Like many of you I followed the trial in the murder of Ahmaud Arbery. Just as the Rev. Al Sharpton said, I thought the trial was historical and could change perceptions of how to deal with race in America. Maybe even in higher ed. Think of what happened. Three white defendants, one a former cop, […]
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Dr. Hakim J. Lucas, president and CEO of Virginia Union UniversityAs the pandemic pushes higher education to reinvent itself amid a racial reckoning, Virginia Union University (VUU), one of the country’s historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs), aims to uplift marginalized communities through a new Workforce Development and Technical Training Initiative. “More and more now,
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In 2019, Dr. Jinho Choi, associate professor of computer science at Emory University, noticed more of his students were struggling with mental health. One day that year, a student confided in Choi that he was suicidal and had been receiving psychiatric treatment. The student said he felt lost and alone. Choi worried about what else
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With the NCAA voting to allow college athletes to benefit from their name, image and likeness this past summer, the moving company College H.U.N.K.S. Hauling Junk has signed an endorsement deal with the Howard University men’s basketball team, reports ESPN. College H.U.N.K.S. Facebook PageSince the NCAA policy change, the moving company has already signed deals
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Four left-leaning student organizations at Arizona State University are demanding their administration remove Kyle Rittenhouse from its enrollment, reports Yahoo News. On Nov. 19, a 12-person jury acquitted Rittenhouse on all charges related to his shooting of three people that killed two and injured one during the riots in Kenosha, Wisconsin, on Aug. 25, 2020.
A former dean of Temple University’s Richard J. Fox School of Business and Management (Fox) has been convicted of fraud on the charge that he knowingly deceived the school’s applicants, students, and donors into believing that the school offered top-ranked business degree programs to boost enrollment and donations, announced United States Attorney Jennifer Arbittier William.
Professors from 15 colleges and universities nationwide will put their trivia skills to the test on the long-running quiz show Jeopardy! this December. While the show has previously had tournaments for full-time undergraduate students, this will be the first time Jeopardy! pits professors against one another. Jeopardy!Hosted by actress Mayim Bialik, the 10-day Professors Tournament
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Dr. Yolande Du Bois Irwin and her grandfather, Dr. W. E. B. Du Bois in 1959.Dr. Yolande Du Bois Irvin, the only grandchild of civil rights icon Dr. W. E. B. Du Bois, died recently in Fort Collins, Colorado. She was 89 years old. Irvin, who followed in the footsteps of her grandfather and family,
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The pandemic has placed an intense burden on health care workers and efforts are underway to increase the health care workforce. In September, the American Nurses Association (ANA) urged the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to declare the nurse staffing shortage a national crisis. In a letter to HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra,
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When I was a youngster growing up in the Arkansas Delta, my siblings and I took turns scouring the pages of the Fall/Winter edition of our Sears Roebuck & Company catalogue. It was a hefty three-inches thick, and we would place
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