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Students
Babson College Meets Changing Needs With Diversity Officer
Dr. Elizabeth Thornton, Babson College’s newly appointed chief diversity officer, wasn’t hired to mitigate a highly charged climate of racial violence or vandalism or to appease student and faculty complaints on multiculturalism.
March 2, 2008
Faculty & Staff
Demythologizing Diversity in Higher Education
Why has it taken so long for institutions of higher education to move beyond lip service to genuine inclusion for minority and female faculty and staff?
March 2, 2008
Faculty & Staff
Descendant of University of Missouri Founder Creates Slavery Atonement Fund
Endowment will help support research into the impact, effects of slavery in the United States.
February 19, 2008
Faculty & Staff
Students to Study University of Maryland’s Ties To Slavery
The University of Maryland, College Park is the latest institution of higher education to announce plans to examine its ties to slavery, this time doing so with the help of students in a research course.
February 19, 2008
Faculty & Staff
Harvard Arts & Sciences Faculty Approve Open Access To Research
Harvard University’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences voted yesterday to give the university a worldwide license to publish their work online at no cost to the reader. The university will feature faculty’s scholarly articles in an open-access repository supported and maintained by the university.
February 13, 2008
Faculty & Staff
Harvard Arts & Sciences Faculty Approve Open Access To Research
Harvard University’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences voted yesterday to give the university a worldwide license to publish their work online at no cost to the reader. The university will feature faculty’s scholarly articles in an open-access repository supported and maintained by the university.
February 12, 2008
Faculty & Staff
Regents Deny Tenure Appeal of Intelligent Design Professor
AMES, Iowa The Iowa Board of Regents on Thursday rejected the appeal of an Iowa State University professor who claimed he was denied tenure because he supports the theory of intelligent design. Guillermo Gonzalez first appealed the university’s decision to deny him tenure last spring, a decision that was upheld by Iowa State President Greg […]
February 10, 2008
Faculty & Staff
ACE: ‘Significant Efforts’ Needed To Improve Diversity In College Presidency Ranks
There’s been little increase in the number of minority college presidents in the last 20 years. A new report suggests efforts to diversify college president ranks begins with the recruitment and retention of minority faculty members.
February 6, 2008
Faculty & Staff
State Board Names Kelley to Replace Kupchella as University of North Dakota President
FARGO, N.D. — Dr. Robert Kelley has been offered the job as president of the University of North Dakota, after some school supporters complained that the state Board of Higher Education should have interviewed more than one candidate.
February 4, 2008
Students
Racist Displays Persist at Minnesota College
ST. CLOUD, Minn. Bisharo Iman hoped college in St. Cloud would be different than attending high school. There would be no more taunts of “Go back to your country” aimed at her Somali dress, no more being slammed into lockers.
January 28, 2008
Faculty & Staff
College Endowments: Rich Get Richer
New figures on university endowments confirm it’s not just the “haves” and “have nots” in academe these days. Beyond the great majority of colleges, there’s a growing group of the newly rich schools, and at the top of the heap a tiny cadre of ultra-wealthy institutions.
January 24, 2008
Students
Encouraging The Discouraged
An HSI, Heritage University serves a population that most other institutions have essentially written off as nothing more than farm laborers and service workers.
January 23, 2008
Students
Lincoln U.: Tolson Gave to Wiley Students What He Received Here
Arguing that Melvin Tolson’s passion, eloquently portrayed by Denzel Washington in “The Great Debaters,” was harvested during his time as an undergraduate at Lincoln University, the Pennsylvania HBCU is on a crusade to claim Tolson as one of its own. Officials hope to reinvigorate debating competition among HBCUs and boost student participation in the Melvin B. Tolson Literary Society, founded at Lincoln in 1966.
January 14, 2008
Faculty & Staff
Robotics Education Spreads Among HBCUs
Dr. Andrew Williams’ teaching and research efforts has sparked a robotics education movement that now extends from Spelman College to several historically Black colleges and universities.
January 12, 2008
Faculty & Staff
Emerging Scholars: The Class of 2008
Each year, as we select our “Emerging Scholars,” we’re always amazed and inspired by the accomplishments of these under-40 intellectuals.
January 9, 2008
Faculty & Staff
Emerging Scholars: The Class of 2008
Each year, as we select our “Emerging Scholars,” we’re always amazed and inspired by the accomplishments of these under-40 intellectuals. This year is no exception.
January 9, 2008
Faculty & Staff
Catching Up With the Class of 2002
The first group of “Emerging Scholars” gives us an update on life since their magazine debut in January 2002 in what was then Black Issues In Higher Education.
January 9, 2008
Faculty & Staff
Reveling in Retirement
After two college presidencies, Dr. James Hefner is taking time to pursue his avocations, while still in demand within academia.
December 26, 2007
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