Race Relations

Issue Of The Week XXIII: Do White Professors Limit The Education Students Receive On Matters Of Racism?

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Jodie Blankenship

College and university rhetoric is devised to supply students with a language to discuss difficult topics at a higher education level. One concept introduced early in many college educations is authority. Students learn to intensely evaluate articles, books, fiction, and other publications to assess the reliability of that source and whether that source is an authority on a subject.

The idea of authority is an on-going discussion on college campuses with the concept often posed by the “authority” in class, which normally is the professor.

Issue Of The Week XXII: A New Form Of Discrimination Social Media Racism On College Campuses

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National Collegiate Dialogue

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Cindy Ferraino

With the advent of social media sites like Facebook and Twitter, administrators on college campuses across the United States find themselves challenged with the job of trying to prevent a new genre of out-casting and racial bullying.

Conversation Of The Week XXII: Mixed-Race Students And The College Experience

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National Collegiate Dialogue

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Amy OLoughlin

In January, The New York Times published “Black? White? Asian? More Young Americans Choose All of the Above,” a provocative and widely circulated article about college students of mixed racial and ethnic backgrounds, as well as the rise in population of a multiracial America.