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Low Number of Black Faculty, Students Draws Concern
Low Number of Black Faculty, Students Draws Concern KNOXVILLE, Tenn.A climate of racial hostility and discrimination at the University of Tennessee has led to a disproportionately low number of minority faculty and students, claims a campus group. Members of the recently rekindled Black Faculty and Staff Association say the situation is worsening. “I have watched […]
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Taking the Road Less Traveled
Taking the Road Less TraveledHappy New Year, and I hope you had a safe and happy holiday season. As many of us set goals and resolutions for the new year, our first edition in 2002 should prove inspirational to anyone in the academy. Our cover article, “The Academy’s New Cast,” profiles 10 rising stars in […]
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Dear BI Career Consultants:
Dear BI Career Consultants:I have heard of programs to increase the number of minority faculty by allowing them to teach if they are in the final stages of their doctorate. Can you tell me if there are any programs like thisfor prospective college administrators?Programs to increase the number of minority college administrators — analogous to […]
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Howard Symposium Highlights
Howard Symposium Highlights Scholarship of Teaching, LearningWASHINGTONA lecture by Dr. Lee S. Shulman on the scholarship of teaching and learning attracted an enthusiastic audience of more than 150 Howard University faculty members and graduate students to a half-day symposium on improving doctoral education. With as many faculty members as graduate students in attendance, Shulman, president […]
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North Carolina Central Employees Give University Early Christmas Present
North Carolina Central Employees Give University Early Christmas PresentSixty-six professors and administrators from North Carolina Central University in Durham have given their institution an early Christmas present: They gave back their salary increases in November to help the school deal with a reversion crisis that threatens to swamp all North Carolina campuses.The amount of the […]
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(Re)Tracing
(Re)Tracing Oral History in InkAfter years of teaching, researching and writing about literature of the African Diaspora, several English professors have turned their focus toward a more personal nature. By Robin V. SmilesGrowing up in Charles City County, Va., Dr. Daryl Cumber Dance and her family did not know the story of their great-great-great-great-great-great-grandmother Elizabeth […]
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Prairie View President Faces Criticism
Prairie View President Faces CriticismOver Commitment to ResearchPRAIRIE VIEW, TexasPrairie View A&M President Charles Hines is the target of a letter signed by 18 faculty members criticizing him for repeatedly interfering with research and academics at the historically Black university about 50 miles northwest of Houston. In addition, a group of Waller County ministers recently […]
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Finding Room for Improvement
Finding Room for ImprovementHoward University-based team rates HBCU Web sitesThe perception that a “digital divide” exists in higher education between historically Black institutions and most predominantly White colleges and universities has enabled advocates for Black schools to raise money, attract computer equipment donations, and build awareness to help bridge the divide.One effort that started this […]
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Rhetoric vs. Reality
Rhetoric vs. RealityColleges confront quagmire of issues associated with remediation. By Kendra HamiltonThere’s no getting around it. Remedial education — also called developmental education — suffers from an image problem. The fact is all too evident at the macro level — the California State University (CSU) System, for example, expelled 2,009 students in January for […]
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Professors Receive National Award
Professors Receive National AwardWashingtonFor dance professor Cornelius Carter, being named 2001 U.S. Professor of the Year last month was not just a personal triumph or a victory for his institution, the University of Alabama (Tuscaloosa), but a milestone for the field of dance as well.“I felt so proud that dance was viewed with the same […]
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‘Reality-Based Education’
‘Reality-Based Education’Webster University’s agGressive marketing and flexible scheduling leads to a large enrollment, but accreditation questions persist. By Pearl StewartTwenty-one years ago Brenda Newberry had just given birth to her first child, a girl, in a St. Louis hospital. The next day, she had a visitor, one of her professors from Webster University where she […]
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Harvard University Asks Faculty to Reevaluate Their Grading
Harvard University Asks Faculty to Reevaluate Their GradingCAMBRIDGE, Mass.Weeks after allegations of rampant grade inflation, Harvard University professors are being asked to justify the grades they give students. Dean of undergraduate education Susan Pedersen announced at a recent faculty meeting that faculty members will have until January to provide written explanations of their grading systems. […]
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