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Faculty & Staff
Powerful pages – unprecedented public impact of W.W. Norton and Co’s Norton Anthology of African American Literature
New African American Literature Anthology is Finding Academic and General Audiences
July 11, 2007
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Faculty & Staff
Central State hires new president, fires one-sixth of faculty – Central State University’s John W. Garland
WILBERFORCE, Ohio Fighting to overcome a political and financial crisis that nearly forced the school to close this summer, Central State University has hired a new president and terminated nineteen faculty members.
July 11, 2007
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Faculty & Staff
Grants & Gifts
The American Dental Education Association has received a $672,000 grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to expand an interactive Web site for students considering health careers. Explorehealthcareers.org offers information about various health professions. Bronx Community College (N.Y.) has received a $175,000 grant from the Bronx Gateway Fasttrack Unit Associates for PROJECT H.I.R.E., a pre-apprenticeship […]
July 11, 2007
Faculty & Staff
Business School Dean Holds Ohio State Reins For Now
COLUMBUS Ohio Ohio State’s acting president said the temporary nature of his job hasn’t stopped well-meaning alumni from offering suggestions.
July 10, 2007
Faculty & Staff
Acting out: black theater in transition – Cover Story
August Wilson has achieved the success most playwrights only dream about. His award-winning plays – which include “Fences”, “Joe Turner’s Come and Gone,” and “The Piano Lesson” – have rendered sensitive and probing portrayals of African American life. Staged in venues ranging from regional theaters to Broadway, Wilson’s plays have earned two Pulitzer Prizes and lavish praise from critics.
July 10, 2007
Faculty & Staff
Inspiration & information produced at NISOD conference – National Institute for Staff and Organizational Development
AUSTIN, Texas Dr. Jerry Sue Thornton was not about to let Cleveland leave Cuyahoga Community College behind on the city’s road to revitalization.
July 10, 2007
Faculty & Staff
Athletics return, but the struggle continues at UDC; Harvard professors, local AAUP members unite to aid faltering institution – University of the District of Columbia; American Association of University Professors
Washington The University of the District of Columbia (UDC) will reinstate its athletics program in the fall, thanks to a referendum vote by students to increase student athletic fees by $50.
July 10, 2007
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Faculty & Staff
Athletics return, but the struggle continues at UDC; Harvard professors, local AAUP members unite to aid faltering institution – University of the District of Columbia; American Association of University Professors
Washington The University of the District of Columbia (UDC) will reinstate its athletics program in the fall, thanks to a referendum vote by students to increase student athletic fees by $50.
July 10, 2007
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Faculty & Staff
Technology: a considerable investment expected to pay big dividends – use of the World Wide Web as an educational resource
Like most American institutions of higher learning, Voorhees College is boldly embracing the future. The small liberal arts, historically Black institution in Denmark, S.C., has adopted information technology to overcome the isolation that its rural, out-of-the-way location has imposed on the Episcopal Church-affiliated school.
July 10, 2007
Faculty & Staff
Former Texas Southern U. President Wants Trial Moved Out of Houston
HOUSTON Defense attorneys for the former president of Texas Southern University want her trial on charges of misusing university funds moved, saying heavy media coverage will prevent finding a fair jury.
July 9, 2007
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Faculty & Staff
Professor’s lawyer says stalking allegation not what it appears
DOVER N.H. More than a dozen University of New Hampshire faculty members showed up in court to support a colleague charged with stalking another professor.
July 8, 2007
Faculty & Staff
Professor’s Lawyer Says Stalking Allegations Not What It Appears
DOVER N.H. More than a dozen University of New Hampshire faculty members showed up in court to support a colleague charged with stalking another professor.
July 8, 2007
Students
Leslie V. Forte: the woman behind the name on the scholarship – Obituary
Her life was a struggle. She grew up poor in the gritty projects of Los Angeles. She left California a well-educated woman with an associate’s degree from a community college, a master’s degree from Stanford University and an effervescent love for teaching.
July 7, 2007
Faculty & Staff
Suit threatens status of Georgia’s public Black universities
ATLANTA Alumni and supporters of Georgia’s historically Black public colleges and universities are beginning to mobilize in reaction to a law suit filed last month that seeks to increase white enrollment at those schools.
July 5, 2007
Faculty & Staff
Dillard’s Cook put hearts and minds to work – Dillard University Pres Dr. Samuel DuBois Cook
In September 1986, then-Japanese Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone shocked many Americans when he asserted that America was intellectually inferior to Japan “because of a considerable number of Blacks, Puerto Ricans and Mexicans.”
July 5, 2007
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Faculty & Staff
Missouri bill gives legislators a leg up for academic jobs
ST. LOUIS Some higher education officials are complaining that a new law could give Missouri lawmakers an unfair advantage when it comes to getting a job in the ivory tower.
July 4, 2007
Faculty & Staff
The physician, the professor and the politico – candidates for the presidency of Spelman College – Cover Story
ATLANTA For Spelman College student Toria Davis, just the thought of getting a new campus president with ties to the White House speaks volumes about the search to replace Dr. Johnnetta B. Cole. “It’s an honor just to think someone who’s so important would be interested in coming to Spelman,” said Davis after learning that […]
July 4, 2007
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Faculty & Staff
From the ivory tower to the White House … and back again – African American public servants who came from, and came back, to the academe – Cover Story
Shortly after resigning as associate director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) in February 1995, Christopher Edley Jr. prepared to resume teaching duties at Harvard Law School, where he had been tenured since 1986. But before he could leave the government, Edley was approached by White House officials who wanted him to chair a high-profile, interagency working group on affirmative action.
July 4, 2007
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