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Section: Faculty & Staff
Faculty & Staff
University of Missouri Teaching Waivers Scrutinized
by Associated Press COLUMBIA, Mo. — A new report shows that almost 40 percent of tenure-track faculty at the University of Missouri received waivers that allow them to reduce their teaching load during their final academic years. According to the report, the majority of the waivers were for research purposes. The second-highest number of waivers […]
December 14, 2015
Faculty & Staff
Jewish Man Says Christian School Didn’t Hire Him Over Faith
by Associated Press PORTLAND, Ore. – A Portland man says a small private Christian college in Portland discriminated against him by refusing to hire him because he’s Jewish. In a lawsuit filed in Multnomah County Circuit Court, Noel M. King says he applied for an adjunct professor of psychology position at Warner Pacific College in […]
December 14, 2015
Students
Yale Teacher Resigns Over Offensive Halloween Costume Email
NEW HAVEN, Conn. ― A Yale University faculty member who sparked protests when she said students should be free to push boundaries with Halloween costumes, even to the point of offense, resigned from her teaching position, the school announced Monday. Erika Christakis chose not to continue teaching in the spring semester, the university said on […]
December 8, 2015
Faculty & Staff
In Case You Missed It…
College Grad Rates Don’t Always Benefit All Students Black Youth Filling the Leadership Void Tradition of Exclusion at PWIs Harmful for Diversity White Boys’ Club? White Faculty Still Dominates in National Stats
December 3, 2015
Faculty & Staff
University Professors Upset with Proposed Labor Contract
HARTFORD, Conn. ― Professors and students at Connecticut’s four state universities are upset with proposed contract changes they say will allow professors to be transferred from campus to campus, and lead to more part-time faculty, the elimination of academic programs, and larger class sizes. Wearing red T-shirts and holding signs that read “Fair Contract Now,” […]
December 3, 2015
Faculty & Staff
Defending the Relevance, Importance of HBCUs in a White Privileged Society
There are some HBCUs that are struggling to survive and there are some thriving as well. The same applies to PWIs. However, unlike HBCUs, these institutions are not lumped into one category and treated as monolithic.
December 2, 2015
Faculty & Staff
University of Missouri Faculty Suggest Revoking Cosby Degree
COLUMBIA, Mo. ― The University of Missouri Faculty Council has voted to recommend rescind an honorary doctorate given to Bill Cosby. The Columbia Missourian reports the council, which is made up of elected representatives of campus faculty, voted Nov. 5 to take back Cosby’s honorary doctorate in humane letters. Ben Trachtenberg, chair of the Faculty […]
December 2, 2015
Faculty & Staff
JULIE WOLLMAN
JULIE WOLLMAN has been appointed president of Widener University, effective Jan. 19. She is president of Edinboro University of Pennsylvania. Wollman earned a bachelor’s from Harvard University, a master’s from the University of Pennsylvania and a doctorate from New York University.
December 2, 2015
Students
Muslim Students Seek Permanent Prayer Space at Iowa Colleges
by Associated Press IOWA CITY, Iowa — Muslim students at Iowa’s three public universities are seeking permanent spaces for daily and weekly religious observances. Motier Haskins, faculty adviser to the University of Iowa’s Muslim Student Association, says he’s scheduled to meet this week with the school’s vice president for student life to again discuss a […]
November 30, 2015
Faculty & Staff
White Boys’ Club? White Faculty Still Dominates in National Stats
Numbers buttress student protestors’ diversity demands.
November 29, 2015
Students
A Lesson in Isolation: Being Hopi in Higher Education
I find it difficult to play the token Indian, to be one of the few Native role models and the one voice that fights for the development of programming that meets the needs of our Native students and local tribal communities.
November 23, 2015
Faculty & Staff
Brown University Announces $100M Plan on Racism, Diversity
PROVIDENCE, R.I. ― Brown University says it plans to spend $100 million over the next decade to address diversity and racism on the campus. Brown President Christina Paxson unveiled the 19-page draft action plan and thanked students who have called attention in recent months to issues of injustice at the Ivy League school. The Providence […]
November 22, 2015
Faculty & Staff
Portraits of Black Faculty Members Defaced at Harvard Law
BOSTON ― Harvard Law School says portraits of Black faculty members have been defaced a day after a campus rally for Black students. Several portraits were discovered Thursday with black strips of tape placed diagonally over the Black faculty members’ faces. The portraits were on the first floor of Wasserstein Hall, which houses two hallways […]
November 19, 2015
Faculty & Staff
University of Wyoming to Hire a Diversity Coordinator
by Associated Press CASPER, Wyo. — The University of Wyoming president has announced plans to create a diversity coordinator position and form a committee tasked with increasing inclusivity on campus. The Casper Star-Tribune reports that university spokesman Chad Baldwin says the new position was created in response to concerns about the lack of diversity on […]
November 18, 2015
Faculty & Staff
CHRISTINE SUNG
CHRISTINE SUNG has been appointed assistant professor of marketing in the College of Business and Entrepreneurship at Montana State University. She was an assistant professor at Old Dominion University in Virginia. Sung earned a bachelor’s from the Catholic University of Daegu in Korea, a master’s fromIndiana University and a doctorate from Michigan State University.
November 18, 2015
Faculty & Staff
Jacobs ‘Four Arrows’ Educates on Plight of Native Americans
When it comes to promoting education, Dr. Don Trent Jacobs — most commonly known as “Four Arrows” — favors unconventional pedagogical approaches to teaching and learning.
November 16, 2015
Students
Southern California College Dean Resigns Amid Racial Issues
CLAREMONT, Calif. ― The dean of students at a small Southern California college resigned Thursday after protests linked to racial concerns on campus. Mary Spellman, who held the position at Claremont McKenna College since 2010, announced her resignation in an email to students. “I believe it is the best way to gain closure of a […]
November 13, 2015
Students
In Case You Missed It…
Where Are All the Black College Faculty? R.I.P.: The Tired Myth of the Apathetic Black Student Controversy Surrounds Push for Albany, Darton Merger At Mizzou, and Across the Country, It’s All About the Bottom Line
November 12, 2015
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