What happens when racial incidents are viewed differently by students who experience them in real time and administrators who try to address the incidents after the fact? At American University, the answer is complicated.
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January 2, 2020
New research highlights the differences in students’ sense of belonging by race, institution type and first-generation status.
December 20, 2019
New report examines access to postsecondary opportunities by ZIP code, questions the impact of free college and says for-profit institutions fill gaps between public colleges.
December 17, 2019
A student at Temple University describing the Philadelphia neighborhood surrounding the university as the "ghetto" has drawn outrage and condemnation from the university and community, CBS 3 Philly reports.
December 17, 2019
Indiana University in Bloomington has suspended a fraternity following allegations of anti-Semitic and racial slurs as well as an assault, USA Today reports.
December 16, 2019
A labor dispute between employees at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles could derail the upcoming Democratic presidential candidate debate, The New York Times reports.
All seven candidates who made the debate stage are saying that they won't cross picket lines for this Thursday's event.
December 16, 2019
After striking up a deal to pass off the controversial Silent Sam statue, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has lost $1.5 million worth of grant money, according to WRAL.com.
December 16, 2019
Mills College will be selling two of its prized possessions after some financial turmoil, reports SFist.
The women's college in Oakland, Calif., will be putting up for sale a rare Shakespeare folio from 1623 and an original Mozart score. Both were gifts to the college in 1977.
December 16, 2019
According to a new Gallup poll, about half of Americans consider a college education very important, but the percentage of those that agree with the sentiment has decreased since 2013.
The poll found that 51 percent of adults in the U.S. believe that a college education is "very important." This is down from 70 percent in 2013.
December 16, 2019
The University of Cincinnati and Dickinson College are considering purging and reconciling with their attachments to historical slave owners.