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The WSU community will have the opportunity to hear from the American educator credited with developing the concept of first-generation students as part of the university’s National TRIO Day celebration at noon on Feb. 24.
The McNair Program sets underrepresented students on the path to academic careers. But the program is an overlooked resource. At U.S. business schools, underrepresented minorities account for only a small number of faculty. According to AACSB’s 2020 Business School Data Guide, 3.9 percent of full-time business faculty are Black, 2.8 percent are Hispanic, and .3 percent are Native American. If the business school community wants to improve this persistently low percentage, then we must find ways to encourage more underrepresented students to enter the academic pipeline. One i...
By Sarah Viren May 25, 2021 … J. Kehaulani Kauanui had just woken up. She was reading a story on her phone in bed, a confession written by a woman named Jessica Krug, when, quite suddenly, it yanked her into the past. “To an escalating degree over my adult life, I have eschewed my lived experience as a white Jewish child in suburban Kansas City,” wrote Krug, a history professor who had for years identified — and published — as a Black and Latina scholar. “I have thought about ending these lies many times over many years,” she continued, “but my cowardice was always more powerf...
The Native Scholar Who Wasnât https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/25/magazine/cherokee-native-american-andrea-smith.html Andrea SmithCredit...Photo illustration by Joan Wong. Source photograph by Tom Zasadzinski/Cal Poly Pomona; Alamy. Sections The Native Scholar Who Wasnât More than a decade ago, a prominent academic was exposed for having faked her Cherokee ancestry. Why has her career continued to thrive? Andrea SmithCredit...Photo illustration by Joan Wong. Source photograph by Tom Zasadzinski/Cal Poly Pomona; Alamy. Listen to This ArticleAudio Recording by Audm To hear more a...
Cyber talent earns Hayes full ride to graduate school UNG alumnus Thomas Hayes earned a full-ride graduate school scholarship through the CyberCorps Scholarship for Service program. He is pursuing a master's degree in cybersecurity and privacy at New Jersey Institute of Technology. Thomas Hayes left no stone unturned when it came to building his credentials and helping others while he was a student at the University of North Georgia (UNG). Now, the December 2020 graduate with a bachelor's degree in information systems has parlayed those qualities into a prestigious full-ride graduate school s...