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Students

Journalism Education Undergoes Academic Discipline Makeover

Media industry changes force the nation’s journalism schools to reinvent themselves to better prepare students for the demands of the job market.

July 28, 2010

Faculty & Staff

Expert Says Company Culture Helps Determine Prospects for Workplace Diversity

A commitment to diversity and inclusion has to be inextricably woven into an organization’s culture for that organization to realize its greatest potential, according to the keynote speaker at George Mason University’s Workplace Diversity Conference.

June 10, 2010

Faculty & Staff

Academic Bullying: A Problem on College Campuses

The disintegration of civility in higher education is a growing concern for university faculty who say the disrespect has reached epic levels not only between professors and students but also among colleagues.

June 10, 2010

Faculty & Staff

Scholar Says Research Universities Not Serious About Faculty Diversity

To Dr. M. Cookie Newsom, director for diversity education and assessment at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, there’s no delicate way of describing the lack of commitment she believes many top research universities demonstrate as they allegedly seek to diversify their faculties.

June 9, 2010

Faculty & Staff

Scholars Discuss How U.S. Higher Education Can Avoid Decline

Higher education is widely viewed as an American success story during the twentieth century, but now it’s facing a series of challenges that threaten that preeminence, said one expert at an American Enterprise Institute forum on reinventing the American university last week.

June 6, 2010

Students

Iowa State Honors its Past With Current Diversity Measures

Iowa State University renews its commitment to diversity, living up to the legacy created when it cultivated the interests of its distinguished first Black alumnus, George Washington Carver.

May 4, 2010

Faculty & Staff

Slain UAH Professor Had integral Role in Minority STEM Education Network

Through Alabama’s Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation (LSAMP) program, students of color at the University of Alabama Huntsville worked with mentors, such as the late Adriel Johnson (far left in photo), and earned degrees in STEM disciplines.

April 29, 2010

Faculty & Staff

Report Examines Why Women are Under-represented in STEM Fields

The American Association of University Women report, funded by a grant from the National Science Foundation, involves a review of literature about gender and science published over the past 15 years.

March 21, 2010

Students

Slain UAH Biology Chair Remembered as Caring Father Figure

A University of Alabama-Huntsville biology department chairman gunned down at a faculty meeting was remembered Thursday as a father figure who cared deeply about his students, the kind of professor who kept his office door open in case they needed to talk about personal problems.

February 18, 2010

Faculty & Staff

University of Maryland President Mote Retiring in August

University of Maryland President C.D. “Dan” Mote Jr. said Monday that he will step down Aug. 31 after a dozen years in the post, making him the university’s fourth-longest serving president.

February 15, 2010

Students

UAH Professor’s Family, Friends: No Suspicion of Potential Violence

An Alabama professor accused of shooting six colleagues was vocal in her resentment over being denied tenure, though relatives and students said she had never suggested she might become violent. Plus, Diverse profiles the slain.

February 14, 2010

Students

ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES : The Internationalist

Count Dr. Michael K. Dorsey as a scholar whose experience as an advocate on behalf of poor and marginalized peoples is as formidable as the expertise he demonstrates while teaching and conducting research in his capacity as an assistant professor of environmental studies at Dartmouth College.

January 6, 2010