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Section: Faculty & Staff
Students
Online Degrees Increasingly Gaining Acceptance Among Employers
Skills, experience and reputation of school are more important factors.
April 4, 2007
Students
Indiana University Joins 9 Black Colleges For Science Initiative
INDIANAPOLIS Indiana University is joining with nine historically Black colleges and universities to boost the number of minorities seeking careers in science, starting with a summer program for promising students who will work at IU’s research laboratories.
March 31, 2007
Faculty & Staff
New Study Forewarns of Major Turnover in Black Studies Programs
The two regions with the smallest Black populations — the East and West — have the most Black studies degree-granting institutions, according to a new census that also forewarns of major turnover in Black studies departments.
March 25, 2007
Faculty & Staff
Right Person Right Time
The appointment of Dr. Drew Gilpin Faust, the first woman named president of Harvard University, marks a diversity high point in the storied history of the nation’s oldest college.
March 21, 2007
Faculty & Staff
Closed For Business
While Community College of Philadelphia administrators and faculty engage in negotiating gamesmanship in week two of a faculty strike, CCP’s 37,000 students — most of whom are Black — continue to be denied access to the only community college serving the city of Philadelphia and Philadelphia County.
March 21, 2007
Faculty & Staff
MIT’s Black Hole
For at least 25 years, faculty diversity has been a recurrent, vexing issue at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology…
March 21, 2007
Faculty & Staff
Right Person Right Time
The appointment of Dr. Drew Gilpin Faust, the first woman named president of Harvard University…
March 21, 2007
Faculty & Staff
One Play A Day
Undergraduate theater students rarely get the chance to work on a major world premiere, but this year hundreds of them will…
March 21, 2007
Faculty & Staff
Just the Stats: It Pays to Be A New Professor
The “2006-2007 National Faculty Salary Survey,” released this week by the College and University Professional Association for Human Resource, shows that new ethnic, cultural and gender studies professors posted higher salary gains than professors in other disciplines.
March 15, 2007
Students
The ‘Whipping Boys’ of California Higher Education, CSU Faculty Say Strike Vote is About Getting Respect For Their Work, Protecting Students
As they enter the final day of voting to authorize a work stoppage, California State University faculty say they’re tired of being “devalued,” and they demand competitive salaries, improved student services and better leadership of the nation’s largest university system.
March 14, 2007
Students
Demystifying the Process
Twenty-four faculty members representing more than 20 historically Black colleges and universities gathered recently…
March 7, 2007
Faculty & Staff
Digging Out of the Digital Divide
One of the most prominent engineers and entrepreneurs in the country, Dr. Randal D. Pinkett keeps a high profile on issues related to minorities…
March 7, 2007
Faculty & Staff
Duke’s Devil of a Mess
Last spring, at the height of the frenzy over accusations that three Duke University men’s lacrosse players had gang raped a Black exotic dancer during a party…
March 7, 2007
Faculty & Staff
California State University Faculty Takes Strike Vote
BERKELEY Frustrated by stalled negotiations, faculty of the nation’s largest four-year public university system began casting their first strike authorization vote Monday.
March 5, 2007
Faculty & Staff
Mississippi Valley State President Announces Panel to Bring Officials Together
ITTA BENA, Miss. Mississippi Valley State University President Lester C. Newman has appointed a new committee to bring members of the faculty and administration together.
March 5, 2007
Faculty & Staff
Mississippi Valley State University Faculty Senate Hands President ‘No Confidence’ Vote
JACKSON, Miss. Members of Mississippi Valley State University’s faculty senate have expressed “no confidence” in the school’s president in a 33-1 vote.
March 1, 2007
Faculty & Staff
Duke’s Devil of A Mess
For Diverse’s Web readers only: an advanced copy of our March 8th edition’s exclusive on how Black professors are under fire at Duke. With the criminal case against the lacrosse players unraveling, a group of professors are now facing fierce criticism that their own biases fueled a “lynch-mob mentality” on campus that has destroyed the reputations of three young men.
February 25, 2007
Faculty & Staff
Perspectives: University of Illinois Misses A Teachable Moment On The Mascot
When University of Illinois officials announced the retirement of Chief Illiniwek, the controversial mascot who made his last offensive performance yesterday, they missed an opportunity to acknowledge the concerns of the Native community and address the hostile campus environment created by the Chief. Instead, opponents of the Chief fear they may have generated more resentment of American Indian students.
February 21, 2007
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