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Faculty & Staff

MIT Names First Woman President

MIT Names First Woman PresidentCAMBRIDGE, Mass.Dr. Susan Hockfield, a distinguished neuroscientist and current provost at Yale University, has been selected the 16th president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, succeeding Dr. Charles M. Vest, who has led one of the world’s foremost research universities for the past 14 years. Hockfield was elected by the MIT […]

September 22, 2004

Students

Freedom of Speech Frayed at Florida College

Freedom of Speech Frayed at Florida CollegeIn what appears to be retaliation for speaking out, five Edward Waters College administrators are abruptly terminated BY PEARL STEWARTJonathan Glenn, a college freshman with a 3.7 GPA, wrote an article for his journalism class last April complaining about the lack of campus security. Within hours of submitting the […]

August 25, 2004

Students

Congress Questions Sky-High Costs of College Textbooks

Congress Questions Sky-High Costs of College TextbooksBy Peggy OrchowskiWhy are textbooks costing community college students almost 50 percent of what they pay for tuition each year? Some members of the U.S. Congress and higher education officials sought to find an answer to that question at a recent hearing on Capitol Hill that explored the reasons […]

August 25, 2004

Faculty & Staff

Bridging the Gap

Bridging the Gap National Science Foundation initiative eases the transition from undergraduate to graduate studyBy Crystal L. Keels In recent years, the lack of underrepresented groups pursuing science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) disciplines at the graduate level aroused the concern of some far-sighted advocates. When confronted with this noted absence, however, many colleges and […]

July 28, 2004

Faculty & Staff

UPenn’s Criminology Department Is a First For an Ivy League

UPenn’s Criminology Department Is a First For an Ivy LeaguePHILADELPHIAThe University of Pennsylvania has become the first Ivy League institution to establish a criminology department. Dr. Lawrence W. Sherman, director of Penn’s Jerry Lee Center of Criminology and the Albert M. Greenfield Professor of Human Relations, will chair the new department in the School of […]

July 16, 2004

Students

Eyewitness To the Changing News Media

Eyewitness To the Changing News MediaVeteran journalist and professor Lee Thornton shares her views on the erosion of public trust in the news media and the role of journalism education in repairing that imageBy Ronald RoachMore than ever, the American news media are under public scrutiny for the way individual reporters conduct themselves, for how […]

July 14, 2004

Faculty & Staff

Tablet PCs Getting Campus Tryouts

Tablet PCs Getting Campus Tryouts Mobile computing device said to launch new era in personal computingWhen Microsoft chairman Bill Gates presided over the introduction of the Tablet PC and its Microsoft operating system in 2002, he declared the mobile computing device, which features a touchpad screen that recognizes handwriting, to be launching a new era […]

June 30, 2004

Faculty & Staff

New Answers to Old Questions

New Answers to Old QuestionsUnderground Codes: Race, Crime and Related FiresBy Katheryn Russell-Brown, New York University Press, 2004, 175 pp., $18.00 paperback, ISBN 0814775411; $55.00, cloth, ISBN 0814775403In Underground Codes, Katheryn Russell-Brown tackles a range of race and crime issues. From outdated research methods that perpetuate stereotypes about African Americans, women and crime to the […]

June 30, 2004

Faculty & Staff

Back in theTrenches

Back in theTrenchesDr. Nannerl Overholser Keohane became Duke University’s eighth president when she arrived on campus in July 1993. She also became the university’s first female president. And after 11 years of leading the 12,000-student campus in Durham, N.C., Keohane is stepping down this month to return to teaching and research. Keohane has been called […]

June 30, 2004

Faculty & Staff

Teach for America Teachers Outperform Colleagues, Study Reveals

Teach for America Teachers Outperform Colleagues, Study RevealsPRINCETON, N.J. Students of Teach for America (TFA) teachers outscored their schoolmates on math achievement tests and matched their average performance in reading, according to a national study of the program recently released by Mathematica Policy Research Inc.The study compared the performance of corps members from Teach for […]

June 30, 2004

Faculty & Staff

Giants in the Classroom

Giants in the Classroom Twenty influential scholars whose work has inspired others and made a significant impact on the academy Over the past two decades, Black Issues’ writers and editors have featured hundreds, perhaps thousands, of faculty in the magazine’s stories and interviews. Deciding on 20 faculty members whose research, teaching and service set them […]

June 16, 2004

Faculty & Staff

HBCUs Work to Diversify Aviation Field

HBCUs Work to Diversify Aviation FieldHAMPTON, VA. Less than 2 percent of the nation’s 75,000 working commercial pilots are minorities, according to a report by the Organization of Black Airline Pilots, and women accounted for only 4 percent of pilots during 2001, the Federal Aviation Administration reports.To combat this disparity, five historically Black colleges — […]

May 19, 2004