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- ‘Just in Case,’ Is That Our New Anthem These Days?
  by James B. Ewers Jr.
  In 2017, Black men in America walk a dangerous walk. The relationship between Black men and the police is problematic, at best.
  
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  Frozen Place University
  by Marcus Bright
  I wrote in March about the concept of “The Sunken Place” as portrayed in the movie “Get Out.” This piece will lay out some of the characteristics of a “Frozen Place,” where a person feels stuck in a certain position or station and is unable to progress.
  
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  Sex and Higher Ed? Pitino’s Light Punishment Says It All
  by Emil Guillermo
  The NCAA Committee on Infractions just showed how its moral compass sort of points the right way. It just didn’t have the guts to mete out the punishment deserving of the crime.
  
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- HBCU Leaders Aim to Make Campuses More LGBTQ Inclusive
  by Gia Savage
  
  HBCU presidents and executives convened a summit to develop more strategic ways to turn their campuses into safe spaces for students that identify as LGBTQ.
  
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  Lehigh University Suspends Fraternity for Alcohol Violations
  by Associated Press
  BETHLEHEM, Pa. — Lehigh University officials have suspended a fraternity following several alcohol-related code of conduct violations at the eastern Pennsylvania campus. A blog run by the Office of Fraternity and Sorority Affairs states police cited more than 40 students for underage drinking at an event hosted by Kappa Sigma in April. The university decided […]
  
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  Student Leaders Want to Ban Athletes Convicted of Sex Crime
  by Nicholas K. Geranios, Associated Press
  
  SPOKANE, Wash. — Student leaders at Washington State University are asking administrators to adopt a policy that prevents the recruitment of any athlete who has been convicted of a sex-related crime. They sent the request in a letter in late June to WSU President Kirk Schulz and Director of Athletics Bill Moos. “This is part […]
  
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  Higgins’ Ouster at Claremont Colleges Reignites Faculty Speech Controversy
  
  Veterans Groups’ Objective: Defend Educational Protections
  
  Harvard’s Graduate Theater Program Suspends Admissions
  
  Florida GOP Candidate: Guns Should be Allowed on Campuses
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- Arizona Ex-lawmaker Wants Immigrant Tuition Decision Barred
  by Clarice Silber, Associated Press
  
  PHOENIX — A former legislator who championed most of Arizona’s toughest immigration laws is threatening to sue the state university system over its decision to at least temporarily keep providing lower in-state tuition rates for immigrants granted deferred deportation status. Former state Senate President Russell Pearce says a 2006 voter-enacted law prohibits public benefits for […]
  
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  Student Group Sues College in Michigan Over Speech Policy
  by Associated Press
  CLINTON TOWNSHIP, Mich. — A conservative nonprofit student group at a community college in southeastern Michigan has sued the school, saying its policy of requiring permission for public speech violates members’ First Amendment rights. Attorneys representing Turning Point USA say the Macomb Community College chapter is challenging the school’s expressive activity policy in a federal […]
  
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  Money Woes Forcing Oregon to Alter Community College Promise
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  PORTLAND, Ore. — The Oregon Promise may not be kept to students from wealthier families. The program approved by lawmakers two years ago allows students to attend community college for nearly free, after scholarships and grants are subtracted from the tuition bill. The Oregonian/OregonLive reports lawmakers have budgeted $40 million for the program over the […]
  
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  Industry Pitching In to Support Higher Ed ESL
  
  Mississippi’s Largest Community College Warned by Accreditor
  
  AAUP Adds 2 Institutions, Removes 2 From Censure List
  
  Boston Bridge Program Aims to Put College Within Residents’ Reach
Disabilities
- Students With Disabilities: We Want Our Fair Chance at College
  by Ya-Marie Sesay
  
  Students with disabilities deserve access to higher education to achieve their dreams and goals like everyone else. That is the message several panelists delivered Thursday at a session on the Improving Access to Higher Education Act.
  
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  MBA for Mom Who Went to All Classes with Quadriplegic Son
  by Associated Press
  ORANGE, Calif. — A Southern California university has awarded an honorary degree to the mother of a quadriplegic student after she attended every class with him and took his notes while he pursued his Master of Business Administration. Judy O’Connor, a retired elementary school teacher, pushed her son Marty in his wheelchair for him to […]
  
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  Diverse Docket: College’s Religious Affiliation no Shield Against Bias Complaint
  by Eric Freedman
  
  A private college’s religious affiliation doesn’t automatically shield it from liability for racial discrimination, the Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania has ruled.
  
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  Blind Chemist Creates STEM Curriculum for Sightless Children
  
  Vega’s Poor Start Benefits At-risk Population
  
  Diverse Docket: Court Rules Kankakee CC Did Not Violate Religious Rights
  
  Diverse Docket: Appeals Court Backs Lamar Institute of Technology
International
- Southern New Hampshire U. Showing Refugees A New Path
  by Tiffany Pennamon
  
  Southern New Hampshire University (SNHU) is paving the way as one of the first American institutions to grant online degrees to students living in refugee camps.
  
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  Report: International Student Yield for U.S. Colleges Holds Steady
  by Jamaal Abdul-Alim
  Despite fears that international students might stay away from the U.S. because of President Donald Trump’s proposed travel ban, which has been partially permitted pending Supreme Court review, that doesn’t appear to be happening this fall, a new survey has found.
  
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  Syrian Doctor Caught in Travel Ban Gives Up, Moves to Canada
  by Jennifer McDermott, Associated Press
  
  PROVIDENCE, R.I. — A Syrian doctor says he won’t return to the United States to finish his studies at Brown University because of the Trump administration’s travel ban. Khaled Almilaji said Wednesday there’s too much uncertainty, even though he possibly could get a student visa under the scaled-back version of the ban. The administration has […]
  
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  Father of Missing Chinese Scholar: ‘Give My Daughter Back’
  
  Guillermo: Diversity Loses When Public Schools Go ‘Private’
  
  South Korean Police Arrest Suspect in University Explosion
  
  Paris Prosecutor Charges Notre Dame Attacker
Sports
- Student Leaders Want to Ban Athletes Convicted of Sex Crime
  by Nicholas K. Geranios, Associated Press
  
  SPOKANE, Wash. — Student leaders at Washington State University are asking administrators to adopt a policy that prevents the recruitment of any athlete who has been convicted of a sex-related crime. They sent the request in a letter in late June to WSU President Kirk Schulz and Director of Athletics Bill Moos. “This is part […]
  
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  Baylor: NCAA Investigation ‘Ongoing, Pending’
  by Jim Vertuno, Associated Press
  AUSTIN, Texas — The NCAA is conducting an “ongoing, pending investigation” into Baylor University in the wake of a sexual assault scandal that led to the firing of football coach Art Briles and the departure of the school president, the school’s lawyers confirmed in a federal court filing. Baylor officials acknowledged the investigation while asking […]
  
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  NCAA Suspends Pitino After Escort Investigation
  by Gary B. Graves, Associated Press
  
  LOUISVILLE, Ky. — The NCAA has suspended Louisville basketball coach Rick Pitino for five Atlantic Coast Conference games following its sex scandal investigation. The governing body also Thursday placed the basketball program on four years’ probation, vacated wins in which ineligible players participated and handed down a 10-year show-cause order for former basketball operations director […]
  
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  University of Delaware Opens Concussion Clinic
  
  Audit: Iowa Athletics IT Director Submitted False Invoices
  
  UNC Responds to 3rd Set of NCAA Charges in Academic Case
  
  Report: Minnesota Athletics Official Broke Harassment Policy
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- HBCU Leaders Aim to Make Campuses More LGBTQ Inclusive
  by Gia Savage
  HBCU presidents and executives convened a summit to develop more strategic ways to turn their campuses into safe spaces for students that identify as LGBTQ.
  
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  Black Former Professor Files Pay Bias Complaint Against Campbell University
  by Walter Hudson
  A Black former law professor whose discrimination battle against Campbell University boiled over into Christian radio and social media on July 7, has filed a new federal complaint against the Raleigh, N.C. law school.
  
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  Bethune-Cookman Appoints Interim President Grimes
  by Gia Savage
  Bethune-Cookman University has appointed its general counsel, retired judge Hubert Grimes, to take on the position of interim president in the absence of its former leader, Dr. Edison O. Jackson. Grimes also serves as the director for the Center for Law and Social Justice at B-CU. Grimes’s election comes after Jackson, the university’s sixth president, […]
  
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  For Burnim, Integrity at Heart of Success
  
  Moses C. Norman Dies; Retired Clark Atlanta University Dean
  
  Many HBCUs Feel Bethune-Cookman’s Pain on Leadership Issue
  
  Bethune-Cookman President Jackson Retiring
Native Americans
- Experts: Colleges’ Media Messages Need Diverse Appeal
  by Catherine Morris
  As the U.S. looks ahead to a “majority-minority” future, colleges and universities ought to make an effort to broaden their outreach to diverse audiences, according to Alberto Avendano, Washington bureau chief of the National Association of Hispanic Publications.
  
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  ‘New Life’ Initiative to Recruit American Indian Students
  by James Nord, Associated Press
  SIOUX FALLS, S.D. — South Dakota State University President Barry Dunn says he can see a future in which reservation hospitals and health centers across South Dakota employ pharmacists and lab scientists educated at his school, with doctors and administrators also trained at institutions in the state. The land-grant university is pursuing a new initiative […]
  
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  Law School Program Provides Free Wills to Native Americans
  by Associated Press
  UPPER FRUITLAND, N.M. — A University of Denver program is helping Native Americans draft wills, helping overcome a cultural aversion to discuss death. About 20 law students from the University of Denver Sturm College of Law visited the Upper Fruitland Chapter of the Navajo Nation to help tribe members draft wills, The Daily Times reported. […]
  
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  Ponca Tribe’s History Played Key Role at Conference
  
  University of Wyoming President Reaches Out to Reservation Schools
  
  Mique’l Dangeli Puts Indigenous Art on Center Stage
  
  Haskell Indian Nations University’s Attorneys: School not Subject to Title IX
Asian/Pacific Islanders
- Ivy League Historian Returns Prize After Citations Questions
  by Associated Press
  NEW YORK — A Columbia University professor who specializes in modern Korean and East Asian history has returned a 2014 prize he received from the American Historical Association after some sources in the winning book were questioned. Charles K. Armstrong, author of “Tyranny of the Weak: North Korea and the World, 1950-1992,” won the association’s […]
  
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  Supporters Stop Where Scholar Last Seen in Illinois
  by Associated Press
  CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — University of Illinois students and others from the wider community gathered at the Urbana-Champaign campus to show support for a Chinese scholar who disappeared three weeks ago. Thursday’s event started at the Krannert Center when participants walked to a bus stop where 26-year-old Yingying Zhang was last seen. She got into a […]
  
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  Mystery of Missing Chinese Scholar Shakes Up University of Illinois
  by Michael Tarm and Didi Tang, Associated Press
  CHICAGO — Yingying Zhang, the daughter of a working-class factory driver from China, took the same career path as many other young Chinese academics before her: She travelled to a university in the U.S. with dreams of one day landing a professorship and being able to help her parents financially. But just weeks after arriving […]
  
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  Researchers Look to Census Data for Keys to Improving Educational Outcomes
  
  Scholar Documents Economic War on Chinese Restaurants
  
  Father of Missing Chinese Scholar: ‘Give My Daughter Back’
  
  University of Missouri Might Revoke Cosby’s Honorary Degree
Latinos
- Fight Flares in Arizona Over Tuition for Young Immigrants
  by Clarice Silber, Associated Press
  PHOENIX — A former Arizona lawmaker known as the driving force behind most of the state’s toughest immigration laws is moving to challenge the university system for temporarily allowing young immigrants protected from deportation to keep paying lower-cost in-state tuition. It comes after a court ruled that students in the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, […]
  
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  Guillermo: U. of California Achieves Diversity Despite Prop. 209
  by Emil Guillermo
  In 1996, Californians passed a law written and supported by right-wing zealots trying to stop diversity and affirmative action efforts throughout the state.
  
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  CCNY, UTEP Team Up to Increase Hispanic Faculty in STEM
  by Gia Savage
  City College of New York and the University of Texas at El Paso have joined forces in an effort to increase the number of Hispanic faculty in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) programs at higher education institutions.
  
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  Experts: Colleges’ Media Messages Need Diverse Appeal
  
  Researchers Look to Census Data for Keys to Improving Educational Outcomes
  
  SUNY Albany Appoints its First Latino President
  
  Arizona Court Overturns In-state Tuition for DREAMERs
LGBT
- HBCU Leaders Aim to Make Campuses More LGBTQ Inclusive
  by Gia Savage
  HBCU presidents and executives convened a summit to develop more strategic ways to turn their campuses into safe spaces for students that identify as LGBTQ.
  
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  Higgins’ Ouster at Claremont Colleges Reignites Faculty Speech Controversy
  by Gia Savage
  Dr. Jonathan Higgins, an educator and advocate for social justice issues that affect the Black and LGBTQ community, was recently fired from his position with the Queer Resource Center of Claremont Colleges in California, because of his “tweets and social media presence.”
  
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  Student Group Sues College in Michigan Over Speech Policy
  by Associated Press
  CLINTON TOWNSHIP, Mich. — A conservative nonprofit student group at a community college in southeastern Michigan has sued the school, saying its policy of requiring permission for public speech violates members’ First Amendment rights. Attorneys representing Turning Point USA say the Macomb Community College chapter is challenging the school’s expressive activity policy in a federal […]
  
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  Northwestern Opens Gender-neutral, Multi-stall Bathroom
  
  Yale Sues Connecticut Over Gender-neutral Restrooms
  
  University of Kansas Dorm Wing to Cater to LGBT Students
  
  Campus Minister No Longer Faces Discipline for Same-sex Wedding
MILITARY
- Veterans Groups’ Objective: Defend Educational Protections
  by Monica Levitan
  After hearing that the Trump Administration is taking action to decrease students’ financial rights, 33 veterans and military service organizations have been voicing their concerns of how badly these actions will harm veterans and their families.
  
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  Military Hero Bill McRaven Having Trouble as Texas Chancellor
  by Jim Vertuno, Associated Press
  AUSTIN, Texas — Bill McRaven came to Texas an American military hero, charged with leading one of the country’s largest public university systems at a time it needed a steady hand. The retired Navy Admiral and former special operations leader, who planned the raid that killed Osama Bin Laden, now faces an uncertain future as […]
  
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  Case Western Offering Military Ethics Graduate Degree
  by Associated Press
  CLEVELAND — Officials with Case Western Reserve University say the Ohio school’s new graduate program in military ethics is the first of its kind in the country. Cleveland.com reports the Master of Arts in Military Ethics program allows students to earn a specialized degree that would prepare them for careers in military ethics, law, foreign […]
  
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  University of Memphis Plans Veterans Care Center on Campus
  
  White Military Veterans Settling in at HBCUs
  
  Texas Program ‘Guarantees’ Technical Jobs After Graduation
  
  Regents Name Richard Myers New Kansas State President
Women
- BYU-Idaho Professor Fired After Showing LGBT Support on Facebook
  by Associated Press
  REXBURG, Idaho — A former Brigham Young University-Idaho professor says she was fired after posting a critical view of the Mormon church’s policies against same-sex couples on Facebook. Former political science professor and LDS church member Ruthie Robertson wrote a lengthy Facebook post in favor of equal rights for the LGBT community during Pride Month […]
  
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  Diversity Pacesetter Maryam Mirzakhani Dies
  by Emil Guillermo
  Stanford professor Maryam Mirzakhani, first and only female winner of prestigious Fields Medal in math, succumbs to cancer.
  
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  Building Where Sanders’ Wife Was College President is Sold
  by Associated Press
  BURLINGTON, Vt. — A Vermont building that housed a now-defunct college where U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders’ wife was president has been sold at auction. The Burlington Free Press reports People’s United Bank took ownership of the former Burlington College property Wednesday for $3.1 million, about $650,000 less than the college has in debts. Developer Eris […]
  
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  Southern New Hampshire U. Showing Refugees A New Path
  
  Baylor Settles Lawsuit with Woman Who Alleged Sexual Assault
  
  Protesters: Rehire Adjunct Fired for Fox News Commentary
  
  Alabama Program Aims to Recruit Hispanic Nurses

University of Michigan Announces Efforts to Address Poverty

University of Washington Gets $210M from Gates Foundation

Background vs. Behaviors: Understanding Underserved Populations through Noncognitive Assessment

Transforming Minority Student Success from the Top Down and Bottom Up

Higher Education Access and Opportunity in a Shifting Legal Landscape

Background vs. Behaviors:
Understanding Underserved Populations through Noncognitive Assessment

Transforming Minority
Student Success
from the Top Down
and Bottom Up