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A new addition to the blogroll: Black On Campus.
It’s a great blog, with all sorts of material on black students, black faculty, and other issues relating to African-American higher education past and present. Just a really rich resource. I’ve already spent a chunk of the morning over there, and it’s going to be a regular read for me from now on.
The student government of Ottawa’s Carelton University has apologized for passing a resolution withdrawing its support for cystic fibrosis fundraising.
As we noted over the weekend, the Carleton student government had announced that it was dropping cystic fibrosis research as a beneficiary of its fundraising efforts because it had learned that the disease “only affect[ed] white people, and primarily men.” Neither of those statements turned out to be true.
At a packed public meeting on Monday, the president of the student government personally apologized for the resolution. The student government then went on to unanimously pass a resolution of apology, as well as a separate resolution pledging to increase campus cystic fibrosis fundraising going forward.
The author of the original resolution has resigned his position in student government.
Northampton Community College in Pennsylvania is offering free tuition for “individuals who have recently become unemployed due to business or industry plant closing or layoff.”
The program, which has been implemented twice in the past, offers local residents 12 credits worth of classes in career programs, or up to $900 in free non-credit work-related classes.
(Thanks to Bill Shiebler of USSA for the heads-up.)
The student government of Carelton University in Ottawa, Canada has withdrawn from a national cystic fibrosis fundraising campaign on the grounds that the disease’s sufferers are too white and too male.
In a resolution, the student government declared that cystic fibrosis “has been recently revealed to only affect white people, and primarily men.” (A representative of the Canadian Cystic Fibrosis Foundation says both of these claims are false.)
Public comment on the decision was swift and harsh, with one columnist at the conservative National Post calling the resolution “a new low … even by the loopy standards of student governments.”
Students at Carelton have launched a drive to impeach the president of the student government, as well as a faculty adviser to the group the student government member who drafted the resolution.
December 3 Update: The Carelton student government has apologized for the resolution, and pledged to increase fundraising for cystic fibrosis. See our followup story here.
A hundred students and faculty sat in silence outside last Thursday’s meeting of the College of DuPage board of trustees — some with black tape covering their mouths — to protest the far-reaching changes in university governance the board has proposed.
Glenn Hansen, president of the College of DuPage Faculty Association, said the proposals “usurp” the legitimate powers of other campus constituencies, and threaten the college’s accreditation.
studentactivism.net 
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