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Howard University Dean Named to Javits Fellowship Board

Howard University Dean Named to Javits Fellowship Board Dr. Orlando L. Taylor, dean of Howard University’s Graduate School, has been named to the Jacob K. Javits Fellows Program Fellowship Board by U.S. Secretary of Education Richard W. Riley.Taylor, who also directs Howard’s Ronald E. McNair Post-Baccalaureate Achievement Program and its Preparing Future Faculty Program, will […]

November 8, 2000

Faculty & Staff

Pleasure Principle: Focusing on the Good in Education

Pleasure Principle: Focusing on the Good in EducationMany readers of The Pleasures of Academe will sympathize with author James Axtell’s first sentence: “I couldn’t wait to go to college and I couldn’t stand to leave at graduation.”Despite the common sentiment, however, few people remain to become professors. And while many Americans have opinions about what […]

April 12, 2000

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BI What’s New

Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism is seeking applicants for the Academy for Alternative Journalism, a recently established program designed to recruit and train talented minority writers for work in the alternative press.Ten students will pursue an intensive eight-week course designed to qualify them for jobs or internships at more than 120 urban weeklies that […]

March 29, 2000

Faculty & Staff

Pleasure Principle: Focusing on the Good in Education

Pleasure Principle: Focusing on the Good in EducationMany readers of The Pleasures of Academe will sympathize with author James Axtell’s first sentence: “I couldn’t wait to go to college and I couldn’t stand to leave at graduation.”Despite the common sentiment, however, few people remain to become professors. And while many Americans have opinions about what […]

March 29, 2000

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Letters to the Editor

Giving Credit Where Credit is DueI read with interest the article you wrote on Dr. David Swinton and Benedict College, which appeared in the June 10, 1999 issue of Black Issues In Higher Education.  I commend you for writing such a fine article.  I also commend Dr. Swinton for the aggressive manner in which he […]

July 7, 1999