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Paving the Way into Technology Transfer

Paving the Way into Technology TransferBy Ronald Roach As a graduate student in computer science, Monica Williams is intent on having a career that gets her into the senior management ranks of the companies for which she will work. In the spring of 2001, near the end of her first year of graduate studies at […]

February 12, 2003

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Financial Aid Study to Focus On Graduate Students

Financial Aid Study to Focus On Graduate Students WASHINGTONThe National Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators (NASFAA) and Access Group Inc. announced the launch of the 2003 Survey of Graduate Aid Policies, Practices and Procedures (SOGAPPP), a research project designed to provide new information on the funding, distribution and administration of financial aid for graduate […]

February 12, 2003

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English, Foreign Language Job Seekers Face Major Decline in Available Positions

English, Foreign Language Job Seekers Face Major Decline in Available PositionsBy Kendra Hamilton There were probably plenty of long faces at the annual convention for professors of English and foreign languages last month, as new data indicated the current crop of job seekers would face the toughest job market since the recession of the early […]

January 15, 2003

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Historically Black Schools Competing to Manage NASA Institute

Historically Black Schools Competing to Manage NASA InstituteA project to build a multi million dollar aerospace research center in the Hampton Roads region of Virginia could yield a major leadership and scientific role for two of Virginia’s historically Black universities. Historically Black Hampton and Norfolk State Universities, in association with Old Dominion University (ODU) in […]

July 3, 2002

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The Weary Need Not Apply

The Weary Need Not ApplyManaging the transition from graduate student to professor I am thrilled to have received, and accepted, an offer as an assistant professor at a university in Texas, and my family is quite happy for me as well. My mother is particularly excited. This is just about as prestigious as it gets […]

June 5, 2002

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Correcting the Inequities in Federal Research Funding

Correcting the Inequities in Federal Research FundingIt is important and necessary for graduate students across different disciplines to be engaged in higher education policy debates. However, the reality is that too often, many graduate students are focused solely on their course work and/or research without realizing the significant impact of higher education policies on their […]

May 22, 2002

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Wanted: New Members for Black Grad Student Group

Wanted: New Members for Black Grad Student GroupBy Cheryl D. FieldsWASHINGTONAt the top of the agenda for the annual meeting of the National Black Graduate Student Association, held in Washington at Howard University late last month, was a call for members to get involved in recruitment.Roughly 250 students, a number of whom were undergraduates, turned […]

April 24, 2002

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Just Another Angry Black Man?

Just Another Angry Black Man?An open letter from Penn State faculty, staff and graduate students on Nolan Richardson’s firing     The only surprising thing about University of Arkansas head basketball coach Nolan Richardson’s so-called “eruption” at a press conference in February was that it took so long. While some attention has been paid to the ridiculously […]

April 10, 2002

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Do Babies Matter When Charting an Academic Career?

Do Babies Matter When Charting an Academic Career?The academy seems to think so.The University of California-Berkeley has just released a set of statistics that should give pause to every female academic of child-bearing age.Women who have children early in their careers — that is, between one and five years after receiving a doctorate — are […]

March 27, 2002

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Dear BI Career Consultants:

Dear BI Career Consultants:What are some strategies for overcoming the gender gap in information technology?If we are to close the gender gap in information technology we must begin to address two critical questions: Are information technologies “gendered by design?” And can the same approach to preparing students for information technology careers work for both girls […]

February 27, 2002

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On the Job Market

On the Job MarketPositions in multiethnic literature hold firm,while other fields see decline.There’s good news on the job lists maintained by the Modern Language Association (MLA) for aspiring professors of African American literature and culture: The academy has a job for you. For the second year running, jobs in multiethnic literature have continued to rise, […]

January 30, 2002

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Student Detained After Terrorist Attacks Is Released on Bond

Student Detained After Terrorist Attacks Is Released on BondNEW YORKA college student accused of promoting terrorism by lying to a grand jury was freed from federal custody last month after posting $500,000 bond.Osama Awadallah, 21, planned to fly home Dec. 14 to San Diego, where family and friends raised $50,000 cash — and turned over […]

January 2, 2002