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When Journalists Become the News

When Journalists Become the NewsIt’s not often that journalists make the headlines, but this year has been an exception. From the reports of embedded reporters being killed while covering the war in Iraq to the Jayson Blair scandal at the New York Times, journalists have become the news. Unless you have been living under a rock, […]

Intellectual Entrepreneurship: Successfully Engaging Hearts, Minds in Graduate Education

Intellectual Entrepreneurship: Successfully Engaging Hearts, Minds in Graduate Education By Dr. Richard A. Cherwitz and Susan Alvarado Boyd Following the Supreme Court’s recent ruling on affirmative action in admissions to graduate and professional programs, many institutions are contemplating how, if at all, to use race and ethnicity in making admissions decisions. The court’s ruling notwithstanding, […]

Grants & Awards

Columbia University’s Teachers College received a $10.8 million gift from Lilo and Gerard Leeds. The gift, to be made over six years, is the largest single gift in the college’s history. The gift will be used to bolster the academic achievement of low-income high school students in New York City and across the United States. […]

Saving Lives by Saving Time

Saving Lives by Saving TimeMaryland doctoral student works on filling demand for rapid, highly sensitive diagnostic tests By Lisa GregoryCOLLEGE PARK, Md.Tne University of Maryland graduate student’s research could save lives by saving time. Angela Hodge Miller, who is pursuing her Ph.D. in electrical engineering, is working to develop chemical sensors capable of performing selective […]

Taking Care of Business

Taking Care of Business Commitment to faculty, students and fund raising brings Florida State dean early legacy of successBy Pearl Stewart Tallahassee, Fla. One morning about three years ago, Dr. Melvin Stith brushed past a student who seemed to need assistance in his outer office. When the dean of the Florida State University College of […]

‘What Does it Take to Get There?’

‘What Does it Take to Get There?’… ‘A graduate degree,’ many conclude, as a weak job market has students flocking to graduate schools despite limited financial aidBy Page Melton Obra Hackett has a common-sense exercise for undergraduates weighing the choice between graduate school and a job. “Write the year 2023 on a piece of paper,” […]

Getting Smart About Higher Education Involves Doing Your Homework

Getting Smart About Higher Education Involves Doing Your HomeworkSo you’ve gotten the good news: “Overproduction” of Ph.D.s is, by and large, a myth. Many fields are experiencing painful shortages of Ph.D.s. Bioinformatics is one, notes Peter Syverson, vice president of research for the Council of Graduate Schools. “We’re not producing any Ph.D.s in bioinformatics because, […]

Preparing Graduate Students to Teach

Oklahoma Awards First Tulsa Race Riot Scholarships

Oklahoma Awards First Tulsa Race Riot Scholarships TULSA, Okla. The first college scholarships meant to ensure the 1921 Tulsa race riot is not forgotten have been awarded to 20 students. Two seniors from nine public high schools and one charter school in Tulsa will each receive $1,000. The Tulsa Reconciliation Scholarships are funded by $20,000 […]

Pfizer Gift Creates Scholarship in Minority Medical Journalism

Pfizer Gift Creates Scholarship in Minority Medical Journalism CHAPEL HILL, N.C. The University of North Carolina School of Journalism and Mass Communication has received a $100,000 gift to create a new graduate scholarship designed to improve media coverage of minority health issues. The gift, from the Pfizer Medical Humanities Initiative, will establish the Pfizer Minority […]

Lowest-Ever Loan Rates To Make College More Affordable

Lowest-Ever Loan Rates To Make College More Affordable WASHINGTON U.S. Education Secretary Roderick Paige promised financial relief to millions of students and borrowers struggling to pay college tuition bills when he announced last month that federal student loan interest rates will drop to the historic low of 3.42 percent effective July 1. “Record low loan […]

A Time for Innovative Thinking

A Time for Innovative ThinkingIn a recent article in Black Issues In Higher Education, a U.S. Department of Education official stated that he knew of few strategies for making graduate and professional school accessible to African Americans. Since I knew of at least one (I developed it), I e-mailed it to him. He remarked on […]

Grants & Awards

California State University-Northridge, along with Community Charter Middle School, received a $7,500 grant from the Women’s Sports Foundation for a new sports program geared toward girls. Clemson University (S.C.) received a $1 million gift from BB&T Corp. The money, which will be given over five years, will be used to support the BB&T Center for […]

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