Mangala Subramaniam, ’01 (Ph.D. ), has been named Senior Vice Provost for Faculty Affairs in the Virginia Commonwealth University Office of the Provost.

In her recent publication titled Liberal White Supremacy: How Progressives Silence Racial and Class Oppression, Angie Beeman, ’01 (Ph.D.), argues that white supremacy is maintained not only by right-wing conservatives or stereotypically uneducated working-class racial bigots but also by progressives who operate from a liberal ideology of color-blindness, racism-evasiveness, and class elitism. 

Gino Herring (BA 1989) has launched the world’s first voter education tool box and candidate search engine, Best Candidate.

Dismantling Institutional Whiteness gathers a range of first-person narratives from women of color and examines the challenges they face not only at a systemic level, but also at a deeply personal level. Their experiences combined with research and statistics paint a sobering portrait of higher education’s problems when it comes to diversity, equity, and inclusion.