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Tag: Joe Biden
Asian American Pacific Islander
What Can We Do to Stop Anti-Asian Hate Crimes?
Pak Ho is a  75 year-old-Asian American who died last Thursday (March 11) after he was robbed on the streets of Oakland, Calif., the latest victim in the rising number of anti-Asian hate crimes in the U.S. No one is saying, “Say his name.”
March 15, 2021
COVID-19
Senate Confirms Cecilia Rouse as Top White House Economist
The U.S. Senate has confirmed Dr. Cecilia Rouse as President Joe Biden’s top White House economist, making her the first Black chair of the White House Council of Economic Advisors (CEA) and its fourth woman leader since its 1946 origin, The Hill reported. Senators voted 95-4 Tuesday in favor of Rouse’s nomination for CEA chair, a cabinet-level […]
March 3, 2021
News Roundup
Columbia University Life Executive Vice President Suzanne Goldberg Joins Biden Administration
Columbia University Executive Vice President for University Life Suzanne Goldberg will be stepping down from her role and taking a temporary leave of absence as law school faculty to join the Biden-Harris administration, the Columbia Daily Spectator reported. It is unclear what Goldberg’s role in the administration will be. Her Chief of Staff Radhika Patel, […]
January 21, 2021
Opinion
Inaugural Week and Poetry Should Re-Kindle Our Sense of Diversity
As we celebrate the MLK holiday, the inaugural and the final days of the last four years, the assault on our norms should finally be coming to an end. The gaslight soon extinguished, let’s rekindle our sense of diversity to guide us over a more soothing, less bumpy political landscape.
January 18, 2021
Latinx
Biden to Tap Dr. Miguel Cardona for Secretary of Education Post
Dr. Miguel Cardona, Connecticut’s education commissioner, has emerged as President-elect Joe Biden’s top pick for U.S. secretary of education.
December 22, 2020
News Roundup
North Carolina Environmental Chief Michael S. Regan Tapped to Lead EPA
President-elect Joe Biden has picked North Carolina environmental chief Michael S. Regan as his Environmental Protection Agency head, News & Record reported. Regan – who has led North Carolina’s Department of Environmental Quality since 2017 – is known for “pursuing cleanups of industrial toxins and helping low-income and minority communities hit hardest by pollution,” News […]
December 18, 2020
Opinion
A Former Students’ Perspective on Secretary of Education Finalist, Dr. Leslie T. Fenwick
Dr. Leslie T. Fenwick, dean emeritus and professor of educational leadership and policy has emerged as one of the finalists under consideration to be President-elect Joe Biden’s secretary of education. During my matriculation through the doctoral program at Howard University, I had the honor of learning under the tutelage of Dr. Fenwick.
December 18, 2020
Community Colleges
What a Biden Administration Could Mean for Community Colleges
With President-elect Joe Biden preparing to take office in January, this might be community colleges’ big moment. The institutions’ advocates are already celebrating what a Joe Biden presidency could mean for the community college sector.
December 16, 2020
Home
Diversity Takes Center Stage in Biden-Harris Nominations
With about six weeks to go before President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris take office, their incoming administration is likely to be the most diverse in the nation’s history.
December 10, 2020
News Roundup
Betsy DeVos Criticizes Free College During Virtual Conference
During the virtual 2020 Federal Student Aid Training Conference Tuesday, Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos criticized the idea of free college, The Hill reported. She described it as a “socialist takeover of higher education,” adding that the United States economy would be “ruined.” “Somebody, somewhere pays the bill,” DeVos said. “And the bill is coming […]
December 2, 2020
COVID-19
President-Elect Joe Biden Considering Dr. James E.K. Hildreth for The Coronavirus Taskforce
President-elect Joe Biden has made the raging COVID-19 pandemic a priority for his incoming administration, naming a list of prominent scientists, researchers, scholars and government health leaders to a new coronavirus taskforce. Dr. James E.K. Hildreth, an infectious disease expert and president of the historically Black Meharry Medical College, may also play a role in shaping the nation’s coronavirus response in the new administration.
November 18, 2020
Opinion
Democracy, Diversity Back on Track
A Trump concession? Don’t expect to see one, unless it’s a hot dog cart on Fifth Ave. The soon-to-be-former commander-in-chief is showing no grace, saying “I won this election by a lot,” in tweets flagged by Twitter for accuracy. His lawyer, Rudolph Giuliani, one-time American hero, now disgraced star of the new Borat movie, talks about election theft.
November 11, 2020
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