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Grants & Awards

The Virginia B. Ball Center for Creative Inquiry at Ball State University (Ind.) has received a $400,000 grant from the Edmund F. Ball and the Virginia B. Ball Foundation that will allow the center to continue its semester-long immersive interdisciplinary programs. The university also recently received a $186,000 estate gift from the late J.D. Wickersham […]

April 19, 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…

April 18, 2006

Faculty & Staff

U.S. Minority Culture Course Requirement Debated at UPenn

A recently proposed addition to the core arts and science curriculum at the University of Pennsylvania has sparked debate among its administrators and faculty about what should be taught to freshmen and why…

April 16, 2006

Faculty & Staff

Univ. of Colorado Diversity Commission Reviews Colorado Springs Campus

The University of Colorado at Colorado Springs should do more to encourage mentor relationships between students and professors, and recruit more minority students and faculty, several students said at a meeting on diversity…

April 9, 2006

Faculty & Staff

Study: Races Have Different Wishes for Twilight Years

A recent study by a University of Michigan faculty member suggests that racial and ethnic cultural differences extend even to the final days of life…

April 5, 2006

Faculty & Staff

Diversity Delayed, Excellence Denied

Champions of diversity in higher education collectively celebrate the rising young academic stars featured in Diverse magazine’s annual Emerging Scholars issue…

April 5, 2006

Faculty & Staff

Indiana University Admissions Plan

A civil rights attorney and visiting Indiana University professor says a proposal to raise admission standards would prevent poor and minority students from enrolling…

March 22, 2006

Faculty & Staff

Starting Anew

Not a day goes by that Dr. Jeanine R. Burse doesn’t wonder what she would be doing if she hadn’t been laid off from her job at Xavier University of New Orleans…

March 22, 2006

Faculty & Staff

UMass Offers Science Degrees For K-12 Teachers

In an effort to address the national shortage of qualified K-12 science teachers, UMassOnline, the online arm of the University of Massachusetts system…

March 22, 2006

Faculty & Staff

Rifts Between Harvard President

Harvard President Lawrence H. Summers’ often-stormy five-year presidency, marred by numerous faculty conflicts and resignations in protest over his abrasive leadership style…

March 8, 2006

Students

Retired Missouri Professor Trains Journalists With Al-Jazeera

A retired University of Missouri journalism professor who has been helping train journalists for the Arab news agency Al-Jazeera knows his work might have its critics…

March 8, 2006

Students

Under Construction: Building the Engineering Pipeline

Not since the days of the Sputnik I rocket launch by the former Soviet Union have U.S. policymakers worried so much and so openly about America’s competitiveness on the world stage…

March 8, 2006