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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
Students
California Budget Deal Cuts Higher Ed, Saves Financial Aid
After marathon sessions including all-nighters, the California Legislature has passed a budget deal that will bring new gloom to higher education by slashing funding for public colleges by $2.8 billion and school districts and community colleges by $5.7 billion.
July 26, 2009
STEM
Gates Says It’s Time To ‘Move On’ From His Arrest
Harvard University scholar Henry Louis Gates Jr. says he’s ready to move on from his arrest by a White police officer, hoping to use the encounter to improve fairness in the criminal justice system and saying “in the end, this is not about me at all.”
July 26, 2009
Opinion
White Privilege: What if Henry Louis Gates had been White?
By now, most enlightened people have heard about the incident involving Harvard University Professor Henry Louis Gates and the Cambridge, Mass., police.  As a recap, the Cambridge police arrested the eminent scholar in front of his home.  Just having returned from filming a PBS special in China, Gates, along with his Black taxi driver, were […]
July 23, 2009
Tenure
USM Prepares for $2M Budget Cut
Deans from the University of Southern Mississippi’s five colleges are submitting $2-million budget cut proposals to the provost. It’s the first step in the possible elimination of staff, instructors and even tenured faculty.   According to The Associated Press, the cuts are the university’s response to an anticipated $10 million to $12 million budget shortfall […]
July 23, 2009
Home
GI Bill Not Likely to Bail Out Ailing Illinois Fund
The new, more generous federal GI Bill set to take effect Aug. 1 couldn’t come any sooner for Illinois leaders as it should draw Illinois veterans away from a poorly funded state program in droves and shift the burden of funding their college education mostly to the federal government. However, the combination of a state […]
July 23, 2009
Community Colleges
A $4 Billion Push for Better Schools
President Barack Obama is leaning hard on the nation’s schools, using the promise of more than $4 billion in federal aid — and the threat of withholding it — to strong-arm the education establishment to accept more charter schools and performance pay for teachers, according to The Washington Post. Today, Obama will officially announce the […]
July 23, 2009
African-American
The Professor, Policeman and President
President Barack Obama on Thursday backed off a statement he made the day before that Cambridge, Mass., police �acted stupidly� during the arrest of prominent Harvard University scholar Henry Louis Gates, Jr. According to the Detroit Free Press, Obama said he never intended to call the officer �stupid� for arresting Gates on a disorderly conduct […]
July 23, 2009
Home
Drive-by Shooting at Texas Southern Wounds Six
Gunfire on the Texas Southern University campus wounded six people and scattered the crowd at a community rally Wednesday night, and police on Thursday were investigating whether a gang rivalry was behind the drive-by shooting.
July 23, 2009
Sports
WNBA Leads in Sports Diversity Study
The WNBA still leads the way in sports diversity, even after one of its marquee franchises folded.
July 23, 2009
International
Arabic Language Teacher at Clemson Jailed Over Immigration
Federal immigration officials were holding a Syrian woman for overstaying her visa after having taught Arabic at Clemson University on a Fulbright program, and her husband says he is fighting to allow her to stay with him in America.
July 23, 2009
Students
GRANTS & AWARDS
AUSTIN COMMUNITY COLLEGE (Texas) has received a $35,305 grant from the Texas Workforce Commission for 68 scholarships for two camps that provide students handson experience in computer programming and design. CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY, FRESNO has received a $260,000 grant from Worldwide, HP for the Lyles College of Engineering to receive wireless tablet personal computers, wide-format […]
July 22, 2009
Students
THE TOP 100: GRADUATE RANKINGS
The Top 100 degree tables published in this edition of Diverse, and the many more detailed tables included on the Diverse Web site, delineate the institutions that have conferred the most master’s, doctoral and first professional degrees to students of color in academic year 2007-2008.
July 22, 2009
Leadership & Policy
REINVENTING ALUMNI ASSOCIATIONS
To remain relevant, alumni associations must do more than plan class reunions and promote their schools, experts say.
July 22, 2009
Students
NOTEWORTHY NEWS : NEW GL BILL BRINGS NEW CHALLENGES
With expanded education benefits for war veterans taking effect in August, public institutions anticipate having to cater to veterans’ unique needs.
July 22, 2009
Students
SPECTRUM : AN AIR FORCE OFFICER AND ACADEMIC
With its red brick, Georgian-style buildings situated among the gently rolling hills of central Virginia, Hampden- Sydney College has long been considered a genteel place to raise crops of new leaders.
July 22, 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
Home
Pinkett Says He’d Consider N.J. Lieutenant Governor Post
Reality TV star Randal Pinkett says he’ll consider running for lieutenant governor in New Jersey when and if an offer is made.
July 22, 2009
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