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Faculty & Staff
Clemson History Offers Perspective for Flag Debate
Clemson History Offers Perspective for Flag DebateClemson University is a state agency as well as a university. As a state agency, we are governed by the laws and policies of the state of South Carolina and therefore have a stake in the development of such laws and policies — a stake that encompasses the current […]
March 15, 2000
Faculty & Staff
‘Explanation Architect’
‘Explanation Architect’changing educational thinking through researchCAMBRIDGE, Mass. — Back in 1986, Dr. Brian K. Smith was given a book by his father Charles about the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s world-renowned Media Lab. The book so inspired the southern California teenager that he vowed to become part of the lab some day.So a few years later […]
March 1, 2000
Students
Media Lab
Media LabHelping Bridge the World Wide DivideCAMBRIDGE, Mass. — Had Randal Pinkett stayed on track to complete a Ph.D. in electrical engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, it’s doubtful he would have gotten the time and support to base his graduate studies around “digital divide” issues. It’s also unlikely he would have paired with […]
March 1, 2000
Faculty & Staff
Clemson History Offers Perspective for Flag Debate
Clemson History Offers Perspective for Flag DebateClemson University is a state agency as well as a university. As a state agency, we are governed by the laws and policies of the state of South Carolina and therefore have a stake in the development of such laws and policies — a stake that encompasses the current […]
March 1, 2000
Faculty & Staff
New Star Rising
New Star RisingSome people gaze upon the stars in the hopes of making their dreams come true. Neil de Grasse Tyson looked up at the stars and found a career.That career is poised to — if not literally, at least figuratively — blast into orbit with the unveiling of the newly remolded Hayden Planetarium at […]
February 16, 2000
Faculty & Staff
Diversity Plan Trends Aim to Meet 21st Century Challenges
Diversity Plan Trends Aim to Meet  21st Century Challenges The current generation of diversity plans seeks to be more inclusive — and we’re not just talking about numericallyCampus diversity practitioners often complain that diversity initiatives aren’t integrated into the core structures of their colleges or universities. They argue that until diversity becomes a central feature of […]
February 2, 2000
Faculty & Staff
Higher Education In INDIA
Higher Education In INDIAA brief historical and contemporary overviewIndia has an old tradition of knowledge and learning. In fact, a well-established system of higher education functioned as early as 1000 B.C. In that system, the construction of knowledge, the beliefs on which knowledge is based, basic concepts and the organization of learning are very different […]
February 2, 2000
Faculty & Staff
BI News Briefs
Just Missing Minority Hiring Goal May Not Prove Costly for Nebraska UniversityLINCOLN, Neb. — Even though the University of Nebraska system fell one person short of a state-required target for minority faculty members in 1999, it may not lose any state funding. Officials at the university say the three-year average for adding minorities meets the […]
February 2, 2000
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Students
A Tough Decision for Yale’s Jewish Students
A Tough Decision for Yale’s Jewish StudentsIn 1920, newly-minted Yale graduate Morris Sweetkind, enticed by the life of the mind, resolved to stay in New Haven while his classmates left to seek their fortunes elsewhere. Rather than cash in on his prestigious degree, Sweetkind applied to pursue graduate work in Yale’s English department. While other […]
February 2, 2000
Faculty & Staff
Tech Briefs
Sandwiches in CyberspaceMURFREESBORO, Tenn. — Students here at Middle Tennessee State University now have a place to get some coffee, grab a sandwich and even check their e-mail if they so choose. It’s called a cybercafe.The cybercafe that opened this fall at Middle Tennessee is one of many that have been popping up across the […]
January 19, 2000
Faculty & Staff
BI News Briefs
Hampton Coach’s Civil Rights Lawsuit Thrown OutLUBBOCK, Texas — A judge has dismissed a college basketball coach’s civil rights lawsuit, ruling she, her husband and an assistant failed to establish that racial bias was a factor in their 1998 arrests. Hampton University women’s coach Patricia Bibbs and the others sued the city, several police officers […]
January 5, 2000
Students
Noteworthy Briefs
Minority Business School Faculty Increases 50 Percent in Five YearsCHICAGO — Minority representation among the nation’s business school faculties has increased by almost 50 percent in five years, according to The Ph.D. Project.The project to attract and encourage more minorities to become business professors started in 1994. At that time, there were 294 African Americans, […]
December 22, 1999
Faculty & Staff
Tech Briefa
Study Shows Most Adult Education Programs Offer Distance Learning NEW YORK — Nearly 69 percent of adult and continuing education programs offer distance learning courses, a new study shows.The Survey of Adult and Continuing Education Progams in Higher Education also found that the most common credentials offered through distance learning courses are non-degree certificates. Other […]
December 22, 1999
Faculty & Staff
100 Years of Change
100 Years of ChangeFor Better, For WorseThere is no doubt that access to higher education has played a critical role in the evolving status of people of color in the 20th century. In this edition, Black Issues reviews the century throught the prism of some of the personalities whose vision, sacrifice and, in some cases, […]
December 22, 1999
Faculty & Staff
Berkeley Struggles As the Faculty Looks Elsewhere
Berkeley Struggles As the Faculty Looks ElsewhereBERKELEY, Calif. — Issues of race and racism are swirling about the University of California at Berkeley, stirred up by the imminent departures of two professors of color and ongoing concern over the future of the ethnic studies department.At issue: Is prestigious Berkeley’s ivory tower a bastion for only […]
December 22, 1999
Faculty & Staff
Creating Opportunities for Faculty Research
Creating Opportunities for Faculty ResearchResearch is one of the most rewarding aspects of a scholarly career, but until recently few African American scholars have had a chance to pursue it seriously. Gradually, times are changing.Higher education’s sacrosanct route to promotion and tenure  is navigated along  the paths of  teaching, service and research. Good teaching and […]
November 24, 1999
Students
Achieving Career Satisfaction in the Academy
Achieving Career Satisfaction in the AcademyToday’s headlines are full of stories about the most vexing of problems in education. How to provide a good education to all students? How to close the achievement gap between Black and White students? How to prepare educators to teach students of color? What’s going to happen now that court-ordered […]
November 24, 1999
Faculty & Staff
Highlights
One year ago, Black Issues began a column designed to give advice to help you advance or just to develop more expertise as you start or continue your career in higher education. Through this first year, we have received insightful and helpful information for both faculty and administrators.What has made it so valuable is that […]
November 24, 1999
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