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Faculty & Staff

Tuskegee’s Time

From its earliest years, Tuskegee University, known initially as Tuskegee Institute, navigated the higher education landscape with considerable skill…

December 27, 2006

Faculty & Staff

In Memorian

In Memorian Gerald M. Boyd: The first Black managing editor of the New York Times, Boyd was instrumental in coverage that won the newspaper three Pulitzers: for articles about the first World Trade Center bombing, for a series on children of poverty, and for a series on race relations in the United States. It was […]

December 27, 2006

Faculty & Staff

Boston College Researchers To Develop Urban Environmental Science Curriculum

Working with at least 50 high school science teachers and 5,000 high school students over the next three years…

December 27, 2006

Faculty & Staff

Prospective College Students Receptive to Electronic Social Networking Recruitment Methods, Survey Finds

In the era of Facebook.com, MySpace.com and instant messaging, prospective college students…

December 27, 2006

Faculty & Staff

New Nursing Ph.D. Recommendation Rankles Some

In an effort to raise the standards for advanced-practice nurses — a select group who work as practitioners…

December 13, 2006

Students

MLA Report Calls for Tenure and Promotion Changes

New demands for research productivity, shrinking humanities lists by academic publishers and fears about limited opportunities for junior scholars are among the factors that prompted a landmark study released today by the Modern Language Association of America.

December 7, 2006

Faculty & Staff

Harvard Civil Rights Project Moves to UCLA

The Civil Rights Project will move next year from Harvard University to the University of California, Los Angeles, where it will have access to a more diverse faculty and take on more issues, including those affecting Hispanics.

November 30, 2006

Faculty & Staff

Leadership 101

Indisputably, Nan Keohane has enjoyed a long and storied career in higher education…

November 15, 2006

Faculty & Staff

The True Meaning of Mentorship

Josephine, if I were you, I wouldn’t invest time in helping Kandace secure this position…

November 15, 2006

Faculty & Staff

Perspectives: The True Meaning of Mentorship

One professor recounts how women scholars helped her navigate the academy.

November 14, 2006

Faculty & Staff

Research Round-Up: Impact of Discrimination on Health, Innovative Teaching Methods of Minority Faculty and Racial Disparities in Care For HIV Patients

Racial discrimination may be an important reason why Blacks suffer from higher rates of cardiovascular disorders, diabetes and obesity; faculty of color use more interesting ways of teaching at undergraduate institutions than their White peers; HIV-infected people who have little to no consistent outpatient medical care are overwhelmingly minorities, the poor and substance abusers.

October 31, 2006

Faculty & Staff

AAUP: Women Professors Lag In Tenure, Salary

There are more women in full-time faculty positions than 30 years ago but research institutions are still reluctant to hire women or pay them in parity with their male hires, according to an annual report by the American Association of University Professors released today.

October 25, 2006