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Students
Celebrating 40 Years of Activism
Armed with well-honed leadership skills, established organizational techniques and a fearless demeanor…
June 27, 2006
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Faculty & Staff
Professor’s Second Lawsuit Against Columbia University Heading Towards Trial
The 15-year sexual discrimination dispute between Columbia University and a professor who claims the institution underpays women is expected to head toward trial later this year.
June 22, 2006
Faculty & Staff
Franklin Symposium: Black Achievement Suffers Because of Inadequate Relationships With Teachers
In this city, now unfortunately famous for an elite university’s lacrosse team party that may or may not have gotten out of hand, sits two high schools under a judge’s threat of closure because not enough students appear to be on track to attend any college, much less Duke.
June 18, 2006
Faculty & Staff
An HBCU Transformed
Few institutions have embodied African-American history as completely as Wilberforce University…
June 14, 2006
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Faculty & Staff
An HBCU Transformed
Few institutions have embodied African-American history as completely as Wilberforce University…
June 14, 2006
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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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