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Students
Minority Graduate Students Urged to Address Pipeline Issues
During mentoring institute, minority graduate students were told by senior scholars that they will soon inherit responsibility to help lead the push for diversity in American higher education.
October 25, 2009
Dr. Ansley Abraham
Students
REINVENTING REMEDIAL EDUCATION
When Kafayat Olayinka graduated from Spingarn High School in Washington, D. C., with a 3.5 grade point average, she was certain those kinds of grades would help her zip right through her college years.
October 14, 2009
Students
UMass-Amherst Journalism Professor Teaches Students To Be Culturally Sensitive
Journalism professors say it’s imperative to sensitize future journalists to racial issues so that they can adequately report on hot-button topics such as this summer’s arrest of Harvard University professor Dr. Henry Louis Gates Jr. by a White police officer.
October 7, 2009
Nick McBride
Faculty & Staff
LASTWORD: R-E-S-P-E-C-T
Adjunct faculty are invaluable to community colleges, so why aren’t they taken into consideration in the colleges’ missions?
September 30, 2009
Faculty & Staff
CONVERGING INTERESTS
Environmental and sustainability issues have permeated every level of academia, from art instruction to business courses.
September 30, 2009
Students
Black College Advocate Questions Funding Formula for Southern University Campuses
While serving as an appointee on a panel examining ways to overhaul Louisiana public college systems, the president of the National Association for Equal Opportunity in Higher Education questioned whether state funding practices are fair to the historically Black schools
September 30, 2009
Lezli Baskerville
Faculty & Staff
NOTEWORTHYNEWS: STILL A NO-GO FOR LIFTING ACADEMIC TRAVEL RESTRICTIONS TO CUBA
President Barack Obama’s campaign promises to rescind limits remain a ‘work in progress.’
September 16, 2009
Faculty & Staff
Still a No-go for Lifting Academic Travel Restrictions to Cuba
President Barack Obama’s campaign promises to rescind limits remain a ‘work in progress.’
September 16, 2009
Faculty & Staff
Survey Shows More Diversity and Higher Graduation Rates at Public HBCUs
Public Historically Black Colleges and Universities have grown and expanded in the last 20 years, making their students and faculty among the most intellectually and racially diverse in higher education, according to a survey released Monday.
September 13, 2009
Faculty & Staff
School Book Ban Raises Censorship Concerns in Puerto Rico
Several university professors in Puerto Rico are protesting a decision to ban five books from the curriculum at public high schools in the U.S. territory because of coarse language.
September 13, 2009
Faculty & Staff
Michigan Profs Back in Class after Tentative Deal
Students reported for class Thursday at a suburban Detroit university hours after professors reached a tentative agreement that ended a weeklong strike.
September 10, 2009
Faculty & Staff
OU Cancels Classes Today; Will Ask Court to Order Professors to Work
Oakland University in Rochester, Mich., will cancel classes again today.  The university plans to head to court to ask a judge to order professors back to work.  According to the Detroit Free Press, the faculty and the university disagree over several points, including increasing medical insurance rates, pay raises, hiring more instructors on contract and […]
September 7, 2009
Faculty & Staff
Strike by Professors Leads to Canceled Classes in Michigan
Classes at Oakland University were canceled Thursday after professors went on strike the day that fall classes were supposed to start. According to the New York Times, professors went on strike because they were upset over being asked to freeze their salaries a year after the university’s president received a $100,000 raise. The union, which […]
September 3, 2009
hispanic
Faculty & Staff
JUST A CLICK AWAY
University of Maryland University College has charted a unique path as a public insitution in online education.
September 2, 2009
Faculty & Staff
Just a Click Away
University of Maryland University College has charted a unique path as a public institution in online education.
September 2, 2009
Students
ETS Says New Assessment Tool Should Boost Minority Enrollment in Graduate Schools
A new product launched by the Educational Testing Service (ETS) in July will help increase graduate school minority enrollment, according to officials with the Princeton, N.J.-based nonprofit testing and educational research organization.
August 31, 2009
What They Didn’t Teach You in Graduate School
Faculty & Staff
UH semester starts with fewer classes, more Anxiety
Classes were cut this semester at the University of Hawai’i-Manoa and students worried as they returned to the university Monday.  According to the Honolulu Advertiser, the public university system struggled to slash $76 million from its budget, including $45 million at its flagship Manoa campus. At the same time, enrollment is up on all campuses.  […]
August 24, 2009
Faculty & Staff
CHANGING COURSE
The University of the District of Columbia’s problems are so deep and longstanding that some people thought it would take a rocket scientist to figure them out.
August 19, 2009
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