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Faculty & Staff

School Book Ban Raises Censorship Concerns in Puerto Rico

Several university professors in Puerto Rico are protesting a decision to ban five books from the curriculum at public high schools in the U.S. territory because of coarse language.

September 13, 2009

Faculty & Staff

Michigan Profs Back in Class after Tentative Deal

Students reported for class Thursday at a suburban Detroit university hours after professors reached a tentative agreement that ended a weeklong strike.

September 10, 2009

Faculty & Staff

OU Cancels Classes Today; Will Ask Court to Order Professors to Work

Oakland University in Rochester, Mich., will cancel classes again today.  The university plans to head to court to ask a judge to order professors back to work.  According to the Detroit Free Press, the faculty and the university disagree over several points, including increasing medical insurance rates, pay raises, hiring more instructors on contract and […]

September 7, 2009

Faculty & Staff

Strike by Professors Leads to Canceled Classes in Michigan

Classes at Oakland University were canceled Thursday after professors went on strike the day that fall classes were supposed to start. According to the New York Times, professors went on strike because they were upset over being asked to freeze their salaries a year after the university’s president received a $100,000 raise. The union, which […]

September 3, 2009

Faculty & Staff

CHANGING COURSE

The University of the District of Columbia’s problems are so deep and longstanding that some people thought it would take a rocket scientist to figure them out.

August 19, 2009

Faculty & Staff

NOTEWORTHY NEWS: Building the Bridge to Obama

White House Initiative leader Dr. John Silvanus Wilson Jr. seeks to forge relationships between HBCUs and the Obama administration.

August 19, 2009

Students

HBCU NEWS NUGGETS

Florida A&M University: Later this month, FAMU will become the only institution in the nation with a program dedicated to regulatory education and training in the study of veterinary technology.

August 19, 2009

Faculty & Staff

Changing Course

University of the District of Columbia’s president has proposed some radical changes that some worry will send UDC in the wrong direction.

August 19, 2009

Faculty & Staff

Controversy Stirs Over Yale Press Decision to Remove Image Depictions of the Prophet Muhammad From Text

In her forthcoming book, The Cartoons That Shook the World, Brandeis University professor of comparative politics Dr. Jytte Klausen examines the impact of 12 controversial caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad originally published in Denmark in 2005.

August 17, 2009

Faculty & Staff

In Brief: UT-Austin Hires Unprecedented Number of Female Faculty

UT-Austin is closing gender gap; states cut financial aid to neediest students and Illinois governor wants trustees to step down.

August 12, 2009

Students

Who Should Teach Hip-hop Studies?

By most criteria, hip-hop has now been solidifi ed as an essential domain of inquiry and learning in higher education. This status entails a sizable body of scholarship; symposia, conferences and courses devoted to its study; and a growing pool of scholars who have centered it in their research agendas.

August 5, 2009

Faculty & Staff

Texas Tech Petition Opposes Ex-AG Gonzales’ Hire

A small group of Texas Tech University faculty members is objecting to the school’s hiring of former U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales on the grounds that he demonstrated ethical failings while in office.

August 2, 2009