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A Pathway to the Presidency
A Pathway to  the PresidencyStudent affairs professionals are increasingly moving into the top job on college campuses By Kendra HamiltonIf you took a random sampling of student affairs professionals, they’d all agree: without the work they do with students, campus functions would simply grind to a halt. “Student affairs professionals spend 80 percent of their time […]
November 17, 2004
Faculty & Staff
Finding The Right Prescription
Finding The Right PrescriptionIn stiff competition with the private sector for pharmacy faculty, academia often finds itself on the losing side By Tracie PowellAn aging population, the changing role of pharmacists as health systems rely more heavily on newer, sophisticated drug therapies to cure ills, and a proliferation of corner drug stores is driving a […]
November 17, 2004
Students
Pursuing the Professoriate
Pursuing the ProfessoriateInstitute offers minority scholars tips, survival strategies for navigating graduate processBy Robin V. SmilesATLANTAAfter 40 years of affirmative action, still only 5 percent of faculty are African American; 3 percent are Latino or Hispanic; 2½ percent are Asian American and less than 1 percent are American Indian, according to Dr. Orlando Taylor, vice […]
November 17, 2004
Faculty & Staff
Growing Black Ivy
Growing Black IvyColumbia conference explores Black presence at elite schools   By Ronald RoachNEW YORKOne of the many education access struggles waged by African Americans since the U.S. Supreme Court’s historic Brown v. Board decision has proven to be one over Black representation at the eight Ivy League universities. Relating both the Brown legacy and the […]
November 17, 2004
Faculty & Staff
Preparing Students for Success In the Academy
Preparing Students for Success In the AcademyBy Dr. Carlton Pickron and Trevor V. Hodge, M.EdIn spite of the growing body of political and intellectual rhetoric regarding student success in the academy, the need has never been greater to redefine where the burden of responsibility lies to ensure such success. For the past 10 years, politicians, […]
November 17, 2004
Students
Do Graduate Assistants Get A Fair Deal?
Do Graduate Assistants Get A Fair Deal? There is nothing like a campus environment to reinforce the concept of teamwork. Few on a campus can do their jobs alone. From the loftiest endowed chair holder, hefty salary in pocket, to the newest assistant professor, everyone makes a contribution, of sorts, and relies on others to […]
November 3, 2004
Preparing Graduate Students to Teach
Faculty & Staff
Restoring a Ruptured Relationship
Restoring a Ruptured RelationshipBarnard College’s Caryl Phillips’ senior english seminar focuses on broken international connections and culminates with a trans-Atlantic journey  By Crystal L. KeelsMillions of African people who were captured, kidnapped and shackled for sale as part of the trans-Atlantic slave trade first passed through Cape Coast Castle in Ghana, West Africa. They stepped […]
November 3, 2004
Students
Documenting the Diaspora
Documenting the DiasporaHistorian couple investigate Central Africa’s place in world history, rooting Black studies in an international contextBy Ronald RoachTraveling to the Vatican to study documents once belonging to a 17th-century central African diplomat may seem an unlikely project for professors in an African American studies program. But for Drs. John Thornton and Linda Heywood, […]
November 3, 2004
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Faculty & Staff
Alvin Chambliss Joins Indiana University Faculty
Alvin Chambliss Joins Indiana University FacultyAttorney fought Mississippi desegregation case for 30 yearsBLOOMINGTON, Ind. Growing up poor as one of 12 children in Columbia, Miss., Alvin O. Chambliss Jr. sometimes went hungry but never lost his appetite for knowledge. “I can say that some of the times during my high school years I was hungry,” […]
October 20, 2004
Faculty & Staff
Stanford Lures Harvard Professors Bobo, Morgan
Stanford Lures Harvard Professors Bobo, MorganBOSTON For married partners in academia, tenure, or the lack thereof, can complicate a couple’s situation substantially, and not always in the most positive manner. But for two nationally renowned professors, Lawrence Bobo and Marcyliena Morgan, who are married, tenure troubles have resulted in a coastal shift that positions them […]
October 20, 2004
Faculty & Staff
Va. Tech Receives Grant to Study Black IT Recruitment
Va. Tech Receives Grant to Study Black IT RecruitmentBLACKSBURG, Va.A  research team led by faculty members from Virginia Tech’s Pamplin College of Business has received a National Science Foundation grant of $617,000 to study the recruitment and retention of African Americans in information technology-related graduate studies and jobs.Wanda Smith, associate professor of management, will direct […]
October 6, 2004
Faculty & Staff
NJIT Professor Honored for Breakthrough Stem Cell Research
NJIT Professor Honored for Breakthrough Stem Cell ResearchNEWARK, N.J. Dr. Treena Livingston Arinzeh was recognized recently by President Bush for research showing that adult stem cells could help patients suffering from spinal cord injuries, bone and cartilage damage and related diseases. Arinzeh, assistant professor of biomedical engineering at the New Jersey Institute of Technology, received […]
October 6, 2004
Faculty & Staff
Study: Women Faculty at Pharmacy SchoolsFace Barriers to Advancement
Study: Women Faculty at Pharmacy Schools Face Barriers to Advancement ALEXANDRIA, Va.A  recent study published in the online edition of the American Journal of Pharmaceutical Education reveals that women faculty at pharmacy schools continue to face disparities in administrative positions, salary and advancement opportunities despite a 30-year increase in the numbers of women entering higher […]
October 6, 2004
Faculty & Staff
AAUP Protest Barring of Muslim Scholar
AAUP Protest Barring of Muslim Scholar WASHINGTONThe American Association of University Professors (AAUP) recently protested the U.S. government’s action to revoke the work visa of Professor Tariq Ramadan, a citizen of Switzerland and well-known Muslim scholar who had been appointed to a faculty position at the University of Notre Dame beginning this fall. The State […]
September 22, 2004
Faculty & Staff
MIT Names First Woman President
MIT Names First Woman PresidentCAMBRIDGE, Mass.Dr. Susan Hockfield, a distinguished neuroscientist and current provost at Yale University, has been selected the 16th president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, succeeding Dr. Charles M. Vest, who has led one of the world’s foremost research universities for the past 14 years. Hockfield was elected by the MIT […]
September 22, 2004
Faculty & Staff
Two-Year Schools Overworked, Undervalued, Report Says
Two-Year Schools Overworked, Undervalued, Report SaysBy Garry BoulardWASHINGTONFor those who are still not certain that community colleges really have a role to play in the nation’s higher education story, a small series of statistics is undoubtedly eye-opening: In 1965, 1.2 million students attended two-year schools. By 1998, that number was up to 5.7 million with […]
September 8, 2004
Faculty & Staff
American Indian Law Program Opens at Michigan State Law School
American Indian Law Program Opens at Michigan State Law SchoolEAST LANSING, Mich.Michigan State University (MSU) College of Law is launching the most comprehensive American Indian Law Program in the Midwest. MSU will offer one of only two formal programs east of the Mississippi River and one of the most comprehensive programs in the nation among […]
September 8, 2004
Faculty & Staff
Report: Transfer Barriers Loom Large for Two-Year Students
Report: Transfer Barriers Loom Large for Two-Year StudentsBy Kathleen Kennedy ManzoMisperceptions and a lack of coordination between community colleges and four-year institutions combine to create significant obstacles to baccalaureate degrees for two-year students, according to a report that culminates an 18-month study and marks a rare collaboration between the different higher education sectors.“Central to a […]
September 8, 2004
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