigated the accusation but had never filed charges.
Like many campuses in the US, Hamilton College in New York state has over the past two years faced criticism from student protesters that it isn’t doing enough to honour its commitment to inclusion.
But unlike many such campuses, Hamilton has adopted a new curriculum requirement that all concentrations, or majors, feature relevant, mandatory coursework on diversity.
A report being released today pushes back against the idea that state subsidies lowering tuition at public four-year universities disproportionately benefit students from wealthy families.
The research, being released under the Brookings Institution’s series of Evidence Speaks reports, finds appropriations from state and local governments used to offset educational costs at public institutions are smaller for students from higher-income families than for those with lower incomes. It also makes the case that low-income students are well represented across types of public four-year universities, including very selective universities, where they represent a quarter of enrollments — a far higher proportion than is the case at most elite private universities.
A federal appeals court ruled last week that a former adjunct may not sue Ivy Tech Community College for alleged discrimination based on her sexual orientation.
Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which bars employment discrimination based on race, gender, national origin, religion and other factors, cannot be used to challenge discrimination based on sexual orientation because Congress did not intend to ban such bias, found a unanimous three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit.
Three months after Yale University said it would keep John C. Calhoun’s name on one of its residential colleges, the university announced Monday that it is creating a new committee that could lead to the name being removed.
The announcement is an unexpected reversal of Yale’s position in April, when officials said keeping the Calhoun name was important. Yale President Peter Salovey at the time issued a statement saying, “Ours is a nation that often refuses to face its own history of slavery and racism. Yale is part of that history. We cannot erase American history, but we can confront it, teach it and learn from it. The decision to retain Calhoun College’s name reflects the importance of this vital educational imperative.”
The House of Representatives passed a slate of bipartisan higher education bills late Monday aimed at tackling some of the easier policy aspects of the Higher Education Act– the behemoth federal law that’s overdue for an update but likely won’t get a complete overhaul this year.
The piecemeal approach isn’t a new tactic for Rep. John Kline, a Minnesota Republican and chairman of the chamber’s Committee on Education and the Workforce, who used thesame strategy in 2014 in hopes of getting a jump-start on the more complicated federal law.
WASHINGTON — When it comes to picking a new president, young people in America are united in saying education is what matters most. But there’s a wide split in what else will drive their votes.
For African-American adults between the ages of 18 and 30, racism is nearly as important aseducation. For young Hispanics, it’s immigration. And for whites and Asian-Americans in the millennial generation, it’s economic growth.
The results from the new GenForward poll highlight big differences among young Americans who often are viewed as a monolithic group of voters — due in no small part to their overwhelming support for President Barack Obama during his two campaigns for president.