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Section: Faculty & Staff
Faculty & Staff
Academic Calling
Dr. Heather Tarleton wants to be a tenured teacher, administrator and researcher.
November 12, 2008
Faculty & Staff
Rebuilding FROM ABROAD
Dr. Yar Ebadi was heartbroken when he visited his alma mater and former workplace, Kabul University, in Afghanistan in 2005.
November 12, 2008
Students
Graduate Assistants Take Fight for Collective Bargaining to Congress
Teaching and research assistants hope a new online petition and new political leadership will spur Congress to pass a collective bargaining law.
November 12, 2008
Faculty & Staff
ALL IN A DECADE’S WORK
Eugenio MarĂa de Hostos Community College’s longtime president Dolores Fernández reflects on her journey through academia and helping other Hispanics reach the top.
November 12, 2008
Students
Managing Motherhood and Tenure
Colleges are attempting to close the numerical gap between tenuretrack male and female faculty, but some schools, particularly larger institutions, are having more success than others at accommodating women’s needs.
November 12, 2008
Students
Self-Navigating THE TERRAIN
The absence of mentorship for Black women scholars could ultimately result in a dwindling pipeline.
November 12, 2008
Faculty & Staff
Who Will Fill Their Shoes?
Faculty, new and experienced, say the professoriate can be just as rewarding to a new generation of academics if teaching and research opportunities are opened for them.
November 12, 2008
Students
Writing their own History
San Francisco State University is celebrating the 40th anniversary of the student-led strike that brought about the creation of the College of Ethnic Studies.
October 29, 2008
Students
Grants& Gifts
ALABAMA STATE UNIVERSITY has received $5 MILLION from the Commerce, Justice, Science and Related Agencies Appropriations Subcommittee for its Department of Biological Sciences. The funds will help build ASU’s new life sciences building, which will house the university’s new doctoral program in microbiology. CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY, DOMINGUEZ HILLS, has received a $750,000 grant from the […]
October 29, 2008
Students
Higher Ed Professionals’ Perspectives on Online Education
The recent growth of online education has added a new dimension to college learning that was unthinkable a few decades ago. Knocking down the traditional notion of the “ivory tower” college campus, online education presents an entirely new classroom paradigm, a shift resulting in more opportunities and challenges. For insight into both, we turned to college professors and administrators who reveal the good and the bad that accompany an online college education.
October 15, 2008
Faculty & Staff
At Georgia Perimeter College, Online Teaching Has Its Benefits — Tenure
Michael T. Bradley is a full-time online- only professor. In the virtual classroom of his “World Religion and Introduction to Ethics” classes at Georgia Perimeter College, a two-year college in suburban Atlanta, Bradley employs a teaching style that both personalizes him to his students and encourages them to interact with one another.
October 15, 2008
Faculty & Staff
Making a Positive Impact in Students’ Lives
Along with implementing deliberate retention policies, hiring the right people to encourage students to persist in college is essential.
October 15, 2008
Students
Using Social Networking Sites as Student Engagement Tools
Facebook and other sites may serve as a better communication channel between students and professors, but there are drawbacks to consider.
October 15, 2008
Faculty & Staff
Approaching Diversity From the Top Down
Three university presidents talk about recruiting and retaining diverse populations as well as the diversity challenges that remain at their respective institutions.
October 15, 2008
Students
Students Engaged in Extracurricular Programs Perform Better Academically, LEAP Study Reports
College students increase their likelihood to excel by participating in certain programs at their schools, according to a new report from the Association of American Colleges and Universities (AAC&U).
October 15, 2008
Faculty & Staff
Librarian shot and killed on San Antonio campus
SAN ANTONIO (AP) – A librarian at Northeast Lakeview College was shot and killed Monday by a fellow employee, college president Eric Reno said. Reno identified the man who was killed in the library as Devin Zimmerman, 37. He said the gunman, a 62-year-old adjunct librarian, sat down after the shooting and waited to be […]
October 14, 2008
Faculty & Staff
Penn State Trading Cards Highlight Researchers
Want to trade a glaciologist Richard Alley card for entomologist James Tumlinson?
October 8, 2008
Faculty & Staff
Illinois Professor Wins Poetry Prize
Paul Martinez Pompa, a faculty member in the English department at Triton College in River Grove, Ill., is the 2008 recipient of the Andres Montoya Poetry Prize given by Letras Latinas, the literary program of the University of Notre Dame’s Institute for Latino Studies (ILS), university officials announced.
October 7, 2008
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