SAN MARCOS — Sorority and fraternity leaders at UC San Diego have joined in a call for racial sensitivity on college campuses after a recent incident at Cal State San Marcos in which sorority members dressed as “cholas” posted photos on social networking sites.
Read more in the San Diego Union-Tribune.
The University of California at Berkeley has reached a settlement with Disability Rights Advocates in what the group is calling a “landmark agreement” to improve access to textbooks, course readers, and library materials for students with print-related disabilities.
Read more in The Chronicle of Higher Education.
On the eve of final exams, more than 700 students and others at USC and neighboring communities gathered on campus to discuss issues raised from a clash between students and police over how the LAPD responded to an off-campus house party over the weekend.
Read more in the Los Angeles Times.
Countywide, about one in 10 adults is an immigrant who crossed the border illegally or overstayed a visa, the USC study found. Many have U.S. citizen children.
Read more in the Los Angeles Times.
Students protest after they say officers responded differently to two parties near campus, one attended mostly by black students, the other mostly by whites.
Read more in the Los Angeles Times.
WASHINGTON – Many Latinos say they are less likely than before to report crimes because local police are increasingly involved in enforcing immigration laws, leading to a sharp increase in deportations, according to a new study.
Read more in the Los Angeles Times.
I must join the recent outrage over White Greek fraternities and sororities (and an Asian fraternity recently) donning blackface and performing blackness on our college campuses. Sights of White Greeks in blackface usually at parties have sparked Black student activism around the nation. It is mobilizing students to demand racial change, to demand a better
A California civil rights agency can go forward with group claims that the Law School Admission Council (LSAC) illegally discriminates against LSAT-takers with disabilities, a federal judge has held.
Read more in Diverse Issues in Higher Education.
VIDALIA, Ga. — For years, labor unions and immigrant rights activists have accused large-scale farmers, like those harvesting sweet Vidalia onions here this month, of exploiting Mexican guest workers. Working for hours on end under a punishing sun, the pickers are said to be crowded into squalid camps, driven without a break and even cheated
A fraternity voluntarily accepts a 16-month university suspension, even as administrators have not said whether the discipline would be legally permissible.
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