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Endangered Species: Male Students of Color in Higher Education

by Dr. Marybeth Gasman, January 20, 2010

Editor's note: This blog post was co-authored by Dr. Luis Ponjuan.   There is growing concern among educators, researchers, and many local communities over the educational plight of male students of color.  Postsecondary enrollment patterns over the past two decades highlight a disturbing trend that traditional college-aged males compared to their female peers are

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Too Fat to Graduate? Lincoln University’s Fitness Requirements

by Dr. Marybeth Gasman, November 30, 2009

News media recently reported that Lincoln University in Pennsylvania was requiring their students who have a body-mass index (BMI) over 30 to pass a physical fitness course in order to graduate. This policy, which has been in existence for a few years, is just now getting media attention and is

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Looking Forward Rather Than Backward

by Dr. Marybeth Gasman, November 17, 2009

  Last Thursday, I attended the "Unfinished Business:  National Dialogue on Historically Black Colleges and Universities in the 21st Century" meeting at Morgan State University. Most of the conversation centered on the inequity that continues to exist in public higher education, especially in the Southern and border states.    During the presidents' roundtable,

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Clare’s Couch: Keeping it real mentoring

by Dr. Robin Lee Hughes, November 5, 2009

I was invited to attend a mentoring session for junior faculty. Typically I don't have time or I find some reason NOT to attend. You know, one more meeting. Although I consider myself a "team player" (depending on the game), I am just not "feeling" those little get-togethers anymore. Now

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Learning When to Flip the Code Switch

by Dr. Murali Balaji, November 4, 2009

When I was a teenager, I struggled to fit in with my peers because I always felt like an outsider in a society defined by a Black-White paradigm.I was uncomfortable in my own skin until I was 20 or 21, when I realized that being an Indian-American who could mix

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