Hendrix College students share frustrations over changes to graduation plans

With graduation less than two months away, many students at Hendrix College are sharing their frustrations over recent ...
KESQ News

Colleges are canceling affinity graduations due to anti-DEI policies. Here is how students are preserving the traditions

(CNN) — Elyse Martin-Smith began meeting with her classmates at Harvard University last summer to plan the annual Black student graduation hosted by a campus group she leads. The ceremony was set to ...
WBUR

Harvard ended support for affinity graduations. These students kept the tradition alive

Barika Edwards recalls the day a professor draped a brightly colored stole around her shoulders several years ago. She received the fabric sash during a celebration honoring Harvard’s Black graduates.
Black Enterprise

Black Students Are Keeping Graduation Traditions Alive Even As DEI Crackdown Limits The Festivities

Students across diverse communities are finding new ways to keep their graduation traditions afloat. Black students and other affinity groups are finding new ways to celebrate their graduations as the ...
Inside Higher Ed

Amid DEI Crackdown, Students Hold Their Own Affinity Graduations

As soon as the fraternity brothers of Epsilon Chi, the University of Kentucky chapter of Alpha Phi Alpha, the nation’s oldest historically Black fraternity, heard that the university was canceling its ...

HBCU Benedict College Reports 104% Increase In 4-Year Graduation Rates

Benedict College’s four-year graduation rate has skyrocketed. According to a news release, the Historically Black University (HBCU), which serves a student population that is 85% Pell-eligible, ...