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Freedom of Speech Frayed at Florida College
Freedom of Speech Frayed at Florida CollegeIn what appears to be retaliation for speaking out, five Edward Waters College administrators are abruptly terminated BY PEARL STEWARTJonathan Glenn, a college freshman with a 3.7 GPA, wrote an article for his journalism class last April complaining about the lack of campus security. Within hours of submitting the […]
August 25, 2004
Students
Congress Questions Sky-High Costs of College Textbooks
Congress Questions Sky-High Costs of College TextbooksBy Peggy OrchowskiWhy are textbooks costing community college students almost 50 percent of what they pay for tuition each year? Some members of the U.S. Congress and higher education officials sought to find an answer to that question at a recent hearing on Capitol Hill that explored the reasons […]
August 25, 2004
Faculty & Staff
Study Argues E-Learning Market Has Shaky Prospects
Study Argues E-Learning Market Has Shaky ProspectsPHILADELPHIA In “Thwarted Innovation: What Happened to E-Learning and Why,” two noted education researchers attempt to answer the question: “Why did the boom in e-learning go bust?” Researchers Dr. Robert Zemsky of the University of Pennsylvania and Dr. William Massy, a professor emeritus at Stanford University, examine what has […]
August 11, 2004
Faculty & Staff
HBCU Faculty Encouraged to Integrate GIS in Research, Curriculum
HBCU Faculty Encouraged to Integrate GIS in Research, Curriculum  WASHINGTONDespite being scaled down in comparison to previous workshops, the 21st Annual HBCU Summer Faculty Geographic Information Systems (GIS) Workshop in Washington, D.C., impressed upon faculty members and other participants the need to integrate GIS in research and the curriculum. GIS is defined as “computer mapping […]
August 11, 2004
Faculty & Staff
Bridging the Gap
Bridging the Gap National Science Foundation initiative eases the transition from undergraduate to graduate studyBy Crystal L. Keels In recent years, the lack of underrepresented groups pursuing science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) disciplines at the graduate level aroused the concern of some far-sighted advocates. When confronted with this noted absence, however, many colleges and […]
July 28, 2004
Faculty & Staff
College of Charleston Law School to Open in August
College of Charleston Law School to Open in AugustCOLUMBIA, S.C. The Charleston School of Law can begin offering classes in August now that the state Commission on Higher Education has issued the school a license. The 13-member commission unanimously approved the fall opening of the private law school. Dean Richard Gershon said the school has […]
July 28, 2004
Students
Noel-Levitz Honors Institutions
Noel-Levitz Honors Institutions For Outstanding Retention Efforts IOWA CITY, IowaNoel-Levitz, one of the leading higher education consulting firms in North  America, recognized four colleges and universities with the 2004 Lee Noel and Randi Levitz Retention Excellence Awards. The awards recognize innovative, state-of-the-art campus retention programs that have encouraged students to succeed and persevere through graduation.“These […]
July 28, 2004
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Students
Succeeding by Any Means Necessary
Succeeding by Any Means Necessary  Black graduate students at predominantly White institutions (PWIs) usually are classified into four categories — teaching assistant, research assistant, graduate assistant and (Black) student quota. And each group has its own unique set of problems. For example, Black graduate students, unlike their White counterparts, find themselves under pressure to succeed […]
July 28, 2004
Faculty & Staff
Study Details How Faculty Use Course Management Systems
Study Details How Faculty Use Course Management SystemsDENVERTwo-thirds of faculty members increase their use of online course management systems once they begin using it in their teaching, rather than decrease or keep it at a consistent level, according to a recent study on course management tools conducted in the University of Wisconsin system. The EDUCAUSE […]
July 16, 2004
Faculty & Staff
Award-Winning Approaches to Retention
Award-Winning Approaches to RetentionHigher education consulting firm Noel-Levitz recognizes a handful of universities with the most effective retention programsRetaining incoming freshmen is one of the most critical issues colleges and universities face, particularly among minority, poor and first-generation students. Though university retention programs share many similarities, institutions take many different and innovative approaches to best […]
July 16, 2004
Faculty & Staff
UPenn’s Criminology Department Is a First For an Ivy League
UPenn’s Criminology Department Is a First For an Ivy LeaguePHILADELPHIAThe University of Pennsylvania has become the first Ivy League institution to establish a criminology department. Dr. Lawrence W. Sherman, director of Penn’s Jerry Lee Center of Criminology and the Albert M. Greenfield Professor of Human Relations, will chair the new department in the School of […]
July 16, 2004
Students
Eyewitness To the Changing News Media
Eyewitness To the Changing News MediaVeteran journalist and professor Lee Thornton shares her views on the erosion of public trust in the news media and the role of journalism education in repairing that imageBy Ronald RoachMore than ever, the American news media are under public scrutiny for the way individual reporters conduct themselves, for how […]
July 14, 2004
Students
TIAA-CREF Endows Ruth Hamilton Research Scholarship
TIAA-CREF Endows Ruth Hamilton Research ScholarshipNEW YORK TIAA-CREF, a national financial services company and retirement system for higher education and research employees, announced in June the creation of the Ruth Hamilton Research Scholarship, honoring the work of the late Michigan State University (MSU) Professor and TIAA Trustee Ruth Simms Hamilton.The Hamilton Research Scholarship is funded […]
July 14, 2004
Faculty & Staff
Tablet PCs Getting Campus Tryouts
Tablet PCs Getting Campus Tryouts Mobile computing device said to launch new era in personal computingWhen Microsoft chairman Bill Gates presided over the introduction of the Tablet PC and its Microsoft operating system in 2002, he declared the mobile computing device, which features a touchpad screen that recognizes handwriting, to be launching a new era […]
June 30, 2004
Faculty & Staff
New Answers to Old Questions
New Answers to Old QuestionsUnderground Codes: Race, Crime and Related FiresBy Katheryn Russell-Brown, New York University Press, 2004, 175 pp., $18.00 paperback, ISBN 0814775411; $55.00, cloth, ISBN 0814775403In Underground Codes, Katheryn Russell-Brown tackles a range of race and crime issues. From outdated research methods that perpetuate stereotypes about African Americans, women and crime to the […]
June 30, 2004
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Faculty & Staff
Back in theTrenches
Back in theTrenchesDr. Nannerl Overholser Keohane became Duke University’s eighth president when she arrived on campus in July 1993. She also became the university’s first female president. And after 11 years of leading the 12,000-student campus in Durham, N.C., Keohane is stepping down this month to return to teaching and research. Keohane has been called […]
June 30, 2004
Faculty & Staff
Teach for America Teachers Outperform Colleagues, Study Reveals
Teach for America Teachers Outperform Colleagues, Study RevealsPRINCETON, N.J. Students of Teach for America (TFA) teachers outscored their schoolmates on math achievement tests and matched their average performance in reading, according to a national study of the program recently released by Mathematica Policy Research Inc.The study compared the performance of corps members from Teach for […]
June 30, 2004
Faculty & Staff
The Seven Habits of Highly Successful Black Junior Faculty
The Seven Habits of Highly Successful Black Junior FacultyHow do some Black junior faculty manage to successfully negotiate academic life? From my observation, they tend to have several things in common. First, highly successful Black junior faculty learn the expectations for promotion. Whether this information is provided directly (“We want a book and four articles […]
June 30, 2004
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