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Faculty & Staff

Closed For Business

While Community College of Philadelphia administrators and faculty engage in negotiating gamesmanship in week two of a faculty strike, CCP’s 37,000 students — most of whom are Black — continue to be denied access to the only community college serving the city of Philadelphia and Philadelphia County.

March 21, 2007

Faculty & Staff

MIT’s Black Hole

For at least 25 years, faculty diversity has been a recurrent, vexing issue at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology…

March 21, 2007

Faculty & Staff

Right Person Right Time

The appointment of Dr. Drew Gilpin Faust, the first woman named president of Harvard University…

March 21, 2007

Faculty & Staff

One Play A Day

Undergraduate theater students rarely get the chance to work on a major world premiere, but this year hundreds of them will…

March 21, 2007

Faculty & Staff

Just the Stats: It Pays to Be A New Professor

The “2006-2007 National Faculty Salary Survey,” released this week by the College and University Professional Association for Human Resource, shows that new ethnic, cultural and gender studies professors posted higher salary gains than professors in other disciplines.

March 15, 2007

Students

The ‘Whipping Boys’ of California Higher Education, CSU Faculty Say Strike Vote is About Getting Respect For Their Work, Protecting Students

As they enter the final day of voting to authorize a work stoppage, California State University faculty say they’re tired of being “devalued,” and they demand competitive salaries, improved student services and better leadership of the nation’s largest university system.

March 14, 2007

Students

Demystifying the Process

Twenty-four faculty members representing more than 20 historically Black colleges and universities gathered recently…

March 7, 2007

Faculty & Staff

Duke’s Devil of a Mess

Last spring, at the height of the frenzy over accusations that three Duke University men’s lacrosse players had gang raped a Black exotic dancer during a party…

March 7, 2007

Faculty & Staff

Mississippi Valley State President Announces Panel to Bring Officials Together

ITTA BENA, Miss. Mississippi Valley State University President Lester C. Newman has appointed a new committee to bring members of the faculty and administration together.

March 5, 2007

Faculty & Staff

Mississippi Valley State University Faculty Senate Hands President ‘No Confidence’ Vote

JACKSON, Miss. Members of Mississippi Valley State University’s faculty senate have expressed “no confidence” in the school’s president in a 33-1 vote.

March 1, 2007

Faculty & Staff

Duke’s Devil of A Mess

For Diverse’s Web readers only: an advanced copy of our March 8th edition’s exclusive on how Black professors are under fire at Duke. With the criminal case against the lacrosse players unraveling, a group of professors are now facing fierce criticism that their own biases fueled a “lynch-mob mentality” on campus that has destroyed the reputations of three young men.

February 25, 2007

Faculty & Staff

Perspectives: University of Illinois Misses A Teachable Moment On The Mascot

When University of Illinois officials announced the retirement of Chief Illiniwek, the controversial mascot who made his last offensive performance yesterday, they missed an opportunity to acknowledge the concerns of the Native community and address the hostile campus environment created by the Chief. Instead, opponents of the Chief fear they may have generated more resentment of American Indian students.

February 21, 2007