Tag: Minorities on Campus: Page 105

Faculty & Staff

UConn Seeks Improved Diversity Training Program

UConn Seeks Improved Diversity Training Program STORRS, Conn.The University of Connecticut is teaching more than 3,000 staff members to think before they speak. Dr. Carlian Dawson, director of diversity education, said a planned diversity training program will not tell campus employees what to think, but to consider the impact of what they say.“We want people […]

January 29, 2003

Leadership & Policy

UGA Fails to Make Recruiting Minorities a Priority, Consultants Say

UGA Fails to Make Recruiting Minorities a Priority, Consultants Say ATHENS, Ga.The University of Georgia is failing in its goal to make recruiting minority students a priority, according to consultants who visited the campus and talked with faculty, staff, administrators and students. “It is seen as an important issue but not among the first five […]

January 29, 2003

Faculty & Staff

Race and its Continuing Significance on our Campuses

Race and its Continuing Significance on our Campusesan interview with Dr. Joe R. Feagin In the fall of 2002, every college president who was a member of the American Council on Education received a copy of The Continuing Significance of Racism: U.S. Colleges and Universities. This was the first in a series of occasional papers […]

January 15, 2003

Faculty & Staff

A Shared Responsibility

A Shared ResponsibilityBluefield State’s new president makes college’s success a community agendaBy Kendra Hamilton Dr. Albert L. Walker, the new president of Bluefield State College in Bluefield, W.Va., is a career educator. He has taught in public schools and institutions of higher education since 1967. Previously, he was vice chancellor for academic affairs and a […]

December 4, 2002

African-American

Colleges in Western North Carolina Struggle to Recruit Blacks

Colleges in Western North Carolina Struggle to Recruit Blacks ASHEVILLE, N.C.The lowest enrollment of Blacks in five years at the University of North Carolina at Asheville has forced changes in how the school recruits minorities. Chancellor James Mullen issued the demand after just 10 Blacks enrolled with the 438 freshmen who started at the college […]

December 4, 2002

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Funds Target Minority Science Program

Funds Target Minority Science ProgramBy Charles Dervarics The federal government is providing new funds to support minority science and engineering programs at both Black colleges and traditionally White institutions. Grants under the Minority Science and Engineering Improvement Program will go to colleges and universities with at least 50 percent minority enrollment, to increase the number […]

December 4, 2002

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Funds Target Minority Science Program

Funds Target Minority Science ProgramBy Charles Dervarics The federal government is providing new funds to support minority science and engineering programs at both Black colleges and traditionally White institutions. Grants under the Minority Science and Engineering Improvement Program will go to colleges and universities with at least 50 percent minority enrollment, to increase the number […]

December 4, 2002

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Funds Target Minority Science Program

Funds Target Minority Science ProgramBy Charles Dervarics The federal government is providing new funds to support minority science and engineering programs at both Black colleges and traditionally White institutions. Grants under the Minority Science and Engineering Improvement Program will go to colleges and universities with at least 50 percent minority enrollment, to increase the number […]

December 4, 2002

Faculty & Staff

Stepping Outside the Ivy Walls

Stepping Outside the Ivy WallsPost-Academe brings New Opportunities, New Benefits By Phaedra Brotherton FAIRFAX, Va.Drs. Johnnie and Leroy Miles have a special partnership. Married for 35 years, they have supported each other in their educational pursuits and even taught at the same university for 22 years. And when Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia […]

November 20, 2002

Faculty & Staff

Dual Dilemma

Dual DilemmaBlack faculty work to ensure access, while making the academy hospitable to minority faculty, students”Like most non-Blacks, I guess, I have, anyway, always thought that Afro-American Studies is a pseudo-discipline, invented by guilty White liberals as a way of keeping Black intellectuals out of trouble and giving them a shot at holding professorships at […]

October 23, 2002

Students

Taking a Holistic Approach to Retention

Taking a Holistic Approach to Retention By Cheryl D. FieldsLAWRENCE, KansasThe University of Kansas is well-known for its tough Jayhawks basketball team and stellar programs in aerospace engineering and accounting. In recent months, however, the university has earned a reputation as an institution where many students of color are excelling at a rate that has […]

October 23, 2002

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Enrollment of Minority Freshman Engineering Students at Seven-Year High

Enrollment of Minority Freshman Engineering Students at Seven-Year HighNEW YORKPropelled by the largest increase among first-year African American engineering majors in seven years, U.S. institutions enrolled a record 15,329 minority freshman engineering students last year, according to the National Action Council for Minorities in Engineering Inc., (NACME). The previous high of 15,181 African American, American […]

October 9, 2002