Tag: Research: Page 33

Leadership & Policy

DA Mulls Dropping Ex-UNC Professor’s Fraud Charge

Julius Nyang’oro is embroiled in a scandal involving academics and athletics.

June 24, 2014

African-American

Panel: Community-Based Programs Vital for Black Male Educational Achievement

In a series of back-to-back panels, the experts argued that too often young Black men are held back by a series of factors that are often beyond their control, such as poverty, poor school systems and chaotic family lives.

June 23, 2014

Community Colleges

Vice President for Academic Affairs

Philander Smith College seeks a Director of Sponsored Programs who can continue to grow the College’s external funding portfolios.

June 22, 2014

Community Colleges

Dean, College of Nursing and Health Sciences

LIT’s President has broad responsibility for the leadership and management of LIT and its resources and guides the institution in developing its mission, goals and strategic plans. The President oversees the recruitment, retention and promotion of all faculty and staff, and reports to the Chancellor of the Texas State University System, which is composed of eight different campuses and 83,000 students

June 22, 2014

African-American

Generation X: The Distinguished Generation

A recent study conducted by the Pew Research Center earlier this spring focused on Generation X. This is the group of Americans born between 1965 and 1979.

June 22, 2014

Leadership & Policy

Randolph-Macon College’s Less Heralded Congressional Candidate Puts Education Atop Agenda

Democratic nominee Jack Trammell will take on fellow Randolph-Macon professor David Brat, who barreled into the political spotlight with an upset of incumbent Eric Cantor, in Virginia’s seventh district race.

June 17, 2014

Home

New Jersey Study Underscores Importance of State-level College Research

What New Jersey residents had to say and how the research will be utilized in education advocacy at the state level has national implications.

June 15, 2014

African-American

Ex-Offender/Law School Grad’s White House Access Plight Brings Reality to Table

When a delegation went to the White House recently to deliver a set of policy recommendations related to President Barack Obama’s “My Brother’s Keeper” initiative, one brother was kept out — ostensibly because of his background as an ex-offender.

June 8, 2014

Sports

U.S. Defense Department, NCAA Collaborating on Brain Injury Research

A joint effort by the U.S. Department of Defense and the National Collegiate Athletic Association on a $30 million investigation of concussion and head impact exposure will study an estimated 37,000 student-athletes.

June 5, 2014

LGBTQ+

University of Arkansas Reverses Course on Gay Health Benefits

The University of Arkansas System has reversed its decision to include same-sex couples in the health benefits that is offered to spouses.

May 21, 2014

Faculty & Staff

Israeli, Chinese Universities to Collaborate

Two top universities from Israel and China announced Monday that they are starting a $300 million research project focused on nanotechnologies.

May 19, 2014

African-American

IU Professor Describes the Origins of the Asian ‘Model Minority’ in the U.S.

Ellen Wu, assistant professor of history at Indiana University Bloomington, recalls the origins and development of the Asian “model minority” stereotype in recent book.

May 18, 2014