by lindaoppenheim | Sep 7, 2016 | Article
Stephanie Saul’s article describes programs on several college campuses to help their incoming classes avoid hurting fellow students with microaggressions and other insensitivities. She also refers to “[t]he backlash . . . exemplified recently in a widely...
by lindaoppenheim | Aug 31, 2016 | Video
Lee Mun Wah, an internationally renowned Chinese American documentary filmmaker and diversity trainer, will participate in a screening of his documentary “If These Halls Could Talk,” which features 11 college students discussing their struggles to be...
by lindaoppenheim | Mar 23, 2016 | Opinion
In a Washington Post piece, Shaun Harper asks “Where were the critics of political correctness when people of color were the ones being shut down?”
by lindaoppenheim | Mar 23, 2016 | Documents
Rising Tide II: Do Black Students Benefit as Grad Rates Increase? looks at a decade of graduation rates for African American students at four-year, public institutions that improved student success during the past decade. It shows that while a majority (almost 70...
by lindaoppenheim | Jan 25, 2016 | Article
Reviewing the results of studies of the effect of racism on the mental health of college students of color, Green points out in her article in The Atlantic that “research has shown that the higher-education experience often requires that black students employ...