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Faculty & Staff
Harvard Announces Help for Female Faculty
Harvard University on Tuesday announced $7.5 million in enhancements for its employee work-life program as part of an effort to recruit and retain women faculty.
June 12, 2006
Faculty & Staff
Black Professors Under Pressure At Duke; Six Black Faculty Quit
Three months after she was chosen to head the committee on race in response to the university’s lacrosse scandal, Duke University Professor Karla Holloway threatened to quit yesterday citing exhaustion.
June 12, 2006
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Faculty & Staff
Colleges Compete With K-12 Schools for Instructors
Recent pay raises for K-12 teachers in Wyoming are making it tough for the state’s community colleges to attract new faculty, officials say. A legislative committee has agreed to look into the issue of college funding.
June 12, 2006
Faculty & Staff
HBCU Conference: Faculty and Community Plan For Future Hurricanes
Within days after the current hurricane season began, a consortium of academics and community organizers gathered in Jackson, Miss., to confront the likely possibility that Hurricane Katrina was not their last deadly storm.
June 11, 2006
Faculty & Staff
Accepted into Education City
Just minutes from the Persian Gulf’s translucent blue waters, through the flat, white desert and past the headquarters of the Al Jazeera news network…
June 7, 2006
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Faculty & Staff
Moving Beyond Divestment
Academia should examine the underlying causes of civil war and find new property rights regimes and economic and livelihood alternatives that resolve disputes like the current crisis in Sudan. Professor Steve Hansch of Georgetown and American Universities talks about divestment and other ways universities can help.
June 4, 2006
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Students
Toxic Campus Climates
The rings and robes have been ordered and there’s both joy and uncertainty in the air as campuses go through the annual rite of graduation.
May 31, 2006
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Faculty & Staff
Accepted into Education City
Just minutes from the Persian Gulf’s translucent blue waters, through the flat…
May 31, 2006
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Students
Toxic Campus Climate
The rings and robes have been ordered and there’s both joy and uncertainty in the air as campuses go through the annual rite of graduation…
May 31, 2006
Faculty & Staff
Black Faculty Shrinks at University of Texas at Arlington
The University of Texas at Arlington has failed to take the steps necessary to hire and retain Black professors even as the Black student body grows, concludes a recent report published in the Fort Worth Star-Telegram.
May 29, 2006
Faculty & Staff
California Taskforce Finds UC Faculty Still Not Diverse
All 10 University of California campuses need to make diversity an integral element of academic planning, faculty hiring, research agendas, curricular development and program reviews, a taskforce on improving faculty diversity recommended Tuesday.
May 23, 2006
Faculty & Staff
Coalition Questions Logic of Immigration Reforms
A newly formed coalition of 11 influential Blacks known as “Choose Black America” rebuked the U.S. Senate’s comprehensive immigration bill at its inaugural press conference Tuesday at the National Press Club in Washington D.C.
May 23, 2006
Faculty & Staff
Columbia Professor Latest High-Profile Defection
Dr. Robin D.G. Kelley, one of the country’s most prominent Black intellectuals…
May 17, 2006
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Faculty & Staff
Auditor: University of Missouri-Kansas City Faculty Diversity Is ‘Worst’ He’s Seen
The University of Missouri-Kansas City has a serious problem with its racial climate and a serious lack of diversity in its faculty…
May 17, 2006
Faculty & Staff
In Historic First, Four African-Americans Earn Math Ph.D.s at Ole Miss
The University of Mississippi will become the first American college or university to graduate four African-American students with doctorates in mathematics at one commencement this weekend.
May 11, 2006
Faculty & Staff
Professors’ Salaries at Minority-serving Institutions Lag Counterparts
A recent study, “The Devaluing of Higher Education: The Annual Report on the Economic Status of the Profession, 2005-06,” found that overall average salaries for professors declined for the second year in a row…
May 8, 2006
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Faculty & Staff
University of Oregon Takes Second Stab at Diversity Plan
Faculty and students at the University of Oregon are reviewing a new “diversity plan” for the campus, after the first stab at creating such a blueprint drew a firestorm of complaints.
May 4, 2006
Students
Michigan State Professor Apologizes for Anti-Islam E-mail
A Michigan State University professor has apologized for the “tactless and hyperbolic language” he used in an e-mail to a Muslim student group in which he labeled Muslims “brutal and uncivilized” and told them to “return to their ancestral homelands.”
May 3, 2006
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