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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 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 […]
Students
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 […]
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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 […]
Leadership & Policy
Turning a New Page In History
Turning a New Page In HistoryI vividly recall the spring day nearly four years ago, when then executive editor of Black Issues In Higher Education, Karin Chenoweth, called looking for someone to write an article about retirement plans. At the time, I was new to Washington, D.C., and working as a freelance journalist. Though I […]
Leadership & Policy
Congressman and College President Could Mediate Flag Dispute
Congressman and College President Could Mediate Flag DisputeCOLUMBIA, S.C. — U.S. Rep. Jim Clyburn and College of Charleston President Alex Sanders could be brought in as mediators by the governor to help settle the Confederate flag issue. “I guess it’s because I’m such a universally loved and admired person, right?” Sanders joked last month. “And […]
Faculty & Staff
BI News Briefs
Just Missing Minority Hiring Goal May Not Prove Costly for Nebraska UniversityLINCOLN, Neb. — Even though the University of Nebraska system fell one person short of a state-required target for minority faculty members in 1999, it may not lose any state funding. Officials at the university say the three-year average for adding minorities meets the […]
Leadership & Policy
Collegespeak
Collegespeak What’s The Real Meaning Behind All That Higher Education Jargon?WASHINGTON — Happen to know what “scaffolded reading and learning episodes” are? Able to define “task-centered talking,” “bibliobaskets,” “academic villages?” How about “manifestation determinations?” Huh?The world of higher education is chock full of catch phrases, both catchy and kitschy. Many education experts say the lingo […]
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