Data shows wide variations in attainment levels in England while students with mental health issues are more likely to drop out. More...
5 avril 2019
5 avril 2019
Students occupy Goldsmiths in protest at institutional racism
Students have occupied a key building at Goldsmiths, part of the University of London, demanding an institution-wide strategy to tackle racism which they say is undermining the experiences of black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) students. More...
5 avril 2019
University of Georgia fraternity investigated over racist video
Fraternity has been suspended after video surfaces showing some of its members mocking slavery and using a racial slur. More...
5 avril 2019
What are your experiences of racism at UK universities?
How well do you think your university addresses racism? How well represented are BAME staff in your department. More...
5 avril 2019
Beyond blackface: How college yearbooks captured protest and change
Ever since a photograph surfaced of someone in blackface – and another dressed in a Ku Klux Klan robe – on the medical college yearbook page of Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam in February, efforts to scour college yearbooks have focused on finding similarly racist imagery. More...
3 avril 2019
Black Exodus
Much has been written about the challenges facing black people in higher education. Recent students have shown that black student enrollment has decreased over the past twenty years at flagship universities. The number of full-time black professors remains at very low levels at various institutions, including at American flagship universities. More...
3 avril 2019
Whom Do Activists of Color Speak For?
By Eboo Patel. What happens if the community you are trying to speak for does not agree with your views?
The Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Viet Thanh Nguyen is also a nonfiction writer whose essays frequently have a heavy helping of identity politics. Here he is in a piece from The New York Times in 2017 claiming that the standard “show don’t tell” wisdom of the typical American writing workshop reveals its white male supremacist DNA. More...
2 avril 2019
U of La Verne Cancels Classes After Racial Threats
By Jeremy Bauer-Wolf. Officials at the University of La Verne, a private, Hispanic-serving institution in California, are pledging more resources for diversity and to listen to the campus after a backpack was set on fire in a student’s car in what is believed to be a racially related incident. More...
2 avril 2019
Even More White Supremacist Fliers
By Jeremy Bauer-Wolf. The Anti-Defamation League found more than 300 verified incidents of white nationalist propaganda on college campuses last year. More...
2 avril 2019
Letter: 'Racial Profiling Harms Science'
By Elizabeth Redden. A letter published in Science Thursday from several groups of Chinese or Chinese American scientists registers concerns about what the writers describe as “the recent political rhetoric and policies that single out students and scholars of Chinese descent working in the United States as threats to U.S. national interests.” More...
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