A months-long conflict has been simmering between a group of faculty and staff members of color and administrators at Queens College after a racist message was found written on a bulletin board on campus.
Read MoreThe signs, located near the flagship campus, in Columbus, are the work of a group of Ohio State University parents that is trying to shine a spotlight on what they see as the university’s failure to curtail off-campus crime. The group, Buckeyes for a Safe Ohio State, started after a 23-year-old student, Chase Meola, was shot and killed at an off-campus residence in 2020.
Read MoreWhen she heard about the body in the river, Dr. Diane Jeanne Blakeney-Billings knew in her gut it was Jelani Day. How could her former student—the brilliant, kind leader, the one who helped quieter students find their voice—suddenly be dead? Day was only 25 years old, one week into classes as a speech pathology graduate student at Illinois State University. Blakeney-Billings had written his recommendation letter for entry into the program.
Read MoreAt a school in Florida, a young woman starts a school presentation talking about her two mothers. An alarm sounds and a red light comes on. The teacher encourages her to continue the exhibition, until the educator herself is called to the reception to be reprimanded. The scene is part of a 30-second ad released last week by the nonprofit Equality Florida as a warning of a dystopian future if a new law, called by its critics "Don't Say Gay", is enacted in the state.
Read MoreCharles H.F. Davis III has been selected as a one of six 2022 Anti-Racist Digital Research Initiative Awardees by the University of Michigan.
Read MoreOne year later, higher education professionals are still working to silence “the Big Lie” that the election was manipulated in favor of Biden’s victory and stop the rush of violence some believe could happen again.
Read MoreThe longest sit-in in Howard University’s history may enter a new phase on Friday, when Wayne A.I. Frederick, the university’s president, is slated to address the community in a virtual town hall — a key demand of the student activists who began their occupation of the student center 24 days ago.
Read MoreThere’s long been a belief that a more perfect civic education can lead to a more perfect union. Colleges tried service learning. Then they pushed to get out the vote. But the political events and rhetoric of the past few years—culminating in the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol—have heightened the sense of urgency that higher education do something more to patch the widening cracks in American democracy. In an era of viral digital disinformation, eroding governance norms and increased political violence, the same old campus “civic engagement” programs no longer seem sufficient.
Read MoreOver the course of a week in early September, Jordan Musantry and her fellow students at Auburn University received three emails from the administration about sexual assaults reported on campus. The last one, sent last Tuesday, detailed a rape reported to have occurred at a fraternity house, but it didn’t name which one, to many students’ frustration. In a campus-safety chat on the GroupMe app, Musantry, a sophomore, organized a protest for that evening at Toomer’s Corner, a landmark in the Alabama city and popular meeting spot. Musantry said she expected 10 people to show up. Instead, 500 did, she estimates.
Read MoreA new model policy for “racially just policing,” written by the ACLU of Massachusetts and Bridgewater State University, and published on Tuesday, was designed to prevent episodes like that, which have occurred again and again. They can traumatize the victims and make students and employees of color feel as if they don’t belong on predominantly white college campuses.
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