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A Month of Celebrations: A look at how colleges and universities are celebrating Black History Month.

Month of Celebrations: A look at how colleges and universities are celebrating Black History Month. Alabama A&M University, NormalBlack History Month Theme: “The Souls of Black Folk: Centennial Reflections”17th Annual “Celebrating Black History Thru Jazz” Reception featuring Pianist/Composer Randy Weston; Benjamin Banneker Banquet; Poetry: Poet Joye Pettis, author of African-American Poets: Lives, Works and Sources. […]

February 12, 2003

Faculty & Staff

Keeping a Legacy from Crumbling

Keeping a Legacy from Crumbling WASHINGTONIn 2001, the National Trust for Historic Preservation placed the former home of the late Dr. Carter G. Woodson on its annual list of the most endangered historic places in the United States — an ironic fate for a place connected to the man who ranks as perhaps the greatest […]

February 12, 2003

Faculty & Staff

IBM Expands Higher Education Research Program

IBM Expands Higher Education Research ProgramBy Ronald Roach ARMONK, N.Y.IBM announced in December that it is working to speed cancer research and explore advanced technical applications in “e-education,” medicine, bioinformatics and human behavior through partnerships with more than 130 of the world’s leading universities — all part of its expanded, $36 million global university award […]

January 29, 2003

Faculty & Staff

Spelman College To Address HIV/AIDS In African Diaspora

Spelman College To Address HIV/AIDS In African Diaspora With a series of international conferences and new health courses planned, one of the nation’s leading historically Black colleges is poised to tackle one of the most urgent issues facing women in the African Diaspora — the spread of HIV/AIDS. Spelman College will kick off the first […]

January 29, 2003

Faculty & Staff

UConn Seeks Improved Diversity Training Program

UConn Seeks Improved Diversity Training Program STORRS, Conn.The University of Connecticut is teaching more than 3,000 staff members to think before they speak. Dr. Carlian Dawson, director of diversity education, said a planned diversity training program will not tell campus employees what to think, but to consider the impact of what they say.“We want people […]

January 29, 2003

Faculty & Staff

UNC Professors Seek Memorial to Honor Late Sen. Wellstone

UNC Professors Seek Memorial to Honor Late Sen. Wellstone CHAPEL HILL, N.C.A professor and a dean at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill are seeking a memorial on campus to the late Sen. Paul Wellstone, a two-time Carolina alumnus who died in a plane crash Oct. 25. Dr. Joel Schwartz, an adjunct professor […]

January 29, 2003

Faculty & Staff

Developing Faculty For Academic Leadership

Developing Faculty For Academic Leadership By Dr. S. Keith Hargrove There are many challenges confronting higher education in the 21st century. These challenges range from cyclical state and federal support, legislative oversight and accountability to a changing student population and the need for more effective leadership in academia. One key to addressing these and many […]

January 15, 2003

English, Foreign Language Job Seekers Face Major Decline in Available Positions

English, Foreign Language Job Seekers Face Major Decline in Available PositionsBy Kendra Hamilton There were probably plenty of long faces at the annual convention for professors of English and foreign languages last month, as new data indicated the current crop of job seekers would face the toughest job market since the recession of the early […]

January 15, 2003

Faculty & Staff

Race and its Continuing Significance on our Campuses

Race and its Continuing Significance on our Campusesan interview with Dr. Joe R. Feagin In the fall of 2002, every college president who was a member of the American Council on Education received a copy of The Continuing Significance of Racism: U.S. Colleges and Universities. This was the first in a series of occasional papers […]

January 15, 2003

Faculty & Staff

A Scientific Approach

A Scientific Approach Kenneth RobertsTitle: Assistant Professor, Chemical Engineering, North Carolina A&T State University, Greensboro, N.C.Education: Ph.D., Chemical Engineering, University of South Carolina; M.S., Chemical Engineering, University of South Carolina; B.S., Chemical Engineering, Georgia Institute of TechnologyAge: 34As a child growing up in Atlanta, Kenneth Roberts showed an aptitude for math and science. His observant […]

January 1, 2003

Faculty & Staff

Professors: Higher Education’s Change Agents

Professors: Higher Education’s Change Agents All of us can remember a professor that made a difference when we were in college. We remember both those professors we absolutely adored as well as those we loathed. Ironically, we learned important lifelong lessons from both. From the ones that were in our corner and supportive, we learned […]

January 1, 2003

Faculty & Staff

A Shared Responsibility

A Shared ResponsibilityBluefield State’s new president makes college’s success a community agendaBy Kendra Hamilton Dr. Albert L. Walker, the new president of Bluefield State College in Bluefield, W.Va., is a career educator. He has taught in public schools and institutions of higher education since 1967. Previously, he was vice chancellor for academic affairs and a […]

December 4, 2002

Faculty & Staff

Solar Competition Gives Tuskegee Students A Chance to Shine

Solar Competition Gives Tuskegee Students A Chance to Shine By Ronald Roach A group of Tuskegee University students majoring in architecture and engineering fields proved to the nation their resourcefulness and academic prowess in creating and building a home of the future.Competing in the Solar Decathlon, a national contest sponsored by the U.S. Department of […]

December 4, 2002

Faculty & Staff

Staying in the Game

Staying in the Game UCLA’s African American Leadership Institute works to better prepare Black executives for corporate culture.By Phaedra Brotherton Related Charts Adobe Acrobat Reader is required to view the above listed chart(s). If you do not have Acrobat Reader installed on your computer, please [ click here ] to download it. How race and […]

December 4, 2002

Faculty & Staff

Virginia Technology Center Seen as Economic Hope

Virginia Technology Center Seen as Economic HopeBy Ronald Roach Danville, Va.In Virginia, the decline of the tobacco and the textile industries has led to hard economic times in the state’s southernmost counties known as southside Virginia. In addition to high unemployment, the largely rural region struggles with low educational attainment among its residents. Just 5 […]

November 20, 2002

Faculty & Staff

Stepping Outside the Ivy Walls

Stepping Outside the Ivy WallsPost-Academe brings New Opportunities, New Benefits By Phaedra Brotherton FAIRFAX, Va.Drs. Johnnie and Leroy Miles have a special partnership. Married for 35 years, they have supported each other in their educational pursuits and even taught at the same university for 22 years. And when Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia […]

November 20, 2002

Faculty & Staff

Faculty Survey Finds Growing Gap in Political Liberalism

Faculty Survey Finds Growing Gap in Political Liberalism LOS ANGELESThere is increasing polarization in the political identification of college and university faculty, a new UCLA study shows. Today, only 34 percent of college and university faculty identify as “middle-of-the road” politically (down from 40 percent in 1989). Although the percentage of faculty identifying as “conservative” […]

November 20, 2002

Faculty & Staff

Female Professors Earn Less At University of North Carolina

Female Professors Earn Less At University of North Carolina CHAPEL HILL, N.C.Female professors at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill earn less than male professors, with wide disparities in the medical school, according to a detailed analysis of salary equity. Women earn an average of $1,332 less than White men on the campus. […]

November 20, 2002