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Section: Faculty & Staff
Students
COMMUNITY COLLEGE FORUM: Sustaining Enrollment Growth in Difficult Financial Times
As more people head back to school in these recessionary times, many community colleges across the United States are struggling to handle the influx of new students.
August 5, 2009
Students
ISU to hire for graduate students to teach
The provost for Idaho State University says the school will rely more on graduate students rather than temporary faculty members to teach in the classroom. According to the Idaho State Journal, he university fired several full-time adjunct faculty during the most recent school year, and sent notices to another 20 saying their contracts for the [âŚ]
August 5, 2009
Students
ISU to hire for graduate students to teach
The provost for Idaho State University says the school will rely more on graduate students rather than temporary faculty members to teach in the classroom. According to the Idaho State Journal, he university fired several full-time adjunct faculty during the most recent school year, and sent notices to another 20 saying their contracts for the [âŚ]
August 5, 2009
Faculty & Staff
âGreenâ For All
Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lisa Jackson works to ensure minorities are not left out of the burgeoning âgreenâ economy.
August 5, 2009
Faculty & Staff
Sustaining Enrollment Growth in Difficult Financial Times
A coordinated strategic plan ensures enrollment growth is not an unexpected tsunami for community colleges.
August 5, 2009
Students
Who Should Teach Hip-hop Studies?
By most criteria, hip-hop has now been solidifi ed as an essential domain of inquiry and learning in higher education. This status entails a sizable body of scholarship; symposia, conferences and courses devoted to its study; and a growing pool of scholars who have centered it in their research agendas.
August 5, 2009
Faculty & Staff
Texas Tech Petition Opposes Ex-AG Gonzalesâ Hire
A small group of Texas Tech University faculty members is objecting to the schoolâs hiring of former U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales on the grounds that he demonstrated ethical failings while in office.
August 2, 2009
Faculty & Staff
New GI Bill Live Tomorrow
Many have called it the most substantial improvement to veteransâ education benefits since World War II. Others see it as the nation making up for what it didnât do for those who returned with little thanks after serving in Vietnam. But whatever the sentiment, on August 1, more than a year and a half after [âŚ]
July 30, 2009
Faculty & Staff
Will Google Book Search Settlement Increase Access for Underserved Communities?
Google and multiple parties involved in a class action suit related to Google Book Search have reached a settlement agreement that in a best-case scenario will result in millions of out-of-print books previously unavailable to the vast majority of people becoming accessible with a mouse click.
July 30, 2009
Faculty & Staff
HBCU Battle It Out
Highlights from the 2008 Honda Battle of the Bands, held in Atlanta. Music from North Carolina Central Universityâs marching band, Sound Machine, directed by Jorim E. Reid, is featured in the slide show.
July 28, 2009
Faculty & Staff
Two Indian Professors Pass on Education Opportunities
Drs. Rabindra and Protima Roy are well-known faculty members at Drury University, a small campus tucked away in the heart of the Missouri Ozarks.
July 28, 2009
Faculty & Staff
Community Colleges Lobby to Offer Four-year Degrees
Michigan community colleges are challenging four-year universities for the right to offer bachelorâs degrees, and if they succeed, would join more than a dozen states across the country that already allow such degrees.
July 28, 2009
Faculty & Staff
Students plan return to debt-ridden NC school
Students return next week to Greensboro College, a school that has laid off staff to deal with debt of more than $19 million. The News & Record of Greensboro reported Tuesday that the small Methodist college has laid off 10 more staff members, including three part-time music teachers and the band director. The school is [âŚ]
July 27, 2009
Faculty & Staff
Union Accepts Furloughs at California Universities
A union that represents 22,000 faculty members at California State University has agreed to two furlough days a month to help close a huge budget deficit at the 23-campus system, officials said Friday.
July 26, 2009
Faculty & Staff
New HBCU Initiative Leader Seeks to Forge Relationships Between HBCUs and Obama Administration
Dr. John Silvanus Wilson Jr. looks back at his days as a Morehouse College student as a time when faculty, staff and administrators formed a campus community that was nurturing and family-oriented â a distinguishing characteristic of many of the nationâs historically Black colleges and universities.
July 26, 2009
Faculty & Staff
The Overqualified Professor
Community and junior colleges are seeing a substantial increase in the number of job seekers, particularly Ph.D.s, who in other years might have opted for higher-profile opportunities.
July 22, 2009
Faculty & Staff
Perspectives: Thanks for Asking
We applaud White House and Education Department officials for visiting Hispanic-majority communities to better ascertain the challenges and key issues for Latino/a students. If the goodwill created by this initiative is matched by decisive action, the current administration can achieve educational improvements for Hispanic Americans.
July 21, 2009
Students
NOTEWORTHY NEWS: Tenured Faculty at Two-year Schools Impact Student Transfers
State articulation and transfer agreements do little to increase the number of community college students who transfer to fouryear institutions, but having tenured faculty at the community college level helps.
July 8, 2009
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