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Faculty & Staff

PROMOTING AGRICULTURAL CAREERS TO MINORITIES

USDA’s Economic Research Service (ERS) is on a mission to promote careers in agricultural economics for minority college students. For the past two years the ERS has conducted a distance learning program that brings experts

December 23, 2009

Faculty & Staff

NOTEWORTHY NEWS

Politics as Usual for the Professoriate Career scholars are routinely tapped for high-level policymaking jobs in government. As a child, Harold Koh paid rapt attention to his father’s dual career as a diplomat and professor.

December 23, 2009

Faculty & Staff

Academia Jobs Forecast Bleak

The Modern Language Association (MLA) projects a significant drop in faculty opportunities in English and foreign languages and literature, according to a report released today.

December 16, 2009

Students

SOUL SURVIVOR

A target in the 1990s culture wars, Temple\’s venerable African American studies department enters its third decade beset by a lingering faculty rift.

December 9, 2009

Faculty & Staff

SPECTRUM: GROWING BY LEAPS WITHOUT BOUNDS

Dr. Tukufu Zuberi is familiar to millions of viewers on the popular PBS “History Detectives” program, a television series in its eighth season devoted to “exploring the complexities of historical mysteries.

December 9, 2009

Students

Despite Struggles, Pioneering Black Studies Department Presses Forward

A target in the 1990s culture wars, Temple University’s venerable African American studies department enters its third decade.

December 9, 2009

Students

Temple U. Establishes Center to Study, Promote Diversity-Related Issues

The discussion about race and the Philadelphia public school system had already lasted 20 minutes and Temple University students couldn’t stop talking. A forum on the country’s changing demographics hosted by the Philadelphia-based university’s new diversity research center left the students with more to say.

November 29, 2009

Faculty & Staff

NOTEWORTHY NEWS: Answering the Call

Impact of HIV on Blacks compels HBCUs to develop initiatives to confront the spread of the disease.

November 25, 2009

Faculty & Staff

AWASH IN WISDOM

Tribal colleges employ elders to impart a higher level of learning that cannot be found in traditional classrooms and textbooks.

November 25, 2009

Faculty & Staff

National Faculty Group Convened at Atlanta HBCUs Urged to Help Determine U.S. Education Priorities

Faculty members from more than 50 U.S. colleges and universities gathered in Atlanta for the Faculty Resource Network’s annual national symposium, which was held this year at three neighboring historically Black campuses.

November 24, 2009

Faculty & Staff

National Faculty Group Convened at Atlanta HBCUs Urged to Help Determine U.S. Education Priorities

Faculty members from more than 50 U.S. colleges and universities gathered in Atlanta for the Faculty Resource Network’s annual national symposium, which was held this year at three neighboring historically Black campuses.

November 24, 2009

Students

Revisiting Higher Ed Accountability in the Obama Era

Panelists at a Washington think tank conference on higher education accountability questioned standards in financial management, accreditation, and the professoriate while addressing fundamental questions about the role and responsibility of U.S. higher education.

November 17, 2009