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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 [âŚ]
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Southern Faculty Upset Over Administrative Salary Hikes
Southern Faculty Upset Over Administrative Salary Hikes BATON ROUGE, La. â The Southern University boardâs recent decision to give eight top administrators huge pay hikes has prompted the faculty senate to deliver a âno-confidenceâ vote and a professor to launch a nine-day hunger strike in protest. Sudhir Trivedi, an associate professor of computer science, pitched [âŚ]
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Rafting Towards New Majorâs
Rafting Towards New MajorâsâMom, Iâve decided to major in adventure sports.â  Not words every mother wants to hear. Weâre talking mountain biking. Scuba diving. Spelunking. Itâs news to test a parentâs open-mindedness. Exotic or highly specialized majors carry the baggage of the unfamiliar â negative assumptions come easy. But parents who fret about a childâs [âŚ]
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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 Axtellâs first sentence: âI couldnât wait to go to college and I couldnât stand to leave at graduation.âDespite the common sentiment, however, few people remain to become professors. And while many Americans have opinions about what [âŚ]
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Tech Briefs
$130 Million Partnership Will Bring Internet to HBCUsNEW YORK â 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 [âŚ]
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Howard Bugs Typify Challenge Of Updating Technology
Howard Bugs Typify Challenge Of Updating TechnologyWASHINGTON â Damned if you do, damned if you donât. Thatâs what Howard University administrators here may be saying in light of criticism that has come their way in recent weeks.Anxious to update an old mainframe with new software in time for the Y2K turnover, administrators implemented a system [âŚ]
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Challenging Times for Livingstone College
Challenging Times for Livingstone CollegeWhite professors allege discrimination, president resignsSALISBURY, N.C. â Five professors who say they were denied tenure and promotions because they are White are suing Livingstone College. Three of the professors, who filed a racial discrimination suit in Rowan County Superior Court, say they have documents showing a pattern of racial discrimination [âŚ]
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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 Axtellâs first sentence: âI couldnât wait to go to college and I couldnât stand to leave at graduation.âDespite the common sentiment, however, few people remain to become professors. And while many Americans have opinions about what [âŚ]
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Hit and Myth: Conference examines successes, fallacies of affirmative action
Hit and Myth: Conference examines successes, fallacies of affirmative actionCHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. â Ever since Hopwood vs. Texas, the court decision that nullified minority admissions practices at the University of Texas Law School, the pundits have gleefully predicted the demise of campus affirmative action programs.But if a recent conference held at the University of Virginia provides [âŚ]
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Clemson History Offers Perspective for Flag Debate
Clemson History Offers Perspective for Flag DebateClemson University is a state agency as well as a university. As a state agency, we are governed by the laws and policies of the state of South Carolina and therefore have a stake in the development of such laws and policies â a stake that encompasses the current [âŚ]
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âExplanation Architectâ
âExplanation Architectâchanging educational thinking through researchCAMBRIDGE, Mass. â Back in 1986, Dr. Brian K. Smith was given a book by his father Charles about the Massachusetts Institute of Technologyâs world-renowned Media Lab. The book so inspired the southern California teenager that he vowed to become part of the lab some day.So a few years later [âŚ]
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Media Lab
Media LabHelping Bridge the World Wide DivideCAMBRIDGE, Mass. â Had Randal Pinkett stayed on track to complete a Ph.D. in electrical engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, itâs doubtful he would have gotten the time and support to base his graduate studies around âdigital divideâ issues. Itâs also unlikely he would have paired with [âŚ]
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