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- Hands Up, Hands Down! It Doesn’t Matter
  by Dr. James Ewers
  I was talking to one of my childhood friends today about the shooting of an unarmed African-American male in Tulsa, Oklahoma. His remark about the shootings of Black men by police officers made me realize one thing. These shootings will not stop. There may be a temporary respite from time to time but the shooting […]
  
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  Is the Sordid Birther Chapter Really Closed?
  by Dr. Elwood Watson
  A few days ago, Donald Trump finally admitted what the rational and sane among us always had known ― that President Obama was born in the United States.
  
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  Education the Ticket for Success
  by James B Ewers Jr.
  Having a solid education will help you in your future endeavors. This is what many of us know, not what we think.
  
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  Kaepernick, Race and the Hypocrisy of the American Public
  
  Let’s Not Forget the Racism, White Privilege Brought to Light by 2016 Olympics
  
  Diversity a Winner at Olympics
  
  After 20-plus AAJA Conferences, Achieving Diversity in Media No Different Now, Maybe Even Harder
News
- Experts Say Latino Student Enrollment Outpacing Faculty Growth
  by Catherine Morris
  
  Between 2003 and 2014, the percentage of Latinos among all faculty members grew from 2 to 4 percent, while the ratio of Latino students to Latino faculty rose from 80:1 to 90:1 over the same period.
  
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  Professor: Islam Viewed Through Distorted Lens
  by Jamaal Abdul-Alim
  Georgetown University professor says Islam gets viewed through a distorted lens that impacts foreign policy.
  
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  South African Police Battle Stone-throwing Students
  by Christopher Torchia, Associated Press
  
  JOHANNESBURG ― South African police battled students on a university campus on Thursday in the latest violence over protesters’ calls for free education, a demand that the government has dismissed as unrealistic in a country with a weak economy. Police fired tear gas at stone-throwing students on the University of KwaZulu-Natal campus in the city […]
  
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  Ghana Professors Campaign for Removal of New Gandhi Statue
  
  Ky. Supreme Court says Gov. Bevin Cannot Cut University Budgets
  
  Amid Scrutiny, For-profit Colleges See Enrollment Slide
  
  Illinois Gets $1.8M for Low-income Students Taking AP Tests
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Community College
- Texas Southmost College President Lily Tercero Fired
  by Associated Press
  
  BROWNSVILLE, Texas ― The president of a South Texas community college has been fired amid issues with its vocational nursing program and a new windstorm insurance contract. Trustees of Texas Southmost College in Brownsville voted Monday to dismiss President Lily Tercero. The college earlier this year was put on “conditional approval status” by the Texas […]
  
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  Laramie County Community College Accused of Discrimination
  by Associated Press
  CHEYENNE, Wyo. ― Laramie County Community College is under federal investigation for a sexual discrimination complaint. The student body was informed Friday that the U.S. Department of Education Office for Civil Rights opened an investigation in February into allegations that the college had discriminated on the basis of sex in its response to a complaint […]
  
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  Help Available for Displaced ITT Tech Students
  by Catherine Morris
  
  According to the U.S. Department of Education, students who were attending the now-defunct ITT Tech will have access to closed school loan discharges and can also transfer credits to other institutions.
  
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  Calif. Community College Promise Programs Expanding
  
  Report: Free College Proposal a Threat to Private Colleges, Diversity
  
  Enrollment Numbers Early Sign of Success for Colleges
  
  Helene Fuld College of Nursing Tops List of Best Community Colleges
Disabilities
- University of Alaska Southeast Students Using Disability Services Quintuples from 2008
  by Associated Press
  
  JUNEAU, Alaska ―The number of students using disability services at the University of Alaska Southeast is more than five times what it was in 2008. There were 23 students at the Juneau campus using those services eight years ago, when the Americans with Disabilities Act broadened its definition of disability. Since then, that number has […]
  
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  Diverse Docket: Professor’s Bias Suit Against John Jay College Rejected
  by Eric Freedman
  A federal judge has rejected a race discrimination and retaliation suit by an African-American assistant professor of economics who failed to win tenure and promotion at John Jay College of Criminal Justice.
  
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  UAB to Improve Access after Disabilities Act Complaint
  by Associated Press
  
  BIRMINGHAM, Ala. ― The University of Alabama at Birmingham has reached a settlement to ensure equal access for people with disabilities to the university’s facilities. U.S. Attorney Joyce White Vance said in a news release Wednesday that the agreement was reached after a UAB student filed a complaint under the Americans with Disabilities Act, saying […]
  
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  Judge’s OK Sought to Settle Blind Student’s Suit Against Miami University
  
  School Settles Suit over Support Animals in Student Housing
  
  Diverse Docket: African-American Student Loses Bias Suit Against Valparaiso
  
  MSU Gets Nearly $290K to Support Students With Disabilities
International
- South African Police Battle Stone-throwing Students
  by Christopher Torchia, Associated Press
  
  JOHANNESBURG ― South African police battled students on a university campus on Thursday in the latest violence over protesters’ calls for free education, a demand that the government has dismissed as unrealistic in a country with a weak economy. Police fired tear gas at stone-throwing students on the University of KwaZulu-Natal campus in the city […]
  
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  Ghana Professors Campaign for Removal of New Gandhi Statue
  by Brennan Weiss, Associated Press
  ACCRA, Ghana ― Professors at a university in Ghana’s capital are campaigning for the removal of a new statue of Indian independence leader Mohandas Gandhi. The petition, delivered Thursday to the University of Ghana’s governing council, takes issue with what the professors call Gandhi’s “racist identity” and controversial references to Africans in his writings. Launched […]
  
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  South Africa says OK to University Fee Hikes, Amid Protests
  by Associated Press
  
  JOHANNESBURG ― South Africa’s government says universities in the country can increase fees by no more than 8 percent next year, despite student warnings that they would protest against any new hikes. Blade Nzimande, the education minister, said Monday that financial constraints make it impossible to provide free higher education, as some protesters have demanded. […]
  
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  Experts: Billing of Foreign Students a Gray Area
  
  Ex-Berkeley Law School Dean Sues Over Sex Harassment Probe
  
  Airbnb Boosts Study Abroad in China
  
  Militants Attack American University in Afghanistan
VIDEO
- Engaging Latino Students for Transfer and Completion
  by Evelyn Waiwaiole, Jillian Kinzie and Sarita Brown
  
  Both community colleges and bachelor’s degree-granting institutions across the country are responding to a chorus of calls for dramatic improvements in student success and college completion.
  
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  UDC President: America Needs to Address Relationship With Black Men
  by Jamaal Abdul-Alim
  University of the District of Columbia President Ron Mason speaks out after the violent arrest of a young Black man on the college campus.
  
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  Obama Spends His Birthday With Startup Innovators
  by Stacy A. Anderson, Associated Press
  
  President Barack Obama spent his 54th birthday talking to a robotic teddy bear that teaches children how to manage their diabetes and watching a radio waves demonstration used to detect senior falls.
  
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  Exchange Program Expands Horizons of African-American Males
  
  Belle Wheelan’s Drive Pays Off for Higher Education
  
  Thomas Sanchez Commencement Speech at Northwest Missouri State University
  
  Michelle Obama Tells Tuskegee Grads How Racism Hits Home
Sports
- Why Must College Athletes Face Rules Double Jeopardy?
  by Robin L. Hughes
  
  Athletes who participate in schools p-20 are held accountable by two sets of standards: by the school as an organization and the athletic program.
  
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  Mike Lonergan Out as George Washington University Coach after Investigation
  by Associated Press
  WASHINGTON ― George Washington University has fired basketball coach Mike Lonergan. University provost Forrest Maltzman announced the move in a statement Saturday, which said Lonergan was no longer coach following an internal investigation. “The university has created and is committed to maintaining a community where all students, faculty and staff feel welcome and comfortable,” Maltzman […]
  
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  2 Black Athletic Conferences Rethinking Holding Tournaments in North Carolina
  by Catherine Morris
  
  Two Black athletic conferences have not moved scheduled championship events out of North Carolina in the wake of the state’s passage of a controversial law restricting transgender bathroom use but have not ruled it out.
  
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  Doctor Accused by 2 Gymnasts Cleared in Previous Complaint
  
  NCAA President Mark Emmert: We Won’t Push ACC on Bathroom Law
  
  NCAA Pulls 7 Events Out of North Carolina Due to LGBT Law
  
  Texas Asks State Supreme Court to Block Track Coach Lawsuit
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African-Americans
- Highly Anticipated African American History Museum Begins Its Mission
  by Reginald Stuart
  Thousands of people are expected to gather this weekend to celebrate the opening, see and tour the Smithsonian Institution’s new and massive National Museum of African American History and Culture.
  
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  South African Police Battle Stone-throwing Students
  by Christopher Torchia, Associated Press
  JOHANNESBURG ― South African police battled students on a university campus on Thursday in the latest violence over protesters’ calls for free education, a demand that the government has dismissed as unrealistic in a country with a weak economy. Police fired tear gas at stone-throwing students on the University of KwaZulu-Natal campus in the city […]
  
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  Amid Scrutiny, For-profit Colleges See Enrollment Slide
  by Collin Binkley, Associated Press
  Some of the nation’s largest for-profit colleges are suffering steep declines in enrollment amid growing competition, new regulation and government pressure that led to the collapse this month of one of the industry’s biggest players, ITT Technical Institute. The industry has been losing students for the past six years, but the crisis appears to be […]
  
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  Benedict College President David Swinton Retiring
  
  Students Protest Racial Incidents at American University
  
  Is the Sordid Birther Chapter Really Closed?
  
  Presidential Politics Tough? Higher Ed Version at FAMU no Less Harsh
Native Americans
- California Puts High School Ethnic Studies Officially on the Books
  by Jamal Eric Watson
  California’s Governor Jerry Brown has signed a bill that will now mandate the teaching of ethnic studies in every public high school across the state.
  
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  Higher Ed Gets Opportunity to Benchmark Diversity
  by Jamaal Abdul-Alim
  The Global Diversity & Inclusion Benchmark tool — also known as the GDIB — is being made available for the first time in its 10-year history to colleges and universities.
  
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  Tribal Culture, Oil Access Collide in North Dakota
  by Catherine Morris
  Members of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe and their supporters, who have been protesting the construction of the pipeline daily, are attempting to peacefully stop the bulldozing of the site.
  
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  Calif. High School Ethnic Studies in Governor’s Hands Now
  
  Diverse Conversations: Professoriate Still Lacking in Diversity
  
  University of Wisconsin-Madison to Test Diversity Program
  
  Diversity Candidate? Trump’s No Voice for Diversity
Asian/Pacific Islanders
- California Puts High School Ethnic Studies Officially on the Books
  by Jamal Eric Watson
  California’s Governor Jerry Brown has signed a bill that will now mandate the teaching of ethnic studies in every public high school across the state.
  
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  Airbnb Boosts Study Abroad in China
  by Jamaal Abdul-Alim
  In a move that U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said Monday should inspire other businesses to do the same, Airbnb — the multibillion Internet company — committed $80,000 a year for the next three years to support study abroad in China.
  
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  Higher Ed Gets Opportunity to Benchmark Diversity
  by Jamaal Abdul-Alim
  The Global Diversity & Inclusion Benchmark tool — also known as the GDIB — is being made available for the first time in its 10-year history to colleges and universities.
  
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  University Study Finds Inequality Unchanged in Hollywood
  
  At the Bottom of the Resource Gap Lies the Diversity Desert
  
  Calif. High School Ethnic Studies in Governor’s Hands Now
  
  The Donald Discovers Diversity
Latinos
- Experts Say Latino Student Enrollment Outpacing Faculty Growth
  by Catherine Morris
  Between 2003 and 2014, the percentage of Latinos among all faculty members grew from 2 to 4 percent, while the ratio of Latino students to Latino faculty rose from 80:1 to 90:1 over the same period.
  
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  Scholar: Texas Textbook an ‘Intentional Assault’ on Psyche of Mexican American Students
  by Roberto Rodriguez
  After reading the proposed Mexican American Heritage textbook for Texas students last week by Jaime Riddle and Valarie Angle, I can without hesitation state that it is obscene and extremely offensive.
  
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  California Puts High School Ethnic Studies Officially on the Books
  by Jamal Eric Watson
  California’s Governor Jerry Brown has signed a bill that will now mandate the teaching of ethnic studies in every public high school across the state.
  
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  Higher Ed Gets Opportunity to Benchmark Diversity
  
  UTSA President Ricardo Romo to Retire Next Year
  
  Organizations Launch Campaign to Bring Facts to Light about MSIs
  
  University Study Finds Inequality Unchanged in Hollywood
LGBT
- 2 Black Athletic Conferences Rethinking Holding Tournaments in North Carolina
  by Catherine Morris
  Two Black athletic conferences have not moved scheduled championship events out of North Carolina in the wake of the state’s passage of a controversial law restricting transgender bathroom use but have not ruled it out.
  
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  NCAA President Mark Emmert: We Won’t Push ACC on Bathroom Law
  by Ralph D. Russo, Associated Press
  NCAA President Mark Emmert says it is up to the Atlantic Coast Conference to decide whether it wants to follow the association’s lead and pull events out of North Carolina because of a state law that limits anti-discrimination protections for LGBT people. In an interview Tuesday with The Associated Press, Emmert said the association expects […]
  
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  NCAA Pulls 7 Events Out of North Carolina Due to LGBT Law
  by Aaron Beard, Associated Press
  Basketball-crazed North Carolina has lost its next chance to host NCAA men’s basketball tournament games along with several other championship events due to a state law that some say can lead to discrimination against LGBT people. And the fallout may not be over. After the NCAA announced it is pulling seven championship events from North […]
  
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  University Study Finds Inequality Unchanged in Hollywood
  
  LGBTQ Inclusion Summit Series Kicks off at Virginia State University
  
  University of Hawaii Opens All-gender Restrooms
  
  California Lawmaker Drops Lawsuits in Religious School Bill
MILITARY
- Diverse Docket: Ousted Ohio State Band Director Loses Bias Suit
  by Eric Freedman
  The ousted marching band director at The Ohio State University has lost his Title IX suit accusing the school of gender bias.
  
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  Disgrace, End of Army Career Haunted Gunman
  by Frank Bajak, Garance Burke, Reese Dunklin and Juliet Linderman, Associated Press
  DALLAS — He was disarmed in the middle of a war zone and placed under 24-hour escort. The most humiliating part was that everyone in Micah Johnson’s unit in Afghanistan knew why: He was accused of stealing a female soldier’s panties. Johnson’s aspirations to a military career were over. Now he faced removal from the […]
  
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  Morgan, Other Colleges Luring Dropouts to Return
  by Carrie Wells, The Baltimore Sun
  Every weekday for a few years, Malik Mosley switched from a full-time worker to a full-time student at 8 a.m., when he finished his overnight shift at an Aberdeen warehouse and drove to class at Morgan State University.
  He managed that workload until a family member suffered an illness in 2013.
  
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  Murder-Suicide a Year Later: Understanding PTSD
  
  Campus Housing Rule Exempts Military, Veterans
  
  Veterans’ Tuition Program Spared Cuts
  
  Court to Reprimand Judge for Aid to Expelled Veteran
Women
- Students Protest Racial Incidents at American University
  by Associated Press
  WASHINGTON ― American University students are demanding the suspension of two White students accused of throwing a banana at a Black woman in a dorm this month. An interracial crowd of hundreds gathered Monday to demand changes. Another Black student on the same floor of the dorm, Neah Gray, tells media outlets that she found […]
  
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  Presidential Politics Tough? Higher Ed Version at FAMU no Less Harsh
  by Emil Guillermo
  In the politics of higher ed, trust and likeability matters as well. Just ask Florida A&M University’s now former president, Elmira Mangum.
  
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  Manchester University Names Center after Activist Jean Childs Young
  by Associated Press
  NORTH MANCHESTER, Ind. ― Manchester University has announced it will name a $1 million intercultural center in memory of Jean Childs Young, an educator and human rights activist and the late wife of former U.N. Ambassador Andrew Young. Young graduated from Manchester in 1954 and she served Manchester as a trustee from 1975 to 1979. […]
  
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  Diverse Docket: Judge Rules Title IX Suit Against University of Kentucky can go Forward
  
  Mangum Out as Florida A&M University President
  
  Wesleyan University Settles Professor’s Sexual Harassment Lawsuit
  
  Doctor Accused by 2 Gymnasts Cleared in Previous Complaint