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Faculty & Staff

Faculty Members Weigh In on the Gender Divide in Academia

Faculty Members Weigh In on the Gender Divide in AcademiaIn 2001, a roundtable on gender disparities for female professors in higher education was held at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The focus of the roundtable was “how best to ensure women professors experience the same opportunities, recognition and rewards as their male counterparts.” Some three […]

March 24, 2004

Faculty & Staff

Faculty Science Positions Continue to Elude Women of Color

Faculty Science Positions Continue to Elude Women of ColorOklahoma professor’s study finds hiring, tenure remain stumbling blocksWomen and underrepresented minorities are receiving the doctorate in record numbers these days. For example, women got 45 percent and minorities 19 percent of the 39,955 doctoral degrees awarded in 2000, and both figures were all-time highs.So it comes […]

March 24, 2004

Faculty & Staff

Still Having Her Say

Still Having Her Say More than a decade after becoming a household name, Harvard Law professor Lani Guinier holds true to her beliefs, principles. By Ronald RoachThat Lani Guinier is one of the most publicly visible and outspoken scholars in the American academy should not come as a surprise to anyone who has followed her […]

March 24, 2004

African-American

Scholars of Note: English

EnglishIlluminating The DiasporaBrent Hayes EdwardsTitle: Associate Professor of English, Department of English, Rutgers University, New BrunswickEducation: Ph.D., M.A., Department of English and Comparative Literature, Columbia University; B.A., Literature, Yale University Age: 35Following his college graduation, Brent Hayes Edwards left the United States for Paris — armed with a condensed library of African American and Francophone […]

January 14, 2004

Health

Report: Race, Income Key Factors in Women’s Health, Insurance

Report: Race, Income Key Factors in Women’s Health, InsuranceLOS ANGELESRace and income levels are key factors in determining whether women are healthy and whether they have health insurance, according to a public health report released last month.The University of California, Los Angeles, Center for Health Policy Research examined overall health, insurance coverage and access to […]

January 14, 2004

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Retiring UC President Criticizes Dropping Affirmative Action

Retiring UC President Criticizes Dropping Affirmative Action SAN FRANCISCOUniversity of California President Richard C. Atkinson is leaving his post the same way he came in, firmly opposed to banning race and gender from the admissions process. “I continue to believe those were the wrong decisions,” Atkinson said last month in a written farewell presented to […]

October 8, 2003

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Minority Women See Advancement Through Information Technology

Minority Women See Advancement Through Information TechnologyBy Ronald Roach University Park, Pa.When compared to middle class and professional minority women, poor minority women have higher expectations for social and economic advancement through opportunities in information technology (IT), including escaping poverty as a step to upward mobility, according to a researcher at Penn State University. A […]

June 18, 2003

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New Study Uncovers Hidden Dropout Crisis

New Study Uncovers Hidden Dropout Crisis WASHINGTON A new study shows that the nation’s high school dropout rate may be as high as 30 percent, almost three times higher than government estimates. The study commissioned by The Business Roundtable (BRT) and conducted by the Center for Labor Market Studies (CLMS) at Northeastern University, revealed that […]

June 4, 2003

Sports

Report: Minorities, Women Losing Ground in Sports Employment

Report: Minorities, Women Losing Ground in Sports EmploymentNEW YORKWomen and minorities are losing ground in professional and college sports employment, reversing a trend toward greater diversity, according to a study released last month.Every professional sport had lower averages for employing women compared with the last “Racial and Gender Report Card” two years ago, and minority […]

May 21, 2003

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Veteran Black Professors Share Tales of Being

Veteran Black Professors Share Tales of Being The New Kid on the Academic Block By Robin V. Smiles WASHINGTONDr. Trudier Harris-Lopez is one of the most well-known, widely published and well-respected scholars in African American literary studies. And after 30 years in the academy, she has her share of battle scars to show. As the […]

May 21, 2003

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Older Men, Minorities Report Lower Rates of Treatment for Depression

Older Men, Minorities Report Lower Rates of Treatment for Depression LOS ANGELESOlder men, African Americans and Latinos with clinical depression reported significantly lower rates of treatment than other participants surveyed in a national study led by UCLA Neuropsychiatric Institute researchers. Overall, less than one in three depressed older adults studied had received potentially effective treatment […]

May 7, 2003

LGBTQ+

The Key to the Closet: Making Race and Sexuality Matter

The Key to the Closet: Making Race and Sexuality Matter Black Like Us: A Century of Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual African American FictionEdited by Devon W. Carbado, Dr. Dwight A. McBride, and Donald Weise Foreword by Evelyn C. White Cleis Press, 2002, 555 pp., $29.95, Trade paper, ISBN 1-57344-108-2 Fiction by gay, lesbian and bisexual […]

January 15, 2003