APM Reports - July Update

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Exploring Racial Climate on American College Campuses

COVID on campus | July 29

The coronavirus pandemic represents the greatest challenge to American higher education in decades. Some small regional colleges that were already struggling won’t survive. Other schools, large and small, are rethinking how to offer an education while keeping people safe.

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A note from Lumina's president

Lumina President and CEO Jamie Merisotis

We are pleased to share this podcast series from the education team at American Public Media. Lumina Foundation supported this independent look at the racial climate on college campuses in response to a “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville, Virginia. In August 2017, protestors who self-identified as white nationalists, neo-Nazis, and members of other hate groups proudly marched through the University of Virginia campus with torches, bearing weapons and chanting racist and antisemitic slogans. We found the protest unsettling and reprehensible. We are committed to ending systemic inequalities in education that not only weaken the economy but also jeopardize the future of American democracy. And we wanted to better understand how today’s students are encountering race on campus. We invite you to listen and learn.

Lumina-supported podcasts explore race on campus

The view of the University of Minnesota campus from the Circle of Indigenous Nations, an office that assists Native students.

Graduation rate for Native students surges at U. of Minnesota | March 26

Unable to sleep one night, Dustin Marrow scrolled through Facebook, stopping when he saw an ad for an Ojibwe-language program.

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Black girl, white college | March 19

When it was time for me to enroll in a four-year college, I chose North Dakota State, a school that's mostly white, conservative, and insular – everything I wasn't. It was the hardest year of my life.

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Abeer Syedah (right) was student body president at the University of Minnesota in 2016 when controversy over paintings on the Washington Ave. bridge made headlines. She was one of few people of color to have served as president in the university's history. Mina Kian (left) is the current student body president.

A conundrum for student advocates: Change their school or change society? | March 12

Unlike protesters at many universities, activists at Harvard seek social justice reforms beyond campus.

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The Washington Ave. bridge at the University of Minnesota connects the campus across the east and west banks of the Mississippi River. It's been the site of a running battle of words on campus during the last three years.

At some HBCUs, enrollment rises from surprising applicants | March 5

After decades of declining enrollment, HBCUs are seeing an uptick in new applicants, especially among Latino and international students.

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How colleges are mishandling racial tensions | Sept. 12, 2019

As administrators navigate issues of inclusion and free speech, students of color have been left to find their own way.

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The Memorial Tower at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge. LSU is Louisiana's flagship university, but it's never reflected the demography of the state itself. LSU's enrollment office is trying to change that, and to recruit more African American high school seniors who previously wouldn't have considered the school.

Flagship universities don't reflect their states' diversity | Sept. 5, 2019

The number of Black and Latino students enrolling in state flagship schools doesn't reflect states' ethnic makeup.

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