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The Choice To Advocate

by Dr. Lorelle L. Espinosa, June 25, 2010

A recent Chronicle of Higher Education ‘Advice’ column featured an anonymous faculty member who is also a regular blogger under the moniker Female Science Professor. Her bio says that she is a physical scientist at a “large research university,” which is code for predominantly White university and of a certain

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The Multi-Faceted Dimensions of Bullying

by Dr. Elwood Watson, June 18, 2010

Aggressive behavior is a problem that spans across all ages, socioeconomic and racial groups. I remember a story that a colleague told me several years ago about two little girls who kicked sand in his daughter’s face. At the time, his daughter was in pre-school. Understandably, the incident disturbed both

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Law and Diversity

by Dr. Lorelle L. Espinosa, June 10, 2010

Over the last several decades, a rich history of social science inquiry on underrepresented groups in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) education and careers has solidified a base of evidence for use by those who seek to increase diversity in STEM fields. Simply stated, effective policy and practice that

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Lessons Learned from ‘Setting the Agenda for Historically Black Colleges and Universities’

by Dr. Marybeth Gasman, June 8, 2010

Last week in Durham, N.C., a wonderful symposium took place. It was not business as usual but, instead, an honest look at the future of HBCUs. Although I was one of the speakers, I sat through all the sessions (which brought everyone together in one room)

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Sportsman’s Paradise Lost?

by Dr. Pamela D. Reed, June 1, 2010

Trees and plants always look like the people they live with, somehow. -Zora Neale Hurston in Seraph on the Sewanee (1948) If someone told me that there could be any ecological disaster that could dwarf Hurricane Katrina—and the gross presidential mismanagement in its wake — I would have been highly skeptical. Of

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