Tag: Racial justice

Social Justice

Lehigh University Receives $2.5 Million to Create Social Justice Institute

Lehigh University has received $2.5 million to create an institute for social and racial justice, lehighvalleylive.com reported. The donation comes from Bethlehem native and philanthropist Charles Marcon, an executive with Allentown-based Duggan & Marcon. The “Marcon Institute” is to prepare and deploy undergrad students – Marcon Fellows – to work with community partners to enact […]

April 27, 2021

Students

Virtual Panel Urges Student Debt Cancellation, Calling it a Racial Justice Issue Too

Cancelling student debt isn’t just an economic issue but a racial justice one too, argued higher education leaders and policy makers in a Thursday virtual panel hosted by the Center for Responsible Lending (CRL) and the NAACP.

December 10, 2020

Students

UC Santa Barbara Launches Racial Justice Fellowship Program for Graduate Students

Incoming graduate students at the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) can now qualify for the Racial Justice Fellowship program, which was established in response to the ongoing police violence and systemic racism protests across the country.

November 4, 2020

News Roundup

Howard U School of Divinity Awarded $1M for Ethical Leadership and Racial Justice Initiative

The Howard University School of Divinity (HUSD) was recently awarded $1 million from the The Lilly Endowment Inc., a private philanthropic foundation, to launch the Ethical Leadership and Racial Justice Initiative. In a nutshell, the initiative will fund a cohort program for students whose academic interests align with ethical leadership and racial justice. It will support students who are pursuing theological training in an […]

October 21, 2020

Students

Online Anti-Oppressive Orientation During COVID-19

With the COVID-19 pandemic shutting down physical college campuses in the spring, many institutions are planning to continue their fall semester in an online setting. In May 2020, we restructured a previously in-person program to an asynchronous and synchronous anti-oppressive orientation program entitled, Power, Privilege and Positionality (PPP) to address recent national uprisings at the intersection of COVID-19.

August 3, 2020

Students

Law Deans Establish Call to Action Website to Address Racism in Higher Education

Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, many Black women law deans stayed connected on Zoom and discussed their academic work and the challenges of remote instruction. However, after the death of George Floyd due to police brutality, they started talking about how to confront racism at colleges and universities.

June 17, 2020

Social Justice

Rowan U Won’t Reappoint an Ex-Police Officer Who Killed a Black Teen in 1994

Amid a “national spotlight on social justice and police matters,” Rowan University said the college won’t reappoint a former police officer who shot and killed a Black teenager in 1994. Since the death of George Floyd, many on campus have been calling for the removal of the former police officer Peter Amico, director of the […]

June 9, 2020

News Roundup

Funeral Scheduled on Saturday for Former Gary Mayor Richard Gordon Hatcher

Richard Gordon Hatcher, the first Black mayor of Gary, Indiana, died Dec. 13 at the age of 86. There will be a public visitation at the Genesis Convention Center Friday and funeral services will take place Saturday, December 21, 2019, according to the Chicago Tribune. Hatcher served as mayor for 20 years, beginning in 1967, […]

December 17, 2019

African-American

Stop Using Asian Americans to Defend Against Disparities, Then Rejecting Them as Non-Diverse

Asian Americans are ambiguous in civil rights. Perhaps Asian Americans themselves are ambivalent as well. Neither Black nor White, Asian Americans challenge the standard understanding of racial justice. Whether they are integrating into the majority or if they will be “people of color,” 　they should have autonomy and not be used to advance the ulterior motives of others who may not have their best interests at heart.

December 4, 2019

African-American

Report Shows Economic Gaps and Racial Inequality Persist

A new report details the persistent educational and economic disparities between Whites, African-Americans and Latinos.

October 17, 2019

Students

Scholar-Practitioner Finds His ‘Home’ in Residential Life

Growing up with 14 siblings in rural Nebraska, Dr. Jim Tweedy had his first taste of privacy while living in the dormitories and earning his bachelor’s degree in business administration at the University of Nebraska-Kearney.

December 11, 2018

Opinion

The Perfect Victim and the Perfect Judge —The New Challenge to Affirmative Action

If it feels like we’ve been here before, we have. The use of race in college admissions is legal and has been tested and upheld by the high court time and again, most recently in the Fisher v. Texas case. But that’s not stopping conservative anti-affirmative activist Ed Blum.

October 15, 2018