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Tag: James Madison University
COVID-19
When Re-Opened Campuses Close, Students Need to Figure Out Where to Go
Campuses across the country re-opened this fall only to close again as COVID-19 cases spiked. The growing list of schools includes California State University, North Carolina State University, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill and James Madison University, among others. But when campuses double-back on re-opening, not all students have alternate housing waiting for them.
September 11, 2020
African-American
Institutional Renaming Efforts Prompt a Reckoning Over the Legacy of Slavery and the Confederacy
For those who made the decision, dismantling James Madison University’s (JMU) almost century-old homage to Confederate Army leaders was a reasoned, necessary choice.
September 2, 2020
Social Justice
Race and Higher Education in Virginia
I remain fascinated by how the higher education landscape has changed. Madison College now is highly competitive James Madison University. The former Northern Virginia campus of the University of Virginia now is George Mason University. Christopher Newport University, Old Dominion University and Virginia Commonwealth University — essentially commuter schools three decades ago — have undergone major transformations.
August 26, 2020
African-American
What’s in a Name? After Years of Student Activism, Universities Rename Campus Buildings
After Black Lives Matter protests across the country, universities face an ongoing flood of petitions from students to change campus building names, which honor historic figures tied to slave ownership and racist policies. And many institutions have recently agreed.
July 16, 2020
COVID-19
Faculty Members Create Petitions to Express Concerns About In-Person Teaching in the Fall
As institutions announce their fall reopening plans, faculty members across the country have expressed their concerns about in-person instruction during the COVID-19 pandemic.
July 16, 2020
News Roundup
Why Two Universities Won’t Change Their Slavery-Linked Names
James Madison University president Jonathan R. Alger said he is making a “strong recommendation” to the institution’s board to immediately remove the names of Confederate military leaders from campus buildings, and Nicholls State University has decided to remove similar names from its campus, but neither institution plans to change its name. Madison, the country’s fourth […]
June 23, 2020
News Roundup
James Madison University Poet Receives Nomination for NAACP Image Award
Dr. Lauren K. Alleyne, an associate professor of English at James Madison University, has been nominated for an NAACP Image Award, given to recognize and celebrate the accomplishments of people of color in literature, music and film and other creative approaches to social justice. The nomination is for her book Honeyfish, her second collection of […]
January 17, 2020
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Furious Flower Poetry Center Celebrating 25 Years
In September 1994, if you were a Black poet or needed assurance that Black poetry and its writers were not extinct but alive, cra¬fting, publishing, teaching and flourishing, then the inaugural Furious Flower Poetry Conference at James Madison University was the place to be. Since that first decade-defining gathering 25 years ago, Furious Flower has grown into an internationally recognized center for the study and preservation of Black poetry.
November 8, 2019
Latest News
James Madison University Sets $12 Minimum Wage
James Madison University has adopted a living wage for its full-time employees, setting a $12 per-hour wage. A total of 109 employees who were earning less than $24,960 per year had their wages adjusted to meet the living wage standard.
July 8, 2019
News Roundup
James Madison Honors Enslaved Black Servant in Naming of New Residence Hall
James Madison University has unveiled the new name for a student dormitory in honor of Paul Jennings, an enslaved African-American servant to Founding Father James Madison and his wife, Dolley. Paul Jennings Hall is set to open in the fall on the Harrisonburg campus. It houses 500 beds. Jennings, a witness to the evacuation of […]
February 11, 2019
Latest News
Professor’s Research Rejects Stereotypes of Black Women Athletes
Dr. Tomika Ferguson recalls the words that were the genesis of her ongoing research on women of color in college athletics. As an elite student-athlete, she was once described as a “workhorse” with “natural athletic ability.”
April 5, 2018
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Gathering Addresses Sexual Misconduct, Title IX Solutions
Higher education leaders and the U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights recently gathered in the same room to discuss solutions to the challenges that institutions face addressing sexual misconduct on campus.
March 22, 2018
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