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A Question of Merit

A Question of Merit By Dee Anne FinkenATLANTATen years ago, the state best known for its peaches launched a revolution that still reverberates in the halls of colleges and universities across the country. Faced with a plethora of poorly performing high-school students and a growing number of graduates fleeing the state for postsecondary study, Georgia unveiled […]

Community Colleges

Language, Literature Jobs Decline for Third Consecutive Year

Language, Literature Jobs Decline for Third Consecutive YearNEW YORKThe decline in the hiring of tenure-track language and literature professors continues, according to the latest report by the Modern Language Association (MLA). Based on statistics compiled from the MLA’s Job Information List (JIL) for the 2002-2003 academic year (the latest year for which complete statistics are […]

Higher Education Digital Opportunity Bill

Higher Education Digital Opportunity Bill Faces Uncertain FutureLast summer, congressional legislation earmarking more than a billion dollars to minority-serving institutions to help them upgrade their computing and information infrastructures seemed to have sure prospects following its passage by the U.S. Senate and the House Science Committee. But since the fall, the legislation has languished in […]

Scholars of Note: Sociology

SociologyA Cutting-Edge ApproachEarl Wright IITitle: Assistant Professor, Sociology, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, University of Central FloridaEducation: Ph.D., Sociology, University of Nebraska-Lincoln; M.A., Sociology, University of Memphis; B.A., History/Black Studies, University of MemphisAge: 32Earl Wright II’s undergraduate academic career got off to a shaky start. His life had been one of football and partying. The […]

Community Colleges

SEVIS Fee-Collection System Flawed, Higher Education Groups Say

SEVIS Fee-Collection System Flawed, Higher Education Groups SayBy Kristina LaneThe way the U.S. government wants to collect fees from international students for a foreign-student tracking system is flawed and could hinder foreign-student enrollment at American colleges and universities, according to a coalition of higher education groups.Last month the American Council on Education and 21 other […]

Emory, Mellon Foundation Team Up for Fellowship Program

Emory, Mellon Foundation Team Up for Fellowship ProgramATLANTAEmory University has received a $247,000 grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to partner in a new fellowship program that will place some of the university’s top graduate students in the classrooms of six colleges and universities in Atlanta and New Orleans. The program expands and enhances […]

A Rationale for Increasing

A Rationale for Increasing Funding for HBCUsLast year, President Bush proposed a 9 percent increase in funding for minority-serving institutions including historically Black colleges and universities. While such a proposed funding increase is overdue, HBCUs have not been funded at a level needed to create parity in the educational achievements of African Americans.I have followed […]

Community Colleges

Wireless Movement Dominating Campus IT Change

Wireless Movement Dominating Campus IT ChangeA steady growth in the use of wireless networks on American college campuses represents one of the most significant trends in the higher education information technology (IT) landscape, according to the academy’s most widely recognized technology survey. In the latest release of the Campus Computing Survey by Dr. Kenneth Green, […]

Community Colleges

Institutes Provide Program for IT Faculty Development

Institutes Provide Program for IT Faculty DevelopmentWASHINGTONMcGraw-Hill Technology Education is sponsoring the 2004 Working Connections IT Faculty Development Institutes. The 10 institutes were co-founded by the National Workforce Center for Emerging Technologies (NWCET), the American Association of Community Colleges (AACC) and Microsoft. The institutes provide a program for IT faculty development at community colleges.“We are […]

Surviving Tough Times

Surviving Tough TimesOverall, historically Black colleges and universities’ compassionate and noble mission of educating and nurturing young African American minds has not changed over the years, but leaders at Black campuses are now increasingly having to temper that with tough business decisions. Streamlining, attracting executive leadership and finding new revenue is the name of the […]

Education Funding Up in the Air

Education Funding Up in the AirBipartisan efforts still under way to increase spending package Republicans have pushed a tardy $373 billion spending package through the U.S. House of Representatives that would increase overall funding for the U.S. Department of Education by $2.9 billion, despite conservative objections that the measure had too many hometown projects and […]

Leadership & Policy

The Business of Academia

The Business of AcademiaHappy New Year! We are starting off 2004 with an edition about shared governance in academia. Are administration and faculty on the same page when it comes to shared governance and trust? What about historically Black colleges and universities versus traditionally White institutions?Assistant editor Kendra Hamilton takes a look at Dr. […]

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