When Rini Sampath decided to run for student body president at the University of Southern California, she said some students told her she would never win. She was a young woman and a minority, and she was running on a ticket with another woman, who was also a minority.
Their advice? Choose a white, male student as
McALLEN, Tex. — At the Republican debate on Wednesday and throughout the campaign, candidates led by Donald J. Trump have assailed illegal immigration, and some have questioned whether children who are born to immigrants in this country illegally should be considered American citizens.
But here on the
This week, brown children across America learned a lesson: If you try to be like Steve Jobs, you could get arrested.
By now, you’ve heard about 14-year-old Ahmed Mohamed, a boy who brought a homemade clock to his high school in Irving, Texas. School officials and police called the engineering project a “hoax bomb.” Late Tuesday
“We should round up all the gays and send them to Uganda to be shot!”
This was a friend of mine speaking, an educated entrepreneur in his 30s, a devout Christian from Nigeria. A homophobe.
We need to protect the children, families and the culture of Nigeria, he continued. Handing out the harshest punishments
With various working definitions of genocide, debates about the term’s application to historical events can get heated. But can such debates ever get a student kicked out of class? That’s what a sophomore at California State University at Sacramento says happened to her, after she challenged a professor who allegedly said the term “genocide” wasn’t
Dr. J. Luke Wood and Frank Harris III — two prominent education researchers — have developed a large-scale online professional development training program designed to help faculty at community colleges in California do a better job of teaching young men of color.
The initiative is a partnership between local community colleges and the Center for Organizational
For more than a decade, state educators have focused on helping black and Latino students perform as well in school as their white and Asian peers, calling the issue a social and economic imperative.
Data from a more difficult, new state testing system suggest that they still have a long way to go.
The new wave of
As students of color continue to find ways to process the events that have unfolded recently across the country, faculty and staff are also working to find ways to help students with this process—and cope themselves.
From changing curricula to even a new textbook titled Black Lives Matterto finding their places in protests with the students, the
As public intellectuals go, few have been more prolific than Thomas Sowell. For more than 40 years, he’s been churning out books at the rate of one a year, in addition to writing a syndicated column and academic articles and teaching courses at Cornell, UCLA, Amherst, Brandeis and Stanford, where he is a senior fellow at
The University of Tennessee at Knoxville, under orders by the head of the University of Tennessee System, on Friday removed from its website a guide to pronouns that many transgender people prefer.
The guide, which led to numerous false reports that the university had banned the use of such traditional pronouns as “he” and “she,” created