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The Path to the Professoriate

A Survival Guide: A Ph.D. candidate on the job market chronicles her recent MLA experience.

January 8, 2008

The Path to the Professoriate

A Survival Guide: A Ph.D. candidate on the job market chronicles her recent MLA experience.

January 8, 2008

Racial Profiling Alleged In Campus Raid

The Los Angeles County of Board of Supervisors is investigating whether a narcotics-search operation at Los Angeles Trade Technical College was a result of racial profiling.

January 8, 2008

Photo ID Voting Requirement Under Scrutiny in Supreme Court

Today, the U.S. Supreme Court is set to hear arguments in a case that will determine whether an Indiana law requiring all voters to present a government-issued photo identification before voting is unconstitutional. Opponents of the law argue that it unfairly impacts elderly people of color and the poor.

January 8, 2008

Community Colleges

Law Aimed at Undocumented Students Possibly Snares 4,000

Nearly 4,000 Arizona college students, nearly half of them community college students, have been unable to prove legal residency status and are being charged out-of-state rates as a result of a voter-approved referendum that prevents undocumented students from receiving in-state tuition and state-funded financial aid, according to The Arizona Republic.

January 8, 2008

New Jersey Becomes The 1st Northern State To Apologize For Its Role In Slavery

TRENTON, N.J. New Jersey became the first Northern state to apologize for slavery, as legislators approved a resolution Monday expressing “profound regret” for the state’s role in the practice.

January 8, 2008

New Jersey Becomes The 1st Northern State To Apologize For Its Role In Slavery

TRENTON N.J. New Jersey became the first Northern state to apologize for slavery, as legislators approved a resolution Monday expressing “profound regret” for the state’s role in the practice. The Assembly and the Senate 29-2 both voted overwhelmingly to approve the resolution, which expresses the Legislature’s opinion without requiring action by the governor. “This resolution […]

January 7, 2008

MnSCU Wants Permission to Tell Parents About Student Drinking

MANKATO, Minn. State law prevents college and university officials from telling parents when their children get into minor trouble with drugs and alcohol on campus. After several deaths in 2007, those officials want to change the law. “When the families don’t know about it and we can’t tell them about it, they can’t be part […]

January 7, 2008

Tulane Researchers Will See Whether `Katrina Cough’ is Myth

NEW ORLEANS Tulane University researchers are undertaking a five-year study, monitoring the respiratory health of 1,000 New Orleans area workers to see if there really is such a thing as “Katrina Cough.” The project is underwritten by a $1.86 million grant from the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health. During the study, each participant […]

January 7, 2008

The Crucial Youth Vote

Political pundits expect young voters, including college students, to figure prominently in today’s presidential primary vote in New Hampshire as they did, turning out in record numbers, in last week’s Iowa caucuses.

January 7, 2008

Universities Continue to Spend Big on Head Football Coaches

With the college football season coming to a close with the BCS National Championship, Diverse took a look at 17 universities that recently hired new head coaches and compared their salaries to the former head coaches.

January 7, 2008

Recruitment & Retention

Perspectives: The Use of Outside Voices in Increasing Faculty Diversity

For all of our difficulties in achieving student diversity on our nation’s college campuses, it is commonly acknowledged that faculty diversity is an even more elusive goal. Underrepresented minority faculty in 2005 composed only 16.5 percent of all full-time faculty in degree-granting institutions.

January 7, 2008

Leadership & Policy

Michigan’s Only HBCU Struggling to Stay Afloat

Senior faculty members at Lewis College of Business in Detroit emerged from a recent meeting nervously optimistic. With the school on the brink of closure, that was all they could be, explains Deolis Allen, dean and chief academic officer of the school.

January 6, 2008

Donor Withdraws Funding for Temple University Endowed Chair in Islamic Studies

PHILADELPHIA An Islamic group has canceled its $1.5 million offer to Temple University for an endowed chair in Islamic studies after concerns were raised about the organization, which was included in a U.S. government probe into funding of suspected terrorists.

January 6, 2008

Black Student Leaders Get Re-energized at D.C. Conference

WASHINGTON, D.C. To say the recently concluded National Black Student Leadership Development Conference was helpful to Shawna Murray, a junior at the University of Maryland, College Park, is an understatement.

January 6, 2008

The Year Ahead for Higher Education on Capitol Hill

With a presidential election on the horizon, 2008 on Capitol Hill is shaping up as a year for quick action on budget, student aid and other education bills before the fall campaign takes the national spotlight, advocates say.

January 3, 2008

New President of Texas A&M is First Woman and First Hispanic to Run the University

COLLEGE STATION, Texas It’s official. The new president of Texas A&M University is Dr. Elsa Murano, the first woman and first Hispanic to hold the job. Murano, a former A&M administrator who fled Cuba as a child, was named by the A&M systems Board of Regents Thursday. She was the only finalist for the post.

January 3, 2008

Leadership & Policy

Fisk Battles Donor Fatigue as Art Sale Bogs Down in Courts

NASHVILLE, Tenn. Despite two years of trying, Fisk University hasn’t been able to turn any of the valuable art donated by painter Georgia O’Keeffe into cash.

January 3, 2008