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Faculty & Staff
The Hispanic-Serving Designation: Asset or Deficit?
There are more than 200 American colleges and universities federally designated as Hispanic-Serving Institutions…
September 20, 2006
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Faculty & Staff
On Life Support
At the Hispanic Center of Excellence, located on the sprawling campus of the Albert Einstein Medical Center in the Bronx…
September 20, 2006
Faculty & Staff
Princeton Establishes Center for African American Studies
Princeton University announced this week the creation of a Center for African American Studies — a plan that includes doubling the number of faculty in its African American studies program, enhancing the undergraduate curriculum and seeking funds to endow the new center.
September 19, 2006
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Faculty & Staff
Research Round-up
Minority med school enrollment programs are effective; diversity training programs fail to eliminate bias; teacher education programs are deeply flawed.
September 19, 2006
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Rutgers Budget Woes Felt Across the Board
Budget constraints have forced Rutgers University, the largest public research university in New Jersey, to cancel 451 classes, increase tuition, layoff 185 employees and cut several programs, including minority recruitment programs.
September 17, 2006
Faculty & Staff
Conspiracies Continue to Abound Surrounding 9/11
On the eve of the fifth anniversary of 9/11, a group of professors calling themselves the 9/11 Scholars for Truth are echoing…
September 8, 2006
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Faculty & Staff
Texas Southern Moves To Revoke Former President’s Tenure
HOUSTON Texas Southern University has begun the process of revoking the tenure of former President Priscilla Slade so they can relieve her of her teaching duties as an accounting instructor.
September 8, 2006
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Faculty & Staff
Perspectives: Minority Doctoral Students Confront the Ivory Tower
Just accepting more minority candidates is not the solution to increasing the number of minority Ph.Ds. Listening to their concerns, understanding cultural conflicts, removing institutional barriers and increasing the quality of diversity initiatives are essential.
September 6, 2006
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Faculty & Staff
The Envy of Its Peers?
The Georgia Institute of Technology: 117. North Carolina A&T State University: 145…
September 6, 2006
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Faculty & Staff
Professors be Aware
A student Web site that ranks professors based on the number of As through Fs given out in each…
September 6, 2006
Faculty & Staff
Conspiracies Continue to Abound Surrounding 9/11
Conspiracy theories have long hovered over major news events: Did the FBI play a role in the assassination of the…
September 6, 2006
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Students
A Spectacular Surge
The enrollment of Hispanic students at Florida colleges and universities has ballooned spectacularly in recent years…
September 6, 2006
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Faculty & Staff
The Envy of Its Peers?
The Georgia Institute of Technology: 117. North Carolina A&T State University: 145…
September 6, 2006
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Faculty & Staff
Goizueta Foundation Boosts Hispanic
Since the 1990s, state officials across the South have pushed their higher education systems to reach out…
September 6, 2006
Faculty & Staff
The Diversity Mandate
Before becoming the first African-American provost at Emory University, Dr. Earl Lewis had been on the front lines of the University of Michigan’s defense of affirmative action in higher education…
August 30, 2006
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Faculty & Staff
Fired TSU President Teaching Accounting at University
HOUSTON The former Texas Southern University president fired in June for allegedly spending hundreds of thousands of the school’s dollars on personal purchases is teaching accounting courses there this semester.
August 29, 2006
Faculty & Staff
Professor: ‘I Was Denied Tenure Because I’m Not Hispanic’
LAS VEGAS, N.M. A former assistant chemistry professor who was denied tenure at New Mexico Highlands University has sued the school, alleging the tenure denial was because he isn’t Hispanic.
August 29, 2006
Faculty & Staff
What Are You Reading This Summer, Professor?
What Are You Reading This Summer, Professor? Who: Julian Bond, Chairman, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People; Distinguished Adjunct Professor, American University Summer Book: Democracy Rising: South Carolina and the fight for Black Equality since 1865, by Peter Lau Why: “It details the significant work the NAACP did over many years to build […]
August 23, 2006
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