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National Survey Seeks To Improve Retention, Graduation Rates

National Survey Seeks To Improve Retention, Graduation RatesBLOOMINGTON,  Ind.Too many college students leave college before finishing; only about half earn a baccalaureate degree within six years; and many of those who stay in school don’t learn as much as they should. But a new project, based at Indiana University in Bloomington, aims to reverse these […]

August 28, 2002

Faculty & Staff

Carnegie Mellon Collaborates With Minority-Serving Institutions on Internet Security

Carnegie Mellon Collaborates With Minority-Serving Institutions on Internet Security A collaboration between Carnegie Mellon University and minority-serving institutions may prove instrumental in preparing a generation of Black and Latino computer professionals who are highly skilled in Internet security. This summer, the Pittsburgh-based research university began working with historically Black colleges and universities and Hispanic-serving institutions […]

August 14, 2002

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Research & Reality

Research & RealityMorgan State takes two-prong approach to stemming educational leadership deficit.BALTIMOREJuanita Eagleson, a former associate dean at Southeastern University in Washington, was in the midst of a  “career doldrums” when she heard that Dr. Howard Simmons, the former executive director of the Commission on Higher Education, Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools, was […]

June 19, 2002

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The Anatomy of Textbook Publishing

The Anatomy of Textbook PublishingComplex publication process, lack of respect steer many scholars away from writing textbooksEverything else from your college days may be fading into the mists of middle age, but there’s one thing you probably remember with utter clarity: the first time you had to shell out more than $50 for a textbook.Let’s […]

June 19, 2002

Faculty & Staff

Columbia Launches David N. Dinkins Archives, Oral History Project

Columbia Launches David N. Dinkins Archives, Oral History ProjectNEW YORKColumbia University has launched the David N. Dinkins Archives and Oral History Project, which will include an archive of Dinkins’ official and personal papers and correspondence, an oral history of Dinkins’ life, political philosophy and policy agenda, and a program initiative documenting the influences of Black […]

May 22, 2002

Faculty & Staff

Translating the African Past: The Islamic Heritage of Sub-Saharan Africa

Translating the African Past: The Islamic Heritage of Sub-Saharan AfricaOn a recent trip to the West African nation of Mali, Dr. John O. Hunwick encountered in Timbuktu signs of its legacy being resurrected in the form of new libraries. To this scholar of African history and frequent visitor to the dusty, desert city near the […]

May 8, 2002

Faculty & Staff

Adding International Flavor to your Résumé

Adding International Flavor to your RésuméBack in the 1980s, Anthony Pinder was trading futures for a living in Chicago. When the Chernobyl nuclear accident devastated the stock market, he decided the timing was right to do something he had thought about for years. He joined the Peace Corps. Pinder’s 2 ½ years in Ecuador changed […]

May 8, 2002

Faculty & Staff

Carnegie Mellon Research Center

Carnegie Mellon Research CenterTo Address Wireless Technology PITTSBURGH, Pa.A new research center at Carnegie Mellon University is expected to push innovation in wireless telecommunications and computer networking. Carnegie Mellon University’s Center for Wireless and Broadband Networking will tap into collaborative research and university innovations under way to help accelerate growth in the $116-billion telecommunications and […]

April 24, 2002

Faculty & Staff

Ball State Creates Supercomputer

Ball State Creates Supercomputer From Old Desktop ComputersMUNCIE, Ind.Discarded personal computers have been used to create a supercomputer at Ball State University. The effort, known as the Cluster Computer Research Project, involved collecting unwanted personal computers from a former lab in the school’s College of Business and deploying them to build a computing machine designed […]

April 24, 2002

Faculty & Staff

Supercomputing Conference Seeks Faculty Participation

Supercomputing Conference Seeks Faculty ParticipationBALTIMOREAn upcoming supercomputing conference in Baltimore is seeking the participation of teams of undergraduate faculty and K-12 teachers to spend four days in hands-on workshops learning about high-performance computing and communications tools and resources appropriate for their classroom. Entitled this year as SC2002, the annual conference features high-performance computing and communications […]

April 10, 2002

Faculty & Staff

Making the Most of Multimedia

Making the Most of MultimediaWith a click of the computer mouse, the Web site for the “Black in the Arts” survey course began playing a segment from the all-Black cast film “Stormy Weather.” The film clip, being projected onto a large screen in a high technology classroom at Howard University in Washington, featured a depiction […]

March 27, 2002

Faculty & Staff

‘Race in the College Classroom’

‘Race in the College Classroom’Minority faculty often face student resistance when teaching about raceDealing with conflict in the multiethnic classroom — well, it can pose dilemmas that stump even the so-called experts.An exchange during “Comparative and Collaborative Approaches to Teaching Multiethnic Literatures,” a panel at the recent Modern Languages Association conference, neatly illustrates the point. […]

March 13, 2002