Tag: Civil Rights Act

News Roundup

Trump to Sign Executive Order Targeting Anti-Semitism on Campus

Donald Trump will sign an executive order targeting anti-Semitism on college and university campuses, according to the Associated Press. The order will broaden the federal government’s definition of anti-Semitism, thus allowing schools more opportunities to enforce laws against discrimination while also allowing the government to withhold money from campuses deemed biased. According to the AP, […]

December 11, 2019

Opinion

“Color Blind” Is Not What It Seems

Among the concepts the law has distorted is “color blindness.” When Martin Luther King, Jr., delivered his “I Have a Dream” speech at the National Mall in Washington, D.C. in 1963, before the Civil Rights Act was enacted, he popularized a phrase that has been invoked by those who have not shared his idealism.

November 5, 2019

LGBTQ+

Transgender University Employees Sue Over Insurance Cuts

MADISON, Wis. — Two transgender University of Wisconsin employees are suing the state’s insurance board and the UW System after it stopped covering sex reassignment procedures. The American Civil Liberties Union and the ACLU of Wisconsin on Friday filed a federal lawsuit on behalf of anthropology graduate student Alina Boyden and cancer researcher Shannon Andrews. […]

April 9, 2017

Faculty & Staff

White Boys’ Club? White Faculty Still Dominates in National Stats

Numbers buttress student protestors’ diversity demands.

November 29, 2015

African-American

UNCF, National Achievement Scholarship Team Up on Graduation Capstone Award

The trustees have decided to transition the program from one that honors accomplishment in high school to one that rewards college completion.

September 30, 2015