March 2012
March 7th, 2012
Written by Janice S. Ellis... in Cause and Civility, Latest News, Race Relations with 7 Comments
The U.S. Department of Education released a very disturbing report this week highlighting the disproportionately high rate of blacks students suspended from schools in comparison to white students. Black students are three time more likely to be suspended for days than whites irrespective of whether they come from poor, middle class, or wealthy families.The practice and glaring disparities were...
March 6th, 2012
Written by Rita Rizzo in Feature Stories, Latest News with 2 Comments
Women’s rights recently came under siege again. A woman’s rights to earn a living, control her own body, have access to healthcare, and plan her own future have all publicly come into question during the past month. Established rights that today’s women enjoy are being decried as the reason for the morale decline in America. Women have had to fight long and hard to get these rights, and now it...
March 5th, 2012
Written by Abby L. Ferber ... in Latest News, National Collegiate Dialogue with 6 Comments
Each week, the White Privilege Conference and the Matrix Center for the Advancement of Social Equity and Inclusion, housed at the University of Colorado, Colorado Springs (UCCS), hosts a half hour radio show called Intersections Radio that features an interview with a different author, scholar, and/or speaker.In this segment, Sherryl Weston, a faculty member at the Center for Progressive...
March 5th, 2012
Written by Stephany Rose P... in Latest News, National Collegiate Dialogue with 13 Comments
What white person pissed you off? This was the question of unrest heralded from the opposite end of the phone line by a friend at his breaking moment. Although whiteness is one of the most crucial aspects of American culture and society, to turn the looking-glass onto whiteness seems and feels “strange” to most. However, as a critical whiteness consultant this is work that I do daily. WTH!!! Yes...
March 5th, 2012
Written by D. A. Barber in Eyes On The Enterprise, Latest News with 0 Comments
In 2011, 1.4 million Americans filed for personal bankruptcy and those with a college degree or a high paying job were not immune.“Bankruptcy is technically the point when you owe more than you own and most people hit that point a year or two earlier but they didn’t want to give up,” says Leslie E. Linfield, Executive Director of the Institute for Financial Literacy, a nonprofit financial...