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Leadership & Policy

Baton Rouge College Facing Sensitivity Training

Baton Rouge College Facing Sensitivity TrainingBATON ROUGE, La. — The entire faculty and staff here at troubled Baton Rouge Community College, consumed for the last year by accusations of racism by both Blacks and Whites, will undergo diversity sensitivity training.“The gun is not loaded toward anyone in particular, or toward any race in particular,” insists […]

Washington Briefs

Ed. Dept. Speaker Criticizes RepublicansWASHINGTON — A former teacher described Govs. George W. and Jeb Bush as racists during a U.S. Department of Education seminar on promoting diversity last month, and at least one lawmaker is demanding an explanation.Jane Elliot, an author who delivers lectures worldwide on race and bias issues, was invited to the […]

Faculty & Staff

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 […]

Howard Bugs Typify Challenge Of Updating Technology

Howard Bugs Typify Challenge Of Updating TechnologyWASHINGTON — Damned if you do, damned if you don’t. That’s 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 […]

Faculty & Staff

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 […]

Faculty & Staff

Hit and Myth: Conference examines successes, fallacies of affirmative action

Hit and Myth: Conference examines successes, fallacies of affirmative actionCHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. — 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 […]

Faculty & Staff

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 — a stake that encompasses the current […]

Leadership & Policy

Expecting Standards

Expecting StandardsDupont Circle associations wrestle with meeting high diversity expectations.WASHINGTON — The American Council of Education recently lost two of the most visible minorities in higher education. Dr. Deborah Wilds, the association’s deputy director of the Office of Minority Concerns, recently left to become a program officer at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (see […]

Leadership & Policy

Campus Crimes Survey Angers HBCU Officials

Campus Crimes Survey Angers HBCU OfficialsATLANTA — When administrators at Morehouse College here learned that the editors at a crime news Web site had dubbed the campus potentially one of the most dangerous places in America for students to pursue a higher education, they were mortified.After all, this 3,000-student school logged no murders, no sexual […]

Racist Incidents Mar Black History Month at Colleges Across the Country

Racist Incidents Mar Black History Month at Colleges Across the CountryWash. Student Leader Accused of Making Racial Remark About AdministratorSPOKANE, Wash. — The Spokane Falls Community College student government president has been accused of making a racist remark about an administrator. A student panel is being formed to hear the case.The dispute centers on April […]

Leadership & Policy

Tech Briefs

Purdue Professor Among Experts Seeking Sabotage Solution WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Gene Spafford, a professor of computer sciences at Purdue University, was among approximately 20 computer specialists invited to a White House gathering last month with President Clinton and his National Security Council advisers to discuss ways to prevent hackers from disrupting Internet services. The […]

Faculty & Staff

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 — a stake that encompasses the current […]

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