Blacks, Latinos Projected to Lead Growth in U.S. Higher Education Enrollments by Ronald Roach
Diverse Issues in Higher Education, March 13, 2014
The U.S. Education Department projects that, between 2011 and 2022, Black and Latino
higher education enrollment growth will surge by 26 and 27 percent, respectively.
Black Scholars: Sincerity Key to Academy's Dealing with Faculty Prospects by Reginald Stuart
Diverse Issues in Higher Education, January 23, 2014
Colleges and universities looking for advice on best practices for recruiting and
retaining faculty of color, got candid advice here Thursday from three Black scholars
offering tips based on their own experiences navigating the academy.
Seeing the Toll, Schools Revise Zero Tolerance by Lizette Alvarez
The New York Times, December 2, 2013
Faced with mounting evident that get-tough policies in schools are leading to arrest
records, low academic achievement and high dropout rates that especially affect minority
students, cities and school districts around the country are rethinking their approach
to minor offenses.
Teaching Structural Racism in the Classroom
MSNBC.com, December 8, 2013
English Professor Shannon Gibney joins to discuss the challenges she faced in teaching
structural racism in her classroom.
Young people say online slurs common, but not OK by Connie Cass
The Odessa American, November 20, 2013
Most young people say they aren't very offended about the slurs and mean-spirited
videos mocking overweight people or gays or blacks that they encounter on social networking
sites like Facebook and Twitter.
Report ranks Springfield low in gay equality by Jonathan Shorman
News-Leader, November 20, 2013
A new report on gay and lesbian equality gives Kansas City and St. Louis perfect scores,
but Springfield is far behind.
Accelerated Programs Address Diversity Issues in Nursing by Lois Elfman
Diverse Issues in Higher Education, October 31, 2013
America is facing a nursing shortage. According to the American Nurses Association
(ANA), the median age of nurses is 46, and more than 50 percent of the nursing workforce
is close to retirement.
Barneys case stirs talk of 'Shopping While Black' by Jesse Washington
The Odessa American/Associated Press, October 29, 2013
The usual scenario involves suspicious glances, inattentive clerks or rude service,
not handcuffs. Yet when a black teen said he was wrongly jailed after buying a $350
belt at a Manhattan luxury store, it struck a nerve in African-Americans accustomed
to finding that their money is not necessarily as good as everyone else's.
Enrollment numbers declining in Missouri by Tim Barker
McClatchy-Tribune
The University of Missouri-Columbia needs to find 638 students over the next few weeks
to avoid ending a winning streak that started in 1995. Since then, the school has
managed to grow - sometimes by a little, and sometimes by a lot - every year.
50 Years Later by Charles M. Blow
New York Times, August 23, 2013
As we approach the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington, I have a gnawing in
my gut, an uneasy sense of society and its racial reality.
Women as a Force for Change by Nicholas D. Kristof
New York Times, July 31, 2013
As "women's empowerment" has become a buss phrase in the last few years, some people
are pushing back. They resent this as the latest fad in political correctness, a liberal
mission to troll for support from woolly-minded female voters.
U.S. Higher Education Deeply Stratified Along Racial Lines, Study Says by Ronald Roach
Diverse Issues in Higher Education, July 31, 2013
Since the mid-1990s, student enrollment in American higher education has grown increasingly
stratified along racial lines with White students overwhelmingly populating the "468
most well-funded, selective four-year colleges and universities while African-American
and Hispanic students are more and more concentrated in the 3,250 least well-funded,
open-access, two- and four-year colleges," according to a study just released by the
Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce (CEW).
U.S. Higher-Education System Perpetuates White Privilege, Report Says by Casey McDermott
The Chronicle of Higher Education, July 31, 2013
Colleges and universities have succeeded in attracting more underrepresented-minority
students, but that increased access for black and Hispanic students has been accompanied
by increasing campus polarization on the basis of race and ethnicity, says a report
released on Wednesday by Georgetown University's Center on Education and the Workforce.
80 Percent of U.S. Adults Face Near-Poverty, Unemployment: Survey by Hope Yen
The Huffington Post, July 28, 2013
Four out of 5 U.S. adults struggle with joblessness, near-poverty or reliance on welfare
for at least parts of their lives, a sign of deteriorating economic security and an
elusive American dream.
President Offers a Personal Take on Race in U.S. by Mark Landler
New York Times, July 19, 2013
In his most extensive remarks on race since 2008, President Obama spoke in personal
terms about the experience of being a black man in the United States.
Nation of Mutts by David Brooks
New York Times, June 27, 2013
There's a fluid, hybrid New America before us. What is this really going to look like?
What does it mean?
Beyond Black and White, New Force Reshapes South by Jonathan Martin
New York Times, June 25, 2013
Despite the Supreme Court's ruling on voting rights, a temptation to gerrymander districts
could harm the G.O.P.'s long-term prospects.
The Fight for Black Men by Joshua DuBois
Newsweek, June 19, 2013
There are more African-Americans on probation, parole, or in prison today than were
slaves in 1850. It is not a crisis of crime. It is a crisis of people being left behind.