December 2022

It has been a year of navigating the new normal on many fronts. Enrollment remained down at every level from community colleges to graduate schools, but much of academia showed its persistence and resilience. With the COVID-19 pandemic subsiding, colleges and universities have tried to bring students back to campus and provide fresh inspiration. Although […]

A growing body of research has shown that race-matched instruction—when teachers and learners come from the same background—is beneficial for students. College students have been shown to be likelier to pass courses with race-matched instructors, likelier to receive higher grades in those courses, and likelier to persist in school. Race-matched students were also more likely

Family, it is time for a chat! Pull up a seat or make whatever adjustments that you need to make so that my brothers and I can rap with you. Over the last few days, we have seen countless opinions internal and external to the HBCU community regarding the exit of Coach Prime [Deion Sanders]

Catherine EmmanuelleCatherine Emmanuelle has been appointed director of the Center for Racial and Restorative Justice at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire. She served as area extension director for the University of Wisconsin-Madison Division of Extension. Emmanuelle earned a bachelor’s degree in women’s studies at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire and a master’s in advocacy and

If you want to see the progress of diversity, look no further than the ascendence of Dr. Claudine Gay, the first Black president and the 30th president of Harvard University. As a BIPOC alumn, all I can say is what took so long– 386 years?  That’s apparently how long it takes for diversity to work

Cabrini University has laid off six full-time faculty – three of them were tenured – this month as part of budget cuts to help remedy its financial deficit, The Philadelphia Inquirer reported. The six – 8.7% of the school’s 69 full-time faculty – included faculty in writing and narrative arts, science, math, and visual and

The Taliban government has suspended university education for all female students in Afghanistan, CNN reported. This represents part of the increasing oppression on Afghan women’s rights. Girls were barred from secondary schools in March, after the Taliban ordered schools for girls to shut hours after they were to reopen following closures after the August 2021 Taliban

Vermont Public is buying Northern Vermont University’s (NVU) radio station and turning it into a 24-hour classical music station, VTDigger reported. The station – which broadcasts at WWLR 91.5 – was run by student club WWLR and broadcasted “freeform community radio” to Caledonia County in Vermont and much of Coos County in New Hampshire, according

Buffalo State College has applied to become a university, Buffalo Business First reported. “University status helps recruitment both in the United States and on the international stage,” BSC – which is still waiting on state approval for the move – said in a statement. “Once effective, the change at Buffalo State will also reflect its

The events of 2020 are still resonating. A life-threatening pandemic, disproportionately impacting communities of color and low-income families, and the deaths of Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor, and George Floyd became catalysts for a summer of protests, crystallizing the renewed call for racial justice in America. Dr. Brooke Vick, chief diversity officer, associate provost for equity