Tagged: California Polytechnic State University

Quintard Taylor, Jr. was a professor of history for nearly five decades, including two decades as an endowed professor with the University of Washington. He was the author of several books and the founder of BlackPast, the world's largest online encyclopedia on Black history.

For over three decades, Dr. Osiris served in various student affairs administrative roles at institutions in California and Illinois, as well as historically Black Morehouse College in Atlanta. He was also a dedicated consultant for several education-based organizations.

Dr. Jackson-Elmoore is currently dean of the Honors College at Michigan State University and a professor with affiliations in the School of Social Work and the Global Urban Studies Program. She also currently co-chairs a university-level Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Steering Committee.

A new study finds that White teachers in majority-Black classrooms have more negative, highly charged interactions with students regarding classroom behavior than White teachers in predominately White classrooms and Black teachers in predominately Black classrooms.

University officials now say that the publicity surrounding racist incidents this past spring has had a chilling effect on the number of Black students who want to attend the university. Only 0.4 percent of the nearly 55,000 applicants this year were African Americans.

The photos included a member of the Lambda Chi Alpha fraternity dressed in blackface and other members dressed in what was referred to as "gangsta" attire.