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Faculty & Staff

Creating a Fitting Tribute Duke University Honors Historian John Hope Franklin

Creating  a Fitting Tribute Duke University Honors Historian John Hope FranklinThe idea of creating a tribute to world-renowned historian Dr. John Hope Franklin at Duke University was easy for administrators and faculty to support. Deciding what the tribute should be and raising the $20 million dollars needed to build it, however, has proven more challenging than […]

January 17, 2001

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Tulsa’s University Center Wants Clarification of Race Riot Bill

Tulsa’s University Center Wants Clarification of Race Riot BillTulsa, Okla. A provision of the Tulsa Race Riot bill that calls for a parcel of city land to be deeded for a proposed memorial has been questioned by the University Center at Tulsa Authority. A provision of House Bill 2468 calls for the authority to deed […]

January 17, 2001

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Moynihan Takes Job At Syracuse University

Moynihan Takes Job At Syracuse UniversitySYRACUSE, N.Y. Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan, the former Democratic senator from New York, has accepted a faculty position with the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University. The 73-year-old will continue to live and keep an office in Washington and commute regularly to Syracuse, The New York […]

January 3, 2001

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Va. Professor Works With Bill Cosby

Va. Professor Works With Bill Cosby To Publish Electronic Book on Education NORFOLK, Va. A n educational reform professor at Old Dominion University has a prominent co-author on a new electronic book: Dr. Bill Cosby. The book, American Schools: The $100 Billion Challenge, suggests using the federal surplus to spend $100 billion more a year on […]

November 8, 2000

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Howard University Dean Named to Javits Fellowship Board

Howard University Dean Named to Javits Fellowship Board Dr. Orlando L. Taylor, dean of Howard University’s Graduate School, has been named to the Jacob K. Javits Fellows Program Fellowship Board by U.S. Secretary of Education Richard W. Riley.Taylor, who also directs Howard’s Ronald E. McNair Post-Baccalaureate Achievement Program and its Preparing Future Faculty Program, will […]

November 8, 2000

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What’s New

The City University of New York-Baruch College’s Weissman School of Arts and Sciences has added a master’s program in business journalism. The program will teach students how to identify and analyze business issues and trends, develop a keen sense of news judgment, and set stories within cultural, economic, ethical, social, and political contexts.The program consists […]

July 7, 1999

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Letters to the Editor

Giving Credit Where Credit is DueI read with interest the article you wrote on Dr. David Swinton and Benedict College, which appeared in the June 10, 1999 issue of Black Issues In Higher Education.  I commend you for writing such a fine article.  I also commend Dr. Swinton for the aggressive manner in which he […]

July 7, 1999