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When Work Experience Is Not Enough
Legal practitioners find the leap into academia difficult; scholars recommend non-academicians get assistance with the ‘nuanced’ application process.
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Ohio-based Professor Examines Lives of Black Women Scholars in Book
Finding herself the lone Black, female professor in her department, Dr. Joanne Kilgour Dowdy confronted her situation the best way she knew how.
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Cutting Costs, Improving Learning
Despite a decade-long track record, many academics are still skeptical of the technology-fueled course redesign movement.
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Perspectives: African-American Ph.D.s: Good Enough for America’s Educational Institutions?
For several years after receiving our doctorates, we struggled to find full-time work as tenure-track professors. Despite having more qualifications than many of the fresh Ph.D.s who were getting interviews and job offers, we were relegated to adjunct faculty positions that offered none of the benefits of tenure-track jobs.
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Women Professors Not Being Promoted as Rapidly as Men
Troubling inequities remain in career advancement between male and female college professors in English and foreign languages, according to a report being released today by the Modern Language Association.
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Study Finds Minorities Underrepresented in Graduate School
To broaden the participation of graduate studies among underrepresented minorities, graduate studies programs must go beyond simply recruiting students from diverse groups and provide students with the support and resources needed to graduate, says a new report released by the Council of Graduate Schools.
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Virginia Tech Decision Sparks Debate on Diversity Work and Faculty Evaluations
The decision by Virginia Tech to abandon a controversial proposal aimed at requiring faculty to engage in diversity-related activities, has prompted a larger debate on college campuses across the nation over what role, if any, should diversity work play in the evaluation of faculty members.
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Obama Agenda Focuses on Degree Completion
Advocates applaud $2.5 billion college retention proposal, but say insufficient financial aid is barrier to degree completion.
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Benedict College Settles With White Instructors Who Charged Discrimination
A historically Black college in South Carolina has been sued after three White faculty members say they were passed over for jobs or let go for because of their race, federal officials announced Wednesday.
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Haddon Selected as University of Maryland Law School Dean, Marking First for an African-American
University of Maryland officials last week announced the appointment of Phoebe A. Haddon as dean of the University of Maryland School of Law, effective July 1, 2009. Haddon, who will be the ninth dean and the second woman in the position, will be the first African-American to serve as the dean of the University of Maryland system’s only law school.
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A Pipeline to the Tenure Track
Postdoctoral Fellowships are increasingly being seen as a recruiting tool to improve faculty diversity.
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Broadening the Definition of Diversity
A new book examines the strategies of faculty to serve as “change agents,” encouraging diversity on campus.
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