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Faculty & Staff
What Are Think Tanks Thinking About?
What Are Think Tanks  Thinking About?And are they thinking enough about minorities and higher education?By Eleanor Lee Yates“C olleges would be great places to work if there were no students,” or so goes the age-old joke among college research professors. Long considered coveted respites as well as invaluable institutions for lawmakers and other information hungry […]
December 20, 2000
Students
The Miseducation of Hip-Hop
The Miseducation of Hip-HopAre Today’s Faculty and Administrators Simply Out of Touch? Or Has Today’s Popular Music Truly Corrupted the Minds of a Whole Generation? By Jamilah EvelynNEWARK, Del.When Jason Hinmon transferred to the University of Delaware two years ago from Morehouse College in Atlanta, the 22-year-old senior says he almost dropped out his first semester.He […]
December 6, 2000
Faculty & Staff
Students Come to Aid of Popular African American Law Professor
Students Come to Aid of Popular African American Law ProfessorLexington, KentuckyS tudents and alumni at the University of Kentucky’s College of Law are throwing their support behind a popular African American law professor who was denied tenure. Darlene Goring, one of three Black faculty members at the college, was being considered last month for tenure […]
December 6, 2000
Faculty & Staff
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November 22, 2000
Faculty & Staff
How to Recruit and Promote Minority Faculty: Start By Playing Fair
How to Recruit and Promote Minority Faculty: Start By Playing FairSometimes, you have to review the rules of the game to make sure that you are applying them fairly to everyone. Recent legal attacks on affirmative action have made colleges and universities nervous about their efforts to recruit faculty (as well as students) from underrepresented […]
November 22, 2000
Faculty & Staff
Dear BI Career Consultants:
Dear BI Career Consultants:What should African American faculty members do to prepare themselves for a career change from faculty to administration?Dr. Muriel Wright BraileyDirector of the Institute for African American Studies, Wilberforce UniversityI have had the experience of making a career change from faculty to administrator and back to faculty status. And now I am […]
November 22, 2000
Faculty & Staff
Black Writers Ready for the Millennium
Black Writers Ready for the MillenniumChicago State University played host to approximately 550 writers, students, scholars and educators who attended the 10th Annual Gwendolyn Brooks Writers’ Conference last month. The four-day conference, “Ready for the Millennium: Black Writers’ Approaches to the Diaspora,” opened with a children’s poetry reading and culminated with a presentation of literary […]
November 22, 2000
Faculty & Staff
Mastering Technology’s…
Mastering Technology’s… Colleges encourage faculty to go high tech By Ronald RoachT o get students proficient and comfortable with the Internet and the latest information technology, Morris Brown College officials have required its undergraduates to participate in a laptop purchase program this fall, one of the first ever such initiatives at a historically Black institution. […]
November 22, 2000
Faculty & Staff
University of Alabama Faculty Members at Odds Over Need for Anti-Racism Seminars
University of Alabama Faculty Members at Odds Over Need for Anti-Racism SeminarsTUSCALOOSA, Ala.The University of Alabama, a landmark site in the battle to desegregate schools, is viewed by some university leaders as being institutionally unfriendly to Black faculty and students. But others say anti-racism workshops, which were scheduled to help deal with the issue, wrongly […]
November 22, 2000
Faculty & Staff
Predictive Value Educause 2000 conference highlights new technology
Predictive Value Educause 2000 conference highlights new technology By Ronald Roach  NASHVILLE, Tenn.T  here’s no doubt that rapid changes in information technology create uncertainty and anxiety throughout the economy and society at large. Experts agree that change is nowhere more revolutionary than in American higher education. “Moore’s Law continues. We’re not going to see a […]
November 8, 2000
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Faculty & Staff
Shortage of Black Faculty Prompts Florida Law School To Hire Race Relations Consultant
Shortage of Black Faculty Prompts Florida Law School To Hire Race Relations ConsultantGAINESVILLE, Fla. The University of Florida’s law school has taken steps to hire a race relations consultant to find out why it can’t keep Black faculty members. Black faculty members hold only two of the law school’s 54 full-time faculty positions. “I attribute […]
October 25, 2000
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Faculty & Staff
Johnson C. Smith Faculty Release Policy Praised and Questioned
Johnson C. Smith Faculty Release Policy Praised and Questioned By Kendra HamiltonThere may be no sweeter words to a faculty member’s ears than “release time.” Try saying them out loud: “RELEASE TIME.” Notice how they trip off of the tongue, evoking visions of articles or even books completed, of new directions in research explored, of […]
October 11, 2000
Faculty & Staff
Mississippi Plaintiffs Make First Proposal in College Desegregation Case
Mississippi Plaintiffs Make First Proposal in College Desegregation CaseJACKSON, Miss.State leaders are reviewing a proposed multiyear plan that could bolster the three historically Black universities and end the 25-year-old college desegregation case here.  An attorney for Black plaintiffs last month made the first settlement offer since negotiations began in June in an effort to settle […]
October 11, 2000
Faculty & Staff
Administrator at University of Florida Law School Resigns
Administrator at University of Florida Law School Resigns Over Minority Hiring PracticesGAINESVILLE, Fla. The highest-ranking Black administrator at the University of Florida’s law school resigned his position a week after a stormy meeting about the school’s difficulty in attracting and retaining Black professors. Kenneth Nunn, associate dean for law center affairs, and others felt that […]
October 11, 2000
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Students
Chicano Studies
Chicano StudiesAs America’s Latino diaspora evolves, so does the fieldBy Roberto RodriguezFounded some 30 years ago and at one time believed to be on the verge of extinction, the field of Chicano studies is constantly expanding. As Puerto Rican and Cuban communities grew in the United States in the 1960s and ’70s, so did the […]
September 27, 2000
Faculty & Staff
Minority Faculty Promotions in Academic Medicine Lag Behind Those of White Counterparts
Minority Faculty Promotions in Academic Medicine Lag Behind Those of White CounterpartsThe representation of minority medical school faculty in academic medicine has steadily increased in recent years, but their rates of promotion continue to lag behind those of White faculty, according to a new study by the Association of American Medical Colleges. The AAMC’s research, […]
September 27, 2000
Faculty & Staff
Grants & Awards
Grants & AwardsFlorida Memorial College recently received a $500,000 grant from the Florida Department of State’s Division of Cultural Affairs. The grant was awarded to enhance the future Florida Memorial College Performing Arts Center, specifically Phase I of the project, which includes construction of an orchestra pit and increased seating capacity.Morgan State University has received […]
September 13, 2000
Faculty & Staff
The New Academic Year
The  New Academic YearThe short answer to any query about trends in higher education for the upcoming academic year: Ask after the presidential election. The upcoming election may well be the wild card that trumps all others in the deck being dealt to college administrators, faculty and students —  not just for 2000-2001, but for the […]
September 13, 2000
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