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Faculty & Staff
The road taken, twice – Column
Signposts Detours and Exits of a Military Wife Who Happens to be a Tenured Professor.
June 16, 2007
Students
Women still face “chilly classroom climate.” – classroom environment in women’s education
To ensure that women are treated fairly in college classrooms it is not enough for colleges to end discriminatory behavior. They need to change a “chilly classroom climate,” says a new study by the National Association for Women in Education.
June 16, 2007
Students
Priming the pump – University of Virginia School of Medicine program has historically Black institutions as recruitment partners – Recruitment & Retention
UVa Program Involves HBCUs in Recruiting Minority Medical Students.
June 15, 2007
Students
2004: Maryland’s reform odyssey – educational reform – includes related article – Recruitment & retention
BALTIMORE, MD When states first began requiring students to meet minimum course requirements and pass competency tests before graduating high school, some educators worried that the new standards would cause students — especially minority and disadvantaged students — to fail at higher rates and drop out more often than was already the case.
June 15, 2007
Faculty & Staff
I Have Got the Light of Freedom: The Organizing Tradition and the Mississippi Freedom Struggle. – book reviews
I’ve Got the Light of Freedom: The Organizing Tradition and the Mississippi Freedom Struggle by Charles Payne, University of California Press, Berkeley, 1995. $28.00 (For a profile of author Payne, see Black Issues, December 14.)
June 15, 2007
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Faculty & Staff
Local People: The Struggle for Civil Rights in Mississippi. – book reviews
Local People: The Struggle for Civil Rights in Mississippi by John Dittmer Univ. of Illinois Press, Urbana, Illinois, 1994. $29.95 hard, $14.95 paper.
June 15, 2007
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Faculty & Staff
Race and Democracy: The Civil Rights Struggle in Louisiana. – book reviews
Race and Democracy: The Civil Rights Struggle in Louisiana by Adam Fairclough, The University of Georgia Press, Athens, GA, 1995 $34.95.
June 15, 2007
Faculty & Staff
Laying Out a Blueprint for Diversity
Community colleges at forefront of efforts to bridge yawning architecture diversity gap.
June 13, 2007
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Faculty & Staff
Laying Out a Blueprint for Diversity
Community colleges at forefront of efforts to bridge yawning architecture diversity gap.
June 13, 2007
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Faculty & Staff
Study: Immigrants Create Hi-Tech Firms, Not Take Jobs From Americans
In a new study, researchers from Duke University, the University of California-Berkeley, and the Kauffman Foundation show that there is a strong correlation between educational attainment in the STEM disciplines and innovation among immigrant founders of U.S.-based engineering and technology companies.
June 11, 2007
Faculty & Staff
Academy, AAUP Confronted on Low Faculty Diversity
Faculty members concerned about diversity took the academy as well as the American Association of University Professors to task for not doing enough to promote diversity at one session of AAUP’s 93rd annual meeting, “Telling the Truth at Difficult Times,” which started June 7 and concluded yesterday.
June 11, 2007
Faculty & Staff
Two MVSU Professors Fired, At Least One Claims It’s Retaliation
JACKSON, Miss. Two Mississippi Valley State University professors have been fired, and at least one of them claims it was in retaliation for serving on a panel that was critical of university president Lester Newman.
June 7, 2007
Faculty & Staff
Minority Faculty Recruitment Program Under Fire
EUGENE, Ore. The University of Oregon is taking issue with an economics professor’s claim that a program developed to recruit more minority faculty members is illegal.
June 3, 2007
Students
Students say Northeastern U Terminating Non-Ph.D. Faculty to Move Up In the Rankings
BOSTON Northeastern University is purging its communications and journalism program of instructors who lack doctorates in a move students say is motivated by the university’s quest to improve its U.S. News & World Report ranking.
May 30, 2007
Students
Coming to Terms With the “R” Word
Colleges may boast diversity, but what does that really mean for campus climate?
May 30, 2007
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Faculty & Staff
A Tenure Not Soon Forgotten
After 34 years on the Wellesley College faculty, Dr. Tony Martin’s teachings have at times been controversial, but his mentoring of Black women is what his students will remember most.
May 16, 2007
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Faculty & Staff
Race Cited as a Factor for Condemnation of Ohio U President
Its been an eventful month for Ohio University President Roderick McDavis, whose tenure has drawn competing letters of condemnation and support, spawned rival student protests and rallies, and generated open forums, administrative changes and a show of unwavering support from the board of trustees.
May 14, 2007
Faculty & Staff
AAUP: New Orleans Institutions Failed Professors After Hurricanes
WASHINGTON, D.C The American Association of University Professors on Tuesday accused five New Orleans universities, including historically Black Southern University New Orleans, of abandoning their existing financial contingency plans after Hurricanes Katrina and Rita in favor of policies that contributed to the displacement of 15,000 faculty members.
May 14, 2007
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