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Faculty & Staff
Dear BI Career Consultants:
I’ve been offered a faculty /administrative position. Can you give me some advice on negotiation strategies and protocol? Are there any nuances that are unique to higher education?Faculty and administrative positions in higher education vary widely by institution. Often the nature of the institution —whether it’s public or private, research-based or training-focused, two-year or four-year […]
August 2, 2000
Professional Development
Faculty & Staff
An Imperfect Defender of Academic Freedom
An Imperfect Defender of Academic FreedomThe high quality of scholarly activity — including scientific discovery in the United States — relies on the considerable academic freedom enjoyed here. Academic freedom allows scholars to follow their independent judgment on what research avenues to pursue, and to report results without undue concern about political consequences. Academic freedom […]
July 19, 2000
Academic Freedom without Tenure
Faculty & Staff
Studied Indifference
Studied IndifferenceWhile education remains the most popular field for African American doctorate recipients, some analysts worry that jobs with better pay and less stress are luring these grads away from education research.Urbana-Champaign — Dr. Eboni Zamini is a newly minted Ph.D. in education. These days, the University of Illinois graduate’s mind is filled with thoughts […]
July 5, 2000
Faculty & Staff
Public Health Imperative: Prescription For Change
Public Health Imperative: Prescription For ChangeNew public-health schools at Black colleges offer chance to graduate more Black  studentsJACKSON, Miss. — Growing up in the Mississippi Delta, Rodrick Jordan saw firsthand how poverty and inadequate health care debilitated and diminished the lives of Black people he knew. That early exposure to deprivation and disease inspired Jordan […]
July 5, 2000
Faculty & Staff
Remembering Brown with Reminders that Hurdles Remain
Remembering Brown with Reminders that Hurdles RemainWASHINGTON — Ethnic diversity is considered a valuable commodity on the nation’s college campuses and has not lowered student quality, according to a series of reports jointly released last month by the American Council on Education and American Association of University Professors here.Meanwhile, participants of a forum sponsored by […]
June 7, 2000
Faculty & Staff
BI News Briefs
Despite Outreach Efforts, UC Schools See Low Minority EnrollmentLOS ANGELES — Black and Hispanic enrollment at the Universities of California has not increased significantly despite hundreds of millions of dollars spent on the outreach programs that replaced affirmative action. Over the past five years, the percentage of Blacks, Hispanics and American Indians who enrolled at […]
June 7, 2000
Students
African American Studies
African American StudiesFive minutes on the World Wide Web makes the point more plainly than a full weekend with a stack of college catalogs: There are as many types of African American Studies programs as there are institutions of higher learning offering them.Some programs — like those at California State University-Long Beach and Cornell University […]
May 24, 2000
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Faculty & Staff
Department, Program, Institute or Other?
Department, Program, Institute or Other?When officials at the Alabama Commission on Higher Education announced in February that they would not approve a Black Studies major at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, it was a slap in the face to university officials and students who say they have been fighting since desegregation to bring the […]
May 24, 2000
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Faculty & Staff
SPECTRUM
SPECTRUM The old-style Black Studies discipline has refracted into a rainbow of African American research.In some ways, the state of the African American Studies discipline has never been healthier. According to the National Council for Black Studies, four schools currently offer doctoral studies in the discipline. That list doesn’t include Harvard University, which announced plans […]
May 24, 2000
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Faculty & Staff
Professional Appointments
Professional AppointmentsDr. Warrick L. Carter has been named president of Columbia College in Chicago. He will take office July 1. He is currently director of entertainment arts for Walt Disney Entertainment. He previously served as dean of faculty and as provost and vice president of academic affairs at Berklee College of Music in Boston. He […]
April 26, 2000
Faculty & Staff
Southern Faculty Upset Over Administrative Salary Hikes
Southern Faculty Upset Over Administrative Salary Hikes BATON ROUGE, La. — The Southern University board’s recent decision to give eight top administrators huge pay hikes has prompted the faculty senate to deliver a “no-confidence” vote and a professor to launch a nine-day hunger strike in protest.  Sudhir Trivedi, an associate professor of computer science, pitched […]
April 12, 2000
Faculty & Staff
Rafting Towards New Major’s
Rafting Towards New Major’s“Mom, I’ve decided to major in adventure sports.”   Not words every mother wants to hear. We’re talking mountain biking. Scuba diving. Spelunking. It’s news to test a parent’s open-mindedness. Exotic or highly specialized majors carry the baggage of the unfamiliar — negative assumptions come easy. But parents who fret about a child’s […]
April 12, 2000
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Faculty & Staff
Pleasure Principle: Focusing on the Good in Education
Pleasure Principle: Focusing on the Good in EducationMany readers of The Pleasures of Academe will sympathize with author James Axtell’s first sentence: “I couldn’t wait to go to college and I couldn’t stand to leave at graduation.”Despite the common sentiment, however, few people remain to become professors. And while many Americans have opinions about what […]
April 12, 2000
Faculty & Staff
Tech Briefs
$130 Million Partnership Will Bring Internet to HBCUsNEW YORK — The College Fund/UNCF announced a $130 million partnership with two computer industry giants earlier this month to bring Black colleges and universities into the Internet era. Microsoft Corp. and IBM have pledged $100 million in cash and equipment for students and faculty members at 39 […]
March 29, 2000
Students
Howard Bugs Typify Challenge Of Updating Technology
Howard Bugs Typify Challenge Of Updating  TechnologyWASHINGTON — Damned if you do, damned if you don’t. That’s what Howard University administrators here may be saying in light of criticism that has come their way in recent weeks.Anxious to update an old mainframe with  new software in time for the Y2K turnover, administrators implemented a system […]
March 29, 2000
Faculty & Staff
Challenging Times for Livingstone College
Challenging Times for Livingstone CollegeWhite professors allege discrimination, president resignsSALISBURY, N.C. — Five professors who say they were denied tenure and promotions because they are White are suing Livingstone College. Three of the professors, who filed a racial discrimination suit in Rowan County Superior Court, say they have documents showing a pattern of racial discrimination […]
March 29, 2000
Faculty & Staff
Pleasure Principle: Focusing on the Good in Education
Pleasure Principle: Focusing on the Good in EducationMany readers of The Pleasures of Academe will sympathize with author James Axtell’s first sentence: “I couldn’t wait to go to college and I couldn’t stand to leave at graduation.”Despite the common sentiment, however, few people remain to become professors. And while many Americans have opinions about what […]
March 29, 2000
Faculty & Staff
Hit and Myth: Conference examines successes, fallacies of affirmative action
Hit and Myth: Conference examines successes, fallacies of affirmative actionCHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. —  Ever since Hopwood  vs. Texas, the court decision that nullified minority admissions practices at the University of Texas Law School, the pundits have gleefully predicted the demise of campus affirmative action programs.But if a recent conference held at the University of  Virginia provides […]
March 15, 2000
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