Category: Campus Life

  • Drury professor honored for research on mixed-race families Springfield News-Leader Springfield, Missouri 2014-10-12 Kaleigh Jurgensmeyer Drury University Dan Livesay, assistant history professor at Drury University, has been named the Sherman Emerging Scholar for 2014. Livesay will travel to the University of North Carolina-Wilmington next week to deliver a public lecture about his research, speak in…

  • Hapa changes name to Association of Multiracial People at Tufts to reflect new goals The Tufts Daily Medford, Massachusetts 2014-10-14 Yuki Zaninovich, Contributing Writer For the Association of Multiracial People at Tufts (AMPT), there is a lot in a name. AMPT, formerly known as Tufts Hapa, aims to create a community for students who identify…

  • Exploring Identity: The Asian American Experience at Harvard The Harvard Crimson: The University Daily since 1873 Harvard University 2014-09-25 Maia R. Silber, Crimson Staff Writer While last year’s “I, Too, Am Harvard” focused on identity and belongingness on a multiracial campus, Harvard’s AAPI students will also examine these concepts within the context of their own…

  • Number of multiracial students on rapid rise The Korean Times 2014-09-21 Kim Se-jeong The number of elementary, middle and high school students from multiracial families soared to a record high of 67,806 as of April, the Ministry of Education said Sunday. That accounted for 1.07 percent of the 6.33 million total and is the first…

  • What Are You, Anyway? Brown Alumni Magazine Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island September/October 2014 Amy DuBois Barnett ’91 It was a muggy day in September 1987. Thanks to the dense New England humidity of a stubborn Indian summer, most of us pre-freshmen had hung our crisp new college outfits in the narrow dorm closets and…

  • Let’s Talk About It: Multiracial Identity University of North Carolina, Charlotte Thursday, 2014-09-11, 12:30-13:30 EDT (Local TIme) Union 200 Led by the Multicultural Resource Center (MRC), the Let’s Talk It Discussion Series will focus on areas of diversity through prompts that spark discussion.  These discussions are open to all and will focus on one area…

  • Who Are You? Multiracial Students and Microaggressions on College Campuses NASPA: Student Affairs Administrators in Higher Education 2014-08-01 Brittany Hunt Have you ever been in a situation where you were having a conversation with someone and then all of the sudden you feel them looking at you with a puzzled look on their face? Then…

  • How Race-Studies Scholars Can Respond to Their Haters Vitae A service of The Chronicle of Higher Education 2014-06-27 Stacey Patton, Senior Enterprise Reporter Graduate school prepares students for a range of intellectual and professional endeavors. Unfortunately, responding to scholarly insults and academic shade-throwing isn’t one of them. But for scholars in the fields of race…

  • UCLA Mixed Heritage Conference 2014 – Mixed Stories Team Mixed Show University of California, Los Angeles Mixed Heritage Conference 2014 2014-06-18 Recorded at the Mixed Student Union at UCLA’s Mixed Heritage Conference, April 2014. Participants at the conference share their stories. *Our apologies to the people who we filmed but did not make it into…

  • Future Children Campus MoveFest 2014-05-03 Emily Eaglin—Captain, Director, Writer, Producer, Editor University of Maryland, Baltimore County A comedy/documentary about race relations especially pertaining to racial micro-aggressions of those who are more than one race. Created by Emily Eaglin’s Crew at University of Maryland, Baltimore County in 2014 as part of Campus MovieFest, the world’s largest…