Universities
Readout of Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield’s Meeting with Students from Historically Black Colleges and Universities in Atlanta, Georgia United States Mission to the United Nations Source link
Universities in the United States have been especially repressive over the past year. Several like Columbia University and New York University have redefined protests against the state of Israel and its founding ideology Zionism as acts of anti-Semitism. Campus after campus brought in law enforcement to have their own students, faculty, and staff arrested and charged for demanding […]
The University of Michigan will no longer ask for diversity statements from faculty when considering hiring, promotion or tenure, the latest cut to its diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) programs. The statements, which require a declaration from potential hires on how they will maintain DEI, are solicited from university employers on a case-by-case basis. (Michigan […]
Since the US supreme court banned affirmative action in college admissions in June 2023, US colleges and universities have grappled with how to boost campus diversity amid recent, troubling data. The latest figures on US college admissions at some major universities have shown drops in Black, Latino and Indigenous first-year enrollment. Such enrollment fell sharply […]
Jasmine Weiss, MD, MHS, FAAP, assistant professor in UNC’s Department of Pediatrics, led surveys of 26 HBCU premedical advisors to document challenges facing Black students who want to pursue medical school and serve communities across the country. CHAPEL HILL, N.C. – There are 45.3 million African Americans living in the United States and they represent […]
Several professors at universities around the US are facing disciplinary actions in regard to their support for the pro-Palestine movement and their students holding protests on college campuses. At Columbia University, Katherine Franke, law professor and the director of the Center for Gender & Sexuality Law at Columbia Law School, is currently under investigation at […]
WASHINGTON, May 17, 2024 – The U.S. Department of Agriculture announced today an investment of $30.8 million as part of its commitment to all 19 of America’s designated 1890 historically black Land-grant Universities. This investment, made through the National Institute of Food and Agriculture’s (NIFA) 1890 Institution Teaching, Research and Extension Capacity Building Grants Program […]
By Bernd Debusmann Jr BBC News, Washington 3 May 2024 Image caption, Rally at University of Michigan The next chapter of campus protests may soon begin, with universities across the US preparing for possible disruptions at graduation ceremonies. Four universities rocked by pro-Palestinian protests will hold graduations this weekend. Many others, including Columbia University, have […]
12:03 a.m. ET, May 4, 2024 Columbia University president says she will work every day to rebuild after 2 difficult weeks From CNN’s Michelle Watson and Gloria Pazmino Columbia University President Minouche Shafik prepares to testify before the House Education and Workforce Committee during a hearing on Columbia University’s response to antisemitism in Washington, DC, on […]
26 April 2024 Updated 49 minutes ago Image source, Getty Images Dozens of college campuses across the US have been taken over by students protesting against the war in Gaza. More than a thousand demonstrators have been arrested as the universities struggle to deal with the encampments on college grounds just days before graduation ceremonies. […]