Jessica Ruf (EDU)Jessica Ruf is a writer and copy editor for the print magazine at Diverse. She can be reached at [email protected].Latest NewsEmory's First Hindu Chaplain Embraces Religious DiversityThroughout her childhood, Brahmacharini Shweta Chaitanya’s mom couldn’t seem to part with a particular book. Time after time, her mom returned to its pages, prompting curiosity from Chaitanya who’d wonder, ‘What is so great about this book?’August 10, 2021News RoundupBob Moses Honored Through New Educational Series at an Ohio InstituteAugust 9, 2021News RoundupAAUP Condemns Political Attempts to Restrict Critical Race TheoryThe American Association of University Professors (AAUP) condemned “in the strongest possible terms” all political attempts to remove critical race theory (CRT) from classrooms in a statement Wednesday. Although CRT has been present in academic and legal systems since the 1980s, the past year has seen heated, politically-charged debate over whether to incorporate the discipline […]August 4, 2021News RoundupMorgan State Offers Full-Time Status, Benefits and Higher Pay to Contractual EmployeesIn an effort to address employee inequity, Morgan State University will no longer hire contractual employees to meet its workforce needs, announced Dr. David K. Wilson, president of Morgan State. Instead, the historically Black university will offer benefits and full-time status to eligible existing contractual employees. What’s more, the university will also raise its hourly […]August 4, 2021News RoundupLiberty Lawsuit Against Jerry Falwell Jr. Survives First Round of Legal ChallengesMost of a lawsuit filed by Liberty University against its former president, Jerry Falwell Jr., was upheld by a judge after Falwell’s attorneys argued for its dismissal in June, ABC News reports. Falwell left Liberty — the evangelical Virginia school that his late father founded — after being put on an indefinite leave of absence last year for posting […]August 2, 2021News RoundupU of Richmond Donates Quarantine Housing to Homeless, Assault VictimsWith vaccination rates rising and new COVID cases falling, the University of Richmond is donating the modular homes it had purchased for quarantine to now benefit the homeless as well as survivors of domestic abuse and sexual assault, reports NBC12. The university’s five doublewide modular homes will go to Virginia’s Family Crisis Support Services (FCSS), […]July 29, 2021News RoundupJohns Hopkins Hires VP for Public Safety, Signaling Move Toward Private Police ForceIn announcing its new vice president for public safety, Johns Hopkins University signaled that it plans to move forward with creating its own private police force — a decision that has been hotly debated, reports The Baltimore Sun. Massachusetts police commissioner Dr. Branville Bard Jr. will take up the position on Aug. 30, announced the […]July 28, 2021News RoundupAfter Land Dispute, Music Festival to Purchase Former Marlboro College CampusThe Marlboro Music Festival — a “world-renowned” festival and retreat for advanced classical musicians held during the summer in Marlboro, Vermont — plans to purchase the former Marlboro College campus, where the festival has been held for the past 70 years, reports The Vermont Digger. The ownership of the 500-acre location, known as Potash Hill, […]July 23, 2021HealthIona College To Establish Health Science School on Former Concordia College CampusNewYork-Presbyterian, an academic health care network, has donated $20 million to establish a NewYork-Presbyterian Iona School of Health Sciences, in partnership with Iona College, reports The Journal News. The new school will be on Concordia College’s former campus in Bronxville, which Iona College bought after Concordia announced that it would be closing. Iona’s plans to […]July 23, 2021News RoundupNY’s Marist College Appoints Fifth President, Two Years After Departure of Last PresidentNew York’s Marist College has named Dr. Kevin Weinman its fifth president, reports the Poughkeepsie Journal, adding that the hire comes 25 months after Dr. David Yellen stepped down as president “in a surprise move for which neither party elaborated on reasons.” President Emeritus Dr. Dennis Murray, who had been president for 37 years prior, […]July 23, 2021Page 1 of 43Next Page
