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Section: Faculty & Staff

Cyber Diversity – online instruction

It’s not unusual that all 15 students in one of Dr. Maureen Eke’s African American literature course sections at Central Michigan University are White. What’s striking, however, is that Black students and their Black professor from a campus located hundreds of miles away are beamed onto a large television screen to join Dr. Eke and her students in class discussions and lectures.

July 14, 2007

Faculty & Staff

BI What’s New: Programs, Accreditations, & Initiatives

Southeast Missouri State University has a new bachelor of science degree program in environmental science. The program was approved by the Missouri Coordinating Board for Higher Education and was established in response to the growing demand for environmental science professionals.

July 14, 2007

Faculty & Staff

Alabama’s Decree Of Difficulty

Despite a court order, achieving racial parity still appears a long way off

July 14, 2007

Faculty & Staff

Emerging From the Shadows – Spelman College

Audrey Forbes Manley, M.D., is a former student, activist alumna, trustee, and widow of a former Spelman College president. Now she’s in charge, but after more than a year in office, some observers still don’t know what she’s about.

July 14, 2007

Faculty & Staff

Career CONSULTANTS – race education

For years, I’ve been teaching course in which the issue of race was virtually irrelevant. Recently, I’ve developed an interest in working the matter of race and culture into my course, but I fear that by doing so, I’ll be marginalized by colleagues on the faculty. Should I even bother, and if I do, how should I handle it?

July 14, 2007

Faculty & Staff

Professional APPOINTMENTS

FISK UNIVERSITY NAMES NEW LEADER

July 14, 2007

Faculty & Staff

Bluefield State Told to Reinstate Fired Professor

BLUEFIELD, W.Va. — The West Virginia Education and State Employees Grievance Board last month ordered historically Black Bluefield State College to reinstate Garrett Olmsted as a tenured professor. Olmsted was fired after protesting the firing of the last Black faculty member and the fact that African American student enrollment had dropped under 8 percent. (See Black Issues, June 11)

July 14, 2007

Faculty & Staff

Career Consultants

The usual requirements of a tenured faculty are essential, that is: scholarship and research, service, and teaching. Beyond the scholarly expectations, you must begin to acquire administrative experience in higher education as a way of demonstrating organizational leadership. The leadership position will provide opportunities for others beyond your department to see and appreciate your abilities. I would suggest that you also take some courses in higher education administration to provide a historical context, a theoretical framework, and an overview of the role of dean.

July 14, 2007

Tenure, science, and race matters

For the first time in the 100-year history of what many consider the most elite technical university in the world, the California Institute of Technology has granted tenure to an African American.

July 14, 2007

Faculty & Staff

The tough sell – James Hill, University of Texas – Cover Story

With the appointment of its first African American vice president, the University of Texas tries to overcome its legacy of minority exclusion

July 14, 2007

Faculty & Staff

Growing from the center

Research centers abound on the nation’s campuses, offering dynamic career opportunities for scholars at every level

July 14, 2007

Faculty & Staff

ACE report urges nontraditional admissions criteria – American Council on Education

WASHINGTON When it comes to admissions practices, the status quo has got to go. That was the core message of the American Council on Education’s (ACE) latest status report highlighting progress in the growth of minority students and faculty on American campuses.

July 14, 2007

Faculty & Staff

Black Faculty Congress Advances Research Agenda

WASHINGTON The National Congress of Black Faculty met here last month for their twelfth annual conference to discuss a host of topics that ranged from affirmative action’s impact on Black access to higher education, to the role of Black scholars in shaping public policy, to the importance of computer literacy.

July 14, 2007

Faculty & Staff

Is Tenure In Your Future?

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. Tenure, an institution as hallowed as universities themselves, has been subject to a torrent of criticism in recent years, forcing academics to decide whether it is a college’s hallmark of academic excellence or the bane of its existence.

July 14, 2007

Academic Freedom without Tenure

Faculty & Staff

Career CONSULTANTS

DEAR BI CAREER CONSULTANTS: I am contemplating accepting a position as a minority affairs coordinator at a traditionally White institution. It is rumored that such positions can be dead-end career busters. Are there conditions or considerations that I should insist on before accepting the position?

July 14, 2007

Chugging Toward Recovery

CSX Transportation is helping Edward Waters College get on track to a brighter future

July 14, 2007

Faculty & Staff

Black Geoscientists: Between a Rock and a Hard Place

African American earth scientists ponder strategies to attract more students of color to a field with growing opportunities

July 14, 2007

Faculty & Staff

Central State Must Ante-Up for Faculty

Wilberforce, Ohio The administration claimed at a fiscal and political crisis left it with no choice but to take the actions it did. However, the Central State University (CSU) faculty union has won a series of legal victories over the past few weeks that could pose new financial problems for the state’s only historically Black institution of higher education.

July 14, 2007