Tag: University of Maryland College Park

News Roundup

NASA Donates $64.1M to Fund University-Led Research Initiative

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) awarded The Catholic University of America $64.1 million—the largest research grant in the school’s history—to establish the Partnership for Heliophysics and Space Environment Research (PHaSER). Through a cooperative agreement between Catholic’s Institute for Astrophysics and Computational Sciences, University of Maryland College Park, George Mason University, Univ. of Maryland […]

July 13, 2021

Latinx

­­It’s Time to Give Critical Thought to Disaggregating the Term “MSIs”

There is a tendency in academia as well as in the media to compound all of the institution types that fall under the Minority Serving Institutions (MSI) designation into one category. Amalgamating all eight MSIs into one classification, fails to delineate the differences between these distinct institutions and can offer an erroneous image of these institutions and the students they serve.

November 19, 2019

Campus Climate

Campus Climate Survey Findings Break Along Color Line

Recent results of surveys from two leading research universities examining campus climate revealed major disparities between the experiences and views of White faculty and those of underrepresented minority groups on issues of diversity and inclusion.

October 17, 2019

News Roundup

Legislators Meet With UMD Officials About Varsity Football Program

University System of Maryland officials met on Wednesday with members of Maryland’s congressional delegation to further discuss the university’s handling of its varsity football program in light of the recent heatstroke death of College Park player Jordan McNair. Congressional members who attended the meeting include U.S. Sens. Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen and U.S. […]

December 5, 2018

Opinion

Climate Change is a Diversity Issue for Higher Ed

The extreme heat this year has turned much of my state into a giant tinderbox. I’ve seen the smoke of major wildfires both north and east of me reach my home. Even without the fires, I am in a rural part of the state, where dairies and their cows contribute huge amounts of methane, known to be far worse than the emissions from cars and trucks.

September 17, 2018

Sports

Family of Late UMD Football Player File Possible Lawsuit Notice

Parents of the late University of Maryland (UMD) football athlete Jordan McNair, who collapsed during a May preseason practice and died of heatstroke two weeks later, have sent a notice to Maryland officials, saying they might sue. After McNair collapsed, Maryland’s athletic training staff didn’t monitor his temperature or overall health through a popular cold-water […]

September 13, 2018

Military

Navy Veteran Finds Career in Higher Education

Dr. Georgina Dodge, who is associate provost for diversity, equity and inclusion at Bucknell University, likes to say that she was “born and raised in the Air Force.”

September 11, 2018

HBCUs

Experts: Freshmen Should Receive an Honest Account of What Takes Place on College Campuses

When Anthony Grant, associate director of admissions at Earlham College in Indiana, attended a college fair in New Mexico this past summer, a student asked him to tell her more about the discrimination she heard had taken place on campus recently.

November 8, 2017

Students

Programs Aim to Open Doors to Diversity in Cybersecurity

ACES and Cyber Scholars are credited with transforming the way industry and higher education work to bring much-needed diversity to the field of cybersecurity.

January 11, 2017

African-American

Colleges, Universities Traveling Different Paths to Diversity

Colleges and universities are taking different measures to make their campuses not only diverse, but inclusive.

April 6, 2016

Asian American Pacific Islander

Educational Strategies Overlook AAPI Diversity

The model minority perception is just that: a perception. It overlooks one big issue: Asian Americans are far from homogenous.

May 11, 2015

African-American

University of Maryland Duo Working to Create ‘HBCU Lite’

At the University of Maryland, College Park, two men are working to extend the same level of attention to ensure the school’s African-American students thrive on campus.

March 3, 2015