March 2021

March 1, 2021 | : As the American Association of Hispanics in Higher Education (AAHHE) commences its virtual conference this week, a familiar face will not be among the thousands of attendees. Dr. Loui Olivas, the long-time executive director of the organization, stepped down over the summer. Dr. Lucia Gutiérrez has since been appointed to […]

If you haven’t heard, there was another George Floyd incident in America. You know, a policeman’s knee to the back of the neck of a suspect, facedown, cuffed behind his back. But the victim this time wasn’t African American. He was Asian American of Filipino descent. Emil Guillermo His name was Angelo Quinto. If you

March 1, 2021 | : Ferris State University fired an assistant physical sciences professor, Dr. Thomas Brennan, after he posted racist, anti-Semitic and homophobic comments on Twitter, reports the Detroit Free Press. Dr. Thomas Brennan Brennan had previously been placed on administrative leave in November 2020 for his comments, which included “the N-word regarding Neil

March 1, 2021 | : The faculty senate at the historically Black Fayetteville State University has declared the school’s search for a chancellor a failure, demanding the revocation of Darrell Allison’s appointment and recommending that interim Chancellor Peggy Valentine be installed to the position instead, reports The Fayetteville Observer. Darrell Allison The decision comes amid

March 1, 2021 | : The University of Chicago has appointed “preeminent scientist and entrepreneur” Dr. Paul Alivisatos as its 14th president. Alivisatos is currently executive vice chancellor and provost at the University of California, Berkeley, where he is also a professor and the Samsung Distinguished Chair in Nanoscience and Nanotechnology Research in the Department