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News Roundup
After Land Dispute, Music Festival to Purchase Former Marlboro College Campus
The Marlboro Music Festival — a “world-renowned” festival and retreat for advanced classical musicians held during the summer in Marlboro, Vermont — plans to purchase the former Marlboro College campus, where the festival has been held for the past 70 years, reports The Vermont Digger. The ownership of the 500-acre location, known as Potash Hill, […]
July 23, 2021
HBCUs
What Higher Ed Can Learn From Public Health, in the Midst of Covid-19?
Since mid-March, COVID-19 has brought the traditional operations of higher education institutions in the U.S to a grinding halt, forcing students, faculty and staff to move all meetings and classroom engagement to a virtual format. This decision focuses on the public health of the campus community as administrators have always led with a healthy and safe environment in mind.
May 28, 2020
Students
Colleges Make Plans for Safe On-Campus Student Move Out
With spring semester coming to an end, universities and colleges have put protocols in place to ensure the safety of students who are returning to campus housing to pack up their belongings after the COVID-19 outbreak forced early closures.
May 19, 2020
Students
Open for Learning and Ready to Restart the Economy
These are challenging times. There is no doubt about that. Old routines are shattered, businesses are closed, workloads more challenging, socializing is distanced and perhaps most of all, we are living in a time of uncertainty.
May 14, 2020
Opinion
How to Respond to Racial Microaggressions When They Occur
Over the last decade, there has been a significant rise in awareness among educators and the public about racial microaggressions. Coined by Chester Pierce in the 1970’s, racial microaggressions are the subtle forms of racism that are communicated to people of color through messages that degrade and demean them. Many people of color in the academy have experienced being told (with a sense of surprise) that they are “so articulate,” or assumed to have cheated on exams or papers when they outperform low expectations, being treated as intellectually inferior, being overlooked at the campus stores and eateries, and being told they come from “bad” schools or neighborhoods.
May 5, 2020
HBCUs
Resilience in the Midst of a Crisis Response
The COVID-19 Coronavirus pandemic has highlighted the need for HBCUs to build on their shared history of resilience to create new ways of educating students, develop new business relationships, and generate new sources of revenue.
April 19, 2020
African-American
COVID-19 Comes to Campus: What Hurricane Katrina Tells Us About the Current Campus Crisis
We are living in pandemic pandemonium, where panic is the prevailing mode of operation. Every college and university is operating with all hands-on deck, altering their operational norms; the result is that campus employees—academics, practitioners, and leaders—are beyond exhausted. Yet, for those of us who have witnessed campuses in crisis, all of this feels eerily familiar. As two higher education professionals and scholars who worked on the ground through Hurricane Katrina and studied campus crisis response, we are extremely reflective and vigilant about how we move forward in this new reality.
March 25, 2020
Students
Close to 2,000 Students Return to Virginia’s Liberty University Amid Coronavirus Pandemic
Amid the coronavirus pandemic, as many as 1,900 students returned to Virginia’s Liberty University on Tuesday after spring break, a university spokesperson confirmed to CNN. The Washington Post reported that Jerry Falwell Jr., the evangelical Christian university’s president, said on Fox News earlier this month that people were overreacting to the pandemic and that the […]
March 24, 2020
Opinion
Crafting Our Political Self: A Powerful Antidote to Intolerance
It is difficult and counterintuitive to ask questions about the self when we have been attacked by another. The reality, however, is that how we craft ourselves, and our communities, is the only thing within our control.
February 25, 2020
Opinion
Thankful to the Brotherhood
As a Ph.D. candidate expecting to graduate this semester, I have found myself constantly reflecting on the impact joining Lambda Theta Phi Latin Fraternity, Inc. had on me. My entry point to higher education is tied to my experiences as an undergraduate student leader. My involvement on campus began after I joined my fraternity.
January 31, 2020
Latest News
West Virginia County to Offer Simultaneous High School and Associate Degree Program
High school students in a West Virginia county can now choose to start their college education a little earlier.In a partnership between BridgeValley Community and Technical College and Kanawha County School District, students would be given the opportunity to earn both a high school degree and associate degree simultaneously.
November 11, 2019
Asian American Pacific Islander
What I Learned from The Vagina Monologues
One of the proudest accomplishments of my undergraduate experience was my involvement with the V-Day Movement that produces The Vagina Monologues every year. Freshman fall, I joined this organization whose mission is to “end violence against all women and girls (cisgender, transgender, and those who hold fluid identities that are subject to gender-based violence).”
November 7, 2019
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