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Faculty & Staff
A Shared Responsibility
A Shared ResponsibilityBluefield State’s new president makes college’s success a community agendaBy Kendra Hamilton Dr. Albert L. Walker, the new president of Bluefield State College in Bluefield, W.Va., is a career educator. He has taught in public schools and institutions of higher education since 1967. Previously, he was vice chancellor for academic affairs and a […]
December 4, 2002
Faculty & Staff
Solar Competition Gives Tuskegee Students A Chance to Shine
Solar Competition Gives Tuskegee Students A Chance to Shine By Ronald Roach A group of Tuskegee University students majoring in architecture and engineering fields proved to the nation their resourcefulness and academic prowess in creating and building a home of the future.Competing in the Solar Decathlon, a national contest sponsored by the U.S. Department of […]
December 4, 2002
Faculty & Staff
Staying in the Game
Staying in the Game UCLA’s African American Leadership Institute works to better prepare Black executives for corporate culture.By Phaedra Brotherton Related Charts Adobe Acrobat Reader is required to view the above listed chart(s). If you do not have Acrobat Reader installed on your computer, please [ click here ] to download it. How race and […]
December 4, 2002
Faculty & Staff
Virginia Technology Center Seen as Economic Hope
Virginia Technology Center Seen as Economic HopeBy Ronald Roach Danville, Va.In Virginia, the decline of the tobacco and the textile industries has led to hard economic times in the state’s southernmost counties known as southside Virginia. In addition to high unemployment, the largely rural region struggles with low educational attainment among its residents. Just 5 […]
November 20, 2002
Faculty & Staff
Stepping Outside the Ivy Walls
Stepping Outside the Ivy WallsPost-Academe brings New Opportunities, New Benefits By Phaedra Brotherton FAIRFAX, Va.Drs. Johnnie and Leroy Miles have a special partnership. Married for 35 years, they have supported each other in their educational pursuits and even taught at the same university for 22 years. And when Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia […]
November 20, 2002
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Faculty & Staff
Faculty Survey Finds Growing Gap in Political Liberalism
Faculty Survey Finds Growing Gap in Political Liberalism LOS ANGELESThere is increasing polarization in the political identification of college and university faculty, a new UCLA study shows. Today, only 34 percent of college and university faculty identify as “middle-of-the road” politically (down from 40 percent in 1989). Although the percentage of faculty identifying as “conservative” […]
November 20, 2002
Faculty & Staff
Female Professors Earn Less At University of North Carolina
Female Professors Earn Less At University of North Carolina CHAPEL HILL, N.C.Female professors at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill earn less than male professors, with wide disparities in the medical school, according to a detailed analysis of salary equity. Women earn an average of $1,332 less than White men on the campus. […]
November 20, 2002
Students
Morris Brown Faces Increased Pressure to Solve Financial Crisis, Pay Back Money
Morris Brown Faces Increased Pressure to Solve Financial Crisis, Pay Back Money ATLANTAMorris Brown College’s financial crisis appears to be growing as recent newspapers report in addition to being $23 million in debt, things are so bad that the cafeteria sometimes runs out of food, computer labs carefully ration paper and laptop computers that cost […]
November 20, 2002
Faculty & Staff
Re-Assessing Faculty Development
Re-Assessing Faculty DevelopmentBy Dr. Ernesta P. Pendleton Whether full-time, adjunct, tenured, young or old, college and university faculty are perceived by students as the institution itself. Students judge the institution largely by the faculty that stand before them. Therefore, an institution would do well to treat faculty as what they are — its greatest resource. […]
November 6, 2002
Faculty & Staff
N.C. A&T, Others, Win Bid to Develop Aerospace Institute
N.C. A&T, Others, Win Bid to Develop Aerospace InstituteNational research facility to become a strategic partner with NASABy Ronald Roach GREENSBORO, N.C.North Carolina A&T State University is among a consortium of six universities and the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics that will develop and manage the proposed National Institute of Aerospace (NIA) for the […]
November 6, 2002
Faculty & Staff
Dual Dilemma
Dual DilemmaBlack faculty work to ensure access, while making the academy hospitable to minority faculty, students”Like most non-Blacks, I guess, I have, anyway, always thought that Afro-American Studies is a pseudo-discipline, invented by guilty White liberals as a way of keeping Black intellectuals out of trouble and giving them a shot at holding professorships at […]
October 23, 2002
Faculty & Staff
Staying Connected
Staying ConnectedGetting retention right is high priority for online degree programsWith a busy career and an active church life, Bonita Harris has gained considerable experience in balancing work and academic studies. Over the years, the Charlotte, N.C., resident has accumulated college classroom credits at three different institutions while having to work full time. When Harris […]
October 23, 2002
Students
Louisiana State University Chemist Wins $1 Million Grant
Louisiana State University Chemist Wins $1 Million GrantNEW ORLEANSDr. Isiah Warner, a Louisiana State University professor and administrator and an internationally recognized analytical chemist, is among 20 scientists at research universities who will be awarded $1 million in grants during the next four years for undergraduate science education. Warner, 56, plans to use the $250,000 […]
October 23, 2002
Faculty & Staff
Students Use Web Site to Evaluate, Rate Professors
Students Use Web Site to Evaluate, Rate ProfessorsMENLO PARK, Calif.At RateMyProfessors.com, students can find more than 200,000 ratings of professors in approximately 1,800 schools. The free Web site is considered the Internet’s largest listing of college professor ratings, and offers a public review of professors from across the United States and Canada. The Web site […]
October 9, 2002
Faculty & Staff
Extending Their Reach
Extending Their ReachWith the 50th anniversaries approaching of the establishment of Phi Beta Kappa chapters at Howard and Fisk universities, the anniversary is a reminder that the honor society remains a remote influence on historically Black institutions and Black students at predominantly White college campuses.By Ronald RoachFew academic organizations can claim to have conferred as […]
October 9, 2002
Faculty & Staff
Letters
LETTERS   Dear Editor:Your recent article “The Disconnect Between Colleges and Their Communities” inaccurately suggested that the University of Maryland does very little for its home, Prince George’s County. Since the reporter did very little to find out just how active the university really is in the county, and throughout the state, it’s important to correct […]
October 9, 2002
Faculty & Staff
Speaking The Patient’s Language
Speaking The Patient’s LanguageIn efforts to more effectively serve the increasingly Hispanic clientele, University of Texas requires Spanish courses for health care students, but critics question responsibility of language barrier.By Lydia LumAs this country becomes increasingly Hispanic, a growing number of universities now offer — and sometimes require — Spanish courses geared to health care […]
September 25, 2002
Faculty & Staff
Taking it to the Next Level
Taking it to the Next LevelAs the Hispanic population in America booms, Hispanic representation on American college campuses has so far been a bust. But educators say community colleges are uniquely positioned to bridge the gap.By Kristina LaneTwo Hispanic men in Claremont, Calif., were chatting recently about their children. One beamed with pride as he talked […]
September 25, 2002
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