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Black and Not Feeling Welcome
Back-to-back essays by two Vassar professors, one of them a former dean, renew a debate about treatment of minority faculty members.
Students Protest Over Ferguson
Many voice outrage over lack of an indictment.
Too Controversial for Stanford
The musical "Bloody, Bloody Andrew Jackson," which links popularity of seventh president to his ordering mass killings of Native Americans, is called off after complaints from Native American students.
2 New Challenges to Affirmative Action
Lawsuits seek to end considerations of race in admissions at Harvard and U. of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Is This Ad Offensive?
Harcum College has a campaign in which a woman appears headed to a health profession and a black man is shown in a suit with a basketball. Is this a perpetuation of stereotypes?
'Dear White People'
The movie "Dear White People" is "a satire about being a black face in a white place." Does it accurately portray race relations on mostly white campuses?
A Flag and Race at Bryn Mawr
When two students at elite women's college embraced symbolism of the Jim Crow South, they set off debate at an institution that is proud of being majority minority, but where some feel isolated and ignored.
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Respectful Difference
Sean Decatur describes how Kenyon College took a stand against anonymous online bullying.