Tag: Faculty Recruitment: Page 5

Leadership & Policy

Opening the Schoolhouse Door

Opening the Schoolhouse DoorThere has been a great deal of discussion over the past decade about the recruitment and retention of African American students. The intensity, if not the frequency, of these conversations has been increased by the national debate on affirmative action and recent attacks on the use of affirmative action in college admissions. […]

January 30, 2002

Recruitment & Retention

Iowa State University Plan Would Spend $5.8 Million to Diversify Faculty

Iowa State University Plan Would Spend $5.8 Million to Diversify FacultyAMES, Iowa Iowa State University administrators want to spend $5.8 million over five years on a program to improve diversity among the faculty. The money would go toward minority faculty recruitment and finding jobs for employee spouses so that families won’t have to leave Iowa […]

December 6, 2000

Faculty & Staff

How to Recruit and Promote Minority Faculty: Start By Playing Fair

How to Recruit and Promote Minority Faculty: Start By Playing FairSometimes, you have to review the rules of the game to make sure that you are applying them fairly to everyone. Recent legal attacks on affirmative action have made colleges and universities nervous about their efforts to recruit faculty (as well as students) from underrepresented […]

November 22, 2000

Recruitment & Retention

UT-KnoxVille creates v.p. post to handleaffirmative action

UT-KnoxVille creates v.p. post to handleaffirmative actionKNOXVILLE, Tenn. The University of Tennessee will create a new vice president position specifically to boost minority enrollment and hiring, says Dr. J. Wade Gilley, the university’s president. “For the first time, we will have a major administrator in charge of affirmative action,” Gilley told The Knoxville News-Sentinel. The […]

September 13, 2000

HBCUs

Reparations and Higher Education

Reparations and Higher EducationThere is a continuing argument about the role of affirmative action, in various forms, in admissions and faculty recruitment at historically White universities, and in budget support for historically Black colleges and universities. But the debate does not get us much closer to consensus on a practical guiding principle for making decisions […]

January 5, 2000

Faculty & Staff

Learning From Wilt And Milt

Learning From Wilt And MiltI was among those stunned earlier this month at the news that basketball superstar Wilt Chamberlain and jazz legend Milt Jackson had died within days of each other. Chamberlain’s giant feet trampled over me once at a track and field meet that I and a few athletes he was mentoring  were […]

October 27, 1999

Faculty & Staff

Dear BI Career Consultants:

Dear BI Career Consultants:What kinds of initiatives do higher education institutions need to create supportive environments that facilitate minority faculty retention?Dr. Caroline S. Turnerassociate professor of educational policy and administration,University of MinnesotaThe recruitment and retention of faculty of color remains one of the most difficult challenges facing American higher education. Research findings — whether qualitative […]

May 26, 1999