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Gaslight: Proving Institutionalized Racism

by Dr. Robin Lee Hughes, July 25, 2010

  In a recent talk, I stated that institutional and structural racist systems of opportunity and privilege still exist in the academy. Noticing the pushback — furrowed brows looked like neon signs plastered on folks’ foreheads — I engaged them in a conversation that went something as follows:  Search committees talk about the

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Why a Focus on Minority Men Means a Focus on the Whole

by Dr. Lorelle L. Espinosa, July 23, 2010

As some may recall, an early blog post featured data and opinion on the state of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) undergraduate degree completion for women of color (including top degree-granting institutions). Although much of my work has addressed the experience of women and women of color in STEM,

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KKK Leader’s Name Erased, But What About UT’s Confederate Statues

by Dr. Ibram Rogers, July 22, 2010

Last week, the University of Texas System Board of Regents voted unanimously to change the name of Simkins Residence Hall at the University of Texas at Austin. In defiance of the 1954 Brown ruling that deemed unconstitutional educational segregation, UT leaders named the newly constructed residence hall after William Stewart Simkins,

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Colleges and Universities Must Engage Alumni of Color

by Dr. Marybeth Gasman, July 14, 2010

Note: Nelson Bowman III, director of development at Prairie View A & M University, coauthored this blog post. Unless you haven’t picked up a newspaper, read an online publication, watched TV or been on Facebook in the last couple of years, you have heard that the demographics in the United States

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Tennis Anyone? Race and Class Still Matter in Sports

by Dr. Robin Lee Hughes, July 12, 2010

Here we go again. Yet another basketball player had the nerve to play a sport, receive a large check in lieu of the Horatio Alger meta-narrative that one can easily pull oneself up by their bootstraps and make it by hard work and determination in a fair and democratic society.

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Diverse Sponsors ‘Mentoring’ Panel Discussion

Diverse Sponsors ‘Mentoring’ Panel Discussion

Journalist Janet Roach reports on the Diverse-sponsored panel discussion, “The Critical Role of Mentoring in Increasing Graduates and Faculty of Color”. The panel discussion was held in Washington, D.C. during the 98th annual conference of the Association of American Colleges and Universities.


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