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Changing Your Facebook Profile Picture Is Doing More Good Than You Might Think
Sandra González-Bailón of the Annenberg School for Communication says, “Of course social media doesn’t push you to risk your life and take to the streets, but it helps the actions of those who take the risk to gain international visibility.”
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With Faculty Diversity on Everyone’s Radar, HBCUs Worry About Losing Scholars
If a predominantly white university with a stepped-up diversity agenda comes trolling for talent, Walter M. Kimbrough knows he may have trouble competing with the money it can offer. But as president of Dillard University, a historically black institution in New Orleans, he says he can make a convincing case for his faculty members to stick around.
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Students: Rename Building Called ‘Lynch’ After Ex-president
Students at a small Pennsylvania college are demanding that administrators rename a building called "Lynch Memorial Hall" because of the racial overtones of the word "lynch." The building is named after Clyde A. Lynch, who was president of Lebanon Valley College from 1932 until his death in 1950. Students want school officials to either rename the building entirely or add Lynch's first name and middle initial, saying the word recalls the public executions of black men by white mobs in the late 1800s and early 1900s.
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The Desktop Gene Machine
Orkan Telhan of the School of Design and Karen Hogan of the School of Arts & Sciences are highlighted for collaborating on a desktop machine that automates genetic engineering.
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How Will the Supreme Court Rule on Affirmative Action?
The United States Supreme Court will hear arguments on Dec. 9 in Fisher v. University of Texas, a case challenging affirmative action in university admissions. Emily Bazelon, a staff writer for the magazine, and Adam Liptak, The Times’s Supreme Court correspondent, have been exchanging emails about the possible outcomes of the case and what they might mean at a moment of debate over race in American higher education.
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What the Supreme Court Will Be Asking as It Revisits Affirmative Action
When the U.S. Supreme Court hears arguments on Wednesday in a legal battle over race-conscious admissions at the University of Texas, look for the justices to focus less on the broad debate over such policies than on nuts-and-bolts questions defining when they stray beyond established law.
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Albuquerque, Revising Approach Toward the Homeless, Offers Them Jobs
Dennis Culhane of the School of Social Policy & Practice comments on Albuquerque’s approach to the homeless population.
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Video: In Social Movements, ‘Slactivists' Matter
Sandra González-Bailón of the Annenberg School for Communication is interviewed about the role people who support causes using social media play in activism.
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Survey: 32 Private University Presidents Earn More Than $1 Million in 2013
"The presidents of Columbia University and the University of Pennsylvania both earned more than $3 million in 2013…."
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University of Maryland President Recommends Changing Name of Byrd Stadium, Citing Legacy of Segregation
The president of the University of Maryland is recommending that Byrd Stadium be renamed, saying the segregationist legacy of the long-honored alumnus and former college leader does not align with the university’s mission. Wallace Loh announced to the U-Md.