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Students, Professors Rally to Support Student in Racial Attack

Faculty and students at the University of Massachusetts are rallying around a Black biology student who is facing attempted murder charges after police say a White man taunted him with racial epithets, broke his nose and smashed his dormitory window.

March 12, 2008

Faculty & Staff

Higher Education Faculty Salaries Increased by Four Percent According to Survey

College and university faculty members received a median salary increase of 4 percent last year, according to findings by the College and University Professional Association for Human Resources (CUPA-HR) in their 2007-08 National Faculty Salary Survey.

March 10, 2008

Faculty & Staff

Descendant of University of Missouri Founder Creates Slavery Atonement Fund

Endowment will help support research into the impact, effects of slavery in the United States.

February 19, 2008

Faculty & Staff

Harvard Arts & Sciences Faculty Approve Open Access To Research

Harvard University’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences voted yesterday to give the university a worldwide license to publish their work online at no cost to the reader. The university will feature faculty’s scholarly articles in an open-access repository supported and maintained by the university.

February 13, 2008

Faculty & Staff

Harvard Arts & Sciences Faculty Approve Open Access To Research

Harvard University’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences voted yesterday to give the university a worldwide license to publish their work online at no cost to the reader. The university will feature faculty’s scholarly articles in an open-access repository supported and maintained by the university.

February 12, 2008

Faculty & Staff

Regents Deny Tenure Appeal of Intelligent Design Professor

AMES, Iowa The Iowa Board of Regents on Thursday rejected the appeal of an Iowa State University professor who claimed he was denied tenure because he supports the theory of intelligent design. Guillermo Gonzalez first appealed the university’s decision to deny him tenure last spring, a decision that was upheld by Iowa State President Greg […]

February 10, 2008

Faculty & Staff

State Board Names Kelley to Replace Kupchella as University of North Dakota President

FARGO, N.D. — Dr. Robert Kelley has been offered the job as president of the University of North Dakota, after some school supporters complained that the state Board of Higher Education should have interviewed more than one candidate.

February 4, 2008

Students

Racist Displays Persist at Minnesota College

ST. CLOUD, Minn. Bisharo Iman hoped college in St. Cloud would be different than attending high school. There would be no more taunts of “Go back to your country” aimed at her Somali dress, no more being slammed into lockers.

January 28, 2008

Students

Encouraging The Discouraged

An HSI, Heritage University serves a population that most other institutions have essentially written off as nothing more than farm laborers and service workers.

January 23, 2008

Students

Lincoln U.: Tolson Gave to Wiley Students What He Received Here

Arguing that Melvin Tolson’s passion, eloquently portrayed by Denzel Washington in “The Great Debaters,” was harvested during his time as an undergraduate at Lincoln University, the Pennsylvania HBCU is on a crusade to claim Tolson as one of its own. Officials hope to reinvigorate debating competition among HBCUs and boost student participation in the Melvin B. Tolson Literary Society, founded at Lincoln in 1966.

January 14, 2008

Faculty & Staff

Robotics Education Spreads Among HBCUs

Dr. Andrew Williams’ teaching and research efforts has sparked a robotics education movement that now extends from Spelman College to several historically Black colleges and universities.

January 12, 2008

Faculty & Staff

Emerging Scholars: The Class of 2008

Each year, as we select our “Emerging Scholars,” we’re always amazed and inspired by the accomplishments of these under-40 intellectuals.

January 9, 2008