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Faculty & Staff

Journalism Educators Association Aims to Step Up Diversity Efforts

The incoming president of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communications (AEJMC) says that she plans to use her post to rally for increased diversity within the 96-year-old nonprofit organization.

August 10, 2008

Faculty & Staff

When Sports and Politics Collide

Along with showcasing the world’s best athletes, the Olympics offer a unique glimpse into history and race relations.

August 6, 2008

Faculty & Staff

Men Win Suit Against Scandal-scarred Texas Southern

Three former Texas Southern University students credited with helping expose a spending scandal that led to indictments of top administrators won a retaliation lawsuit against school officials.

August 3, 2008

Students

Scholar Wants More American Indian Faculty in Business Colleges

Beau Barnes, recipient of a doctoral scholarship designed to increase faculty and student diversity in business colleges, says he wants to boost the number of American Indians teaching in Oklahoma business colleges.

July 30, 2008

Faculty & Staff

Delaware Professor Awarded Competitive Fellowship

Rosalie Rolon-Dow, assistant professor of education at the University of Delaware, has received a prestigious and highly competitive Ford Foundation Diversity Fellowship for next year.

July 29, 2008

Students

Scholar Pushes Faculty Diversity at Oklahoma Business Schools

But a diverse faculty is important to helping students broaden their perspectives, he said. “It better prepares them to work with any kind of person anywhere in the world.”

July 24, 2008

Students

`Tenured radical’ tries to revive professors group

In his professorial attire and flowing, Zeus-like beard, Cary Nelson would look right at home behind a lectern, expounding on obscure poets. He even resembles one of the leading influences on his scholarship: Karl Marx.

July 16, 2008

Students

The Meyerhoff Model

Twenty years later, the University of Maryland, Baltimore County’s efforts to increase the number of minorities pursuing graduate STEM degrees have become something to study and replicate.

July 9, 2008

Faculty & Staff

ASU Professor Will Pursue Studies on School Choice

David Garcia, an assistant professor at Arizona State University, has been selected as a 2008-2009 National Academy of Education/Spencer Postdoctoral Fellow to research the convergence of school choice and school accountability with the diversification of the Latino population in the United States.

July 8, 2008

Students

Getting to Know Sharon Washington

From faculty member at Kent State University and Springfield College to visiting scholar at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and administrator at Spelman and Bennett colleges, Dr. Sharon Washington has now arrived at the University of California, Berkeley, as director of the National Writing Project.

June 25, 2008

Faculty & Staff

Furthering ‘Buffy Studies’

Five years after the television run of the fantasy/drama “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” ended, scholars are still studying the issues this program brought to America’s living rooms.

June 25, 2008

Faculty & Staff

Victim of Noose Incident, Columbia U. Professor Is Fired Amid Plagiarism Charges

Last October, hundreds of students, faculty and community activists rallied on Columbia University’s campus to protest the hanging of a noose on the office door of a popular African-American professor.

June 24, 2008