Black IssuesLGBTQ+The Key to the Closet: Making Race and Sexuality MatterThe Key to the Closet: Making Race and Sexuality Matter Black Like Us: A Century of Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual African American FictionEdited by Devon W. Carbado, Dr. Dwight A. McBride, and Donald Weise Foreword by Evelyn C. White Cleis Press, 2002, 555 pp., $29.95, Trade paper, ISBN 1-57344-108-2 Fiction by gay, lesbian and bisexual […]January 15, 2003African-AmericanThe Many Faces of BiasThe Many Faces of BiasBy Julianne Malveaux If 2002 did nothing else, it provided those who teach African American studies with scores of “teachable moments” about race, class, gender, history and intersectionality. The year-end flap about Sen. Trent Lott’s hankering back to the good old days of segregation could easily take up hours of conversation, […]January 15, 2003HomeA Little Computer Humor Goes a Long WayA Little Computer Humor Goes a Long WayBy Reid Goldsborough We laugh, but there’s always some truth lurking behind humor, insights that can be illuminating. That’s why the best humor is self-deprecating. By poking fun at ourselves we reveal our humanity. Other jokes poke fun at those we collectively deem deserve it. If they don’t, […]January 15, 2003StudentsEnglish, Foreign Language Job Seekers Face Major Decline in Available PositionsEnglish, Foreign Language Job Seekers Face Major Decline in Available PositionsBy Kendra Hamilton There were probably plenty of long faces at the annual convention for professors of English and foreign languages last month, as new data indicated the current crop of job seekers would face the toughest job market since the recession of the early […]January 15, 2003STEMEducause Releases Studies on Enterprise Systems, Distance LearningEducause Releases Studies on Enterprise Systems, Distance LearningBy Ronald Roach DENVERThe EDUCAUSE Center for Applied Research (ECAR) recently published two new comprehensive research studies on enterprise systems and distance learning in higher education. The study, “The Promise and Performance of Enterprise Systems for Higher Education,” evaluates why institutions invested heavily to renew systems between 1997 […]January 15, 2003HBCUsNAFEO Unveils Technology Division to Assist HBCUsNAFEO Unveils Technology Division to Assist HBCUsFormer FAMU administrator leads association’s IT effortsBy Ronald Roach Since last August, Sterlin Adams has worked quietly behind the scenes to build an information technology program at the National Association for Equal Opportunity in Higher Education (NAFEO). A former administrator who has worked with NAFEO president and CEO Dr. […]January 15, 2003HomeStudy Analyzes Efforts To Bring Technology to Distressed AreasStudy Analyzes Efforts To Bring Technology to Distressed AreasBy Ronald Roach STATE COLLEGE, Pa.A Penn State researcher says the lack of community-based programs and resources to equip and sustain underserved populations with significant information technology skills can override the effect of basic efforts to bring information technology to distressed communities. According to Dr. Lynette Kvasny’s […]January 15, 2003Faculty & StaffRace and its Continuing Significance on our CampusesRace and its Continuing Significance on our Campusesan interview with Dr. Joe R. Feagin In the fall of 2002, every college president who was a member of the American Council on Education received a copy of The Continuing Significance of Racism: U.S. Colleges and Universities. This was the first in a series of occasional papers […]January 15, 2003HBCUsMississippi’s Crusading GadflyMississippi’s Crusading GadflyWhile others maintain the fight is over, attorney Alvin Chambliss continues to breathe life into Mississippi’s famed college desegregation case. By B. Denise Hawkins HOUSTONAttorney Alvin O. Chambliss Jr. says that as long as the Ayers v. Fordice case is alive, there’s hope for Mississippi’s three historically Black universities and for the liberation […]January 15, 2003StudentsNew Study to Examine Effects Of Alternative Loans on Financial Aid PolicyNew Study to Examine Effects Of Alternative Loans on Financial Aid Policy WASHINGTONThe Institute for Higher Education Policy, the National Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators (NASFAA) and The Education Resources Institute (TERI) announced the launch of a research project that will examine the dramatic increase in privately funded, or alternative, student loans and the […]January 15, 2003Previous PagePage 176 of 431Next Page
