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Faculty & Staff

Minority Students Turning to Online Schools for Advanced Degrees

MINNEAPOLIS Colleges have long despaired over how best to attract more minority students into advanced degree programs. But it’s not a problem at a number of schools where students earn their degrees online, which are seeing unexpectedly high minority enrollment.

October 8, 2006

Faculty & Staff

New Study: Gender Matters on Black College Campuses

NEW YORK Female faculty at public historically Black colleges seem to fare better in terms of ratings, salaries and tenure numbers when the president or chief academic officer is also female, according to a new study released Thursday by the Thurgood Marshall Scholarship Fund.

September 27, 2006

Faculty & Staff

Culture and Academic Performance

U.S. Census reports remind us that Hispanics are the largest and fastest growing minority population in the United States…

September 20, 2006

Faculty & Staff

On Life Support

At the Hispanic Center of Excellence, located on the sprawling campus of the Albert Einstein Medical Center in the Bronx…

September 20, 2006

Students

Rutgers Budget Woes Felt Across the Board

Budget constraints have forced Rutgers University, the largest public research university in New Jersey, to cancel 451 classes, increase tuition, layoff 185 employees and cut several programs, including minority recruitment programs.

September 17, 2006

Faculty & Staff

Mississippi HBCU Mourns the Sudden Passing of Its President Dr. Clinton Bristow Jr.

LORMAN, Miss. Dr. Clinton Bristow Jr., president of Alcorn State University, died suddenly while on the university’s track field on Saturday evening, Aug. 19, 2006. Flags at the university have been placed at half mast.

August 19, 2006

Students

Plagiarism Involving Foreign Students Stirs Controversy at Ohio University

ATHENS, Ohio One of higher education’s largest plagiarism scandals has prompted Ohio University to take action against 39 mechanical engineering graduates, 36 of them from abroad. It has ordered them to address plagiarism allegations involving theses dating back 20 years or risk having their degrees revoked.

August 15, 2006

Faculty & Staff

Research Roundup: Meaningless Test Scores; Lucrative Patents Elude Female Scientists; Private Schools Really Are Better

Test scores and GPAs have limited value in predicting leadership skills, close interpersonal relationships and a sound sense of ethics; Female faculty apply for research patents less than men, although the gender gap is narrowing; Two researchers at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government say private schools have a distinct advantage over public schools, refuting a recent U.S. Department of Education study.

August 5, 2006

Students

Diversifying the Economists

With a flair for math, Janelle Jones won a NASA scholarship to Spelman College…

July 19, 2006

Students

Diversifying the Economists

With a flair for math, Janelle Jones won a NASA scholarship to Spelman College…

July 12, 2006

Faculty & Staff

Doctoral Program Produces 300th Minority Graduate

A program created in 1993 to stem the shortage of minority faculty at university campuses, especially in the STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) disciplines, has recently produced its 300th Ph.D.

July 5, 2006

Faculty & Staff

Colorado Professor Says Academic Investigation a Farce

A University of Colorado professor who faces dismissal over research misconduct allegations said Wednesday he was singled out as a dissident scholar after he wrote an essay likening some Sept. 11 victims to a Nazi.

June 28, 2006