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Leadership & Policy

Professional Appontments

Professional AppontmentsGilberto Cardenas has been named assistant provost and director of the newly established Institute for Latino Studies and Julian Samora Chair of Latino Studies at the University of Notre Dame. He was previously an associate professor of sociology and executive director of the Inter-University Program for Latino Research at the University of Texas. Cardenas […]

Leadership & Policy

W. Va.Presidential Appointment Draws Charges of Nepotism, Racism

W. Va.Presidential Appointment Draws Charges of Nepotism, RacismCHARLESTON, W.Va. — The head of the state NAACP is claiming the new president at Southern West Virginia Community and Technical College received the job because her husband is state Senate President Earl Ray Tomblin.The State College System Board of Directors named Joanne Tomblin late last month to […]

Faculty & Staff

Faculty Workload

Faculty WorkloadRuled Non-Negotiable in OhioWILBERFORCE, Ohio — The Central State University faculty union has lost a lengthy court battle concerning its right to bargain over professors’ workload.The Ohio Supreme Court, in a 5-2 decision, ruled in late October that a 1993 law requiring professors at that state’s public universities to spend more time in the […]

Leadership & Policy

Tech Briefs

Professor Urges Students to Beware Hate Sites on the InternetDETROIT — A Wayne State University communications professor and Holocaust survivor considers the Internet an increasingly used, effective marketing tool by hate groups.“The Internet is the greatest thing that ever happened to hate,” Jack Kay, also an associate provost at the school, said last month while […]

Leadership & Policy

U.S. Med Schools Report Lowest Minority Application Rate in Seven Years

U.S. Med Schools Report Lowest Minority Application Rate in Seven YearsWASHINGTON — The percentage of underrepresented people of color applying to medical school has fallen to its lowest level in seven years, according to a report released last month by the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC). At their annual meeting here on Oct. 26, […]

Can the Dream Be Saved?

Can the Dream Be Saved?CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. — The University of Virginia’s Board of Visitors announced earlier this month that race will continue to be considered in the school’s admissions process. The board also said it supports President John T. Casteen III’s decision several months ago to end the use of a point system that benefited […]

BI News Brief

Minority Enrollment Continues to Drop at California Medical SchoolsOAKLAND, Calif. — University of California officials have appointed a task force to investigate why minority enrollment is dropping at the system’s five medical schools. In 1993, 103 Black and Mexican American students enrolled at University of California medical schools. This fall, the total was 59. That […]

Who Really Cares About Retention?

Who Really Cares About Retention?Society’s influence on elementary and secondary students has left many of our young people less than prepared for college. The poor academic preparation of incoming freshman also has made retaining these students at the postsecondary level more difficult. If higher education is going to embrace these students, it is important for […]

Leadership & Policy

Misinformation Super Highway?

Misinformation Super Highway?If you spend any time on the Internet, you know that there is a wealth of information that can zip through your phone lines and into your home or office in the blink of an eye. Some of that information is useful and some of it — well — isn’t. Take, for example, […]

Gates Scholarship Provides Aid for More Students

Gates Scholarship Provides Aid for More Students SAN FRANCISCO — David McBride was in algebra class when he showed a friend the newspaper story about the billion-dollar college scholarship program for minorities being financed by software tycoon Bill Gates.“It really put hope in his face,” says the 16-year-old senior at Lowell High School here. “He’s […]

Leadership & Policy

Running for Cover

Running for CoverFear and Paranoia Su rrounding Affirmative Action Lawsuits Unjustified, Experts SayBy Robin M. BennefieldTwo years ago, University of North Carolina System President Dr. Molly Broad, fresh from the California State System, requested a complete review of the use of race in the admissions policies of schools in the state system.Then last spring, Dr. David […]

BI News Briefs

Commission Dismisses Discrimination Complaint Against Alabama-BirminghamBIRMINGHAM, Ala. — The state Ethics Commission has dismissed complaints against the president of the University of Alabama-Birmingham and another school official, saying the allegations of discrimination do not fall under its jurisdiction.A local activist had filed a complaint against Dr. W. Ann Reynolds, the school’s president, and George Perdue, […]

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