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Faculty & Staff

Virginia Technology Center Seen as Economic Hope

Virginia Technology Center Seen as Economic HopeBy Ronald Roach Danville, Va.In Virginia, the decline of the tobacco and the textile industries has led to hard economic times in the state’s southernmost counties known as southside Virginia. In addition to high unemployment, the largely rural region struggles with low educational attainment among its residents. Just 5 […]

November 20, 2002

Faculty & Staff

Stepping Outside the Ivy Walls

Stepping Outside the Ivy WallsPost-Academe brings New Opportunities, New Benefits By Phaedra Brotherton FAIRFAX, Va.Drs. Johnnie and Leroy Miles have a special partnership. Married for 35 years, they have supported each other in their educational pursuits and even taught at the same university for 22 years. And when Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia […]

November 20, 2002

Faculty & Staff

Faculty Survey Finds Growing Gap in Political Liberalism

Faculty Survey Finds Growing Gap in Political Liberalism LOS ANGELESThere is increasing polarization in the political identification of college and university faculty, a new UCLA study shows. Today, only 34 percent of college and university faculty identify as “middle-of-the road” politically (down from 40 percent in 1989). Although the percentage of faculty identifying as “conservative” […]

November 20, 2002

Faculty & Staff

Re-Assessing Faculty Development

Re-Assessing Faculty DevelopmentBy Dr. Ernesta P. Pendleton Whether full-time, adjunct, tenured, young or old, college and university faculty are perceived by students as the institution itself. Students judge the institution largely by the faculty that stand before them. Therefore, an institution would do well to treat faculty as what they are — its greatest resource. […]

November 6, 2002

Faculty & Staff

N.C. A&T, Others, Win Bid to Develop Aerospace Institute

N.C. A&T, Others, Win Bid to Develop Aerospace InstituteNational research facility to become a strategic partner with NASABy Ronald Roach GREENSBORO, N.C.North Carolina A&T State University is among a consortium of six universities and the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics that will develop and manage the proposed National Institute of Aerospace (NIA) for the […]

November 6, 2002

Faculty & Staff

Staying Connected

Staying ConnectedGetting retention right is high priority for online degree programsWith a busy career and an active church life, Bonita Harris has gained considerable experience in balancing work and academic studies. Over the years, the Charlotte, N.C., resident has accumulated college classroom credits at three different institutions while having to work full time. When Harris […]

October 23, 2002

Students

Louisiana State University Chemist Wins $1 Million Grant

Louisiana State University Chemist Wins $1 Million GrantNEW ORLEANSDr. Isiah Warner, a Louisiana State University professor and administrator and an internationally recognized analytical chemist, is among 20 scientists at research universities who will be awarded $1 million in grants during the next four years for undergraduate science education. Warner, 56, plans to use the $250,000 […]

October 23, 2002

Faculty & Staff

Letters

LETTERS   Dear Editor:Your recent article “The Disconnect Between Colleges and Their Communities” inaccurately suggested that the University of Maryland does very little for its home, Prince George’s County. Since the reporter did very little to find out just how active the university really is in the county, and throughout the state, it’s important to correct […]

October 9, 2002

Faculty & Staff

Knox’s Little Secret

Knox’s Little SecretIllinois liberal arts college succeeds in hiring, retaining African American facultyA recent nationwide survey reported that, among universities, New York’s Columbia University and, among colleges, Pennsylvania’s Haverford College had the highest percentages of African American faculty in the nation, with 4.3 percent and 7.9 percent, respectively.But there’s another institution that has both schools […]

September 11, 2002

Faculty & Staff

The Disconnect Between Colleges and their Communities

The Disconnect Between Colleges and their CommunitiesWhat role, if any, should colleges play in their communities’ well-being?By Paul RuffinsPRINCE GEORGE’S COUNTY, Md.In the 1970s, when most of the campus of Prince George’s Community College (PGCC) in Maryland was constructed, the buildings were placed in a circle looking inward onto a common courtyard. The classrooms, offices […]

September 11, 2002

Faculty & Staff

Microsoft Showcases Higher Education Initiatives

Microsoft Showcases Higher Education Initiatives REDMOND, Wash.  At the third annual Microsoft Research Faculty Summit, company Chairman Bill Gates announced the formation of the Trustworthy Computing Academic Advisory Board. Speaking to 325 faculty researchers from institutions worldwide, Gates stressed the importance of finding innovative ways to foster a safer, more private and more reliable computing […]

August 28, 2002

Faculty & Staff

Secrets of the Presidential Turn-Around: ‘Plugged in’ in the Piedmont

‘Plugged in’ in the PiedmontDr. Dorothy Cowser YancyJohnson C. Smith UniversityIt takes a lot of personal energy to be a college president, especially when one’s goal is to achieve more than the status quo. Dr. Dorothy Cowser Yancy has always been known as someone with energy to spare. As the president of Johnson C. Smith University, […]

August 28, 2002