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Faculty & Staff
Giants in the Classroom
Giants in the Classroom Twenty influential scholars whose work has inspired others and made a significant impact on the academy Over the past two decades, Black Issues’ writers and editors have featured hundreds, perhaps thousands, of faculty in the magazine’s stories and interviews. Deciding on 20 faculty members whose research, teaching and service set them […]
June 16, 2004
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Students
Looking Toward The Future
Looking Toward The Future New research helps Black sororities and fraternities consider new governing structures for the next 100 years By Paul RuffinsAmerica’s Black college-based fraternity and sorority movement is rapidly approaching two historic milestones. Next year will mark the 75th anniversary of the National Pan-Hellenic Council Inc. (NPHC), and 2006 marks a full century since […]
June 16, 2004
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Faculty & Staff
The Best Is yet to Come
The Best Is yet to ComeWomen of color have risen to the top ranks in higher education, and observers agree that more leadership opportunities are on the horizonBy Kendra HamiltonIn some ways the picture for women of color in higher education leadership has never looked brighter. “We have Ruth Simmons, a woman of amazing grace […]
June 16, 2004
Faculty & Staff
Budget Cuts Force San Francisco State To Make Tough Decisions
Budget Cuts Force San Francisco State To Make Tough DecisionsTalk of closing engineering school sparks debate, illustrates severity of problemBy Lydia LumSAN FRANCISCOBecause of state budget cuts, San Francisco State University is poised to eliminate some academic majors and make it tougher for students, many of them minorities and economically disadvantaged, to earn degrees in […]
June 2, 2004
Faculty & Staff
A Case in Point
A Case in PointSimple Justice: The History of Brown V. Board of Education and Black America’s Struggle for EqualityBy Richard Kluger, Vintage Books, April 2004, 865 pp., $24.00, trade paperback, 1-4000-3061-7Simple Justice is described as the definitive history of the landmark case, Brown v. Board of Education and the epic struggle for racial equality in […]
May 19, 2004
Faculty & Staff
HBCUs Work to Diversify Aviation Field
HBCUs Work to Diversify Aviation FieldHAMPTON, VA. Less than 2 percent of the nation’s 75,000 working commercial pilots are minorities, according to a report by the Organization of Black Airline Pilots, and women accounted for only 4 percent of pilots during 2001, the Federal Aviation Administration reports.To combat this disparity, five historically Black colleges — […]
May 19, 2004
Faculty & Staff
Faculty Salaries Not to Blame for Tuition Increases, Report Says
Faculty Salaries Not to Blame for Tuition Increases, Report SaysBy Patricia TroumpoucisIncreases in average faculty salaries are at their lowest point in more than 30 years, according to an annual faculty salary survey by the American Association of University Professors. Faculty-salary increases are generally thought to be the driving force behind tuition increases, the report […]
May 19, 2004
Faculty & Staff
Africanizing Our Historically Black Institutions
Africanizing Our Historically Black Institutions“The Blacker the College the Sweeter the Knowledge,” is a common saying heard among students who attend Black institutions, as well as many proud alumni. These institutions have, from their inception, served a unique mission in educating the masses of Black folk, thus creating the Black middle class. They have done […]
May 5, 2004
Faculty & Staff
Who’s Playin’ Whom?
Who’s Playin’ Whom?Overwhelming influence of hip-hop  culture, rap music on HBCU campuses concerns students, faculty    By Pearl StewartIn December 2000, Dr. Thomas Earl Midgette had harsh words for the hip-hop movement that was sweeping his campus. When he was interviewed for an article in Black Issues titled “The Miseducation of Hip-Hop,” Midgette didn’t hold back: […]
April 21, 2004
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Students
Pioneering Cellist to Head Wheaton College
Pioneering Cellist to Head Wheaton CollegeNORTON, Mass.Wheaton’s board of trustees has appointed Dr. Ronald Crutcher, provost of Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, as the seventh president of Wheaton College. In taking Wheaton’s highest post, Crutcher becomes the first African American to lead the national liberal arts college. It will be the latest pioneering role for […]
April 21, 2004
Students
Training for the Ph.D.
Training for the Ph.D.National conference brings together first-generation college students on the road to a doctoral degreeBy Cassie ChewCOLLEGE PARK, Md.From as early as the third grade, Kimberly Sellers knew she wanted to earn a doctoral degree. So year after year, when her father brought home the issue of Black Issues In Higher Education listing […]
April 7, 2004
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Faculty & Staff
Faculty Members Weigh In on the Gender Divide in Academia
Faculty Members Weigh In on the Gender Divide in AcademiaIn 2001, a roundtable on gender disparities for female professors in higher education was held at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The focus of the roundtable was “how best to ensure women professors experience the same opportunities, recognition and rewards as their male counterparts.” Some three […]
March 24, 2004
Faculty & Staff
Faculty Science Positions Continue to Elude Women of Color
Faculty Science Positions Continue to Elude Women of ColorOklahoma professor’s study finds hiring, tenure remain stumbling blocksWomen and underrepresented minorities are receiving the doctorate in record numbers these days. For example, women got 45 percent and minorities 19 percent of the 39,955 doctoral degrees awarded in 2000, and both figures were all-time highs.So it comes […]
March 24, 2004
Faculty & Staff
On the Right Path
On the Right PathMillersville president’s personal commitment to minority student recruitment, retention brings her to historic post.By Erv Dyer At 150 years old, Millersville University is still making history. One of its defining moments came just one year ago when Dr. Francine McNairy was appointed as the first Black and first female president of the […]
March 24, 2004
Faculty & Staff
Still Having Her Say
Still Having Her Say More than a decade after becoming a household name, Harvard Law professor Lani Guinier holds true to her beliefs, principles. By Ronald RoachThat Lani Guinier is one of the most publicly visible and outspoken scholars in the American academy should not come as a surprise to anyone who has followed her […]
March 24, 2004
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Faculty & Staff
Howard University Engineers Success
Howard University Engineers SuccessInterdisciplinary study keeps the university on the cutting edgeBY CASSIE M. CHEWLess than three months before graduation, Howard University engineering student Artis Johnson is displaying signs of “senoritis.” As he completes the coursework toward his bachelor’s degree in systems and computer science, he can’t keep his thoughts off of graduation day or that […]
March 10, 2004
Faculty & Staff
Recent Scholarship on Blacks and the Cold War
Recent Scholarship on Blacks and the Cold War Beyond the Color Line and the Iron Curtain: Reading Encounters Between Black and Red, 1922–1963.By Dr. Kate A. Baldwin     Duke University Press, Nov. 2002346 pp. $59.95 cloth, ISBN 0-8223-2976-X$19.95 paper, ISBN 0-8223-2990-5Examining the significant influence of the Soviet Union on the work of four major African American […]
February 11, 2004
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Faculty & Staff
Women, Minorities Rare on Science, Engineering Faculties
Women, Minorities Rare on Science, Engineering FacultiesWASHINGTONSeveral decades after the passage of Title IX, the law that promises equal opportunity for women in all aspects of federally funded education programs, women are still severely underrepresented on science, technology, engineering and mathematics faculties and exist primarily at the lowest professorial ranking, according to a report released […]
February 11, 2004
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