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Faculty & Staff
Title III Grant Helps Expand Distance Education In Indian Country
BISMARCK, N.D. A grant from the U. S. Department of Education will enhance the distance education programs at United Tribes Technical College.
October 31, 2007
Faculty & Staff
Study: Minority Faculty Severely Underrepresented in Top 100 STEM Departments
U.S. policymakers need to step in with policies that help boost the number of tenured and tenure-track minority faculty members in science and engineering fields, if the United States is to remain competitive on global scale in these areas, argued a group of minority scholars at a press conference on Capital Hill.
October 30, 2007
Faculty & Staff
Budget Gives UW Campuses Money to Add Students, Researchers
MADISON Wis. The University of Wisconsin System is about to get bigger.
October 29, 2007
Students
Officials Looking for Ways to Ease Shortage of Nursing Teachers
FARGO N.D. Ways to encourage graduate students to consider teaching, and the use of private money to supplement faculty wages, are among the ideas being discussed to ease a shortage of nursing teachers in the region.
October 29, 2007
Faculty & Staff
University of Tennessee Faculty Demands Computer System Improvements
KNOXVILLE Tenn. University of Tennessee professors, frustrated by e-mail outages and Internet security concerns, are demanding improvements in the university’s computer system.
October 29, 2007
Faculty & Staff
Wheaton Turns Faculty Into Students for Semester-long Session
NORTON, Mass. No sooner does Leah Niederstadt finish teaching her introduction to museum studies class at Wheaton College than she has to rush out the door to her next class.
October 28, 2007
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Faculty & Staff
With Record-breaking Attendance, Annual SREB Conference Addresses Recruitment, Retention of Minority Faculty
ARLINGTON, VA. Hundreds of doctoral candidates, faculty and university administrators converged on Arlington, Va., last week for the 14th annual Compact for Faculty Diversity Institute, a three-day conference on teaching and mentoring hosted by the Southern Regional Education Board (SREB), an educational advocacy organization based in Atlanta.
October 28, 2007
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Faculty & Staff
Perspectives: Entrepreneurship Training Can Empower Students Being Left Behind
The rote learning taking place day after day in classrooms across the country in order to meet minimum No Child Left Behind benchmarks leaves most students bored and many teachers demoralized. Missing from the NCLB renewal discussion is the benefit of entrepreneurship education, with its experiential and contextual methods that empower students and keep them engaged.
October 23, 2007
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Faculty & Staff
Sculptor Rebuilds Ga. University’s $1M Sculpture of Earth Following Collapse
KENNESAW Ga. It took Finnish-born sculptor Eino roughly four months to rebuild the world.
October 23, 2007
Faculty & Staff
Tutu Will Visit St. Thomas If Professor Is Reinstated
ST. PAUL Minn. Nobel peace laureate Desmond Tutu has notified the University of St. Thomas that he’ll accept an invitation to speak on campus next spring, but only if the university reinstates Cris Toffolo as director of the Justice and Peace Studies Program.
October 22, 2007
Students
Alumni Scramble to Keep Antioch College Open
YELLOW SPRINGS Ohio Hanging by a chain from the ceiling in the main hallway of Antioch Hall is a black sign: “Office of Transition.”
October 21, 2007
Faculty & Staff
North Dakota Board of Higher Education Approves Salary Plan
FARGO N.D. The state Board of Higher Education has approved higher salary ranges for the state university system chancellor and college presidents. The board’s faculty adviser says the focus should now shift to teacher salaries.
October 21, 2007
Faculty & Staff
Report: IRS Notified Oral Roberts University of Problems with Political Programs
TULSA Okla. Oral Roberts University officials received notification from the Internal Revenue Service last year of deficiencies in the way the nonprofit school had handled political programs, a spokesman has confirmed.
October 15, 2007
Faculty & Staff
Businessman Donates Nearly $75 Million to University of Oregon
EUGENE Ore. Retired businessman Lorry Lokey has given a $74.5 million gift to the University of Oregon, with most of the money going toward the sciences.
October 15, 2007
Faculty & Staff
Summit: Faculty Challenged to Get Off Athletic Sidelines and Get Involved
Washington, D.C. In response to the recently released Knight Foundation survey showing that higher education faculty care little about college athletics, a group of nationally recognized experts meeting here urged them to rethink their attitudes and lack of involvement.
October 14, 2007
Faculty & Staff
Columbia Professor Targeted With Noose: “I Will Not Be Silenced”
NEW YORK Hundreds of students and faculty members at Columbia University in New York City rallied Wednesday afternoon to protest the hanging of a noose on the office door of a popular African-American professor.
October 9, 2007
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Faculty & Staff
Arkansas State Minority Program Canceled
JONESBORO, Ark. Arkansas State University has shut down a program to help minority students excel academically and go on to graduate school.
October 7, 2007
Students
The Rise of the Ghetto-Fabulous Party
In a recent article published in Colorlines, Dr. C. Richard King, an associate professor of comparative ethnic studies at Washington State University, and Dr. David J. Leonard, an assistant professor of comparative ethnic studies at Washington State University, argue that the “gangsta” parties could be the culmination of two decades of conservative politics at colleges and the “corporatization” of American universities.
October 4, 2007
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