Rutgers Center for Minority Serving Institutions (CMSI) Executive Director Marybeth Gasman and Senior Research Associate Levon T. Esters are proud to release a new book examining the role Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) play in empowering Black students, fostering economic development, building community, and mentoring leaders and activists. HBCU: The Power of Historically Black…
Teachers of Color Face Unique Challenges. Here Are Some of Them (Opinion)
These invisible and often unpaid tasks took various forms. For instance: Black male educators taking on roles as disciplinariansLatinx educators acting as language translatorsCreating and curating culturally responsive, anti-racist and socially just curricular materialsServing on equity committees and taking leadership positionsMentoring racially marginalized studentsBridging the cultural gap as culture translators and mediatorsIn addition to the…
Why Artist Jean-Michel Basquiat is Relevant To Human Rights Today
In 1982 at the age of just 22 years old, Jean-Michel Basquiat would produce this Untitled skull painting. A powerful and dazzling image that mixes text, colour, symbolism and mark-making in a raw and uncensored explosion. In a single painting, he would use his instinctive power of visual language to say everything he wanted to…
Have You Met The Etiquette Doctor?
Excerpt from an article by Marybeth Gasman: Corbett believes that etiquette training is important, explaining, “Unfortunately, most youth do not exhibit good manners due to the lack of training at home. Parents may not be knowledgeable about etiquette, and K-12 schools no longer provide courses such as home economics to teach young people.” Corbett has…
Shaping Tomorrow: The HBCU Legacy and American Democracy
New #VaryingViewpoints episode! 🎙️ 🗣️ Learn about the transformative potential of #highereducation exemplified by the #HBCU tradition! 👏 🎓 In this episode of the Varying Viewpoints podcast series, we invited John Silvanus Wilson Jr., author of Hope and Healing: Black Colleges and the Future of American Democracy and Visiting Lecturer at Morgan State University. John shares his background…
Incarcerated students graduate from top ten university for first time in history
ABC News’ Alex Perez speaks to recent graduates from the Northwestern University Prison Education Program about how the program has impacted their lives. WATCH:
Texas A&M just showed us that schools have the money to pay student-athletes
You can’t keep saying there isn’t enough to compensate players when there’s always enough to buy out bad, fired coaches Fisher’s failure on the sidelines looks even worse when you compare him to the man he replaced, Kevin Sumlin — Texas A&M’s first Black head football coach. Sumlin was 51-26 during his tenure with the…
Researchers Find Understanding and Embracing Intercultural Tensions and Differences in Teams Increases Information Elaboration and Creativity
“Teamwork makes the dream work.” It’s a popular phrase used to describe the merits of working in teams to get things done. When applied successfully, creating and collaborating with coworkers can produce results that surpass a single individual’s contribution. In the past, teams were mostly homogeneous because this was the makeup of most organizations in…
“Silence represents a theory of the Black man’s reality”
This beautifully written book argues that educators need to understand the social worlds and complex literacy practices of African American males in order to pay the increasing educational debt we owe all youth and break the school-to-prison pipeline. Moving portraits from the lives of six friends bring to life the structural characteristics and qualities of…
Librarians turn to civil rights agency to oppose book bans and their firings – ABC News
Some librarians who’ve been fired as they take a stand against discrimination and banning books are turning to a federal civil-rights enforcement agency for help Read the full story.
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