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Grants and Gifts

CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY-NORTHRIDGE has received a $150,000 gift from philanthropist Robert Barbera to support the university’s Collegiate Forensics Invitational Tournament and other debate programs. The gift will be used largely to help students recognize the value of public debate. HOWARD COMMUNITY COLLEGE (Md.) has received a $1.5 MILLION gift from the Rouse Company Foundation to […]

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Howard University’s President Swygert To Retire

Howard University President H. Patrick Swygert announced on Friday his plans to retire effective June 30, 2008, the announcement coming just weeks after faculty members demanded he step down.

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Minority Scholars Share Strategies At ‘Keeping Our Faculties’ Conference

MINNEAPOLIS When Dr. John Brooks Slaughter was being recruited as president of Occidental College, he asked one professor on the search committee how many African-Americans were on the faculty. He vividly recalls her answer: “You’re looking at 50 percent of them.”

Assessing Faculty Safety

Although attacks on college professors are not common, the horrific slayings at Virginia Tech show just how much at risk they can be when they try to do their jobs.

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Prairie View Boosters Petition For University To Leave Texas A&M System

A group of Prairie View A&M University alumni and university donors are petitioning the Texas A&M University System to either address concerns that its regents don’t represent the university’s interests, or let the university secede from the university system.

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Panels Calls For Mississippi Valley State U. President To Step Down

ITTA BENA, Miss. The panel Mississippi Valley State President Lester Newman created to study problems at the university has called for his dismissal.

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A One-Stop Shop

Funding and research opportunities are available for STEM faculty and students at minority-serving institutions, and one Web site provides access to this information.

Faculty & Staff

A One-Stop Shop

Funding and research opportunities are available for STEM faculty and students at minority-serving institutions, and one Web site provides access to this information.

Faculty & Staff

Just the Stats: Inequality Still Persists in Faculty Positions and Salaries

Female professors are concentrated in non-tenure track positions, and overall professor salaries this academic year rose by 1.3 percent over 2005-2006, when accounting for inflation. These are some of the findings of the American Association of University Professors’ new report, “Financial Inequality in Higher Education: The Annual Report on the Economic Status of the Profession: 2006, 2007.”

Online Degrees Increasingly Gaining Acceptance Among Employers

Skills, experience and reputation of school are more important factors.

Indiana University Joins 9 Black Colleges For Science Initiative

INDIANAPOLIS Indiana University is joining with nine historically Black colleges and universities to boost the number of minorities seeking careers in science, starting with a summer program for promising students who will work at IU’s research laboratories.

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New Study Forewarns of Major Turnover in Black Studies Programs

The two regions with the smallest Black populations — the East and West — have the most Black studies degree-granting institutions, according to a new census that also forewarns of major turnover in Black studies departments.

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