Tag: Trade & Professional Associations: Page 15

Community Colleges

New community college affirmative action policies announced; California keeps some elements of old hiring programs – Special Report Top 100 Degree Producers

California Community Colleges officials have changed the system’s affirmative action hiring policies to make sure that they don’t include any “illegal preferences” for minorities.

June 17, 2007

Faculty & Staff

Moonlighting becomes them: college faculty become entrepreneurs, high-priced consultants off-campus – African Americans

This year, Dr. Iris Mack realized her proudest moments when Associated Technologists, Inc. (ATI) earned Small Business Administration Certification within three weeks and was chosen for NASA’s quarterly hightech business forum.

June 17, 2007

Students

Identity bank: research institute launched by College Fund/UNCF has a big job ahead of it – United Negro College Fund

Former Congressman William H. Gray III has to look no further than his battles on the floor of the U.S., House of Representatives over race-specific scholarships in justifying how key the College Fund/United Negro College Fund’s newly created Frederick D. Patterson Research Institute can be to Black America.

June 17, 2007

Students

Stopping the raid on student aid

Washington In an assessment of the past political year at a Quality Education for Minorities luncheon, Dr. David Merkowitz of the American Council on Education said that threats to financial aid have been defeated and that affirmative action is still alive.

June 16, 2007

Faculty & Staff

I Have Got the Light of Freedom: The Organizing Tradition and the Mississippi Freedom Struggle. – book reviews

I’ve Got the Light of Freedom: The Organizing Tradition and the Mississippi Freedom Struggle by Charles Payne, University of California Press, Berkeley, 1995. $28.00 (For a profile of author Payne, see Black Issues, December 14.)

June 15, 2007

Faculty & Staff

Local People: The Struggle for Civil Rights in Mississippi. – book reviews

Local People: The Struggle for Civil Rights in Mississippi by John Dittmer Univ. of Illinois Press, Urbana, Illinois, 1994. $29.95 hard, $14.95 paper.

June 15, 2007

Faculty & Staff

Race and Democracy: The Civil Rights Struggle in Louisiana. – book reviews

Race and Democracy: The Civil Rights Struggle in Louisiana by Adam Fairclough, The University of Georgia Press, Athens, GA, 1995 $34.95.

June 15, 2007

Leadership & Policy

Protestors Rally Against University of Chicago Policy Not to Divest in Sudan

Activists, led by U.S. Rep. Bobby Rush, D.-Ill., gathered outside the University of Chicago Business School last week to protest the school’s refusal to divest from companies doing business in the African nation of Sudan.

June 4, 2007

Health

Faculty Unions Come Together in Renewed Spirit

With private colleges governed by the National Labor Relations Act and only one-third of public colleges unionized, faculty and staff at many colleges are finding themselves voiceless.

May 7, 2007

Leadership & Policy

Supply and Demand Diversity

Minority-owned businesses are fighting for a place at the table in the lucrative higher education service industry.

May 2, 2007

Home

Minority Scholars Share Strategies At “Keeping Our Faculties”’ Conference

Despite gains in recent years, the percentage of minority faculty still lags behind the overall population and the percentage of minority students.

May 2, 2007

Leadership & Policy

Supply and Demand Diversity

Minority-owned businesses are fighting for a place at the table in the lucrative higher education service industry.

May 2, 2007