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Faculty & Staff

Columbia Professor Latest High-Profile Defection

Dr. Robin D.G. Kelley, one of the country’s most prominent Black intellectuals…

May 17, 2006

Faculty & Staff

Auditor: University of Missouri-Kansas City Faculty Diversity Is ‘Worst’ He’s Seen

The University of Missouri-Kansas City has a serious problem with its racial climate and a serious lack of diversity in its faculty…

May 17, 2006

Faculty & Staff

In Historic First, Four African-Americans Earn Math Ph.D.s at Ole Miss

The University of Mississippi will become the first American college or university to graduate four African-American students with doctorates in mathematics at one commencement this weekend.

May 11, 2006

Faculty & Staff

Professors’ Salaries at Minority-serving Institutions Lag Counterparts

A recent study, “The Devaluing of Higher Education: The Annual Report on the Economic Status of the Profession, 2005-06,” found that overall average salaries for professors declined for the second year in a row…

May 8, 2006

Faculty & Staff

University of Oregon Takes Second Stab at Diversity Plan

Faculty and students at the University of Oregon are reviewing a new “diversity plan” for the campus, after the first stab at creating such a blueprint drew a firestorm of complaints.

May 4, 2006

Students

Michigan State Professor Apologizes for Anti-Islam E-mail

A Michigan State University professor has apologized for the “tactless and hyperbolic language” he used in an e-mail to a Muslim student group in which he labeled Muslims “brutal and uncivilized” and told them to “return to their ancestral homelands.”

May 3, 2006

Faculty & Staff

U.S. Minority Culture Course Requirement Debated at Penn

A recently proposed addition to the core arts and science curriculum at the University of Pennsylvania has sparked debate…

May 3, 2006

Faculty & Staff

Columbia Professor Latest High-Profile Defection

Dr. Robin D.G. Kelley, one of the country’s most prominent Black intellectuals, is leaving Columbia University to join the University of Southern California as a joint professor of history and American studies and ethnicity…

May 1, 2006

Faculty & Staff

Auditor: UMKC Faculty Diversity is ‘Worst’ He’s Seen

The University of Missouri-Kansas City has a serious problem with its racial climate and a serious lack of diversity in its faculty, according to an audit commissioned by the school.

April 27, 2006

Faculty & Staff

Summers’ Nixing of Latino Studies

In the months following his ascension to the presidency in July 2001, Harvard University President Lawrence H. Summers was presented with two proposals to boost multicultural research at the university…

April 19, 2006

Faculty & Staff

Louisiana Insider Chosen to Lead Southern

Taking the helm of the historically Black Southern University system in the wake of Hurricane Katrina is turning out to be a wild ride…

April 19, 2006

Faculty & Staff

The Rebirth of D-Q University

The Phoenix is a traditional symbol of rebirth, but for D-Q University, a bolt cutter may be a more appropriate image. After more than 30 years as California’s only two-year tribal college…

April 19, 2006