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Hampton controversy illustrates long-standing tension between HBCUs and student press
Hampton controversy illustrates long-standing tension between HBCUs and student pressBy Lydia LumHAMPTON, Va.Hampton University’s confiscation of student newspapers earlier this semester is a reminder of the long-standing problems of maintaining a free press at Black colleges and building strong journalism programs there. In fact, some media professionals have grown so skeptical of the integrity of […]
December 3, 2003
Faculty & Staff
Educause Study Highlights IT Security in Higher Education
Educause Study Highlights IT Security in Higher EducationDENVERThe Educause Center for Applied Research (ECAR) has released a major research study on information technology security. The study examines how higher education is dealing with the growing cost of IT security and the tension of preserving confidentiality, ensuring data integrity and maintaining an academic environment in which […]
November 19, 2003
Students
Demystifying the Ph.D. Process
Demystifying the Ph.D. ProcessJourney to the Ph.D.: How to Navigate the Process as African Americans By Dr. Anna L. Green and Dr. LeKita V. Scott, eds. Stylus Publishing, October 2003, 240 pp.$45.00 cloth, ISBN 1-57922-078-9; $18.95 paper, ISBN 1-57922-079-7  As increasing numbers of African Americans enroll in and complete doctoral programs, the need for accurate, […]
November 19, 2003
Faculty & Staff
Changing Faces
Changing FacesGeorgia Tech program helps minority scholars in science and engineering jump-start their careers in academia By Kendra HamiltonWith the ink barely dry on her diploma from the Georgia Institute of Technology, Dr. Chekesha Liddell is heading off to a dream job at Cornell University in New York, one of the top 10 engineering schools […]
November 19, 2003
Faculty & Staff
Study Links Academic Achievement To Racial-Ethnic Pride
Study Links Academic Achievement To Racial-Ethnic PrideUNIVERSITY PARK, Pa.Anew study links academic achievement among African American students to racial-ethnic pride. The study, conducted by a Penn State University researcher, found that African American fourth graders with higher levels of racial-ethnic pride were found also to have higher academic achievement levels measured by reading and math […]
November 19, 2003
Faculty & Staff
The Temple of My Unfamiliar: Faculty of Color at Predominantly White Institutions
The Temple of My Unfamiliar: Faculty of Color at Predominantly White InstitutionsThe following commentary highlights common themes uncovered not only through my discussions with other African American tenure-track faculty members in predominantly White institutions, but also from my own experiences as a tenure-track faculty member of color within these institutions.  “The Proof Is in the […]
October 22, 2003
Faculty & Staff
Revisiting Black History, Examining Future Paradigms
Revisiting Black History, Examining Future ParadigmsSoulstepping: african american step showsBy Dr. Elizabeth C. FineUniversity of Illinois Press, 2003, 208 pp., $24.95 cloth, ISBN 0-252-02475-3Soulstepping documents the history of stepping, which is defined as a complex performance that melds folk traditions with popular culture and involves synchronized percussive movement, singing, chanting and drama. The author traces […]
October 22, 2003
Faculty & Staff
Bringing More Than Skin Color to the Party Faculty of color realize their market value
Bringing More Than Skin Color to the Party Faculty of color realize their market valueDr. Tom Smith is a world-renowned expert in polymer sciences. And though he has impeccable academic credentials — he got his Ph.D. in 1973 from the University of Michigan, is a former president of the Rochester chapter of the American Chemical […]
October 22, 2003
Faculty & Staff
Duke Still Struggles With Providing Equitable Environment, Study Finds
Duke Still Struggles With Providing Equitable Environment, Study FindsDURHAM, N.C.A yearlong study of the status of women at Duke University has found that students, faculty, staff and graduates continue to face lingering stereotypes and prejudicial expectations about what they can accomplish.The Women’s Initiative Steering Committee report, released last month, offers an in-depth, and sometimes troubling, […]
October 22, 2003
Faculty & Staff
Minorities Believe They Receive Far Different Medical Care Than Whites, Survey Finds
Minorities Believe They Receive Far Different Medical Care Than Whites, Survey FindsNASHVILLE, Tenn.Anew poll shows that while Americans are divided about the extent to which racial and ethnic health care disparities exist, African Americans and Hispanics are as much as three times more likely than Whites to feel that minorities receive a lower level of […]
October 22, 2003
Faculty & Staff
Under the Media’s Radar
Under the Media’s RadarPrinceton’s program in African American studies boasts its own all-star cast High-profile African American studies departments like Harvard’s with certified media stars like Dr. Henry Louis Gates Jr. usually tend to grab the lion’s share of the headlines. But focusing solely on departments and their “stars” offers a pretty distorted picture of […]
October 8, 2003
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Faculty & Staff
Harvard’s New Chapter in Black Studies
Harvard’s New Chapter in Black StudiesA neglected African studies program finally gets a departmental home By Ronald RoachFrom afar, it seemed that Afro-American studies at Harvard had taken a nasty tumble when two of its best-known scholars announced their resignations in early 2002, and its venerable chairman, Dr. Henry Louis Gates Jr., let it be […]
October 8, 2003
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Faculty & Staff
AAUP Issues Statement on Use Of Contingent Faculty Appointments
AAUP Issues Statement on Use Of Contingent Faculty Appointments WASHINGTONThe American Association of University Professors (AAUP) issued a draft policy statement last month on the overuse and abuse of part-time and non-tenure track faculty — practices that threaten the quality and stability of higher education today.The proportion of faculty appointed to tenure-line positions is declining […]
October 8, 2003
Students
When Academia Meets Activism
When Academia Meets ActivismHarvard’s Color Lines conference draws nearly 1,000 participants to share new insights, data on the nation’s agenda on raceBy Ronald RoachCAMBRIDGE, Mass.Labor Day weekend is not the time of year one would expect hundreds of professors, graduate students and other education professionals to be encamped under a white tent at the Harvard […]
September 24, 2003
Faculty & Staff
Diverse City
Diverse CityCommunity colleges are the most diverse institutions in academia, and getting more so by the dayBy Garry BoulardOf all the many numbers that illustrate community colleges’ rich diversity, the most telling are these: In 2000, the latest year for which comparable U.S. Department of Education and U.S. Census statistics are available, 12 percent of […]
September 24, 2003
Faculty & Staff
Wilberforce Faculty Endure Pay Cut, Increased Course Load
Wilberforce Faculty Endure Pay Cut, Increased Course Load WILBERFORCE, OhioFaculty members at Wilberforce University have agreed to work longer hours for less pay to keep the private, historically Black university afloat. The concessions will allow Wilberforce to avoid eliminating majors and laying off employees, the university’s president, the Rev. Floyd Flake, said last month.“Every part […]
September 10, 2003
Faculty & Staff
Morris Brown Reopens $1 Million Richer, But Without Accreditation
Morris Brown Reopens $1 Million Richer, But Without AccreditationBy Tracie Powell ATLANTAAtlanta’s Morris Brown College reopened its doors late last month to fewer than 150 students, without a marching band, football team or accreditation. They are, however, $1 million richer. The million-dollar donation from the Tom Joyner Foundation, headed by the syndicated radio personality the […]
September 10, 2003
Students
Expanding Roles for Minorities And Professionals in Higher Education
Expanding Roles for Minorities And Professionals in Higher Education
August 27, 2003
Professional Development
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