Category: Campus Life

  • Tufts Hapa reaches out to mixed-race students The Tufts Daily: The Independent student newspaper of Tufts University Medford, Massachusetts 2012-10-03 Alexandria Chu Among the more than 300 student organizations at Tufts, there are many geared toward specific ethnicities and cultures. Tufts Hapa, a new group on campus, is working to become the only one intended…

  • Newsletter Premiere! National Association of Mixed Student Organizations (NAMSO) Newsletter 1.1 October 2012 We are thrilled to be sending our first-ever bimonthly newsletter to you.  A new NAMSO initiative, this newsletter is intended to gather and broadcast a trove of updates related to the mixed heritage/multiracial/transracial adoptee community, with a focus on student organizations.   …

  • Prestigious grant award for research on President Obama Edge Hill University Ormskirk, Lancashire, United Kingdom News 2010-06-04 Edge Hill University and key partners have been awarded a prestigious grant to develop a research network on The Presidency of Barack Obama. The Arts and Humanities Research Council has given an award of £31,320 to the institution…

  • Rutgers Group Brings Students Together to Explore the Complexities of Being Multiracial Focus Rutgers University News September 2012 Carrie Stetler By 2050, one in five Americans is likely to be multiracial It’s a question Joan Gan hears a lot: “What are you?” She instantly knows what it means. Her father is Chinese and her mother…

  • Brazil Enacts Affirmative Action Law for Universities The New York Times 2012-08-30 Simon Romero, Brazil Bureau Chief RIO DE JANEIRO — Brazil’s government has enacted one of the Western Hemisphere’s most sweeping affirmative action laws, requiring public universities to reserve half of their admission spots for the largely poor students in the nation’s public schools…

  • Purdu­e Hapa Stude­nt Assoc­iatio­n Callo­ut Sept. 17, 2012 Purdue University West Lafayette, Indiana Class of 1950, Room 121 2012-09-17, 18:00-20:00 CDT (Local Time) The term “Hapa” refers to a biracial/multiracial person with Asian and/or Pacific Islander roots. As a club, we promote both diversity and unity, and we strive to raise awareness of identity crisis…

  • Brazil Approves University Affirmative Action Bill Associated Press 2012-08-08 Stan Lehman San Paulo—The Brazilian Senate has approved an affirmative action bill that reserves half the spots in federal universities for high school graduates of public schools, and distributes them according to the racial makeup of each state. The Senate’s news agency says the bill that…

  • “Not Half But Double”: Exploring Critical Incidents in the Racial Identity of Multiracial College Students Journal of College Student Development Volume 53, Number 4, July/August 2012 pages 524-541 DOI: 10.1353/csd.2012.0054 Angela H. Kellogg, Director of Academic Advising and Career Services University of Wisconsin, Stevens Point Debora L. Liddell, Associate Professor and Program Coordinator of the…

  • A Mulatto Area Gets Own School The New York Times 1962-09-16 page 73 Hedrick Smith, Special to the New York Times Desegregation Moves Roi Louisiana Caste System BURAS, La., Sept. 13—Freda’s Hi-Lo Bar sits just off State Highway 23 as the road chases the Mississippi River on its last 100 miles from the suburbs of…

  • the greek Story Week Reader Story Week Reader 2011 pages 31-32 Chris “C.T.” Terry, Writer, Editor, Educator I was nervous on my first day working in the African-American Cultural Affairs section of my school’s Multicultural Office. My boss Kim introduced me to coworkers, and I imagined my blue eyes to be the subject of appraising…