Jamal Watson2008Researching the ElectorateFebruary 21, 2011Community CollegesBoston Public High School Graduates Struggle To Finish CollegeReport prompts concerns about whether Boston public high school graduates are college-ready and if colleges are doing enough to help students graduate.February 18, 2009Faculty & StaffToo Many Part-timers Teaching English, Hurting StudentsThe Modern Language Association (MLA), the leading academic organization that works to strengthen the study and teaching of languages and literature, is calling on colleges and universities to increase the number of tenure-track lines at their respective institutions.December 10, 2008Faculty & StaffJournalism Educators Association Aims to Step Up Diversity EffortsThe incoming president of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communications (AEJMC) says that she plans to use her post to rally for increased diversity within the 96-year-old nonprofit organization.August 10, 2008HomeCongressional Leaders, Scholars Gather to Strategize on Black Male IssuesFor the third consecutive year, more than a 1,000 academics, activists and political leaders gathered in New York on Friday to strategize on the problems that beset young Black males.July 13, 2008Faculty & StaffVictim of Noose Incident, Columbia U. Professor Is Fired Amid Plagiarism ChargesLast October, hundreds of students, faculty and community activists rallied on Columbia University’s campus to protest the hanging of a noose on the office door of a popular African-American professor.June 24, 2008HomeControversies Crop Up Around Commencement Speaker SelectionsNAACP chairman Julian Bond and U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas are the subjects of much scrutiny as they prepare to deliver commencement speeches this month at two East Coast universities.May 4, 2008HomeDescendant of University of Missouri Founder Creates Slavery AtonementGrowing up, it was no secret in Clay Westfall Mering’s house that his great-great grandfather had been a wealthy slave owner.In fact, James S. Rollins, who is known today as the “founding father” of the University of Missouri, had as many as 36 slaves on his sprawling plantation.February 25, 2008Faculty & StaffDescendant of University of Missouri Founder Creates Slavery Atonement FundEndowment will help support research into the impact, effects of slavery in the United States.February 19, 2008StudentsWhen Diversity Training Goes AwryDone incorrectly, what should be a useful exercise can and has backfired on some colleges and universities.January 23, 2008Previous PagePage 12 of 17Next Page
