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Faculty & Staff
Symposium: Education Leaders Recommend Priorities for HBCUs
In the view of the Obama administration’s top education official, historically Black colleges and universities face two looming challenges as they look to define themselves in the 21st century – preparing students to be the next cadre of minority teachers and improving their retention and graduation rates.
June 3, 2010
U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan spoke Thursday at the North Carolina Central University Centennial HBCU Symposium in Durham, N.C. (photo by Robert E. Lawson)
Faculty & Staff
Former Sheriff Named Interim President at Historically Black Florida-based College
Last week, Nat Glover, a former Duval County sheriff, became interim president of the African Methodist Episcopal-affiliated Edward Waters College and predicted the debt-ridden school would soon return to financial health under his leadership.
May 23, 2010
Dr. Frank Pogue
Faculty & Staff
Kagan Known for Openness, Assertiveness at Harvard
Elena Kagan, President Barack Obama’s pick for the Supreme Court, gets high marks as a peacemaker for the fractious faculty of Harvard Law School while she was dean. But even her supporters here say she also has a temper.
May 20, 2010
Elena Kagan
Faculty & Staff
Christian Seminary Leader Faces Questions About Muslim Past
Ergun Caner, the president of Liberty Baptist Theological Seminary who made a career as a go-to authority on Islam for the evangelical world, is being investigated over allegations that he fabricated or embellished his past.
May 18, 2010
Ergun Caner is a Southern Baptist minister and president of the Liberty Baptist Theological Seminary. (photo courtesy of Liberty University)
Faculty & Staff
JSU’s Mason Ready for Challenges at Southern
Anticipating new leadership, the Southern University System expects incoming president Ronald Mason to raise external funds and improve student outcomes.
May 16, 2010
Ronald Mason Jr.
Faculty & Staff
Tennessee Law Students Wrap Up First Year of Innocence Clinic
University of Tennessee law students have completed their first year of a clinical program designed to explore the provable innocence claims of inmates and help set them free.
May 9, 2010
Barry C. Scheck
Students
Iowa State Honors its Past With Current Diversity Measures
Iowa State University renews its commitment to diversity, living up to the legacy created when it cultivated the interests of its distinguished first Black alumnus, George Washington Carver.
May 4, 2010
George Washington Carver
Faculty & Staff
Slain UAH Professor Had integral Role in Minority STEM Education Network
Through Alabama’s Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation (LSAMP) program, students of color at the University of Alabama Huntsville worked with mentors, such as the late Adriel Johnson (far left in photo), and earned degrees in STEM disciplines.
April 29, 2010
Dr. Adriel Johnson (far left) was one of three professors who died in a Feb. 12 shooting at a University of Alabama Huntsville biology department faculty meeting
Faculty & Staff
From the Cultural Revolution to Computer Science
When Dr. Wei Chen received the 2010 IBM Faculty Award, the Tennessee State University computer science professor was puzzled over all the fuss about the honor. The IBM award was for Chen’s work on “cloud computing,” an emerging field in information technology.
April 12, 2010
Dr. Wei Chen
Faculty & Staff
AAUP Report Paints Bleak Picture on Faculty Salaries
No Refuge: The Annual Report on the Economic Status of the Profession, 2009-10, released by the American Association of University Professors, discusses faculty salaries in the context of the current turbulent financial times.
April 11, 2010
Frustrated professor
Faculty & Staff
Chicago State Provost: Famed Black Poet Not Singled Out for Retaliation
In a public response to the resignation of one of Chicago State University’s most celebrated faculty members, the university provost reiterated the position that the administration has not singled out acclaimed poet and activist Haki R. Madhubuti for retaliation.
April 6, 2010
Haki R. Madhubuti
Faculty & Staff
Professors Enlighten Radio Audiences With Philosophy Talk
Two California philosophy professors have mused and opined on the radio airwaves for six years. Their growing audience illustrates the receptiveness among the public to set aside time for quiet reflection
March 31, 2010
Dr. John Perry (left), a University of California, Riverside philosophy professor, and Dr. Ken Taylor, a Stanford University philosophy professor, host “Philosophy Talk.”
Students
Making it Mandatory
With high-profile digital devices such as the Apple iPad hitting the consumer market, higher education institutions consider the latest wave of mobile computing gadgets for adoption as campuswide tools.
March 30, 2010
During the 2008 and 2009 fall semesters, Abilene Christian University in Abilene, Texas, distributed either an iPhone or iPod Touch to all incoming freshmen. (photo courtesy of Abilene Christian University)
Faculty & Staff
STEM Careers and 21st Century Academic Racism
This week, I came across a study that found that a significant number of women and AALANAs (African-Americans, Latinos, Asians, and Native Americans) were discouraged from pursuing their STEM careers.   In “Facts of Science Education XIV,” the research firm Campos surveyed 1,226 women and AALANA members of the American Chemical Society—particularly chemists and chemical engineers […]
March 25, 2010
Faculty & Staff
Report Examines Why Women are Under-represented in STEM Fields
The American Association of University Women report, funded by a grant from the National Science Foundation, involves a review of literature about gender and science published over the past 15 years.
March 21, 2010
Faculty & Staff
Virginia HBCUs Struggle With Legal Opinion That Bars Protection for Gays
Virginia’s historically Black colleges and universities are reeling after a controversial legal opinion by Attorney General Kenneth Cuccinelli that would invalidate any policy erected by public colleges that bans discrimination against gays and lesbians.
March 9, 2010
Kenneth Cuccinelli
Faculty & Staff
Rowdy Students Block Campus Amid Funding Rally
Rowdy protesters blocked the main gates of a California university Thursday amid campus protests across the nation against deep cuts in education funding.
March 4, 2010
Students
Slain UAH Biology Chair Remembered as Caring Father Figure
A University of Alabama-Huntsville biology department chairman gunned down at a faculty meeting was remembered Thursday as a father figure who cared deeply about his students, the kind of professor who kept his office door open in case they needed to talk about personal problems.
February 18, 2010
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