Showing posts with label HBCU. Show all posts
Showing posts with label HBCU. Show all posts
Thursday, May 11, 2017

Trump's Education Secretary DeVos Presents Commencement Address at Bethune-Cookman University: Things Do Not Go Well for Her

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Mr. Trump's Secretary of Education (and right-wing Christian activist) Betsy DeVos was the commencement speaker yesterday at the hist...
Tuesday, June 21, 2016

On Being a Straight Ally in the Movement for LGBTQ Rights: Lessons I Learned in Fifteen Years at HBCUs

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In the past week, as we discussed the Orlando atrocity and the response of faith communities to it, we had good discussion here of t...
Wednesday, January 25, 2012

Bethune-Cookman University under Leadership of Trudie Kibbe Reed: The Role of the Southern Association of Colleges

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To add to what I wrote yesterda y about Bethune-Cookman University and the recent resignation/retirement of its president Trudie Kibb...
Tuesday, January 24, 2012

In Higher Education News: Bethune-Cookman University President Trudie Kibbe Reed Resigns/Retires

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In the world of higher education, a very strange story now coming out of Bethune-Cookman University in Florida: as Michael Stratford ...
Saturday, October 2, 2010

High-School Student Brent Taghap's Tribute to Tyler Clementi

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A memorial tribute to Tyler Clementi by Jesuit high school student Brent Taghap of Tampa:  a loure of J.S. Bach. I am deeply disturbed ...

Neil Patrick Harris and Lance Bass Address Teen Coming Out Issues; Many College Campuses Remain Unsafe for LGBT Students, Faculty, Staff

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Another valuable online resource for teens dealing with issues of gender identity and sexual orientation, and adults hoping to offer ...
Tuesday, July 13, 2010

NY Times on the Country-Clubization of American Higher Education: Money Flowing to Adminstrators' Pockets, While Students and Faculty Suffer

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Sam Dillon's recent New York Times article about how college and university presidents are now spending their schools' money con...
Tuesday, April 6, 2010

Words and Moral Dilemmas: Mr. Donohue Denies Defending Maciel, and I Think Through a Moral Dilemma

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Slow to blog these days, in part, because I am trying to think through an ethical dilemma—one I haven’t faced before, and so I don’t have c...
Sunday, January 24, 2010

Loyalty Oaths and Pretensions to Power: Vatican Expects American Nuns to Take Oath of Fidelity

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Shortly after my last position in an academic institution was terminated, the president who first invited me to take that position and then...
Sunday, February 1, 2009

Reissuing the Appeal: Open Letter to Barack Obama on HBCUs and Homophobia

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The following is an open letter to Mr. Obama that I published on this blog on 19 September last year. Since I published this piece prior to...
Friday, January 16, 2009

African Americans, Prop 8, and Homophobia: Ongoing Discussion at Box Turtle (3)

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As I noted yesterday when I posted my reflections about Jim Burroway ’s Box Turtle Bulletin article “The NGLTF Study On Race and Prop 8: The...
Thursday, January 15, 2009

African Americans, Prop 8, and Homophobia: Ongoing Discussion at Box Turtle

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Box Turtle Bulletin has been doing a valuable service to the African-American and gay communities—and to the public at large, since these ar...
Saturday, December 20, 2008

Not Getting It: The Human Rights Question and Gay Americans

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I have thought long and hard in the past few days about just why many gay Americans, and many progressive Americans, and many American peopl...
Saturday, November 22, 2008

End of Week News: National Conversation on Human Rights

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Unusually cold weather here today, with overcast skies that look almost snow-laden—though snow this early in the season would be out of the ...
Friday, November 14, 2008

Finding Common Ground: The Gay and African-American Communities in Obama's America

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In my “Finding Common Ground” series earlier this week, I deliberately chose to wait before I appended the reflections I want to offer today...
Friday, November 7, 2008

Faith-Based Homophobia and Second Class Americans: A Test of the Mandate for Change

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In light of continued media/blog discussion of divisions between the African-American and gay community after the passing of proposition 8 i...