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Faculty & Staff

University of North Carolina System Schools Facing Layoffs

The University of North Carolina at Greensboro and North Carolina A&T are facing layoffs due to budget cuts.

August 11, 2013

Students

In $25M Gift, Casino Mogul Bets on Blindness Cure

Las Vegas casino mogul Steve Wynn will donate $25 million to the University of Iowa to accelerate the search for cures to rare eye diseases including the one that hampers his own vision, the school announced Thursday.

August 8, 2013

Faculty & Staff

Harvard Scholar Henry Louis Gates to Host African-American History Series

Dr. Henry Louis Gates Jr. returns to PBS this fall to narrate a six-part documentary series that presents a sweeping look at African-American history from the early 1500s to present-day America.

August 8, 2013

Students

Don’t Let Credit Cards Fool You While in College

If you are a new or returning college student make sure that you have the credit card conversation with your family.

August 7, 2013

Faculty & Staff

Diverse Docket: College of the Mainland Prevails

A Texas community college that fired an African-American tenured history faculty member for disciplinary reasons has won a racial discrimination and retaliation case.

August 7, 2013

Faculty & Staff

New Look at Old Community Recasting History of Free Blacks in America

The Hill on Maryland’s Eastern Shore is a historic community of free Blacks that predates Treme’, a neighborhood in New Orleans, which had been recognized as the oldest neighborhood of free Blacks.

August 7, 2013

Faculty & Staff

Alabama State University Program Creates International Collaboration

This summer, two scientists from Ege University in Izmir, Turkey, traveled to ASU to learn new nanotechnology techniques.

August 5, 2013

Faculty & Staff

Dept. of Surgery, UAB Multiple Faculty Positions

During the calendar year 2012/13, it is anticipated that there may be vacancies on the full-time faculty of the Department of Surgery in one or more of the following Divisions: Cardiovascular, Otolaryngology and Thoracic Surgery, Pediatric Surgery, General Surgery, Plastic Surgery, Neurosurgery, Transplantation, Orthopedic Surgery

August 1, 2013

Students

San Jose State’s MOOC Missteps Easy to See

As most people in ed-tech circles have heard by now, a much-touted MOOC experiment has ended in embarrassment.

July 29, 2013

Faculty & Staff

LSU Employees To Get First Pay Raises in Over Four Years

BATON ROUGE La.—LSU faculty and staff will see pay raises of up to 4 percent, under the first salary increase for campuses in more than four years, LSU System President F. King Alexander said Friday. Exactly who will get raises, what type of salary increase people will receive and how much they will cost remains […]

July 28, 2013

Faculty & Staff

Woodruff Mural Collection Chronicling the Past, Providing Hope for Future

Talladega College hopes to raise $10 million during the tour in order to make a new arts building a reality.

July 18, 2013

Faculty & Staff

HBCUs Urged to Develop Strategic Plans for International Education Programs

In the push to help create high-impact international education programs, the American Council on Education has organized an institute on ‘internationalizing’ historically Black institutions.

July 18, 2013