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Faculty & Staff
The End of a Journey
Tennessee’s desegregation case comes to a close with all parties in agreement that the state has finally eliminated all vestiges of racial segregation in its higher ed system.
October 18, 2006
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Faculty & Staff
Minority Students Turning to Online Schools for Advanced Degrees
MINNEAPOLIS Colleges have long despaired over how best to attract more minority students into advanced degree programs. But it’s not a problem at a number of schools where students earn their degrees online, which are seeing unexpectedly high minority enrollment.
October 8, 2006
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Wisconsin Plan to Raise Tuition to Pay for Diversity Efforts Criticized
LA CROSSE, Wis. As a psychology professor at the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse, Carmen Wilson likes the idea of sharply raising tuition to hire more professors and recruit more poor and minority students.
October 5, 2006
Faculty & Staff
Rutgers’ Budget Woes Felt Across the Board
Budget constraints have forced Rutgers University, the largest public research university in New Jersey…
October 4, 2006
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Faculty & Staff
Texas Southern Moves To Revoke Former President’s Tenure
Texas Southern University last month began the process of revoking the tenure of former president Priscilla Slade…
October 4, 2006
Faculty & Staff
Audit Finds $2 Million Deficit at Cheyney University
An annual audit of Pennsylvania’s 14 state-owned universities has found that Cheyney University finished…
October 4, 2006
Faculty & Staff
New Study: Gender Matters on Black College Campuses
NEW YORK Female faculty at public historically Black colleges seem to fare better in terms of ratings, salaries and tenure numbers when the president or chief academic officer is also female, according to a new study released Thursday by the Thurgood Marshall Scholarship Fund.
September 27, 2006
Faculty & Staff
First Haitian-American College President Encourages Faculty to ‘Infuse Globalism into Their Curriculum’
BOSTON For a year and a half, Berotte Joseph has led Massachusetts Bay Community College in Wellesley, a prosperous Boston suburb that is a long way from the colonial-style neighborhood in Port-au-Prince where she spent her first eight years before emigrating to the United States in 1957.
September 27, 2006
Faculty & Staff
The HIspanic-Serving Designation: Asset or Deficit?
There are more than 200 American colleges and universities federally designated as Hispanic-Serving Institutions, but only four mention this classification in their mission statements.
September 21, 2006
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Faculty & Staff
Culture and Academic Performance
U.S. Census reports remind us that Hispanics are the largest and fastest growing minority population in the United States…
September 20, 2006
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Students
Language, Culture & Technology
Dr. Kevin M. Gaugler had an epiphany in his Spanish class when a student asked how to affix an accent…
September 20, 2006
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Faculty & Staff
The Hispanic-Serving Designation: Asset or Deficit?
There are more than 200 American colleges and universities federally designated as Hispanic-Serving Institutions…
September 20, 2006
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Faculty & Staff
On Life Support
At the Hispanic Center of Excellence, located on the sprawling campus of the Albert Einstein Medical Center in the Bronx…
September 20, 2006
Faculty & Staff
Princeton Establishes Center for African American Studies
Princeton University announced this week the creation of a Center for African American Studies — a plan that includes doubling the number of faculty in its African American studies program, enhancing the undergraduate curriculum and seeking funds to endow the new center.
September 19, 2006
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Faculty & Staff
Research Round-up
Minority med school enrollment programs are effective; diversity training programs fail to eliminate bias; teacher education programs are deeply flawed.
September 19, 2006
Students
Rutgers Budget Woes Felt Across the Board
Budget constraints have forced Rutgers University, the largest public research university in New Jersey, to cancel 451 classes, increase tuition, layoff 185 employees and cut several programs, including minority recruitment programs.
September 17, 2006
Faculty & Staff
Conspiracies Continue to Abound Surrounding 9/11
On the eve of the fifth anniversary of 9/11, a group of professors calling themselves the 9/11 Scholars for Truth are echoing…
September 8, 2006
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Faculty & Staff
Texas Southern Moves To Revoke Former President’s Tenure
HOUSTON Texas Southern University has begun the process of revoking the tenure of former President Priscilla Slade so they can relieve her of her teaching duties as an accounting instructor.
September 8, 2006
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