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Faculty & Staff

A morale dilemma – black professors on white campuses – includes related article on mentorship programs for black faculty – Cover Story

Strained relations with white colleagues. Constantly having one’s credentials questioned. An unwieldy workload. Job insecurity. Lack of respect from white students. Cultural, social and professional alienation.

June 22, 2007

Faculty & Staff

Creating a powerhouse: compensation research perks sweeten pot in high-stakes competition for scholars

For the past 24 years Dr. Ron Walters has been a fixture at Howard University. The tenured chairman of the university’s political science department is widely respected in the academic community and is one of an elite group of national scholars who are considered “public intellectuals.”

June 22, 2007

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Academic theater: on the road with Cornel West, Henry Gates and SRO crowds – Standing Room Only, Henry Louis Gates Jr

Washington If the assertion, popular among mainstream writers, is true that the age of public intellectualism is dead, no one told the growing number of Black scholars and their rapidly growing non-campus following.

June 17, 2007

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Ethnic studies more timely than ever

The most active, the most public, and possibly the most sustained discourse on race and ethnicity in the university has come from those in ethnic studies.

June 16, 2007

African-American

Grad Student Works to Add Color to Military History

Black World War II veterans have largely been left out of historical accounts, but one historian is attempting to change that.

April 4, 2007

Students

Hed: Bringing a Unique Perspective

The University of New Mexico is building a multimillion-dollar health policy center to increase American Indian and Hispanic scholars’ involvement in national health policy research and development.

February 27, 2007

African-American

Book of Note: A History of Black Women in the Ivory Tower

In 1850, Lucy Stanton graduated from Oberlin College and made history as the first Black woman to earn a college degree…

February 7, 2007

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Book of Note

The Segregated Scholars offers profiles of Black intellectuals in the early 1900s…

January 10, 2007

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Historians Question Record of Tuskegee Airmen

Two historians are disputing the claim that America’s first Black fighter pilots never lost a bomber to enemy…

January 10, 2007

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Tuskegee Airmen Record Questioned by Historians

MONTGOMERY, Ala. Two historians are disputing the claim that America’s first elite Black fighter pilots never lost a bomber to enemy fire during World War II.

December 17, 2006

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Xavier University of Louisiana’s President To Receive Presidential Medal of Freedom

WASHINGTON Xavier University of Louisiana President Norman C. Francis is among this year’s recipients of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest U.S civilian award, President George W. Bush has announced.

December 10, 2006

Students

Historians John Hope Franklin, Yu Ying-shih Named Winners of 2006 John W. Kluge Prize for the Study of Humanity

Drs. John Hope Franklin and Yu Ying-shih have been named the recipients of the third John W. Kluge Prize for lifetime achievement in the study of humanity, the Library of Congress announced Wednesday. They will share the $1 million prize.

November 14, 2006