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Dillard’s Cook put hearts and minds to work – Dillard University Pres Dr. Samuel DuBois Cook
In September 1986, then-Japanese Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone shocked many Americans when he asserted that America was intellectually inferior to Japan “because of a considerable number of Blacks, Puerto Ricans and Mexicans.”
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Missouri bill gives legislators a leg up for academic jobs
ST. LOUIS Some higher education officials are complaining that a new law could give Missouri lawmakers an unfair advantage when it comes to getting a job in the ivory tower.
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The physician, the professor and the politico – candidates for the presidency of Spelman College – Cover Story
ATLANTA For Spelman College student Toria Davis, just the thought of getting a new campus president with ties to the White House speaks volumes about the search to replace Dr. Johnnetta B. Cole. “It’s an honor just to think someone who’s so important would be interested in coming to Spelman,” said Davis after learning that […]
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From the ivory tower to the White House … and back again – African American public servants who came from, and came back, to the academe – Cover Story
Shortly after resigning as associate director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) in February 1995, Christopher Edley Jr. prepared to resume teaching duties at Harvard Law School, where he had been tenured since 1986. But before he could leave the government, Edley was approached by White House officials who wanted him to chair a high-profile, interagency working group on affirmative action.
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California chancellor’s compensation squabble – City College of San Francisco Chancellor Del M. Anderson
When Del M. Anderson accepted the position as chancellor of the City College of San Francisco (CCSF), she knew she wasn’t walking into the ideal situation. There had been relatively few applicants for the job, the pay was lower than she expected for such a large urban institution, and there was much work to be done in building community support.
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Ebonics IQI. What have we learned ? – use of Ebonics language to teach African American children – Cover Story
The Ebonics controversy in Oakland, California, took many people by surprise. Most had never heard of Ebonics before December 18, 1996, and once they did, few understood what the school district meant when it expressed its intent to use this new “language” to teach the district’s African American children.
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A thoroughly satisfying look at community colleges… – again
The American Community College by Arthur M. Cohen and Florence B. Brawer Jossey-Bass, Inc., San Francisco, 1996 512 pages Hardback: $38.95
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Flourishing in scientific careers – Black scientists on encouraging black students to take up science courses
While completing his master’s degree in zoology at the University of Maryland College Park in 1984, Dr. David Jett’s advisor and several faculty members told him that he was not Ph.D. material.
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Berklee College of Music’s New Mission Statement Reflects African Contributions to Contemporary Music
BOSTON In what Berklee College of Music President Roger Brown calls a “psychological victory for the institution,” the board of trustees recently adopted an amended mission statement for the college that acknowledges the historical contributions that African descendants have made to the development of the contemporary American musical genres on which Berklee’s curriculum and training are based.
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Pennsylvania’s proposed state university faculty pact has bonus, raises
HARRISBURG Pa. Professors at Pennsylvania’s state-owned universities would each receive an immediate $1,750 cash bonus and annual salary increases totaling 10 percent under a four-year contract agreement released Tuesday.
Faculty & Staff
Missouri Professors Host Girls’ Science Camps
ROLLA Mo. Stern and unsmiling, the professorial portraits lining the hallways of the University of Missouri-Rolla’s chemical engineering department project a singular message: science is serious stuff. The graybeards in those photos would likely be aghast at the scene unfolding inside a nearby Schenk Hall classroom.
Faculty & Staff
State universities, faculty extend contract talks 1 more day
HARRISBURG Pa. Representatives of Pennsylvania’s 14 state-owned universities and the faculty union resumed contract talks Monday and the union agreed to postpone any strike until Tuesday at the earliest, spokesmen for both sides said.
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