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The Fabric of a Black Woman President
The Fabric of a Black Woman PresidentHere at the Fashion Institute of Technology, officials would like people to understand one thing: FIT is not just about fashion. With course offerings in museum studies, graphic design and even toy manufacturing, officials at the school feel they are truly on the cutting edge. They brought in a […]
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Moynihan Takes Job At Syracuse University
Moynihan Takes Job At Syracuse UniversitySYRACUSE, N.Y. Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan, the former Democratic senator from New York, has accepted a faculty position with the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University. The 73-year-old will continue to live and keep an office in Washington and commute regularly to Syracuse, The New York […]
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Explaining the Achievement Gap
Explaining the Achievement GapResearchers offer theories on Black underachievment — especially Black malesNew York     The warm reception accorded Dr. Claude Steele at a New York University School of Education policy breakfast earlier this month signaled the extent to which his social psychology research is finding acceptance among education experts and officials on the Black-White student […]
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What Are Think Tanks Thinking About?
What Are Think Tanks  Thinking About?And are they thinking enough about minorities and higher education?By Eleanor Lee Yates“C olleges would be great places to work if there were no students,” or so goes the age-old joke among college research professors. Long considered coveted respites as well as invaluable institutions for lawmakers and other information hungry […]
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The Miseducation of Hip-Hop
The Miseducation of Hip-HopAre Today’s Faculty and Administrators Simply Out of Touch? Or Has Today’s Popular Music Truly Corrupted the Minds of a Whole Generation? By Jamilah EvelynNEWARK, Del.When Jason Hinmon transferred to the University of Delaware two years ago from Morehouse College in Atlanta, the 22-year-old senior says he almost dropped out his first semester.He […]
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Students Come to Aid of Popular African American Law Professor
Students Come to Aid of Popular African American Law ProfessorLexington, KentuckyS tudents and alumni at the University of Kentucky’s College of Law are throwing their support behind a popular African American law professor who was denied tenure. Darlene Goring, one of three Black faculty members at the college, was being considered last month for tenure […]
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How to Recruit and Promote Minority Faculty: Start By Playing Fair
How to Recruit and Promote Minority Faculty: Start By Playing FairSometimes, you have to review the rules of the game to make sure that you are applying them fairly to everyone. Recent legal attacks on affirmative action have made colleges and universities nervous about their efforts to recruit faculty (as well as students) from underrepresented […]
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Dear BI Career Consultants:
Dear BI Career Consultants:What should African American faculty members do to prepare themselves for a career change from faculty to administration?Dr. Muriel Wright BraileyDirector of the Institute for African American Studies, Wilberforce UniversityI have had the experience of making a career change from faculty to administrator and back to faculty status. And now I am […]
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Black Writers Ready for the Millennium
Black Writers Ready for the MillenniumChicago State University played host to approximately 550 writers, students, scholars and educators who attended the 10th Annual Gwendolyn Brooks Writers’ Conference last month. The four-day conference, “Ready for the Millennium: Black Writers’ Approaches to the Diaspora,” opened with a children’s poetry reading and culminated with a presentation of literary […]
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Mastering Technology’s…
Mastering Technology’s… Colleges encourage faculty to go high tech By Ronald RoachT o get students proficient and comfortable with the Internet and the latest information technology, Morris Brown College officials have required its undergraduates to participate in a laptop purchase program this fall, one of the first ever such initiatives at a historically Black institution. […]
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University of Alabama Faculty Members at Odds Over Need for Anti-Racism Seminars
University of Alabama Faculty Members at Odds Over Need for Anti-Racism SeminarsTUSCALOOSA, Ala.The University of Alabama, a landmark site in the battle to desegregate schools, is viewed by some university leaders as being institutionally unfriendly to Black faculty and students. But others say anti-racism workshops, which were scheduled to help deal with the issue, wrongly […]
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