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Faculty & Staff

Grants & Gifts

ATLANTIC CAPE COMMUNITY COLLEGE (N.J.) has received a $480,000 grant from the New Jersey Department of Labor to upgrade the skills of area casino workers. The grant will provide training programs in culinary arts, computer skills, office supervision andmanagement and customer service. COLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY has received a $3 MILLION biofuels grant from the National […]

October 1, 2008

Students

Grooming a New Cadre of Faculty Leaders

The Leadership Alliance has produced more than 100 Ph.D.s, one-third of whom are now working in the academy.

September 17, 2008

Faculty & Staff

Kent State Faculty Get Bonuses for Meeting Goals

Kent State University is offering financial bonuses to professors if they help student retention numbers and attract more research dollars, an incentive usually given to school presidents and top administrators.

September 10, 2008

Faculty & Staff

New Report: Black Colleges Crucial to Grooming New Scientists

Historically Black colleges and universities play a vital role in producing future scientists and engineers, according to a recent report released by the National Science Foundation.

September 7, 2008

Faculty & Staff

Colleges Confront Shootings With Survival Training

Hundreds of colleges across the nation have purchased a training program that teaches professors and students not to take campus threats lying down but to fight back with any “improvised weapon,” from a backpack to a laptop computer.

August 26, 2008

Faculty & Staff

Franklin D. Gilliam, Jr., Named Dean of UCLA School of Public Affairs

Dr. Franklin D. Gilliam, Jr., a member of the University of California Los Angeles’ political science faculty for more than two decades, has been named the new dean of UCLA’s School of Public Affairs, pending approval by the University of California’s Board of Regents. Gilliam is slated to begin Sept. 1.

July 15, 2008

Faculty & Staff

Survey Indicates Faculty Satisfaction at ANAC-member Institutions

The new generation of faculty, working for the Associated New American Colleges (ANAC), a consortium of private Carnegie Master institutions, believes the recruitment and retention of new faculty is improving, according to a survey conducted by ANAC, and TIAA-CREF Institute, a research firm.

July 15, 2008

Faculty & Staff

ASU Professor Will Pursue Studies on School Choice

David Garcia, an assistant professor at Arizona State University, has been selected as a 2008-2009 National Academy of Education/Spencer Postdoctoral Fellow to research the convergence of school choice and school accountability with the diversification of the Latino population in the United States.

July 8, 2008

Students

Getting to Know Sharon Washington

From faculty member at Kent State University and Springfield College to visiting scholar at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and administrator at Spelman and Bennett colleges, Dr. Sharon Washington has now arrived at the University of California, Berkeley, as director of the National Writing Project.

June 25, 2008

Students

The Early Study Abroad Trend

A growing number of South Korean students are going to English speaking countries as teenagers in hopes of gaining entry into American universities.

May 14, 2008

Students

Perspectives: The Diversity Project Provides a Different Look at Professional Development

What happens when teachers from a mostly White, suburban district and a predominantly minority urban school visit each other’s school district and share ideas about education, attended diversity seminars and worked with students throughout the experience? A new model for professional development regarding diversity emerges.

April 10, 2008

Students

DIVERSIFYING FACULTY IN ILLINOIS

A revamped initiative aims to increase minority faculty numbers throughout the state.

April 2, 2008