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Faculty & Staff
Padron’s way – Miami-Dade Community College
Combined with racial and faculty/administrative tensions, the take-charge style of President Eduardo J. Padron is creating a highly-charged power struggle at Miami-Dade Community College
July 13, 2007
Students
Teaching technology technique – computers as teaching tools in postsecondary education
Educators contemplate the appropriate use of technology in the postsecondary environment
July 13, 2007
Faculty & Staff
Diversifying the fourth estate – journalism schools
Will journalism schools continue to pursue students of color now that the American Society of Newspaper Editors has scaled back its commitment to diversity?
July 13, 2007
Faculty & Staff
Plotting the assassination of little red Sambo: psychologists join war against racist campus mascots – Native American mascots
Psychologists Join War Against Racist Campus Mascots
July 12, 2007
Faculty & Staff
Blues for blacks at Bluefield State: African Americans awkwardly strive to regain a presence at the nation’s whitest HBCU – historically black colleges and universities
More than one hundred years after the founding of Bluefield State College, the main campus remains poised high upon a hill above railroad tracks and overlooking the town’s business district. For generations, the children of Black families living largely in southern West Virginia earned college degrees from this small teacher’s college.
July 12, 2007
Faculty & Staff
Professors want affirmative action back – University of California at Berkeley faculty
Berkeley, Calif. A group of University of California-Berkeley faculty members — alarmed about plunging admissions of African Americans, Native Americans, and Latinos in the aftermath of California’s Proposition 209 — are the latest group to urge passage of a new, student-authored measure called the Equal Educational Opportunity Initiative (EEOI).
July 12, 2007
Students
Making mentorship count: surviving Ph.D. programs requires someone who is willing to show the way
By his own admission, Dr. Damian Rouson’s initial adjustment from Howard University to the graduate engineering program at Stanford University was difficult.
July 12, 2007
Students
Gems of wisdom: avoiding derailment on the doctorate track
Dr. Howard Adams has been engaged in the struggle to attract more African American students into graduate education in science and engineering for more than twenty years. In that time, he has witnessed measurable improvement in the academic caliber, motivation, and preparedness of African American undergraduates.
July 12, 2007
Faculty & Staff
It’s not rocket science – finding African American undergraduates for graduate study in science – includes related articles
Earlier in his career, Dr. Luther S. Williams spent nearly ten years as the only faculty member of color out of seventy in his department at Purdue University. The African American microbiologist is now assistant director of education and human resources at the National Science Foundation (NSF).
July 12, 2007
Students
Leading from Behind
Two historically Black colleges aspire to become more than just feeder schools
July 12, 2007
Students
The ill-prepared and the ill-informed – remedial education feud in New York
NEW YORK City Council members presented three community college students here with a special proclamation this month, congratulating them on winning a national chess championship.
July 11, 2007
Faculty & Staff
Summer camp for profs! – Faculty Resource Network, New York University
When Morris Brown College wanted faculty members to participate in a highly regarded faculty development program during the summer of 1997, school administrators turned to Dr. Kathie Stromile Golden, a newly hired political science professor in the school’s social science department, to make a pitch to her peers.
July 11, 2007
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