Black IssuesHomeProfessional AppointmentsProfessional Appointments © Copyright 2005 by DiverseEducation.comFebruary 11, 2004InternationalEventsEventsFEBRUARYFeb. 14-18Association of Teacher Educator (ATE)“ATE: Promoting Quality and Professionalism”Hyatt Regency Hotel Dallas, TexasContact: Dr. Frances Van Tassell Phone: (940) 565-4420E-mail: vantass@coe.unt.eduMARCHMarch 65th Annual Latina/o Leadership Conference“Latinos con Pasion y Direccion” Indiana UniversityBloomington, Ind. Web: www.indiana.edu/~lacasa/March 12-142004 Schreyer National Conference“Innovations in International Education”Pennsylvania State UniversityPenn Stater Conference Center Hotel State College, Pa.Phone: (800) 778-8632 or […]February 11, 2004HomeGrants & AwardsGrants & AwardsCalifornia State University, Northridge has received a $45,000 grant to develop a program to teach elderly immigrants English and prepare them for U.S. citizenship. The two-year grant from Temple University’s Center for Intergenerational Learning was awarded to Northridge health science professor Deborah Sheets and CSUN’s Center for Community Service Learning. Northridge was one […]February 11, 2004HomeLeveraging the Internet’s Marketplace of IdeasLeveraging the Internet’s Marketplace of IdeasHas this ever happened to you? You’re looking for information about a product, Google to its Web site, and e-mail off your question. Then you hear nothing back. This has happened many times to me, too.It’s almost better for a company to refrain from having an Internet presence if it’s […]February 11, 2004HomeNSF Reports Drop in Science, Engineering DoctoratesNSF Reports Drop in Science, Engineering DoctoratesARLINGTON, Va.In a recent report, data from the National Science Foundation (NSF) shows across-the-board reductions in the number of doctoral science and engineering (S&E) degrees earned in 2002 from the previous year. The 24,500 degrees earned nationwide that year represent the lowest number since 1993. The NSF nationwide survey […]February 11, 2004Leadership & PolicyCommunity Colleges Seek Homeland Security EducationCommunity Colleges Seek Homeland Security EducationWASHINGTONThe American Association of Community Colleges (AACC) has announced the appointment of a 21-member task force to craft a long-range strategy for developing homeland security education and training programs for the nation’s 1,173 two-year colleges. The AACC Ad Hoc Task Force on Homeland Security is comprised of 18 community-college presidents […]February 11, 2004African-AmericanWeb Site Highlights Civil Rights HistoryWeb Site Highlights Civil Rights HistoryBIRMINGHAM, Ala.Coinciding with Black History Month, the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute (BCRI), in partnership with the BellSouth Corporation, has launched a newly designed Web site, bringing civil rights history to the world. The site features the BCRI Oral History Project, a collection of videotaped interviews with participants in the civil […]February 11, 2004HomeStudy Says Older Adults Less Negative About Personal ComputersStudy Says Older Adults Less Negative About Personal ComputersMUNCIE, Ind.In a 10-year span from 1989 to 1999, older adults grew less uneasy using personal computers but were still wary of social changes caused by technology, a Ball State University study reports. A survey of 94 people 60 years and older in 1999 found 39.4 percent […]February 11, 2004Faculty & StaffRecent Scholarship on Blacks and the Cold WarRecent Scholarship on Blacks and the Cold War Beyond the Color Line and the Iron Curtain: Reading Encounters Between Black and Red, 1922–1963.By Dr. Kate A. Baldwin Duke University Press, Nov. 2002346 pp. $59.95 cloth, ISBN 0-8223-2976-X$19.95 paper, ISBN 0-8223-2990-5Examining the significant influence of the Soviet Union on the work of four major African American […]February 11, 2004StudentsReward Hard Work, Not Accumulated WealthReward Hard Work, Not Accumulated WealthIf you watched the State of the Union address on January 20, you must have shook your head in disbelief when President Bush said that the economy was on the mend. In too many ways, he thumbed his nose at the 9 million unemployed Americans who have yet to benefit […]February 11, 2004Previous PagePage 94 of 431Next Page
