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Recruitment & Retention

Columbia Dedicates $15M to Enhance Ongoing Efforts to Diversify Faculty

Columbia University this week announced the dedication of $15 million to jump start a new recruitment campaign and to accelerate other ongoing efforts to diversify its faculty Story:

August 2, 2005

Recruitment & Retention

University of Georgia President Says School Will Increase Black Enrollment

University of Georgia President Says School Will Increase Black EnrollmentOnly 200 Black students enrolled out of a class of 4,500 freshmenATHENS, Ga. University of Georgia President Michael Adams said the school will take steps in the coming year to increase its enrollment of Black freshmen. He declined to comment on a faculty committee’s recommendation that […]

December 29, 2004

Students

A First, More Than Half of University of New Mexico Freshmen Are Minorities

A First, More Than Half of University of New Mexico Freshmen Are MinoritiesALBUQUERQUE, N.M.  Minority students make up just over half of new freshmen at the University of New Mexico (UNM) for the first time in the school’s history. UNM enrolled a record 3,086 freshmen this fall. That includes 1,550 Hispanics, American Indians and other […]

December 15, 2004

Faculty & Staff

Va. Tech Receives Grant to Study Black IT Recruitment

Va. Tech Receives Grant to Study Black IT RecruitmentBLACKSBURG, Va.A  research team led by faculty members from Virginia Tech’s Pamplin College of Business has received a National Science Foundation grant of $617,000 to study the recruitment and retention of African Americans in information technology-related graduate studies and jobs.Wanda Smith, associate professor of management, will direct […]

October 6, 2004

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

Students

Intellectual Entrepreneurship: Successfully Engaging Hearts, Minds in Graduate Education

Intellectual Entrepreneurship: Successfully Engaging Hearts, Minds in Graduate Education By Dr. Richard A. Cherwitz and Susan Alvarado Boyd Following the Supreme Court’s recent ruling on affirmative action in admissions to graduate and professional programs, many institutions are contemplating how, if at all, to use race and ethnicity in making admissions decisions. The court’s ruling notwithstanding, […]

October 8, 2003

Recruitment & Retention

CareerBuilder.com Partners With the AfterCollege Network

CareerBuilder.com Partners With the AfterCollege NetworkBy Ronald Roach CHICAGO CareerBuilder.com, a Web-based job recruitment service, and AfterCollege, a leading provider of targeted college recruitment and branding services, has announced a strategic partnership that is expected to create one of the largest targeted college recruiting networks in North America. CareerBuilder.com will deliver over 400,000 job postings […]

September 10, 2003

Recruitment & Retention

Teacher Recruitment Act Offers Loan Forgiveness

Teacher Recruitment Act Offers Loan ForgivenessBy Charles Dervarics The full House has approved legislation to restructure and improve federal teacher education programs, offering more aid to those who agree to teach in high-poverty and high-need schools. The Teacher Recruitment and Retention Act would more than triple the amount of loan forgiveness for teacher education graduates […]

July 30, 2003

Students

Intellectual Entrepreneurship: Successfully Engaging Hearts, Minds in Graduate Education

Intellectual Entrepreneurship: Successfully Engaging Hearts, Minds in Graduate Education By Dr. Richard A. Cherwitz and Susan Alvarado Boyd Following the Supreme Court’s recent ruling on affirmative action in admissions to graduate and professional programs, many institutions are contemplating how, if at all, to use race and ethnicity in making admissions decisions. The court’s ruling notwithstanding, […]

July 2, 2003

Recruitment & Retention

Higher Education’s Tough Economic Times Affect Recruitment, Studies Say

Higher Education’s Tough Economic Times Affect Recruitment, Studies Say RESTON, Va.The past year’s sagging economy has caused many schools to retool their recruiting tactics, according to findings in a new national survey released last month. A separate report, also released last month, predicts that the current financial problems facing higher education could last as long […]

April 9, 2003

Recruitment & Retention

College, Corporate Coalition Develop Career Web Site

College, Corporate Coalition Develop Career Web SiteBy Ronald RoachBETHLEHEM, Pa.A coalition of college career center directors and corporate human resource executives have unveiled a Web-based, national college recruiting system intended to link colleges, students and employers. The project, NACElink, a joint venture of the Direct Employers Association and the National Association of Colleges and Employers […]

February 12, 2003

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