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Faculty & Staff

Pleasure Principle: Focusing on the Good in Education

Pleasure Principle: Focusing on the Good in EducationMany readers of The Pleasures of Academe will sympathize with author James Axtell’s first sentence: “I couldn’t wait to go to college and I couldn’t stand to leave at graduation.”Despite the common sentiment, however, few people remain to become professors. And while many Americans have opinions about what […]

April 12, 2000

Students

Howard Bugs Typify Challenge Of Updating Technology

Howard Bugs Typify Challenge Of Updating  TechnologyWASHINGTON — Damned if you do, damned if you don’t. That’s what Howard University administrators here may be saying in light of criticism that has come their way in recent weeks.Anxious to update an old mainframe with  new software in time for the Y2K turnover, administrators implemented a system […]

March 29, 2000

Faculty & Staff

Pleasure Principle: Focusing on the Good in Education

Pleasure Principle: Focusing on the Good in EducationMany readers of The Pleasures of Academe will sympathize with author James Axtell’s first sentence: “I couldn’t wait to go to college and I couldn’t stand to leave at graduation.”Despite the common sentiment, however, few people remain to become professors. And while many Americans have opinions about what […]

March 29, 2000

Leadership & Policy

Expecting Standards

Expecting StandardsDupont Circle associations wrestle with meeting high diversity expectations.WASHINGTON — The American Council of Education recently lost two of the most visible minorities in higher education. Dr. Deborah Wilds, the association’s deputy director of the Office of Minority Concerns, recently left to become a program officer at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (see […]

March 15, 2000

Leadership & Policy

Campus Crimes Survey Angers HBCU Officials

Campus Crimes Survey Angers HBCU OfficialsATLANTA — When administrators at Morehouse College here learned that the editors at a crime news Web site had dubbed the campus potentially one of the most dangerous places in America for students to pursue a higher education, they were mortified.After all, this 3,000-student school logged no murders, no sexual […]

March 1, 2000

Students

Racist Incidents Mar Black History Month at Colleges Across the Country

Racist Incidents Mar Black History Month at Colleges Across the CountryWash. Student Leader Accused of Making Racial Remark About AdministratorSPOKANE, Wash. — The Spokane Falls Community College student government president has been accused of making a racist remark about an administrator. A student panel is being formed to hear the case.The dispute centers on April […]

March 1, 2000

Leadership & Policy

Turning a New Page In History

Turning a New Page In HistoryI  vividly recall the spring day nearly four years ago, when then executive editor of Black Issues In Higher Education, Karin Chenoweth, called looking for someone to write an article about retirement plans. At the time, I was new to Washington, D.C., and working as a freelance journalist. Though I […]

February 16, 2000

Leadership & Policy

Congressman and College President Could Mediate Flag Dispute

Congressman and College President Could Mediate Flag DisputeCOLUMBIA, S.C. — U.S. Rep. Jim Clyburn and College of Charleston President Alex Sanders could be brought in as mediators by the governor to help settle the Confederate flag issue. “I guess it’s because I’m such a universally loved and admired person, right?” Sanders joked last month. “And […]

February 2, 2000

Leadership & Policy

Collegespeak

Collegespeak What’s The Real Meaning Behind All That Higher Education Jargon?WASHINGTON — Happen to know what “scaffolded reading and learning episodes” are? Able to define “task-centered talking,” “bibliobaskets,” “academic villages?” How about “manifestation determinations?” Huh?The world of higher education is chock full of catch phrases, both catchy and kitschy. Many education experts say the lingo […]

January 19, 2000

Leadership & Policy

Tumultuous Tenure

Tumultuous TenureCHICAGO — Dr. Charles Green’s resume was im-pressive. He had served as president of the Hous-ton Community Colleges system for five years, before that, president of one of the prestigious Maricopa Community Colleges in Phoenix for nine years and, prior to that, as a dean at Inver Hills Community College in Minnesota. But suddenly […]

January 19, 2000

Leadership & Policy

Thinking K-16

Thinking K-16Once again, higher education and K-12 officials try to align standards.WASHINGTON — A group of 18 higher education leaders, most of whom are university system chancellors and presidents, joined with 10 state school superintendents last month to pledge that they will each do their part to ensure that all high school students are prepared […]

January 5, 2000

Leadership & Policy

BI What’s New

Dr.  Randolph Bromery, the former chancellor of the University of Massachusetts, has set up a fund on that campus for minority students in the geosciences.“The fund represents a larger philosophy of increasing the numbers of African Americans in the scientific professions across the board,” Bromery says.Bromery, who used to teach in the department, has been […]

January 5, 2000