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After Rejecting Its Removal in 2018, Hofstra U Now Decides to Move Jefferson Statue

Two years after rejecting a petition to remove a statue of Thomas Jefferson from campus, Hofstra University has now decided to move the monument from its position at the entrance to the Student Center. Jefferson, the country’s third president, was a slave owner. In 1998, DNA evidence indicated he fathered several children with Sally Hemmings, […]

June 30, 2020

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Camille Nelson: Opening Doors for Others

Camille Nelson not only was the first Black woman to clerk for Canada’s Supreme Court, she went on to become the first woman and first person of color to be appointed dean of Suffolk University Law School and the first Black person in her current position – dean and professor at the American University Washington College of Law.

July 18, 2018

Students

Students at NY’s Hofstra Want Jefferson Statue Removed

HEMPSTEAD, N.Y. — Some students at New York’s Hofstra University want a Thomas Jefferson statue removed because Jefferson was a slave owner who believed Black people were inherently inferior to Whites. Student Ja’loni Owens started a Change.org petition demanding that administrators of the university on Long Island remove the statue and “no longer display it […]

March 28, 2018

Students

Host Colleges Winners in Presidential Debates

UNLV estimates that being selected as a venue for the final presidential debate has already generated $85 million worth of publicity.

October 16, 2016

Campus Climate

Hofstra Pushes Front-line Learning with Presidential Debate

HEMPSTEAD, N.Y. ― Monday night’s verbal smackdown between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton is a hot ticket on the campus of Hofstra University. About 7,500 students, or more than two-thirds of the student body, entered the lottery for only a few hundred tickets to witness the cycle’s first presidential debate, being held Monday night in […]

September 25, 2016

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Hofstra to Host 1st Presidential Debate after Wright State Bows Out

DAYTON, Ohio ― The first presidential general election debate is moving to New York after an Ohio college withdrew as host, citing rising security concerns and costs. Wright State University President David Hopkins said Tuesday that the school in Dayton has a large, open campus and there has been growing concern about what it would […]

July 19, 2016