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Section: Faculty & Staff
Faculty & Staff
Leadership 101
Indisputably, Nan Keohane has enjoyed a long and storied career in higher education…
November 15, 2006
Faculty & Staff
The True Meaning of Mentorship
Josephine, if I were you, I wouldn’t invest time in helping Kandace secure this position…
November 15, 2006
Faculty & Staff
Perspectives: The True Meaning of Mentorship
One professor recounts how women scholars helped her navigate the academy.
November 14, 2006
Faculty & Staff
When Academic Freedom and Corporate-sponsored Professorships Collide
In 2002, Dr. Jerome D. Williams, a leading expert in the area of multicultural advertising, accepted the Anheuser Busch/John E. Jacob Endowed Chair in Marketing at Howard University. But the job offer was rescinded, Williams says, because he’d written articles critical of minority-targeted alcohol marketing.
November 9, 2006
Faculty & Staff
Columbia University Announces Creation
Spurred on by fierce student activism a decade ago, Columbia University is now pushing forward with plans…
November 1, 2006
Faculty & Staff
First Haitian-American College President Encourages
Dr. Carole Berotte Joseph, the eldest daughter of a teacher and a nurse
November 1, 2006
Faculty & Staff
New Study: Gender Matters on Black College Campuses
Female faculty at public historically Black colleges seem to fare better in terms of ratings…
November 1, 2006
Faculty & Staff
Research Round-Up: Impact of Discrimination on Health, Innovative Teaching Methods of Minority Faculty and Racial Disparities in Care For HIV Patients
Racial discrimination may be an important reason why Blacks suffer from higher rates of cardiovascular disorders, diabetes and obesity; faculty of color use more interesting ways of teaching at undergraduate institutions than their White peers; HIV-infected people who have little to no consistent outpatient medical care are overwhelmingly minorities, the poor and substance abusers.
October 31, 2006
Faculty & Staff
AAUP: Women Professors Lag In Tenure, Salary
There are more women in full-time faculty positions than 30 years ago but research institutions are still reluctant to hire women or pay them in parity with their male hires, according to an annual report by the American Association of University Professors released today.
October 25, 2006
Students
College Board: Tuition Increases Slowing Down
WASHINGTON Although the average tuition bill is up 35 percent compared to five years ago, the skyrocketing increases in recent years has slowed to a sputter, according to the College Board’s annual report on college tuition released Tuesday.
October 23, 2006
Faculty & Staff
Brown University Applauded For Examination of Its Ties To Slavery
PROVIDENCE, R.I. A Brown University committee investigating the institution’s ties with slavery has recommended the school atone for its past by creating a slave trade memorial, establishing an academic center focused on slavery and justice and, above all, acknowledging the truth about its past.
October 19, 2006
Faculty & Staff
The Flap Over 9/11 Conspiracies
The article (see “Conspiracies Continue to Abound Surrounding 9/11,” Sept. 7) seems focused on…
October 18, 2006
Students
Facing Off On Political Diversity
Does the quest for diversity extend to the politics of the faculty? Earlier this year…
October 18, 2006
Faculty & Staff
The End of a Journey
Tennessee’s desegregation case comes to a close with all parties in agreement that the state has finally eliminated all vestiges of racial segregation in its higher ed system.
October 18, 2006
Faculty & Staff
Minority Students Turning to Online Schools for Advanced Degrees
MINNEAPOLIS Colleges have long despaired over how best to attract more minority students into advanced degree programs. But it’s not a problem at a number of schools where students earn their degrees online, which are seeing unexpectedly high minority enrollment.
October 8, 2006
Students
Wisconsin Plan to Raise Tuition to Pay for Diversity Efforts Criticized
LA CROSSE, Wis. As a psychology professor at the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse, Carmen Wilson likes the idea of sharply raising tuition to hire more professors and recruit more poor and minority students.
October 5, 2006
Faculty & Staff
Rutgers’ Budget Woes Felt Across the Board
Budget constraints have forced Rutgers University, the largest public research university in New Jersey…
October 4, 2006
Faculty & Staff
Texas Southern Moves To Revoke Former President’s Tenure
Texas Southern University last month began the process of revoking the tenure of former president Priscilla Slade…
October 4, 2006
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