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Section: Faculty & Staff
Faculty & Staff
Is Tenure In Your Future?
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. Tenure, an institution as hallowed as universities themselves, has been subject to a torrent of criticism in recent years, forcing academics to decide whether it is a college’s hallmark of academic excellence or the bane of its existence.
July 14, 2007
Academic Freedom without Tenure
Faculty & Staff
Career CONSULTANTS
DEAR BI CAREER CONSULTANTS: I am contemplating accepting a position as a minority affairs coordinator at a traditionally White institution. It is rumored that such positions can be dead-end career busters. Are there conditions or considerations that I should insist on before accepting the position?
July 14, 2007
Students
Chugging Toward Recovery
CSX Transportation is helping Edward Waters College get on track to a brighter future
July 14, 2007
jenkins
Faculty & Staff
Black Geoscientists: Between a Rock and a Hard Place
African American earth scientists ponder strategies to attract more students of color to a field with growing opportunities
July 14, 2007
Faculty & Staff
Central State Must Ante-Up for Faculty
Wilberforce, Ohio The administration claimed at a fiscal and political crisis left it with no choice but to take the actions it did. However, the Central State University (CSU) faculty union has won a series of legal victories over the past few weeks that could pose new financial problems for the state’s only historically Black institution of higher education.
July 14, 2007
Faculty & Staff
Faculty focus on technology
If you’re looking for new and exciting ways to adapt information technology to the classroom or to your research, an upcoming annual symposium hosted by the HBCU Faculty Development Network may have the answers you seek.
July 14, 2007
Faculty & Staff
The long, winding, and neglected road – Black students do not reality education parity in Southern state college and universities
SEF report reveals that after thirty years of Black progress along the path to higher education parity, there are still `Miles To Go’
July 14, 2007
Faculty & Staff
Producing effective teacher preparation programs
During my twenty-two years in teacher education, I have seen my share of weaknesses in teacher preparation in private as well as public institutions. And there is no legitimate excuse for most of the problems that exist in teacher preparation today.
July 13, 2007
Faculty & Staff
Padron’s way – Miami-Dade Community College
Combined with racial and faculty/administrative tensions, the take-charge style of President Eduardo J. Padron is creating a highly-charged power struggle at Miami-Dade Community College
July 13, 2007
Students
Teaching technology technique – computers as teaching tools in postsecondary education
Educators contemplate the appropriate use of technology in the postsecondary environment
July 13, 2007
Students
The networking imperative – investment in high-technology information infrastructure – includes related article
The high cost of building and maintaining the infrastructure necessary to support information is nowhere near the price schools will play if they do not develop this strategic asset.
July 13, 2007
Faculty & Staff
Diversifying the fourth estate – journalism schools
Will journalism schools continue to pursue students of color now that the American Society of Newspaper Editors has scaled back its commitment to diversity?
July 13, 2007
Faculty & Staff
Plotting the assassination of little red Sambo: psychologists join war against racist campus mascots – Native American mascots
Psychologists Join War Against Racist Campus Mascots
July 12, 2007
Faculty & Staff
Blues for blacks at Bluefield State: African Americans awkwardly strive to regain a presence at the nation’s whitest HBCU – historically black colleges and universities
More than one hundred years after the founding of Bluefield State College, the main campus remains poised high upon a hill above railroad tracks and overlooking the town’s business district. For generations, the children of Black families living largely in southern West Virginia earned college degrees from this small teacher’s college.
July 12, 2007
Students
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New partnerships with minority-serving institutions are designed to improve the count while training young scientists
July 12, 2007
Faculty & Staff
Professors want affirmative action back – University of California at Berkeley faculty
Berkeley, Calif. A group of University of California-Berkeley faculty members — alarmed about plunging admissions of African Americans, Native Americans, and Latinos in the aftermath of California’s Proposition 209 — are the latest group to urge passage of a new, student-authored measure called the Equal Educational Opportunity Initiative (EEOI).
July 12, 2007
Students
Sharing expertise – Xavier University’s partnership with Tulane University on public housing – Interview
What strengths does Xavier University bring to this partnership with Tulane University?
July 12, 2007
Students
Public housing smarts: two universities discover a trove of opportunity in New Orleans’s public housing system – Cover Story
New Orleans At night, from the third floor landing of her three-bedroom apartment, Keywanda Wiggins has a view of the glittering New Orleans skyline. Visible from her window are the bulbous Superdome, most of the city’s modern high-rises, and a slice of the Mississippi River.
July 12, 2007
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