The articles in Prism, the magazine of the American Society for Engineering Education, focus on new research and teaching ideas. And the magazine periodically writes about efforts to diversify engineering.
Many readers of Prism were shocked this month when they found that the magazine published a letter with what would typically be considered anti-gay rhetoric. The
A new agreement to limit the role of Pasadena police on school campuses marks a California milestone in the national movement to minimize student encounters with the criminal justice system, advocates say.
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SAN FRANCISCO–The National Organization for Marriage, which backed Proposition 8’s now defunct ban on same-sex marriage, announced Friday that it would work to repeal a new California law that permits transgender students to use bathrooms that correspond to their gender identity, not their physical sex.
Cassidy Lynn Campbell broke down in tears Friday night when she learned that she had been crowned homecoming queen.
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ATLANTA — Nine days after the University of Alabama’s campus newspaper detailed chronic racial discrimination within the campus’s Greek system, the university’s president said on Friday that six minority students had accepted offers of admission to traditionally white
Azusa Pacific University, an evangelical Christian institution in Southern California, has asked a professor who was once its chair of theology and philosophy to leave after he came out as transgender, the Religion News Service reported. The professor has been known as Heather Clements for most of his 15 years at Azusa, but in
Having spent 13 years running a program for economically disadvantaged students at the University of Florida, Dana H. Peterson sees himself as a champion of diversity on college campuses. He is a white man who denies common ideological ground with white men who complain about affirmative action.
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As the Supreme Court continues its review of affirmative
As more facts emerge in the aftermath of the horrific Navy Yard shooting, issues relating to guns, mental illness and access to sensitive locations by armed unstable individuals have resurfaced. News reports indicate that Aaron Alexis, 34, was allowed to maintain his previous reservist position, security clearance and access to weapons and the D.C. Navy
WASHINGTON — House Republicans narrowly pushed through a bill on Thursday that slashes billions of dollars from the food stamp program, over the objections of Democrats and a veto threat from President Obama.
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