Wow, those are some smart whippersnappers. The Washington Post just ranked Arcata’s Northcoast Preparatory and Performing Arts Academy as the 21st most challenging high school in the country. To compile the rankings, the Post computed an index score using the number of college-level tests given at the school divided by its number of graduates that […]
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HSU Has a New President
After a months-long search, Humboldt State University has a new president to replace outgoing Rollin Richmond, who is retiring. Lisa A. Rossbacher, a geologist and geology professor who is currently president of Southern Polytechnic State University in Marietta, Ga., will be HSU’s first female president. Heck, it only took a hundred years! Here’s the news release from the university: […]
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Updated: Feds Investigate Loleta Elementary
The federal government is launching an investigation into allegations that the Loleta Elementary School District has discriminated against Native American students. The Americans Civil Liberties Union of Northern California received a letter this week from the United States Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights informing it that the office has officially launched an investigation […]
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ACLU Suing Eureka City Schools for Racial and Sexual Discrimination
Native American and black students face racial and sexual discrimination from students and staff in Eureka and Loleta according to a federal civil rights lawsuit filed today by the American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California and the National Center for Youth Law. The suit alleges that top officials in the Eureka City Schools District […]
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Higher Edcuation
Oops. Humboldt State University students Sebastian Hedberg and John Ferrara noticed something amiss after a respray of the curb outside the College of Arts, Humanities & Social Sciences dean’s office.
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These People Are Picking HSU’s Next President
A guild of university trustees, faculty bigwigs and community members — including one student rep — has assembled to choose Humboldt State University’s next president. Rollin Richmond, who has held the position since 2002, will leave at the end of the coming spring semester. The “Committee for the Selection of the President” — tasked with […]
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HSU President Rollin Richmond To Retire After This School Year
He sent the announcement out via email this morning. Dear Campus Community: I write to inform you that I have decided to retire at the end of this academic year. I have enjoyed my years serving you and believe that we have made real progress at the university over my years of leadership, despite the […]
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School Trustees Ask for Dan Johnson’s Resignation
After nearly an hour of tense — and at times downright chaotic — comments about a plagiarized graduation speech and its subsequent handling, Northern Humboldt Union High School District trustees voted 3-1 this evening to ask Dan Johnson to resign. Johnson sat calmly as his fellow trustees voted, and said nothing afterward about whether he […]
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Get the Lead Out! (Bullet Exchange Tonight)
If you hunt and you still use lead bullets – well, we get it. Lead, as Yurok Tribe biologist Mike Palermo tells the Times-Standard today, is “very dense and very malleable … [t]hat’s what makes it a fantastic projectile. When it hits a deer, it expands and mushrooms out.” But you really should switch to non-lead […]
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Illegal, Secret e-Meetings by School Trustees?
School district trustees may have broken the state’s public meeting law by exchanging e-mails about how to handle a plagiarized graduation speech by one of their own, the Arcata Eye and McKinleyville Press reported last week. The emails reveal a group of school board members eager to make the problem go away as quickly as […]
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Mapping #hate
Humboldt State University professor Monica Stephens and her undergraduate students just released an interactive map showing where hate speech pops up on Twitter around the U.S. Students searched a year’s worth of geocoded tweets — more than 150,000 — that contained certain “hate words” and individually ranked them positive, negative or neutral, depending on context. […]
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Local Tribes Stage Protest at HSU
Local Native American tribe leaders have organized a protest at the Humboldt State University quad today, and they accuse the school’s president, Rollin Richmond, of trying to eliminate key support services for their community. In a press release issued this morning, Yurok Chairman Thomas O’Rourke Sr. said Richmond is ignoring recommendations from a working group […]