Collegiate Voices
Colgate’s Black Students ‘Angry, Sad, Confused’ In Aftermath of Racial Profiling Incident – Kiersten Willis / Atla Black Star
A string of attacks on black women reminds us that racism is impossible to quantify – Colbert I. King / Wash Post
How the Right-Wing Koch and DeVos Families Are Funding Hate Speech on College Campuses Across the U.S – Alex Kotch / Alternet
Enslaved man who helped build U-Va. has a building named for him – Linda Wheeler / Wash Post
Finding Growth at My Historically Black College – Skylar Mitchell / NYT Sunday Rev
White Supremacists Step Up Recruiting on Campus, Report Says – Tamara Best / NYT
At Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tenn., a printer, suspected to have been hacked, spurted out anti-Semitic fliers in January. At Central Michigan University in Mount…
Confronting Academia’s Ties to Slavery – Jennifer Schuesslser / NYT
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — In 1976, archivists at Harvard’s natural history museum opened a drawer and discovered a haunting portrait of a shirtless enslaved man named…
Let’s Become Great Again,’ the Flyers Said – Anna North / NYT
Yale Will Drop John Calhoun’s Name From Building – Noah Remnick / NYT
Teaching Southern and Black History Under Trump – Charles Bethea / The New Yorker
Columbia University Reveals Details Of Its Ties With Slavery – Rebecca Hersher / NPR
In 1755, the board of governors of a new college was sworn into office in Manhattan. King’s College, as it was called, was not far…
Is God a White Supremacist?’: Religion class at elite college tackles ‘transnational whiteness’ – Dave Urbanski / The Blaze
Wisconsin Republicans Want “Problem of Whiteness” Class Cancelled, Professor Fired – Osigta Nwanevu / Slate
In the Wake of Trump, a Black-Student Groundswell – Grace Dolan-Sandrino and Zahri Jackson / The Nation
In the fight for racial justice on campus, 2016 stands in the shadow of 2015. Last November, black students took American higher education by storm—raining…
Texas campus tense with incidents since Donald Trump election – Rick Jervis / USA Today
Political Divide on Campuses Hardens After Trump’s Victory – Anemona Hartocollis / NYT
‘I Will Not Shut Up. America Is Still Worth Fighting For.’ – Heather Cox Richardson / Bill Moyers
Divisions in My Dorm Room ( New York University) – K.N. Pineda / NYT
Sweeping New Rutgers Report Reveals University’s Ties to Slavery & Displacement of Native Americans – Juan Gonzalez / Democracy Now
A sweeping new report reveals ties to slavery and the displacement of the Native Americans at one of the country’s top colleges. The findings about…
Racist Incidents And Attacks Surge at US Universities – Associated Press / Talkingpointsmemo
Harvard university has the largest endowment in the United States, but workers said they couldn’t pay basic living expenses – Emily Deruy / The Atlantic
The Professor Wore a Hijab in Solidarity — Then Lost Her Job – Ruth Graham / NYT Magazine
When Larycia Hawkins, the first black woman to receive tenure at Wheaton College, made a symbolic gesture of support for Muslims, the evangelical college became…
Why Asian-Americans Are Not a Model Minority – Simon Hedlin / The Harvard Crimson
Collegiate Voices – An Ivy League professor on why colleges don’t hire more faculty of color: ‘We don’t want them’ – Marybeth Gasman / Wash Post
Collegiate Voices – Black students say American University isn’t listening to them – Casey Quinlan / ThinkProgress
Collegiate Voices – Trump fights breaking out across college campuses – Tyler Pager / Politico
Collegiate Voices – Why White People Need to Talk About Racism Too – Zachary R. Wood / The Nation
In her moving speech at the Democratic National Convention, first lady Michelle Obama said that “in this election, we cannot afford to be tired, or…
Collegiate Voices – What Should We Teach Them Now? John Silvanus Wilson / Huff Post
In 1984, my brother and I were fortunate enough to survive an encounter with the police. It occurred near the beginning of a drive from…
Collegiate Voices – The Chancellor of Rutgers on Admissions and the Meritocracy – Conor Friedersdorf / The Atlantic
Collegiate Voices – Want greater diversity on college campuses? Increase the number of interracial roommates – Jonathan Zimmerman / Wash Post
Last month, the Supreme Court reaffirmed that universities can use race in making admissions decisions. In his majority opinion, Justice Anthony M. Kennedy wrote that…
Collegiate Voices – How Harvard set the model for affirmative action in college admissions – Nick Anderson / Wash Post
It was nearly 40 years ago when a fractured U.S. Supreme Court was searching for an acceptable and lawful way to take race and ethnicity…