| Thousands of students from hundreds of colleges converged on Washington, D.C., October 10-11 for the National Equality March, the first national protest for gay rights in more than a decade. Undergraduates at the U of Maryland announced findings of their year-long study to uncover the university's slavery ties, discovering no evidence that slaves built or worked at the institution, though many of its founders were slaveholders. Morehouse College initiated an "appropriate attire policy," joining a small group of colleges that have adopted dress codes. A federal appeals court ruled that failure to renew a non-tenured instructor's contract can trigger a discrimination claim against a college, just as much as if it dismissed an employee or took some other "adverse employment action." Bernard Fryshman's Views commentary posited that by focusing on career training over education, the federal government risks threatening to shortchange two-year-college students. Intellectual Affairs Columnist Scott McLemee envisioned the emergence of a civil rights movement in which the struggle for recognition and equality goes beyond "identity politics." A Career Coach posting to the Mama Ph.D. blog about the pros and cons for women having babies in graduate school drew lots of comments. A careers column titled "The Benjamin Mays Model," Walter M. Kimbrough writes that the late Morehouse president provides an example of how to lead a college, with an emphasis on values and on students.
THE STUDENT BODY
"We Are Students for Equality"
see story
History, But No Smoking Gun
see story
What the Morehouse Man Wears
see story
Giving the Community a College
see essay
THE FACULTY AND ADMINISTRATION
Contract Non-Renewal = Dismissal
see story
New Civil Rights Movement
see essay
Career Coach: Having a Baby in Graduate School
see blog
The Benjamin Mays Model
see column
AUDIO: On Tuesday, November 17 at 1 p.m. Eastern, Clifford A. Ramirez -- author of the new book, "FERPA Clear and Simple: The College Professional's Guide to Compliance" (Jossey-Bass), registrar at Claremont Graduate University, and president of Cliff Ramirez & Associates, which provides FERPA training and consulting -- will lead an audio conference on what college officials should know about FERPA, about how it has changed, and about how those changes impact campus operations today. Click here to register now for this low-cost conference, or for more information. Now available for download: "How Undergraduate Institutions Can Diversify the Graduate Student Body," with Richard Cherwitz, founder and director of the Intellectual Entrepreneurship Consortium (IE) in the Office of the Vice President for Diversity and Community Engagement at the University of Texas at Austin. Click for information.
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