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Ambitious Outreach
Ambitious OutreachLONG BEACH, Calif. — A veteran university administrator, Dr. Charles B. Reed has seen his fair share of controversy during a career that includes 13 years as chancellor of the Florida State University system. Since joining the California State University system as chancellor in 1997, Reed already has faced numerous faculty protests over labor, […]
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Remediation Reform
Remediation ReformOnly time will tell whether California’s remediation policy will continue to turn out success stories or if disadvantaged students who can’t catch up in time will mark the system’s biggest failure. SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Brandon Kountz is feeling the pressure. Having completed his first year of classes at California State University-Sacramento, the Richmond, Calif., […]
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TECH briefs
TECH briefsMorris Brown College To Require Laptop Computers This FallATLANTA — Morris Brown College will require its students to buy laptop computers this fall, offering them at discount prices as part of school financial aid.School officials say they believe Morris Brown is the first historically Black college in the nation to make laptops available for […]
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Dear BI Career Consultants:
I’ve been offered a faculty /administrative position. Can you give me some advice on negotiation strategies and protocol? Are there any nuances that are unique to higher education?Faculty and administrative positions in higher education vary widely by institution. Often the nature of the institution —whether it’s public or private, research-based or training-focused, two-year or four-year […]
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An Imperfect Defender of Academic Freedom
An Imperfect Defender of Academic FreedomThe high quality of scholarly activity — including scientific discovery in the United States — relies on the considerable academic freedom enjoyed here. Academic freedom allows scholars to follow their independent judgment on what research avenues to pursue, and to report results without undue concern about political consequences. Academic freedom […]
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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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