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Section: Faculty & Staff
Faculty & Staff
New Harvard President Faces Balancing Act with Professors, Board Members
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. Harvard University has unrivaled wealth and prestige, but the downside of its storied history is a patchwork of schools that make running the place one of the hardest jobs in 21st century higher education.
May 13, 2007
Students
Perspectives: Boosting Criminal Justice Education at Historically Black Colleges and Universities
African Americans make up about 45 percent of the prison population, but fewer than 200 minorities hold doctorates in criminology. HBCUs provide the perfect environment for nurturing minority criminologists, but they need resources.
May 13, 2007
Faculty & Staff
Grants and Gifts
CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY-NORTHRIDGE has received a $150,000 gift from philanthropist Robert Barbera to support the university’s Collegiate Forensics Invitational Tournament and other debate programs. The gift will be used largely to help students recognize the value of public debate. HOWARD COMMUNITY COLLEGE (Md.) has received a $1.5 MILLION gift from the Rouse Company Foundation to […]
May 2, 2007
Faculty & Staff
Howard University’s President Swygert To Retire
Howard University President H. Patrick Swygert announced on Friday his plans to retire effective June 30, 2008, the announcement coming just weeks after faculty members demanded he step down.
April 29, 2007
Faculty & Staff
Minority Scholars Share Strategies At ‘Keeping Our Faculties’ Conference
MINNEAPOLIS When Dr. John Brooks Slaughter was being recruited as president of Occidental College, he asked one professor on the search committee how many African-Americans were on the faculty. He vividly recalls her answer: “You’re looking at 50 percent of them.”
April 24, 2007
Students
Assessing Faculty Safety
Although attacks on college professors are not common, the horrific slayings at Virginia Tech show just how much at risk they can be when they try to do their jobs.
April 23, 2007
Faculty & Staff
Prairie View Boosters Petition For University To Leave Texas A&M System
A group of Prairie View A&M University alumni and university donors are petitioning the Texas A&M University System to either address concerns that its regents don’t represent the university’s interests, or let the university secede from the university system.
April 22, 2007
Faculty & Staff
Panels Calls For Mississippi Valley State U. President To Step Down
ITTA BENA, Miss. The panel Mississippi Valley State President Lester Newman created to study problems at the university has called for his dismissal.
April 22, 2007
Faculty & Staff
A One-Stop Shop
Funding and research opportunities are available for STEM faculty and students at minority-serving institutions, and one Web site provides access to this information.
April 18, 2007
Faculty & Staff
A One-Stop Shop
Funding and research opportunities are available for STEM faculty and students at minority-serving institutions, and one Web site provides access to this information.
April 18, 2007
Faculty & Staff
Just the Stats: Inequality Still Persists in Faculty Positions and Salaries
Female professors are concentrated in non-tenure track positions, and overall professor salaries this academic year rose by 1.3 percent over 2005-2006, when accounting for inflation. These are some of the findings of the American Association of University Professors’ new report, “Financial Inequality in Higher Education: The Annual Report on the Economic Status of the Profession: 2006, 2007.”
April 11, 2007
Students
Online Degrees Increasingly Gaining Acceptance Among Employers
Skills, experience and reputation of school are more important factors.
April 4, 2007
Students
Indiana University Joins 9 Black Colleges For Science Initiative
INDIANAPOLIS Indiana University is joining with nine historically Black colleges and universities to boost the number of minorities seeking careers in science, starting with a summer program for promising students who will work at IU’s research laboratories.
March 31, 2007
Faculty & Staff
New Study Forewarns of Major Turnover in Black Studies Programs
The two regions with the smallest Black populations — the East and West — have the most Black studies degree-granting institutions, according to a new census that also forewarns of major turnover in Black studies departments.
March 25, 2007
Faculty & Staff
Right Person Right Time
The appointment of Dr. Drew Gilpin Faust, the first woman named president of Harvard University, marks a diversity high point in the storied history of the nation’s oldest college.
March 21, 2007
Faculty & Staff
Closed For Business
While Community College of Philadelphia administrators and faculty engage in negotiating gamesmanship in week two of a faculty strike, CCP’s 37,000 students — most of whom are Black — continue to be denied access to the only community college serving the city of Philadelphia and Philadelphia County.
March 21, 2007
Faculty & Staff
MIT’s Black Hole
For at least 25 years, faculty diversity has been a recurrent, vexing issue at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology…
March 21, 2007
Faculty & Staff
Right Person Right Time
The appointment of Dr. Drew Gilpin Faust, the first woman named president of Harvard University…
March 21, 2007
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