Tag: Mentorship: Page 40

Students

Making mentorship count: surviving Ph.D. programs requires someone who is willing to show the way

By his own admission, Dr. Damian Rouson’s initial adjustment from Howard University to the graduate engineering program at Stanford University was difficult.

July 12, 2007

Faculty & Staff

Recruiting professorial diversity – University of South Carolina

In a state where lawmakers currently are debating a bill that would scale back state-sanctioned affirmative action policies, a University of South Carolina (USC) faculty member is trying to lure under-represented minorities into the collegiate teaching ranks.

July 11, 2007

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The Erotics of Instruction. – book reviews

The Erotics of Instruction takes an intriguing look at the process of pedagogy. Although the book points out the male and female connection, mentoring, and academic professionalism, the writers’ stylistic approach has a metaphorical manner to it. Anyone in the teaching profession should feel its impact.

July 11, 2007

Faculty & Staff

The shelter of tenure is eroding and for faculty of color gaining membership may be tougher than ever – African American teachers – includes related articles on several cases regarding tenure

Hazing is the dark side of campus life. Desperate to be accepted into an exclusive club, bright young people will tolerate long periods of psychological abuse, often being forced to perform onerous tasks which established members consider below their dignity.

July 11, 2007

Faculty & Staff

The tenure labyrinth – teachers in Afro-American studies

My first academic job interview resulted in a job offer. My doctorate is in American Studies, but the job offer was in Afro-American Studies. Because I am actually interested in Afro-American Studies, this was not a great hardship for me. However, a light did go on in my head. I remembered hearing – more than once – that for Black scholars, all roads tend to lead to Black Studies.

July 11, 2007

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Sister Power: How Phenomenal Black Women Are Rising to the Top. – book reviews

In April, Americans from all walks of life gathered in Philadelphia to answer the nation’s first peacetime bipartisan “call.”

July 10, 2007

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SECME master teacher uses second chance to “touch children.” – Chloe Garth

Imagine going to high school and building a dream house – that is, literally building a house.

July 10, 2007

Students

Frat-ricide: are African American fraternities beating themselves to death? – includes related articles on the National Pan-Hellenic Council, its statement on hazing and its membership development efforts – Cover Story

“They took him into a room and five members of the fraternity attacked him. They punched and kicked him. I asked if he ever got the urge to swing back and he said, `We can’t.’ He said he had been kicked in the head.”

July 10, 2007

African-American

Gone Fishin.’ – book reviews

Gone Fishin’, the first-written and latest-published of Walter Mosley’s Easy Rawlins novels, may well be his finest work. Written in 1988, the book is a complex work with layers of meaning, yet it is deceptively simple and therefore easy to read and completely absorbing. Perhaps that is one of the marks of a classic.

July 6, 2007

Students

Following the leaders – the establishment of Leadership Development Centers in historically Black colleges and universities

Leadership Development Becomes Priority for Many Institutions

July 4, 2007

Faculty & Staff

Flourishing in scientific careers – Black scientists on encouraging black students to take up science courses

While completing his master’s degree in zoology at the University of Maryland College Park in 1984, Dr. David Jett’s advisor and several faculty members told him that he was not Ph.D. material.

July 4, 2007

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Specter encourages volunteering for mentor programs

WASHINGTON (AP) Want to help fight crime? Sen. Arlen Specter says to be a mentor.

July 2, 2007