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Last month, the University of Maryland-College Park announced the establishment of the David C. Driskell Center for the Study of the African Diaspora. The center will offer the opportunity to study Africa and the African Diaspora from multidisciplinary perspectives — particularly the arts, languages, literature, and history.
July 14, 2007
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Race and Success
New poll shows Americans view race as of little importance in determining one’s success in life. But some scholars argue that the survey is a `crude’ way to measure such a complex issue.
July 14, 2007
STEM
Next Stop for Anti-Affirmative Action Group, Massachusetts
BOSTON The Washington, D.C.-based Center for Equal Opportunity has asked Massachusetts’s public colleges and universities to supply detailed information about their admission policies. The center was instrumental in advancing Proposition 209 in California, and Initiative 200 in Washington. It also represented the plaintiffs in the Hopwood case in Texas. Headed by Linda Chavez, the director of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights under President Reagan, the center is a vocal affirmative-action critic. It has studied seven university systems since 1996 — including state schools in California, Washington, Colorado, North Carolina, and Michigan, as well as the U.S. service academies at West Point and Annapolis. In virtually all of the cases, the center claimed that the institutions — particularly the flagship campuses — gave admissions preference to minority applicants.
July 14, 2007
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The Quest for a Better Search Process
Forget the “dysfunctional family.” Few things today can be more dysfunctional than the academic search committee. These bodies contribute, not only to mediocrity and the decline in the university, but to the exclusion and discrimination of various underrepresented groups of highly qualified persons — namely people of color, people with disabilities, and women.
July 14, 2007
The Complete Academic Search Manual
Students
Kirwan’s Way
Ohio State University’s new president has taken a strong stand on diversity. Some say his is an example of the type of commitment White male senior executives need to make if higher education’s dreams of diversity are to be realized.
July 14, 2007
Faculty & Staff
Bluefield State Told to Reinstate Fired Professor
BLUEFIELD, W.Va. — The West Virginia Education and State Employees Grievance Board last month ordered historically Black Bluefield State College to reinstate Garrett Olmsted as a tenured professor. Olmsted was fired after protesting the firing of the last Black faculty member and the fact that African American student enrollment had dropped under 8 percent. (See Black Issues, June 11)
July 14, 2007
HBCUs
Grants & Awards
Clark Atlanta University has been awarded a $100,000 grant from the David and Lucille Packard Foundation to support the establishment of a Science, Engineering, and Mathematics Institute.
July 14, 2007
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Understanding How We Live
CHICAGO If you have ever wished for a centralized repository of data and information about the living standards of people in the United States, your wish is about to come true.
July 14, 2007
HBCUs
Black News Execs Question Florida University Classification Plan
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. Editors and publishers of Black newspapers from across the state questioned University of Florida System Chancellor Adam Herbert about a proposal that would group Florida A&M University with the state’s three smallest campuses under the heading “Comprehensive Universities.”
July 14, 2007
Faculty & Staff
Career Consultants
The usual requirements of a tenured faculty are essential, that is: scholarship and research, service, and teaching. Beyond the scholarly expectations, you must begin to acquire administrative experience in higher education as a way of demonstrating organizational leadership. The leadership position will provide opportunities for others beyond your department to see and appreciate your abilities. I would suggest that you also take some courses in higher education administration to provide a historical context, a theoretical framework, and an overview of the role of dean.
July 14, 2007
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Financial Planning 101
Videoconference offers sound advice for scholars about planning for retirement and old age
July 14, 2007
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Central State Forces Non-Paying Students to Withdraw
WILBERFORCE, Ohio Central State University officials said fifty-three of its 1,026 students will be forced to withdraw because they failed to make full payment of their education expenses this year — which totals $3,300 a year for full-time undergraduates.
July 14, 2007
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Sound advice for the classroom
Today’s emphasis on the uses of computer technology and audio-visual materials in the classroom obscures an equally effective, cost-efficient means of communication: sound.
July 14, 2007
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HeartLove: Wedding and Love Poems. – book reviews
Haki R. Madhubuti initially made his reputation as a seminal Black Arts Movement poet during the late 1960s and early 1970s with books such as Don’t Cry, Scream, and We Walk the Way of the New World. Since then, he has devoted much of his time to community organizing, and helping to build Black institutions such as Third World Press, an independent publisher he founded in 1967.
July 14, 2007
HBCUs
HBCUs in America’s high-tech future – Historically Black Colleges and Universities
By the year 2010, according to the National Science Foundation (NSF), this country will need to produce 11,000 Ph.D.s in engineering and science annually. Concurrently, the annual Ph.D. shortfall could be about 9,600 by the year 2000.
July 14, 2007
HBCUs
Filling technology’s massive talent gap
Technology partnership brings opportunities to students at Virginia HBCUs
July 14, 2007
Students
Tenure, science, and race matters
For the first time in the 100-year history of what many consider the most elite technical university in the world, the California Institute of Technology has granted tenure to an African American.
July 14, 2007
Faculty & Staff
The tough sell – James Hill, University of Texas – Cover Story
With the appointment of its first African American vice president, the University of Texas tries to overcome its legacy of minority exclusion
July 14, 2007
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