Tag: Mentorship: Page 39

Latinx

Latina women and higher education – making it happen

Four Latinas discuss how they, against the odds, realized their higher education and professional dreams.

September 23, 2007

Home

Remembering Asa Hilliard

Dr. Hilliard was not only a guiding light and compassionate force for social justice, he reminded us of the importance of having an honest and authentic dialogue on the issue of race without pointing fingers at each other.

September 19, 2007

Community Colleges

Promoting La Cultura Hispana

ASU’s Hispanic Research Center advances the arts and works to produce homegrown talent in the STEM fields.

September 19, 2007

Faculty & Staff

Minority Junior Professors Less Satisfied With Campus Climate Than White Professors

Minority professors at both private and public institutions are not as satisfied as their White counterparts with their institutions. According to a report by the Collaborative on Academic Careers in Higher Education, or COACHE, campus climate plays a significant role in the satisfaction disparity.

August 6, 2007

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Young workers search for paying jobs, gain experience

TUSCALOOSA Ala. When Hillcrest High School Media Specialist Stephanie Hickman needed parts of her house retiled earlier this year, she didn’t search the Yellow Pages or classifieds for an experienced tradesman

July 27, 2007

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Perspectives: Ohio Gov. Focuses on Graduating Black Males, When Will Parents and Mentors Make Similar Commitment?

We must work together to change the “anti-academic” attitude among some of our young men as well as the perceptions within the education community about Black boys’ academic abilities that have kept them mired at the bottom of the education spectrum for too long now.

July 14, 2007

Faculty & Staff

Growing from the center

Research centers abound on the nation’s campuses, offering dynamic career opportunities for scholars at every level

July 14, 2007

Students

The Children. – book reviews

I approached the reading of David Halberstam’s The Children with a great deal of trepidation. Here was yet another book written by a White journalist, that focused attention on some of the most significant events in the early Civil Rights Movement. As a lifelong student of the Black struggle, and as a scholar firmly grounded in an African-centered perspective, I doubted that I could gain any new insights from this volume’s nearly 800-page retelling of the Movement. I was wrong.

July 14, 2007

Students

Confidence in the face of controversy – Marie V. McDemmond – Cover Story – Interview

The view of Norfolk State University’s 120-acre campus, as seen from the ceiling-to-floor window in the office of the president, is deceptive. In the foreground, sit the neatly, manicured lawn and sparkling aquamarine pool of the school’s red-brick presidential residence. The scene reveals nothing to suggest this is an institution struggling to recover from a multimillion-dollar fiscal deficit.

July 13, 2007

African-American

Whispers, Secrets and Promises. – book reviews

Love has strange powers; its control is unexplainable. Love can singe souls, lift spirits, weaken the most resistant knees with abrupt force. Love can inflate or deflate human hearts. Indeed, love can charge emotion into an abundance of affection. Poets have a way of rendering a clear view of love and how it affects those people where love harbors permanently or slips away to leave permanent scars.

July 13, 2007

Leadership & Policy

Climbing to the top – African American community college presidents

Rising to the helm of two-year institutions continues to be a challenge for aspiring African American college presidents

July 12, 2007

Students

Public housing smarts: two universities discover a trove of opportunity in New Orleans’s public housing system – Cover Story

New Orleans At night, from the third floor landing of her three-bedroom apartment, Keywanda Wiggins has a view of the glittering New Orleans skyline. Visible from her window are the bulbous Superdome, most of the city’s modern high-rises, and a slice of the Mississippi River.

July 12, 2007