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Students
Who Should Teach Hip-hop Studies?
By most criteria, hip-hop has now been solidifi ed as an essential domain of inquiry and learning in higher education. This status entails a sizable body of scholarship; symposia, conferences and courses devoted to its study; and a growing pool of scholars who have centered it in their research agendas.
August 5, 2009
Faculty & Staff
Texas Tech Petition Opposes Ex-AG Gonzales’ Hire
A small group of Texas Tech University faculty members is objecting to the school’s hiring of former U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales on the grounds that he demonstrated ethical failings while in office.
August 2, 2009
Faculty & Staff
New GI Bill Live Tomorrow
Many have called it the most substantial improvement to veterans’ education benefits since World War II.  Others see it as the nation making up for what it didn’t do for those who returned with little thanks after serving in Vietnam. But whatever the sentiment, on August 1, more than a year and a half after […]
July 30, 2009
Faculty & Staff
Will Google Book Search Settlement Increase Access for Underserved Communities?
Google and multiple parties involved in a class action suit related to Google Book Search have reached a settlement agreement that in a best-case scenario will result in millions of out-of-print books previously unavailable to the vast majority of people becoming accessible with a mouse click.
July 30, 2009
Faculty & Staff
HBCU Battle It Out
Highlights from the 2008 Honda Battle of the Bands, held in Atlanta. Music from North Carolina Central University’s marching band, Sound Machine, directed by Jorim E. Reid, is featured in the slide show.
July 28, 2009
Faculty & Staff
Two Indian Professors Pass on Education Opportunities
Drs. Rabindra and Protima Roy are well-known faculty members at Drury University, a small campus tucked away in the heart of the Missouri Ozarks.
July 28, 2009
Faculty & Staff
Community Colleges Lobby to Offer Four-year Degrees
Michigan community colleges are challenging four-year universities for the right to offer bachelor’s degrees, and if they succeed, would join more than a dozen states across the country that already allow such degrees.
July 28, 2009
Faculty & Staff
Students plan return to debt-ridden NC school
Students return next week to Greensboro College, a school that has laid off staff to deal with debt of more than $19 million. The News & Record of Greensboro reported Tuesday that the small Methodist college has laid off 10 more staff members, including three part-time music teachers and the band director. The school is […]
July 27, 2009
Faculty & Staff
Union Accepts Furloughs at California Universities
A union that represents 22,000 faculty members at California State University has agreed to two furlough days a month to help close a huge budget deficit at the 23-campus system, officials said Friday.
July 26, 2009
Faculty & Staff
New HBCU Initiative Leader Seeks to Forge Relationships Between HBCUs and Obama Administration
Dr. John Silvanus Wilson Jr. looks back at his days as a Morehouse College student as a time when faculty, staff and administrators formed a campus community that was nurturing and family-oriented – a distinguishing characteristic of many of the nation’s historically Black colleges and universities.
July 26, 2009
Faculty & Staff
The Overqualified Professor
Community and junior colleges are seeing a substantial increase in the number of job seekers, particularly Ph.D.s, who in other years might have opted for higher-profile opportunities.
July 22, 2009
Faculty & Staff
Perspectives: Thanks for Asking
We applaud White House and Education Department officials for visiting Hispanic-majority communities to better ascertain the challenges and key issues for Latino/a students. If the goodwill created by this initiative is matched by decisive action, the current administration can achieve educational improvements for Hispanic Americans.
July 21, 2009
Students
NOTEWORTHY NEWS: Tenured Faculty at Two-year Schools Impact Student Transfers
State articulation and transfer agreements do little to increase the number of community college students who transfer to fouryear institutions, but having tenured faculty at the community college level helps.
July 8, 2009
Faculty & Staff
SPECTRUM:A POINEER FOR AMERICAN INDIAN EDUCATION
In 1978, Joe McDonald of the Confederated Salish Kootenai tribes dreamed of a decent building for the newly created Salish Kootenai College. At the time, classes were being held in an abandoned building on the Flathead Reservation in Montana.
July 8, 2009
Students
Tenured Faculty at Community College Favorably Impact Student Transfer Decisions
State articulation and transfer agreements do little to increase the number of community college students who transfer to four-year institutions, but having tenured faculty at the community college level helps, according to a recent study conducted by the Center on Reinventing Public Education at the University of Washington.
July 8, 2009
Faculty & Staff
Some Progress for Missouri University on Diversity; Agreement With Hispanic Board Signed
More than three years after being condemned by an independent auditor as one of the worst universities for faculty diversity and overall racial inclusivity the auditor had ever seen, the University of Missouri-Kansas City (UMKC) reports some improvement in its diversity profile.
June 24, 2009
Faculty & Staff
Doctoral Scholars Program Marks Milestone
After 16 years of providing support to doctoral students of color, the Southern Regional Education Board (SREB)-State Doctoral Scholars Program has produced its 456th doctoral graduate, an achievement noted Tuesday at the SREB’s annual meeting.
June 23, 2009
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Faculty & Staff
Stillman College Censured Over Faculty Member Dismissal
Delegates attending the American Association of University Professors (AAUP) annual meeting last weekend voted to place Stillman College on its censure list after the organization concluded that the college violated the organization’s rules on academic freedom and tenure.
June 18, 2009
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