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Section: Faculty & Staff
Faculty & Staff
Kent State Faculty Get Bonuses for Meeting Goals
Kent State University is offering financial bonuses to professors if they help student retention numbers and attract more research dollars, an incentive usually given to school presidents and top administrators.
September 10, 2008
Faculty & Staff
New Report: Black Colleges Crucial to Grooming New Scientists
Historically Black colleges and universities play a vital role in producing future scientists and engineers, according to a recent report released by the National Science Foundation.
September 7, 2008
Faculty & Staff
Professional Appointments
Dr. Guy Bailey has been appointed president of Texas Tech University. Previously, he served as chancellor of the University of Missouri-Kansas City. Bailey earned a bachelor’s and master’s from the University of Alabama and a doctorate from the University of Tennessee. DR. DAVID KROLL has been named the first chairperson of the pharmaceutical sciences department […]
September 3, 2008
Faculty & Staff
Colleges Confront Shootings With Survival Training
Hundreds of colleges across the nation have purchased a training program that teaches professors and students not to take campus threats lying down but to fight back with any “improvised weapon,” from a backpack to a laptop computer.
August 26, 2008
Faculty & Staff
Diversity Champions
Diversity — probably one of the most elastic and debated terms around today.
August 20, 2008
Faculty & Staff
Taking Faculty Development Online
The online medium nurtures dialogue among faculty coming from different disciplines and levels of experience.
August 20, 2008
Faculty & Staff
Journalism Educators Association Aims to Step Up Diversity Efforts
The incoming president of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communications (AEJMC) says that she plans to use her post to rally for increased diversity within the 96-year-old nonprofit organization.
August 10, 2008
Faculty & Staff
When Sports and Politics Collide
Along with showcasing the world’s best athletes, the Olympics offer a unique glimpse into history and race relations.
August 6, 2008
Students
Grants & Gifts
CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY, MONTEREY BAY, has received a $2.8 MILLION grant from the U.S. Department of Education to help students in need of academic support. The funds will be used to establish a Center for Student Success. CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY, SAN BERNARDINO, has received a $50,000 grant from the Wells Fargo Foundation to provide services […]
August 6, 2008
Students
More Than Gatekeepers
High school guidance counselors have extraordinary influence in steering Black males to college or to the streets.
August 6, 2008
Students
Perspectives: More Than Gatekeepers
High school guidance counselors have extraordinary influence in steering Black males to college or to the streets.
August 4, 2008
Faculty & Staff
Men Win Suit Against Scandal-scarred Texas Southern
Three former Texas Southern University students credited with helping expose a spending scandal that led to indictments of top administrators won a retaliation lawsuit against school officials.
August 3, 2008
Students
Scholar Wants More American Indian Faculty in Business Colleges
Beau Barnes, recipient of a doctoral scholarship designed to increase faculty and student diversity in business colleges, says he wants to boost the number of American Indians teaching in Oklahoma business colleges.
July 30, 2008
Faculty & Staff
Delaware Professor Awarded Competitive Fellowship
Rosalie Rolon-Dow, assistant professor of education at the University of Delaware, has received a prestigious and highly competitive Ford Foundation Diversity Fellowship for next year.
July 29, 2008
Students
Scholar Pushes Faculty Diversity at Oklahoma Business Schools
But a diverse faculty is important to helping students broaden their perspectives, he said. “It better prepares them to work with any kind of person anywhere in the world.”
July 24, 2008
Students
`Tenured radical’ tries to revive professors group
In his professorial attire and flowing, Zeus-like beard, Cary Nelson would look right at home behind a lectern, expounding on obscure poets. He even resembles one of the leading influences on his scholarship: Karl Marx.
July 16, 2008
Faculty & Staff
Franklin D. Gilliam, Jr., Named Dean of UCLA School of Public Affairs
Dr. Franklin D. Gilliam, Jr., a member of the University of California Los Angeles’ political science faculty for more than two decades, has been named the new dean of UCLA’s School of Public Affairs, pending approval by the University of California’s Board of Regents. Gilliam is slated to begin Sept. 1.
July 15, 2008
Faculty & Staff
Survey Indicates Faculty Satisfaction at ANAC-member Institutions
The new generation of faculty, working for the Associated New American Colleges (ANAC), a consortium of private Carnegie Master institutions, believes the recruitment and retention of new faculty is improving, according to a survey conducted by ANAC, and TIAA-CREF Institute, a research firm.
July 15, 2008
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