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COVID-19

Coronavirus Has Ripple Effects Across Higher Ed Landscape

The American Council on Education (ACE) said on Monday it is canceling its annual meeting, set for March 14-16 this year in San Diego, due to the threat posed by the novel coronavirus. However, the National Association of Diversity Officers in Higher Education, or NADOHE, is still planning to go ahead with its March 11-14 annual meeting. These developments come even as more and more universities announce they are closing and/or moving classes online amid fears of a global pandemic.

March 9, 2020

African-American

Columbia Honors Jay-Z, Discusses African American Culture With New Lecture Series

In honor of the New York City-born rapper, songwriter, entrepreneur and philanthropist, Columbia University’s African American and African Diaspora Studies Department (AAADS) has launched the Shawn “JAY-Z” Carter Lecture Series.  While speaking with students and faculty in an exclusive event earlier this week, Carter says he hopes the series inspires real conversation and open dialogue […]

February 5, 2020

News Roundup

Johns Hopkins University and The Atlantic Host Civic Education Conference

WASHINGTON– The Atlantic and the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Agora Institute at Johns Hopkins University (JHU) convened various leaders in education and business to discuss civic education on Wednesday at the Newseum in Washington D.C. The conference, Civics and the Future of Democracy, included six panels that discussed the meaning of civic education and the role […]

November 6, 2019

African-American

Columbia HBCU Fellowship Empowers Students to Thrive

The Columbia HBCU Fellowship program allows young people to take classes on the Ivy League campus, work with organizations in New York, where Columbia is located, and receive industry mentoring.

May 20, 2019

News Roundup

Barnard Places Public Safety Officers on Leave Following Confrontation with Black Columbia Student

Barnard College administrators have announced that the six college public safety officers who were involved in a physical confrontation of Columbia University student Alexander McNab have been put on paid administrative leave pending the ongoing investigation. On the night of Thursday, April 15, officers followed McNab, who is Black, into the Milstein Center for Teaching […]

April 15, 2019

News Roundup

Columbia University Condemns Racist Rant by White Sophomore

Columbia University has condemned a “racially charged incident” after a video went viral on Twitter that showed a White student shouting “White people are the best thing to happen to the world” at a group of minority students by Butler Library. On Sunday, Columbia officials released a statement citing the video as “alarming” and featured […]

December 11, 2018

African-American

Columbia University Announces Creation of African-American and African Diaspora Studies Department

On Dec. 1, Columbia University’s Board of Trustees announced it will develop a new Department of African-American and African Diaspora Studies. The department will be led by Dr. Farah Jasmine Griffin, the William B. Ransford Professor of English and Comparative Literature and African American Studies. “Now, more than ever, we need to have both an […]

December 4, 2018

News Roundup

Swastikas Painted on Wall Outside of Professor’s Office Triggers Investigation

Dr. Elizabeth Midlarsky, a Jewish professor at Columbia University’s Teachers College who teaches and researches the Holocaust, was heading to her office on Wednesday when she found two swastikas, an painted on the walls outside her office. “I was in shock. I stopped for a moment, because I couldn’t believe what I was seeing,” Midlarsky […]

November 29, 2018

African-American

Columbia Senate Approves African-American and African Diaspora Studies Department

The University Senate at Columbia University has unanimously voted to establish a department of African-American and African Diaspora studies, according to the Columbia Daily Spectator. If approved by the board of trustees, the department will become the first independent department dedicated to African studies in Columbia’s history. Currently, courses on the subject exist only within […]

October 1, 2018

HBCUs

Phyllis Craig-Taylor: A Social Justice Advocate from the Start

Phyllis Craig-Taylor’s formative years in Jim Crow-era Alabama cultivated in the educator a passion that would shape her entire legal career. Today, she shapes and inspires the next generation of lawyers as professor and dean of the North Carolina Central University School of Law.

July 20, 2018

African-American

Academics Remember Renowned Literary Scholar Marcellus Blount

Former students and professional colleagues are mourning the death of Dr. Marcellus Blount, a well-known scholar of African-American literary and cultural studies who taught at Columbia University since 1985.

May 7, 2018

Home

Black Intellectuals Tasked With Forging Connections

At a time when many see a reinforcement of racism and oppression, a panel of Black intellectuals at the National Action Network convention in New York City spoke of being visible and vocal on important issues, producing ideas and creating dialogues.

April 19, 2018