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*A Florida Atlantic University professor, Dr. Deandre Poole, encouraged his students to write the name of Jesus on a piece of paper, then place it on the floor and step on it. The professor’s actions led to outrage from the Christian community, but he is not backing down. Poole is being supported by many of [...]
*A Florida academic institution that had a professor tell his students to write the name Jesus on paper and trample on it has issued a formal apology for the lesson, says the Christian Post. “This exercise will not be used again. The University holds dear its core values. We sincerely apologize for any offense this [...]
*The elections are over and we have our new President…well old President. But, there’s still ripples of concern throughout the country over his victory. Professor Sharon Sweet was a professor at Brevard Community College in Cocoa, Florida, (approximately 50 miles from Orlando) until it was discovered that she had set up a campaign office of [...]
*Born in Seattle, Washington on October 2, 1973, but raised in Charlottesville and Chester, Virginia, Melissa V. Harris-Perry is a professor of political science at Tulane University where she is the founding director of the project on gender, race, and politics in the South. Her previous book, Barbershops, Bibles, and BET: Everyday Talk and Black Political Thought, won the 2005 [...]
*The college experience should be one of fascination, resolution, and excitement about the future that each student has chosen or are preparing to choose. The thought of a freshman coming to a lecture that was less than intriguing, being disrespected and possibly redirected to bombarding her time with fighting a battle with one of her professors to [...]
*When you have a passion for something you’ll do it for free. And that’s how she knows writing is her passion. Her first role model was her mother who has authored and published three books. She remembers how her mother would write letters and ask her to critique them. And long before there were on-line [...]
*Have you ever met one of those people who are just too smart for their own good? They have the books, the academic accolades, and a very high up title behind their name. Well, biology professor at the University of California Berkeley, Dr. Tyrone Hayes, is one of those people. He currently has some beef [...]
*Fox News Channel’s Bill O’Reilly is all over the Internet today for telling an African American college professor that he looks like a cocaine dealer. Wednesday’s “The O’Reilly Factor” included a discussion with Columbia University professor Marc Lamont Hill about beefing up security on the Mexican border. The conservative host began describing a hypothetical situation [...]
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