Intersectional Studies News Today

With a loaded agenda that created “robust” conversation, as Faculty Senate President Jolynn Dowling called it, the Faculty Senate discussed topics relating to market-based compensation and the Kansas Board of Regents’ academic program review with administration and approved two new academic programs at their Oct. 23 meeting. Market-based compensation update Vicki Whisenhant, the executive director...

Amrita Myers unraveled the untold history of Julia Chinn and her peculiar role as the slave and wife of a prominent politician in the Antebellum/Old South to students and faculty.  Myers spoke at the “Words by Women” lecture series, hosted by the Department of Women’s, Ethnicity, and Intersectional Studies. The event, which used to be...

The architect of the attacks on affirmative action has pitted Asian Americans and Black Americans against each other—letting white folks off the hook.