Category: Campus Life

  • Brown campus newspaper issues apology after racist columns The Associated Press 2015-10-07 Amy Anthony PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — The Brown University campus newspaper apologized Wednesday after publishing what it says were two “deeply hurtful” and racist columns. The Brown Daily Herald’s editorial board published an editor’s note saying it regretted the hurt caused by the…

  • A Statement from a Collective of Multiracial and Biracial Students bluestockings magazine Monday, 2015-10-12 Multiracial and Biracial Students at Brown For further context, please see the bluestockings editors statement. Introduction We, a collective of multiracial and biracial students, write this statement to address the publication of a series of articles by the Brown Daily Herald,…

  • Controversial Hire Won’t Serve as Dartmouth’s Native American Program Director Valley News White River Junction, Vermont 2015-10-02 Rob Wolfe, Valley News Staff Writer Susan Taffe Reed stepped down as director of Dartmouth’s Native American Program. (Dartmouth College – Eli Burakian) Hanover — Dartmouth College officials said Thursday that the school’s new Native American Program director…

  • Mixed-race students struggle to find their identity The Daily Pennsylvanian Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 2015-09-28 Elizabeth Winston Many students seem to effortlessly fit into cultural groups at Penn [University of Pennsylvania], but for some, it’s more complicated than simply choosing one. For mixed-race students, finding racial or cultural groups to identify with can be more of a…

  • Indian Enough for Dartmouth? Inside Higher Ed 2015-09-17 Scott Jaschik, Editor Dartmouth College this month appointed Susan Taffe Reed as director of its Native American Program. In a news release, the college noted Taffe Reed’s academic background (a Cornell University Ph.D. and postdocs at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Bowdoin College),…

  • Adolescent Racial Identity: Self-Identification of Multiple and “Other” Race/Ethnicities Urban Education Published online before print: 2015-03-18 DOI: 10.1177/0042085915574527 Bryn Harris, Assistant Professor of Psychology University of Colorado, Denver Russell D. Ravert, Associate Professor Department of Human Development & Family Studies University of Missouri, Columbia Amanda L. Sullivan, Associate Professor of Psychology University of Minnesota, Minneapolis…

  • It’s My Party and I’ll Be Biracial if I Want to College Magazine 2015-07-23 Emanuel Griffin University of Florida The fact that I am half black and half Asian is the coolest thing about me. It’s like being a one-man Wu-Tang Clan. It’s like being the handsome result of Jackie Chan and Chris Tucker having…

  • New UW center to encourage race, diversity dialogue The Seattle Times 2015-07-12 Katherine Long, Seattle Times higher education reporter Ralina Joseph is the new director of the University of Washington’s Center for Communication, Difference, and Equity. (Ellen M. Banner/The Seattle Times) A new center at the University of Washington aims to help people figure out…

  • A Qualitative Examination of Multiracial Students’ Coping Responses to Experiences with Prejudice and Discrimination in College Journal of College Student Development Volume 56, Number 4, May 2015 pages 331-348 DOI: 10.1353/csd.2015.0041 Samuel D. Museus, Associate Professor of Higher Education Morgridge College of Education University of Denver Susan A. Lambe Sariñana, Clinical Psychologist Cambridge, Massachusetts Tasha…

  • University of Salford installs new Chancellor, Professor Jackie Kay MBE University of Salford Salford, United Kingdom Friday, 2015-05-01 The University celebrated the official installation of it’s sixth Chancellor, renowned poet Professor Jackie Kay MBE, at a grand ceremony in Peel Hall on Wednesday 29 April 2015. Jackie Kay MBE was formally initiated in a ceremony…