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Faculty & Staff

BI News Briefs

Just Missing Minority Hiring Goal May Not Prove Costly for Nebraska UniversityLINCOLN, Neb. — Even though the University of Nebraska system fell one person short of a state-required target for minority faculty members in 1999, it may not lose any state funding. Officials at the university say the three-year average for adding minorities meets the […]

February 2, 2000

A Tough Decision for Yale’s Jewish Students

A Tough Decision for Yale’s Jewish StudentsIn 1920, newly-minted Yale graduate Morris Sweetkind, enticed by the life of the mind, resolved to stay in New Haven while his classmates left to seek their fortunes elsewhere. Rather than cash in on his prestigious degree, Sweetkind applied to pursue graduate work in Yale’s English department. While other […]

February 2, 2000

Faculty & Staff

Tech Briefs

Sandwiches in CyberspaceMURFREESBORO, Tenn. — Students here at Middle Tennessee State University now have a place to get some coffee, grab a sandwich and even check their e-mail if they so choose. It’s called a cybercafe.The cybercafe that opened this fall at Middle Tennessee is one of many that have been popping up across the […]

January 19, 2000

Faculty & Staff

BI News Briefs

Hampton Coach’s Civil Rights Lawsuit Thrown OutLUBBOCK, Texas — A judge has dismissed a college basketball coach’s civil rights lawsuit, ruling she, her husband and an assistant failed to establish that racial bias was a factor in their 1998 arrests. Hampton University women’s coach Patricia Bibbs and the others sued the city, several police officers […]

January 5, 2000

Noteworthy Briefs

Minority Business School Faculty Increases 50 Percent in Five YearsCHICAGO — Minority representation among the nation’s business school faculties has increased by almost 50 percent in five years, according to The Ph.D. Project.The project to attract and encourage more minorities to become business professors started in 1994. At that time, there were 294 African Americans, […]

December 22, 1999

Faculty & Staff

Tech Briefa

Study Shows Most Adult Education Programs Offer Distance Learning NEW YORK — Nearly 69 percent of adult and continuing education programs offer distance learning courses, a new study shows.The Survey of Adult and Continuing Education Progams in Higher Education also found that the most common credentials offered through distance learning courses are non-degree certificates. Other […]

December 22, 1999

Faculty & Staff

100 Years of Change

100 Years of ChangeFor Better, For WorseThere is no doubt that access to higher education has played a critical role in the evolving status of people of color in the 20th century. In this edition, Black Issues reviews the century throught the prism of some of the personalities whose vision, sacrifice and, in some cases, […]

December 22, 1999

Faculty & Staff

Berkeley Struggles As the Faculty Looks Elsewhere

Berkeley Struggles As the Faculty Looks ElsewhereBERKELEY, Calif. — Issues of race and racism are swirling about the University of California at Berkeley, stirred up by the imminent departures of two professors of color and ongoing concern over the future of the ethnic studies department.At issue: Is prestigious Berkeley’s ivory tower a bastion for only […]

December 22, 1999

Faculty & Staff

Creating Opportunities for Faculty Research

Creating Opportunities for Faculty ResearchResearch is one of the most rewarding aspects of a scholarly career, but until recently few African American scholars have had a chance to pursue it seriously. Gradually, times are changing.Higher education’s sacrosanct route to promotion and tenure is navigated along the paths of teaching, service and research. Good teaching and […]

November 24, 1999

Achieving Career Satisfaction in the Academy

Achieving Career Satisfaction in the AcademyToday’s headlines are full of stories about the most vexing of problems in education. How to provide a good education to all students? How to close the achievement gap between Black and White students? How to prepare educators to teach students of color? What’s going to happen now that court-ordered […]

November 24, 1999

Faculty & Staff

Highlights

One year ago, Black Issues began a column designed to give advice to help you advance or just to develop more expertise as you start or continue your career in higher education. Through this first year, we have received insightful and helpful information for both faculty and administrators.What has made it so valuable is that […]

November 24, 1999

Faculty & Staff

Faculty Workload

Faculty WorkloadRuled Non-Negotiable in OhioWILBERFORCE, Ohio — The Central State University faculty union has lost a lengthy court battle concerning its right to bargain over professors’ workload.The Ohio Supreme Court, in a 5-2 decision, ruled in late October that a 1993 law requiring professors at that state’s public universities to spend more time in the […]

November 24, 1999

Faculty & Staff

Creating a Competitive Edge

Creating a Competitive EdgeThe “competitive edge” is more than imperative in today’s recruitment climate for full-time, part-time, internship, and co-op positions. Specifically, students of color have to understand that a 3.0 GPA and above, academic honors, and letters of recommendation are not what create the total “competitive edge” when the competition is NOT other people […]

November 10, 1999

Faculty & Staff

Noteworthy Briefs

State, University Professors Reach Agreement on ContractHARRISBURG, Pa. — Negotiators for the state and the union representing faculty at 14 state universities reached a tentative agreement on a new contract last month, just two hours before a strike moratorium set by the union was about to expire.Details of the three-year contract proposal were not available […]

November 10, 1999

Expanding The Top Tier

Expanding The Top Tier College Board calls for ‘affirmative development’ to enlarge pool of high-achieving students of colorNEW YORK — Although considerable national efforts have been directed at bringing poor students and students of color up to minimal standards academically, little effort has been focused towards ensuring that African American, Latino, and Native American children […]

November 10, 1999

Faculty & Staff

Professional Appointments

PresidentsRoman Picked as Interim Head at CCNYDr. Stanford A. Roman Jr. has been named interim president of the City University of New York’s City College. Since 1990, he had served as dean of the CUNY Medical School and Sophie Davis School of Biomedical Education at CCNY, a post he will continue to hold. Roman earned […]

October 27, 1999

Grants & Awards

An anonymous donor gave Cornell University $100 million to build new residence halls and student commons. The gift matches the largest single gift in the Ivy League school’s history. The pledge is expected to cover about half the cost of new housing planned on Cornell’s West Campus.Florida State University received a $7 million gift from […]

October 27, 1999

The Perks and Perils of Recruiting Academic Superstars

The Perks and Perils of Recruiting Academic SuperstarsImagine having to jump on 10 planes to get to six cities in five days, fulfilling commitments that include — among other things — giving an interview to ABC’s 20/20, and consulting with HBO producers on an upcoming program about actor Charles Dutton. For DePaul University professor Michael […]

October 27, 1999