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Do Graduate Assistants Get A Fair Deal?

Do Graduate Assistants Get A Fair Deal? There is nothing like a campus environment to reinforce the concept of teamwork. Few on a campus can do their jobs alone. From the loftiest endowed chair holder, hefty salary in pocket, to the newest assistant professor, everyone makes a contribution, of sorts, and relies on others to […]

Preparing Graduate Students to Teach

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Restoring a Ruptured Relationship

Restoring a Ruptured RelationshipBarnard College’s Caryl Phillips’ senior english seminar focuses on broken international connections and culminates with a trans-Atlantic journey By Crystal L. KeelsMillions of African people who were captured, kidnapped and shackled for sale as part of the trans-Atlantic slave trade first passed through Cape Coast Castle in Ghana, West Africa. They stepped […]

Documenting the Diaspora

Documenting the DiasporaHistorian couple investigate Central Africa’s place in world history, rooting Black studies in an international contextBy Ronald RoachTraveling to the Vatican to study documents once belonging to a 17th-century central African diplomat may seem an unlikely project for professors in an African American studies program. But for Drs. John Thornton and Linda Heywood, […]

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Alvin Chambliss Joins Indiana University Faculty

Alvin Chambliss Joins Indiana University FacultyAttorney fought Mississippi desegregation case for 30 yearsBLOOMINGTON, Ind. Growing up poor as one of 12 children in Columbia, Miss., Alvin O. Chambliss Jr. sometimes went hungry but never lost his appetite for knowledge. “I can say that some of the times during my high school years I was hungry,” […]

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Stanford Lures Harvard Professors Bobo, Morgan

Stanford Lures Harvard Professors Bobo, MorganBOSTON For married partners in academia, tenure, or the lack thereof, can complicate a couple’s situation substantially, and not always in the most positive manner. But for two nationally renowned professors, Lawrence Bobo and Marcyliena Morgan, who are married, tenure troubles have resulted in a coastal shift that positions them […]

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Va. Tech Receives Grant to Study Black IT Recruitment

Va. Tech Receives Grant to Study Black IT RecruitmentBLACKSBURG, Va.A research team led by faculty members from Virginia Tech’s Pamplin College of Business has received a National Science Foundation grant of $617,000 to study the recruitment and retention of African Americans in information technology-related graduate studies and jobs.Wanda Smith, associate professor of management, will direct […]

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NJIT Professor Honored for Breakthrough Stem Cell Research

NJIT Professor Honored for Breakthrough Stem Cell ResearchNEWARK, N.J. Dr. Treena Livingston Arinzeh was recognized recently by President Bush for research showing that adult stem cells could help patients suffering from spinal cord injuries, bone and cartilage damage and related diseases. Arinzeh, assistant professor of biomedical engineering at the New Jersey Institute of Technology, received […]

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Study: Women Faculty at Pharmacy SchoolsFace Barriers to Advancement

Study: Women Faculty at Pharmacy Schools Face Barriers to Advancement ALEXANDRIA, Va.A recent study published in the online edition of the American Journal of Pharmaceutical Education reveals that women faculty at pharmacy schools continue to face disparities in administrative positions, salary and advancement opportunities despite a 30-year increase in the numbers of women entering higher […]

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AAUP Protest Barring of Muslim Scholar

AAUP Protest Barring of Muslim Scholar WASHINGTONThe American Association of University Professors (AAUP) recently protested the U.S. government’s action to revoke the work visa of Professor Tariq Ramadan, a citizen of Switzerland and well-known Muslim scholar who had been appointed to a faculty position at the University of Notre Dame beginning this fall. The State […]

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MIT Names First Woman President

MIT Names First Woman PresidentCAMBRIDGE, Mass.Dr. Susan Hockfield, a distinguished neuroscientist and current provost at Yale University, has been selected the 16th president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, succeeding Dr. Charles M. Vest, who has led one of the world’s foremost research universities for the past 14 years. Hockfield was elected by the MIT […]

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Two-Year Schools Overworked, Undervalued, Report Says

Two-Year Schools Overworked, Undervalued, Report SaysBy Garry BoulardWASHINGTONFor those who are still not certain that community colleges really have a role to play in the nation’s higher education story, a small series of statistics is undoubtedly eye-opening: In 1965, 1.2 million students attended two-year schools. By 1998, that number was up to 5.7 million with […]

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American Indian Law Program Opens at Michigan State Law School

American Indian Law Program Opens at Michigan State Law SchoolEAST LANSING, Mich.Michigan State University (MSU) College of Law is launching the most comprehensive American Indian Law Program in the Midwest. MSU will offer one of only two formal programs east of the Mississippi River and one of the most comprehensive programs in the nation among […]

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