Category: Campus Life

  • “Unknown” Students on College Campuses: An Exploratory Analysis The James Irvine Foundation December 2005 20 pages Campus Diversity Initiative Evaluation Project Team (Claremont Graduate University and the Association of American Colleges and Universities): Daryl G. Smith, Co-principal Investigator José Moreno, Senior Research Analyst Alma R. Clayton-Pedersen, Co-principal Investigator Sharon Parker, Co-principal Investigator Daniel Hiroyuki Teraguchi,…

  • Many Biracial Students Game Racial-Classification Systems, Study Suggests The Chronicle of Higher Education 2010-12-14 Peter Schmidt A study of biracial people with black and white ancestry has found that many identify themselves solely as black when filling out college applications and financial-aid forms, raising new questions about the accuracy of educational statistics and research based…

  • Room For Debate: Does It Matter Where You Go to College? Merit and Race New York Times 2010-11-30 Luis Fuentes-Rohwer, Professor of Law and Harry T. Ice Faculty Fellow Indiana University What sensible and ambitious students should keep in mind about where they go to school. Notwithstanding our commitment to egalitarian norms, where one chooses…

  • Between boxes the Burr Kent State University Fall 2005 pages 50-55 Story by Jessica Rothschuh Photo illustration by Clarissa Westmeyer Photos by Lauren Arendt For some multiracial students, college becomes a time to discover their heritages and shape their identities HER DARK HAIR IS PULLED BACK IN BRAIDS, LEAVING HER FACE OPEN, TWO large, dark…

  • Race Classification at the University of KwaZulu-Natal: Purposes, Sites and Practices IOLS‐Research, Dr. Shaun Ruggunan and ccrri For: Centre for Critical Research on Race and Identity (ccrri) University of Kwazulu-Natal 2010-11-08 59 pages Race classification has long been a feature of South African life, in daily life and its cognitive processes, and also in formal…

  • Cross ’12, Castagno ’12 Participate in Mixed Race Conference The Wesleyan Connecton Welyean University’s Newsletter 2010-12-02 Olivia Drake Rachel Cross ’12 and Alicia Castagno ’12 participated as panel members in a session of the Critical Mixed Race Conference sponsored by dePaul University in Chicago Nov. 5-6 [2010]. The conference was attended by academicians and students…

  • Graduate Student Profile: Chelsea Guillermo-Wann (Education) UCLA Graduate Quarterly University of California, Los Angeles Fall 2010 pages 6-7 Growing up in Santa Barbara, Chelsea Guillermo-Wann started “developing concepts of white and brown” while she was still in grade school, concepts that gave her a different understanding of her white mother and brown father—his heritage both…

  • Counseling Today Online: Under the radar Counseling Today Online American Counseling Association 2010-11-19 Lynne Shallcross Five ACA members discuss their efforts to reach out to and connect with client populations at risk of being overlooked and underserved No ethical counselor enters the profession and anticipates skipping over or ignoring a group in need of help.…

  • APA recognizes record number of student research projects gradPSYCH Magazine Volume 8, Number 3 (September 2010) Page 7 J. Clark   The APA Science Student Council doubled its research prizes this year, awarding six $1,000 Early Graduate Student Research Awards to psychology doctoral students for their outstanding research. “By recognizing the work of these students,…

  • Biracial Identity The Lion’s Roar Issue 27-2 (September 2010) Student-Run Newspaper of Newton South High School Newton, Massachusetts Caroline Rosa, Managing Editor Rachel Leshin, Managing Editor Approaching the lunch table where her black friends were seated, sophomore Kayla Burton tried beginning to bridge the racial gap between her friend groups. But when she tried to…