September 19, 2017 Goodbye, Calhoun: Students forge new identity as dedication set for renamed Yale residential college Seven months after the renaming of Yale’s Calhoun College in honor of Grace Murray Hopper, students are looking to the future as the college tries to shed its previous controversial identity.
September 18, 2017 African-American university students offended by cotton The president of Lipscomb University issued a public apology after an untold number of African-American students were offended by a dinner table centerpiece made from stalks of cotton.
July 5, 2017 Mississippi school district moves forward with desegregation plan A Mississippi school district is moving forward with a plan to desegregate its schools, 62 years after the landmark Brown v. Board of Education U.S. Supreme Court ruling.
July 5, 2017 Snowflake Watch: Safe words for safe spaces Citizens have 911. Employees have the EEOC. Consumers have the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and distressed sailors have the Coast Guard. But what do America’s college students have? Where can they turn when they find themselves outside campus “safe spaces” and suffer a “microaggression”?
June 21, 2017 Government offers new approach to classroom discipline The Obama administration is issuing new recommendations on classroom discipline that seek to end the apparent disparities in how students of different races are punished for violating school rules.
May 23, 2017 St. Olaf College president says racist note was 'fabricated' A racist note found on the campus of St. Olaf College in northern Minnesota was "fabricated" and not a genuine threat to minority students, the school's president said Wednesday.
December 14, 2016 UPenn students swap out Shakespeare portrait in favor of Audre Lorde The Bard is apparently too old school for English students at the University of Pennsylvania.
October 30, 2016 Ohio high school apologizes after 'Trail of Tears' banner displayed at football game An Ohio high school Saturday blamed "ignorance" as it apologized for a banner displayed at a prep football game recalling the country's brutal treatment of Native Americans.
June 22, 2016 Headmaster of America's oldest public school quits amid racial strife The head of a prestigious Boston high school stepped down from her post Tuesday, claiming that she had no control over policies critics say led to racial tension at the school.
May 17, 2016 Judge says Mississippi school district must do more to desegregate After 51 years of litigation and three earlier plans to desegregate schools in a Mississippi Delta district, a federal judge says more work is still needed.
