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University of Michigan Professor John Cheney-Lippold refused to write a recommendation letter for a student after he initially agreed. After revisiting the student’s request and realizing the application was for a study abroad program in Israel, Cheney-Lippold apologized and rescinded his support, citing his academic boycott of Israel, an apartheid state that is oppressing Palestinians.

In a perfect career move, the Ph.D student who rapped his dissertation is now a professor of hip-hop. A. D. Carson graduated from the University of Clemson with a Ph.D in rhetorics, communication and information design in 2017 and made headlines by releasing a 34-track entitled “Owning My Masters: The Rhetoric’s of Rhymes and Revolutions.” Carson’s official […]

A professor at Trinity College in Hartford, Conn. is caught up in major controversy after a social media post has resulted in demands for his termination and death threats. 

An unnamed white professor at Howard University is being accused of taking time in class to hold a mock slave auction and using a Black student as an example of the inhumane treatment slaves would be put through. 

A professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago is suing the university for discrimination following years of unfair treatment, including being forced to teach statistics despite not being qualified.

A unidentified law professor at an unidentified law school is receiving praise for schooling their students on everything that’s right about Black Lives Matter.  A first-year student’s initial criticisms of the professor wearing a Black Lives Matter shirt to lecture resulted in the professor boiling down their entire argument into a “premise” and “critique” breakdown.

Imani Perry is a well-known professor of African-American studies at Princeton University. But that didn’t protect her from enduring what she’s recalling as a terrifying experience when she was arrested, patted down by a male officer and handcuffed to a table because of a three-year-old parking ticket.

The college that placed a professor on leave for wearing a Hijab in December has now issued a “Notice of Recommendation to Initiate Termination-for-Cause Proceedings” against the woman. Larycia Hawkins, Associate Professor of Political Science at Wheaton College, was put on administrative leave “to explore significant questions regarding the theological implications of her recent public […]

From Colorlines: Stewart Ferrin, a 25-year-old Arizona State University police officer, resigned Monday after a lengthy controversy following his violent arrest of ASU professor Ersula Ore last May, the Arizona Republic reported. And he did so in dramatic fashion. In a letter he wrote to ASU police chief Mike Thompson, Stewart wrote that the 7 1/2 […]

  A professor whose research is helping a California police department improve its tense relationship with the black community is among 21 winners of this year’s MacArthur Foundation “genius grants.” The Chicago -based foundation announced the 2014 recipients on Wednesday, who will each receive $625,000 to spend any way they want. 

  An Arizona State University professor who accused campus police of excessive force pleaded guilty on Wednesday. Ersula Ore pleaded guilty in Maricopa County Superior Court to one misdemeanor count of resisting arrest.

  Audio of an Arizona State University professor being arrested by campus police was recently released. Dr. Ersula Ore was crossing the street when police officers stopped her for jaywalking.