Monthly Archives: June 2012
A very interesting note on the gender component of the UVA Hot Mess (TM)
Moving on the Wires: Black to the Future Series
CONFERENCE: Access, Competition and For-Profit Colleges
CONFERENCE: Access, Competition and For-Profit Colleges. I’m pleased to be organizing an AERA research conference, “Access, Competition, and For-Profit Colleges” in collaboration with Sandy Darity, The Research Network on Racial & Ethnic Inequality, and with generous support from the AERA Conference Grant initiative. This interdisciplinary two-day conference will convene September 21-22, 2012 at Duke University.Read More “CONFERENCE: Access, Competition and For-Profit Colleges”
Alt-White in the Academy
UPDATED: ALT WHITE ACADEMICS LISTS AND ALL-STARS!! Twitter has been good to me and my academic career. So, I was very excited to see this list of academics, by discipline, for some new follows. Alas, I found the list to be very very…white for my tastes. That is, as the young people say, no shade.Read More “Alt-White in the Academy”
Call for presentations for 2013 Prisoner’s Family Conference
This is a wonderful opportunity courtesy of my friend, Ashley Lucas.
CFP: Blk Art Group Research Project 30th Anniversary Conference @ Wolverhampton University
elizabeth warren and minority professors
Employees Ready “Out of the Box” at What Cost?
There are a few narratives floating around in the atmosphere these days about labor, training, and credentials. There’s the one that says we have serious skills mismatch in our economy. The solution, this narrative says, is to quickly “retool” the “labor force” for specific job functions. The other narrative says that public colleges have failedRead More “Employees Ready “Out of the Box” at What Cost?”
Michelle Obama, Beyonce, and Wonder Woman
On NPR’s tumblr today came a quote from a story I’d subconsciously blocked from my twitter feed last week: So when the most influential black woman in the world, armed with degrees from some of the best institutions in the world, names Beyonce, a singer best known for a song called “Bootylicious,” as someone she aspiresRead More “Michelle Obama, Beyonce, and Wonder Woman”