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Studied Indifference
Studied IndifferenceWhile education remains the most popular field for African American doctorate recipients, some analysts worry that jobs with better pay and less stress are luring these grads away from education research.Urbana-Champaign — Dr. Eboni Zamini is a newly minted Ph.D. in education. These days, the University of Illinois graduate’s mind is filled with thoughts […]
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Public Health Imperative: Prescription For Change
Public Health Imperative: Prescription For ChangeNew public-health schools at Black colleges offer chance to graduate more Black  studentsJACKSON, Miss. — Growing up in the Mississippi Delta, Rodrick Jordan saw firsthand how poverty and inadequate health care debilitated and diminished the lives of Black people he knew. That early exposure to deprivation and disease inspired Jordan […]
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Remembering Brown with Reminders that Hurdles Remain
Remembering Brown with Reminders that Hurdles RemainWASHINGTON — Ethnic diversity is considered a valuable commodity on the nation’s college campuses and has not lowered student quality, according to a series of reports jointly released last month by the American Council on Education and American Association of University Professors here.Meanwhile, participants of a forum sponsored by […]
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BI News Briefs
Despite Outreach Efforts, UC Schools See Low Minority EnrollmentLOS ANGELES — Black and Hispanic enrollment at the Universities of California has not increased significantly despite hundreds of millions of dollars spent on the outreach programs that replaced affirmative action. Over the past five years, the percentage of Blacks, Hispanics and American Indians who enrolled at […]
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African American Studies
African American StudiesFive minutes on the World Wide Web makes the point more plainly than a full weekend with a stack of college catalogs: There are as many types of African American Studies programs as there are institutions of higher learning offering them.Some programs — like those at California State University-Long Beach and Cornell University […]
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Department, Program, Institute or Other?
Department, Program, Institute or Other?When officials at the Alabama Commission on Higher Education announced in February that they would not approve a Black Studies major at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, it was a slap in the face to university officials and students who say they have been fighting since desegregation to bring the […]
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SPECTRUM
SPECTRUM The old-style Black Studies discipline has refracted into a rainbow of African American research.In some ways, the state of the African American Studies discipline has never been healthier. According to the National Council for Black Studies, four schools currently offer doctoral studies in the discipline. That list doesn’t include Harvard University, which announced plans […]
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Professional Appointments
Professional AppointmentsDr. Warrick L. Carter has been named president of Columbia College in Chicago. He will take office July 1. He is currently director of entertainment arts for Walt Disney Entertainment. He previously served as dean of faculty and as provost and vice president of academic affairs at Berklee College of Music in Boston. He […]
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Southern Faculty Upset Over Administrative Salary Hikes
Southern Faculty Upset Over Administrative Salary Hikes BATON ROUGE, La. — The Southern University board’s recent decision to give eight top administrators huge pay hikes has prompted the faculty senate to deliver a “no-confidence” vote and a professor to launch a nine-day hunger strike in protest.  Sudhir Trivedi, an associate professor of computer science, pitched […]
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Rafting Towards New Major’s
Rafting Towards New Major’s“Mom, I’ve decided to major in adventure sports.”   Not words every mother wants to hear. We’re talking mountain biking. Scuba diving. Spelunking. It’s news to test a parent’s open-mindedness. Exotic or highly specialized majors carry the baggage of the unfamiliar — negative assumptions come easy. But parents who fret about a child’s […]
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Pleasure Principle: Focusing on the Good in Education
Pleasure Principle: Focusing on the Good in EducationMany readers of The Pleasures of Academe will sympathize with author James Axtell’s first sentence: “I couldn’t wait to go to college and I couldn’t stand to leave at graduation.”Despite the common sentiment, however, few people remain to become professors. And while many Americans have opinions about what […]
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Tech Briefs
$130 Million Partnership Will Bring Internet to HBCUsNEW YORK — The College Fund/UNCF announced a $130 million partnership with two computer industry giants earlier this month to bring Black colleges and universities into the Internet era. Microsoft Corp. and IBM have pledged $100 million in cash and equipment for students and faculty members at 39 […]
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