Category Archives: Diversity

Baltimore Sun: Suit seeks to toss out joint program at UB, Towson

Arguing that Maryland has failed to desegregate its colleges and universities, an advocacy group with ties to Morgan State University filed a lawsuit yesterday demanding the dismantling of several new academic programs at traditionally white campuses, including a joint MBA program at Towson University and the University of Baltimore.

The Coalition for Equity and Excellence in Maryland Higher Education is requesting a court order that will mandate parity in “all facets of … operations and programs” between the state’s four historically black campuses and their traditionally white counterparts.

The Chronicle: Group Sues Maryland, Alleging Unfair Treatment of Historically Black Institutions

A civil-rights organization filed a lawsuit on Friday in a state court in Baltimore alleging that Maryland has failed to follow its own and federal laws with regard to historically black institutions in the state.

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Orange County Register: No melting pot

More of California’s high school graduating seniors are black and Hispanic, but fewer can be found at University of California.

The news reverberated like an earthquake within UC Irvine’s small population of black students.
Only 96 of nearly 5,000 freshmen who planned to enroll at UCLA this fall were black – the lowest number in decades.

“It’s horrible to hear something like that – it’s hard to put into words how you feel,” said Blake Brown, a UCI biology major who hopes to go to medical school. “Ninety-six students. And probably a lot of them are athletes.”

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Inside Higher Ed: When Ugliness Visits a Campus

Every once in awhile on university campuses, the unthinkable, even the unutterable, happens. A scrawled message shows up on a bathroom stall, a religious symbol is defaced — and administrators and faculty members are left to try to contain the fallout and forestall another explosion.

Pace University, in New York, has been plagued by a series of three racially charged incidents, beginning with the discovery of a library-owned copy of a Koran in a toilet on its main campus in Manhattan September 20. Just four days later, a car parked at Pace’s location in the suburb of Briarcliff, N.Y. was found strewn with litter, the word “nigger” written in the condensation on the windshield, and, on September 29, the same racial epithet and a swastika were found scribbled on a bathroom stall door at the Manhattan campus. No suspects have been identified, although campus officials are operating under the assumption that the perpetrators are insiders, students or employees with access to the buildings.

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Rocky Mountain News: Diversity tops CU leaders’ to-do lists

ncreasing the presence of minorities on campus will be part of the evaluations used to set salaries for top administrators, University of Colorado President Hank Brown said Friday.

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Inside Higher Ed: Paying for diversity

On Thursday, the Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System approved a plan that would increase tuition for all students at the university’s La Crosse campus by a total of $1,320 over three years to diversify the student body there.

A tenet of the “Growth and Access” plan is to expand the number of enrolled students by 1,000, with half of those being low-income or underrepresented minority students. Enrollment at La Crosse now stands at over 8,500 students, of which approximately 500 are minority students.

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