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The Anatomy of Textbook Publishing
The Anatomy of Textbook PublishingComplex publication process, lack of respect steer many scholars away from writing textbooksEverything else from your college days may be fading into the mists of middle age, but there’s one thing you probably remember with utter clarity: the first time you had to shell out more than $50 for a textbook.Let’s […]
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The Weary Need Not Apply
The Weary Need Not ApplyManaging the transition from graduate student to professor I am thrilled to have received, and accepted, an offer as an assistant professor at a university in Texas, and my family is quite happy for me as well. My mother is particularly excited. This is just about as prestigious as it gets […]
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SUNO Board Forgoes Search, Appoints New Chancellor
SUNO Board Forgoes Search, Appoints New ChancellorFaculty leaders protest move; board cites accreditation concerns as reason for rushBy Scott DyerBATON ROUGE, La.Southern University at New Orleans (SUNO) faculty leaders are crying foul over a move by the school’s governing board to hire a new chancellor without a search.It’s the latest controversy at the same campus […]
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Dear BI Career Consultants:
Dear BI Career Consultants:In light of the recent challenge to the academic integrity of endowed Harvard professor, Dr. Cornel West, what can other African American professors do to prevent the same from happening to them? The recent public discourse between the highly regarded Harvard professor Dr. Cornel West and Harvard President Dr. Lawrence Summers has, […]
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Columbia Launches David N. Dinkins Archives, Oral History Project
Columbia Launches David N. Dinkins Archives, Oral History ProjectNEW YORKColumbia University has launched the David N. Dinkins Archives and Oral History Project, which will include an archive of Dinkins’ official and personal papers and correspondence, an oral history of Dinkins’ life, political philosophy and policy agenda, and a program initiative documenting the influences of Black […]
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Translating the African Past: The Islamic Heritage of Sub-Saharan Africa
Translating the African Past: The Islamic Heritage of Sub-Saharan AfricaOn a recent trip to the West African nation of Mali, Dr. John O. Hunwick encountered in Timbuktu signs of its legacy being resurrected in the form of new libraries. To this scholar of African history and frequent visitor to the dusty, desert city near the […]
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Adding International Flavor to your Résumé
Adding International Flavor to your RésuméBack in the 1980s, Anthony Pinder was trading futures for a living in Chicago. When the Chernobyl nuclear accident devastated the stock market, he decided the timing was right to do something he had thought about for years. He joined the Peace Corps. Pinder’s 2 ½ years in Ecuador changed […]
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MIT Professor Celebrates 60th Birthday With Scholarship Fund
MIT Professor Celebrates 60th Birthday With Scholarship Fund CAMBRIDGE, Mass.MIT professor Dr. Wesley L. Harris is a private person who prefers to celebrate birthdays quietly with his family, little fanfare, no fuss.When his 60th loomed last fall, his wife, Sandra, wanted to surprise him by doing something special. Her dilemma: What do you do for […]
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Carnegie Mellon Research Center
Carnegie Mellon Research CenterTo Address Wireless Technology PITTSBURGH, Pa.A new research center at Carnegie Mellon University is expected to push innovation in wireless telecommunications and computer networking. Carnegie Mellon University’s Center for Wireless and Broadband Networking will tap into collaborative research and university innovations under way to help accelerate growth in the $116-billion telecommunications and […]
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Ball State Creates Supercomputer
Ball State Creates Supercomputer From Old Desktop ComputersMUNCIE, Ind.Discarded personal computers have been used to create a supercomputer at Ball State University. The effort, known as the Cluster Computer Research Project, involved collecting unwanted personal computers from a former lab in the school’s College of Business and deploying them to build a computing machine designed […]
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The Current Toast of the Poetry World
The Current Toast of the Poetry WorldCarl Phillips honored with Kingsley Tufts Award  Charlottesville, Va.Carl Phillips has become only the second African American poet to win the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award, a highly coveted prize that carries with it a career’s worth of prestige — and a $100,000 check.Phillips says the reality of following in […]
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Supercomputing Conference Seeks Faculty Participation
Supercomputing Conference Seeks Faculty ParticipationBALTIMOREAn upcoming supercomputing conference in Baltimore is seeking the participation of teams of undergraduate faculty and K-12 teachers to spend four days in hands-on workshops learning about high-performance computing and communications tools and resources appropriate for their classroom. Entitled this year as SC2002, the annual conference features high-performance computing and communications […]
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