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Faculty & Staff
Charting a Black research agenda – interview with H. Patrick Swygert, president of Howard University – Cover Story – Interview
President H. Patrick Swygert, 54, assumed the helm of the nation’s only historically Black Research I institution in 1995. Since his arrival at Howard University, he has been crafting a strategy to carry the institution into the twenty-first century on a more stable financial footing, from which it will be poised to lead the nation in shaping and implementing the academic and research agenda for African Americans in the next millennium.
July 11, 2007
African-American
The Assassination of the Black Male Image. – book reviews
The Assassination of the Black Male Image, authored by Earl Ofari Hutchinson, a media critic and political analyst, offers a thoughtful perspective on the racial and sexual stereotyping of Black males.
July 11, 2007
Students
Retaining master jugglers – junior faculty must learn to prioritize their schedules
Last week I got an e-mail from a young sister who is in her first year of university teaching. Curiously, the e-mail was time-stamped 2 a.m. Poignantly, it was a shout for help and advice.
July 11, 2007
Faculty & Staff
A scant presence – Black and Latino faculty at research institutions – includes related article
For many faculty, particularly those who favor research over teaching, securing a faculty position at a major research institution is a dream come true. These universities, of which there are 120 nationwide, offer some of the most ideal conditions available for the pursuit of scholarly and scientific research.
July 11, 2007
African-American
Auctioning off yesterday – protest against the sale of African American historical artifacts and documents
For Many Black Museums, It’s “Buy-Buy History”
July 11, 2007
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African-American
A prescription for participation: diabetes study helping African Americans overcome fears of ethnic medical research
They don’t want to take pills. They’re unwilling to participate in randomized trials. They are reluctant to take a chance,” says Robert Ratner, M.D., head of the Medlantic Clinical Research Center in Washington, D.C., discussing why some people don’t want to participate in medical research. “There remains reluctance to participate in any medical study. Some of it is, `I want someone else to do it so I “know it’s safe, then I’ll do it’ — the guinea-pig phenomenon.”
July 11, 2007
Students
Historically Black Bluefield State’s ironic situation: desperately seeking Black students and faculty – Bluefield State College, West Virginia
Bluefield, W. Va. When a historically Black university fails to sustain, say, a ten percent African American student population, People are bound to start talking. Well, they have.
July 11, 2007
African-American
Restoring Hope: Conversation on the Future of Black America. – The Rejuvinating Qualities of Hope – book reviews
Several years ago I reviewed Breaking Bread by bell hooks and Dr. Cornel West for National Public Radio. I stated in my commentary that the conversation or dialogue between the two public intellectuals was filled with nourishment and inspiration. I felt their views provided us with a reason for hope, in a constantly changing world. Now a few years later, the popular West – with the help of Kelvin Sealey – has given us a series of exchanges with nine interesting individuals.
July 11, 2007
African-American
Black Men Speaking. – book reviews
Reading Black Men Speaking is not unlike the dichotomous soul-troubling and spirit-affirming experience of attending all-day Sunday or Wednesday night church services. The book is a gripping litany of sermon, scripture reading and spirituality. It is strident and unembarrassed by its message, urgent in its delivery, somewhat daunting in the tenets it proposes, and clear in its mission.
July 11, 2007
Faculty & Staff
The shelter of tenure is eroding and for faculty of color gaining membership may be tougher than ever – African American teachers – includes related articles on several cases regarding tenure
Hazing is the dark side of campus life. Desperate to be accepted into an exclusive club, bright young people will tolerate long periods of psychological abuse, often being forced to perform onerous tasks which established members consider below their dignity.
July 11, 2007
Academic Freedom without Tenure
Faculty & Staff
The tenure labyrinth – teachers in Afro-American studies
My first academic job interview resulted in a job offer. My doctorate is in American Studies, but the job offer was in Afro-American Studies. Because I am actually interested in Afro-American Studies, this was not a great hardship for me. However, a light did go on in my head. I remembered hearing – more than once – that for Black scholars, all roads tend to lead to Black Studies.
July 11, 2007
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Leadership & Policy
Working Capitol Hill: presidents of historically Black institutions spend week in Washington, where HUD grants $6.5 million to seventeen HBCUs – historically Black colleges and universities; Dept of Housing and Urban Development
WASHINGTON The observance of National Historically Black Col leges and Universities Week drew more than sixty presidents from institutions dedicated to the higher education pursuits of African Americans to the nation’s capital in late September for meetings with federal officials. The week culminated with the announcement of a multi-million dollar grant awarded by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) to several historically Black colleges and universities.
July 11, 2007
Faculty & Staff
Hostile words in Texas – campus rallies against University of Texas law professor
AUSTIN, Tex. Led by the Rev. Jesse Jackson, about 10,000 students rallied last month to protest comments by a White University of Texas law-school professor who said African Americans and Hispanics cannot compete academically with Whites. University of Texas officials have criticized Professor Lino Graglia for his remarks, but say he will not be disciplined.
July 11, 2007
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Faculty & Staff
Hostile words in Texas – campus rallies against University of Texas law professor
AUSTIN, Tex. Led by the Rev. Jesse Jackson, about 10,000 students rallied last month to protest comments by a White University of Texas law-school professor who said African Americans and Hispanics cannot compete academically with Whites. University of Texas officials have criticized Professor Lino Graglia for his remarks, but say he will not be disciplined.
July 11, 2007
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African-American
Does education rationing have racial undertones?
For much of this summer, I have clipped a series of articles that raise questions about access to higher education. Though the articles have taken different approaches, they end up asking a similar set of questions – who should go to college and how should it be financed?
July 11, 2007
African-American
The Cattle Killing. – book reviews
Because The Cattle Killing, John Edgar Wideman’s first work of fiction in six years, is about loss – loss of life, loss of faith, loss of hope, innocence and direction – it seems only fitting that this review should begin like the book, with a metaphorical slaughtering.
July 11, 2007
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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Leadership & Policy
Phenomenal growth – Black Issues in Higher Education’s sixth annual Top 100 rankings of minority baccalaureates – Cover Story
African American Baccalaureates Surge by 30% From 1991 to 1995
July 10, 2007
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