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Leadership & Policy

Mission Possible: Three disparate institutions raise the bar nationwide for recruiting and retaining an ethnically diverse faculty

Mission PossibleThree disparate institutions raise the bar nationwide for recruiting and retaining an ethnically diverse facultyBy Kendra HamiltonIncreases in faculty diversity tend to come slowly and incrementally — a few percentage points here, a few percentage points there. But aggressive moves by three quite disparate institutions are raising eyebrows — and raising the bar for […]

October 22, 2003

Faculty & Staff

Diverse City

Diverse CityCommunity colleges are the most diverse institutions in academia, and getting more so by the dayBy Garry BoulardOf all the many numbers that illustrate community colleges’ rich diversity, the most telling are these: In 2000, the latest year for which comparable U.S. Department of Education and U.S. Census statistics are available, 12 percent of […]

September 24, 2003

HBCUs

Securing the Homeland

Securing the Homeland Through research and development, HBCUs are confident about competing for homeland security fundsBy Ronald RoachAs a relative newcomer to the physics department at Florida A&M University, Dr. Lewis E. Johnson has managed to establish a laboratory for his research on laser remote sensing. While funding from the U.S. Army, the U.S. Department […]

September 10, 2003

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University of Texas Campuses Can Make The Choice on Affirmative Action

University of Texas Campuses Can Make The Choice on Affirmative Action SAN ANTONIOThe University of Texas Board of Regents earlier this month approved a policy that allows individual campuses within the UT System to decide whether to adopt affirmative-action criteria in admissions. Authority may be further decentralized to separate colleges and even academic departments within […]

August 27, 2003

STEM

Cal State Los Angeles Leads State System In Hiring of Minority Faculty

Cal State Los Angeles Leads State System In Hiring of Minority Faculty LOS ANGELESCalifornia State University, Los Angeles appointed a higher percentage of minority faculty in 2002 than any other California State University (CSU) campus, a recent report revealed. More than 50 percent of the faculty in tenure-track positions at CSULA were minority appointments, making […]

August 27, 2003

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Civil Rights Groups, Berkeley Settle Lawsuit Over Admissions Policy

Civil Rights Groups, Berkeley Settle Lawsuit Over Admissions PolicyBy Pamela BurdmanBERKELEY, Calif.While the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision giving a green light to race-conscious admissions was grabbing headlines, another challenge over race and admissions was quietly coming to closure. Civil rights groups settled with the University of California at Berkeley in a 4-year-old lawsuit charging that […]

July 30, 2003

Students

Expert Panels Lay Out Legal Framework for Michigan Case

Expert Panels Lay Out Legal Framework for Michigan Case WashingtonA panel of legal scholars and social science experts that have petitioned the U.S. Supreme Court in favor of maintaining the University of Michigan’s affirmative action programs laid out the legal framework for allowing the continuation of race-conscious programs to reporters at a press briefing in […]

April 9, 2003

STEM

UC Riverside Names System’s First Latina Chancellor

UC Riverside Names System’s First Latina Chancellor RIVERSIDE, Calif. Dr. France A. Córdova, a former National Aeronautics and Space Administration chief scientist, is the first Hispanic woman to lead a University of California campus. Córdova, who was sworn in as chancellor of UC Riverside last month, said her goal is to make the campus a […]

April 9, 2003

Students

Missouri-Columbia to Keep Summer Program for Minorities

Missouri-Columbia to Keep Summer Program for Minorities COLUMBIA, Mo.The University of Missouri at Columbia is sticking by its Transitions program for incoming minority students, even as other schools change or eliminate their programs in anticipation of the Supreme Court’s decision on the University of Michigan’s affirmative action case.“The Transitions program is specially designed to increase […]

March 12, 2003

African-American

Key Findings From Three Recent Studies on Race and Admissions

Key Findings From Three Recent Studies on Race and Admissions * From “Closing the Gap?: Texas College Enrollments Before and After Affirmative Action”Rates of admission for minority applicants at Texas’ flagship institutions fell sharply after the ban on affirmative action. For African Americans applying to Texas A&M University, the probability of admission fell from 74.9 […]

February 26, 2003

Students

Program Seeks to Improve Student Attainment at Minority-Serving Schools

Program Seeks to Improve Student Attainment at Minority-Serving Schools WASHINGTONTwo higher education groups have come together to launch a five-year initiative to improve retention, achievement and institutional effectiveness at minority-serving institutions. The project, Building Engagement and Attainment of Minority Students (BEAMS), was announced earlier this month by the American Association for Higher Education (AAHE), in […]

February 26, 2003

STEM

West Virginia University Tests Biometric Security System

West Virginia University Tests Biometric Security SystemBy Ronald Roach MORGANTOWN, W.Va.West Virginia University is testing a biometric hand geometry reader at one of its residence halls and the university recreation center. The reader allows students to gain entry with a simple hand scan. The testing may lead to the school becoming one of the first […]

February 12, 2003