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Faculty & Staff
Videoconference examines changing role of today’s college president
American college and university presidents have less time than ever for the traditional rode of acting as the academic leader of their institutions. Instead they are fundraising, lobbying and acting as peacemaker among their different constituencies, several presidents and scholars told a nationwide audience at a recent Black Issues In Higher Education videoconference.
June 23, 2007
Faculty & Staff
A morale dilemma – black professors on white campuses – includes related article on mentorship programs for black faculty – Cover Story
Strained relations with white colleagues. Constantly having one’s credentials questioned. An unwieldy workload. Job insecurity. Lack of respect from white students. Cultural, social and professional alienation.
June 22, 2007
Students
Building leaders: leadership development program important step for community college presidents
As a community college administrator with an eye on the presidency, Dr. Walter Bumphus wanted to ensure he would be competitive when the time came to climb the career ladder.
June 22, 2007
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Students
Technology … it’s not just for science departments anymore – implementing technology at colleges
As a graduate student at Ohio State University in the early 1990s, Dr. Leslie Fenwick had grown accustomed to having access to computers and to using her own campus-issued computer. “They were part of the landscape. Computers were just part of the university setting,” Fenwick said.
June 22, 2007
Faculty & Staff
Reporters, curators, security chiefs … faculty aren’t the only ones with careers at universities
Universities and colleges may have had to streamline their employment rolls in recent years, but they still employ more than two-and-a-half million people — and by far most of them are not faculty members.
June 22, 2007
Faculty & Staff
Appreciation: Louis Westerfield, 1949-1996 – Obituary
On August 2-4. 1996. Louis Westerfield — law school dean at three schools, law professor at four schools, author, judge, community leader, and dedicated family man — died of a heart attack in New Orleans.
June 22, 2007
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Faculty & Staff
Reaching out to young Black men: a dedicated and determined group of scholars offer the lure of the academy – includes related article on the Meyerhoff program as evaluated by a student – side bar listing academic programs for Black male students – Cover
The low numbers of African-American males seeking higher education is a problem that has been talked about, written about, and studied. Now, some colleges and universities seem willing to put their money where their mouths are.
June 22, 2007
Faculty & Staff
Teaching a new generation of journalists – inducting professionals into classrooms
Professor Chuck Stone, an awarding winning journalist, earns new honors these days in an arena where few minorities perform. On the faculty of the University of North Carolina, he is among the scant number of professionals who have jettisoned themselves out of the bustling newsroom to pursue new dreams — teaching the next generation of journalists.
June 22, 2007
Faculty & Staff
Creating a powerhouse: compensation research perks sweeten pot in high-stakes competition for scholars
For the past 24 years Dr. Ron Walters has been a fixture at Howard University. The tenured chairman of the university’s political science department is widely respected in the academic community and is one of an elite group of national scholars who are considered “public intellectuals.”
June 22, 2007
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Faculty & Staff
First in family with degree, now Iowa president
IOWA CITY Iowa Sally Mason wasn’t brought up around higher education, but she plans to make herself right at home as the University of Iowa’s new president.
June 21, 2007
Faculty & Staff
Mississippi Valley State president Lester Newman resigns
ITTA BENA, Miss. Mississippi Valley State University President Lester C. Newman announced his resignation Friday after serving nearly nine years as leader of the historically Black college.
June 21, 2007
Faculty & Staff
Minority businesses collaborate with HBCUs to develop new technologies – Federal Government Encouraging HBCU-minority business alliance – historically Black colleges and universities
When Veatronics Corporation needed engineering expertise to develop a highly advanced fetal monitor last year, it turned to North Carolina A&T State University for help.
June 20, 2007
Faculty & Staff
Belt-tightening goes on – and on: ACE report offers ten-year retrospective – American Council on Education
Realizing that the budgetary woes colleges and universities have suffered the past decade may be permanent, higher education officials are coming up with more substantive strategies to deal with the long-range crisis, according to an annual report.
June 20, 2007
Faculty & Staff
The dirty little secret of college admissions – irregularities in the admission procedure at the University of California
In the aftermath of an expose by the Los Angeles Times that some students were admitted to the University of California at the request of prominent people, a report by the university was recently released.
June 20, 2007
Students
Texas twister – Graduate Opportunities Program
In 1978, Sarita Brown told the dean of graduate studies at the University of Texas-Austin that the reason the university had so few minority graduate students was the fault of the university, not the lack of eligible candidates. A well-run program, she said, could bring in many more Black and Hispanic graduate students.
June 19, 2007
Faculty & Staff
Flowers power – Lawrence and Lamont Flowers, two African American students at Virginia Commonwealth University – Cover Story
Lawrence and Lamont Flowers stand out in a crowd. Rail-thin and topping six feet, the identical twins share a shy streak and a strong bond that’s easy to spot.
June 19, 2007
Faculty & Staff
The sound of a gateway closing – how anti-affirmative action was organized for national debate – Special Report Top 100 Degree Producers
In America, education remains the gateway to upward social mobility, to opportunity, to self-sufficiency, successful families and political participation. That’s the reality.
June 17, 2007
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Students
One, two, three…red light – conservative backlash derails progress in equal opportunity
The game, “One, Two, Three … Red Light,” played by elementary school children is an excellent metaphor for the state of Black progress in higher education.
June 17, 2007
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