Tag: Faculty: Page 135

Faculty & Staff

First Female Dean of Temple University’s Law School Talks of New Plans

Diverse talks with JoAnne Epps, recently named dean of Temple University’s Beasley School of Law, who is the first woman to hold that position and one of a few female African-American deans at major law schools in the United States.

April 20, 2008

Faculty & Staff

New Mexico State Official Apologizes for Bad ‘Humor’

An associate dean at New Mexico State University who was accused of e-mailing pornography to others at the school has apologized, according to a confidential memo.

April 15, 2008

Faculty & Staff

AAUP Report on Faculty Salaries Asks “Where Are the Priorities?”

Faculty members’ salaries nationwide are not keeping up with inflation, while head football coaches, college presidents and other high level universities official are seeing a significant rise in pay, says a report by the American Association of University Professors.

April 13, 2008

Students

Perspectives: The Diversity Project Provides a Different Look at Professional Development

What happens when teachers from a mostly White, suburban district and a predominantly minority urban school visit each other’s school district and share ideas about education, attended diversity seminars and worked with students throughout the experience? A new model for professional development regarding diversity emerges.

April 10, 2008

Faculty & Staff

Breaking Down Barriers: Women of Color in the Sciences

When Angelica Patterson became program manager for the department of environmental science at Barnard College, the undergraduate women’s college of Columbia University, she saw very few fellow women of color in her department.

April 7, 2008

Faculty & Staff

Johns Hopkins Pledges $5 Million Toward Faculty Diversity Initiative

Johns Hopkins University announced plans to invest at least $5 million over the next five years in the Mosaic Initiative, a program focused on hiring and retaining women and people of color.

April 7, 2008

Students

Filipino American Studies Takes Root At UIUC

As scholars try to get university administrators across the country to understand how distinct Filipino American studies are, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign program continues to expand.

April 2, 2008

Students

FINALLY TAKING ROOT

As scholars try to get university administrators across the country to understand how distinct Filipino American studies are, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign program continues to expand.

April 2, 2008

Faculty & Staff

Chicano/Latino History Scholar Named Dean at UC Irvine

Dr. Vicki L. Ruiz, a University of California/Irvine historian specializing in Chicano/Latino studies, has been named dean of the UCI School of Humanities.

April 1, 2008

Faculty & Staff

At Diversifying Colleges Tenure Still a Hurdle for Women, Minorities

Educators gathered for the workshop on promoting faculty diversity at the National Education Association: American Federation of Teachers (NEA-AFT) conference held in Washington last week, heard from higher education officials about not only achieving a racially diverse faculty, but achieving a diversity, which also includes women and people with disabilities.

March 30, 2008

Faculty & Staff

WOMEN REDEFINING LEADERSHIP

Nine recently appointed college and association presidents discuss the challenges unique to their own institutions, those facing higher education in general, and more.

March 19, 2008

Faculty & Staff

Improving the Communities Scholars Study

The research taking place in Africa on educational equity most often benefits the scholars who publish studies and has little direct impact on the lives of those being studied, a researcher said during a presentation Monday at the 52nd Annual Conference of the Comparative & International Education Society.

March 17, 2008