Tag: Desegregation

African-American

University of Tennessee Knoxville to Rename Two Residence Halls after Black Trailblazers

The University of Tennessee Knoxville is renaming two residence halls after Theotis Robinson and Rita Sanders Geier, two African American trailblazers and social justice advocates. UTK’s Orange Hall will be renamed after Geier and White Hall after Robinson. Robinson was the first Black undergraduate student admitted into UTK and one of three Black students to […]

February 26, 2021

African-American

Southwestern U Renames Hall in Honor of Its First Black Student and Graduate

Southwestern University has renamed a first-year residence hall after Ernest Clark, the institution’s first Black student and graduate. Southwestern’s president Dale T. Knobel said the renaming is in keeping with the university’s promise to support Black students, faculty, staff and alumni in solidarity with the Black Lives Matter movement. “As a historian, I know that […]

June 30, 2020

Opinion

Delivering the Promise of Brown v. Board of Education Demands That We Become Active Change Agents

I was born five years after Brown v. Board of Education, the United States Supreme Court landmark case that made education a civil right in America. The Court argued that “separate, but equal,” was a constitutional violation, thus, outlawing segregation in classrooms across public schools and postsecondary institutions across the country.

May 16, 2019

Opinion

70 Years of Integration, a Journey Still Unfolding at the University of Kentucky

One man. One courageous step. Seventy years of a journey that is still unfolding and evolving. That is the story the University of Kentucky community is celebrating with particular reverence this month and throughout the next year.

February 26, 2019

African-American

Berea College and the Father of Black History

Preeminent scholar Dr. Carter G. Woodson has been dubbed “the father of Black history” and is known for earning degrees at the University of Chicago and Harvard, but less well known is how living in Appalachia and attending Berea College informed his towering intellect and tireless work ethic.

February 15, 2019

African-American

The Fallacy of NOT Seeing Race

Over the last two weeks I’ve listened to friends, pundits and scholars debate the implications of discovering yearbook photos of Virginia’s Governor and Attorney General proudly wearing Blackface. These revelations are more complicated than dismissing them as youthful indiscretions that were simply apropos of the time.

February 14, 2019

Opinion

What Does Equal Educational Opportunity for All Students Really Mean?

Three of the top ranked universities in the country are (or were) all the subject of investigation by the Department of Education Office of Civil Rights. The complaints allege that the schools’ attempts to ensure racial and ethnic diversity among admitted students unfairly discriminate against White and Asian students. Are these schools’ diversity efforts violating the Office of Civil Rights’ mandate to ensure equal access to educational opportunities for all? It is an important question, with far-reaching consequences.

October 10, 2018

Latest News

Learning from ‘Absentee’ Mentors

Dr. Vanessa Siddle Walker began her trajectory into education believing she wanted to be a journalist. She enrolled at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill as a journalism major but discovered that the field was not her calling.

September 26, 2018

HBCUs

Judge Calls for Mediation in Maryland Legal Case

A federal judge has appointed a “special master” to help craft a plan to resolve a longstanding battle over whether historically Black colleges and universities in Maryland were denied the chance to attract students of other races because academic programs at HBCUs were duplicated by traditionally White institutions.

November 12, 2017

Students

In Maryland Desegregation Case, Black Colleges Seek Protected ‘Academic Niches’

Historically Black colleges in Maryland should have the right to offer unique, high-demand courses that cannot be duplicated at nearby traditionally White colleges, lawyers argued Thursday in the closing remarks of the remedy phase of a desegregation case.

June 8, 2017