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Faculty & Staff

A Scientific Approach

A Scientific Approach Kenneth RobertsTitle: Assistant Professor, Chemical Engineering, North Carolina A&T State University, Greensboro, N.C.Education: Ph.D., Chemical Engineering, University of South Carolina; M.S., Chemical Engineering, University of South Carolina; B.S., Chemical Engineering, Georgia Institute of TechnologyAge: 34As a child growing up in Atlanta, Kenneth Roberts showed an aptitude for math and science. His observant […]

January 1, 2003

Faculty & Staff

HBCUs: An Educational System at the Crossroads

HBCUs: An Educational System at the CrossroadsToday, the 105 historically Black colleges and universities are facing a paradigm shift that will inevitably determine their fate in the 21st century. Their roles have changed tremendously since the first campuses — Lincoln University, founded by the Presbyterian Church in Pennsylvania in 1854, and Wilberforce University, founded by […]

August 28, 2002

Faculty & Staff

North Carolina Central Employees Give University Early Christmas Present

North Carolina Central Employees Give University Early Christmas PresentSixty-six professors and administrators from North Carolina Central University in Durham have given their institution an early Christmas present: They gave back their salary increases in November to help the school deal with a reversion crisis that threatens to swamp all North Carolina campuses.The amount of the […]

December 19, 2001

Faculty & Staff

‘Reality-Based Education’

‘Reality-Based Education’Webster University’s agGressive marketing and flexible scheduling leads to a large enrollment, but accreditation questions persist. By Pearl StewartTwenty-one years ago Brenda Newberry had just given birth to her first child, a girl, in a St. Louis hospital. The next day, she had a visitor, one of her professors from Webster University where she […]

November 21, 2001

Faculty & Staff

Salary Gap Widens Between Tenured, Non-Tenured Faculty, NEA Report Says

Salary Gap Widens Between Tenured, Non-Tenured Faculty, NEA Report SaysWASHINGTONThe two-tiered employment system for higher education continues to erode salaries among non-tenured faculty, according to recent data collected from the National Study of Post Secondary Faculty that was analyzed and published in the June issue of the National Education Association’s Higher Education Research Center Update.Additionally, […]

July 4, 2001

Faculty & Staff

Rensselaer Receives Record Gift: $360 Million

Rensselaer Receives Record Gift: $360 MillionTroy, N.Y.Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute received earlier this month a gift of $360 million, the largest gift ever to a single U.S. college or university.The anonymous donor who pledged $130 million to RPI in December replaced the earlier gift with one almost triple in size, and gave the institute complete discretion […]

March 28, 2001

Faculty & Staff

Other Types of Campus Crimes

Other Types of Campus CrimesIt is often said that our campuses reflect the society from which the students come and that, given some of the communities where our campuses are located, it is unrealistic to presume that they can be immune from crime. Indeed, when crime erupts on our campuses we usually react with, “How […]

February 14, 2001

Faculty & Staff

Students Come to Aid of Popular African American Law Professor

Students Come to Aid of Popular African American Law ProfessorLexington, KentuckyS tudents and alumni at the University of Kentucky’s College of Law are throwing their support behind a popular African American law professor who was denied tenure. Darlene Goring, one of three Black faculty members at the college, was being considered last month for tenure […]

December 6, 2000

Students

Natural Allies

Natural AlliesBlack colleges and two-year schools try to come together to create a network of seamless education for minority students Several years ago, officials at San Francisco City College here began the African American Achievement Program, aimed at encouraging more of the school’s Black students to transfer to four-year schools.It started out pretty small. But […]

August 16, 2000

Faculty & Staff

An Imperfect Defender of Academic Freedom

An Imperfect Defender of Academic FreedomThe high quality of scholarly activity — including scientific discovery in the United States — relies on the considerable academic freedom enjoyed here. Academic freedom allows scholars to follow their independent judgment on what research avenues to pursue, and to report results without undue concern about political consequences. Academic freedom […]

July 19, 2000

Faculty & Staff

Studied Indifference

Studied IndifferenceWhile education remains the most popular field for African American doctorate recipients, some analysts worry that jobs with better pay and less stress are luring these grads away from education research.Urbana-Champaign — Dr. Eboni Zamini is a newly minted Ph.D. in education. These days, the University of Illinois graduate’s mind is filled with thoughts […]

July 5, 2000

Faculty & Staff

Tech Briefa

Study Shows Most Adult Education Programs Offer Distance Learning NEW YORK — Nearly 69 percent of adult and continuing education programs offer distance learning courses, a new study shows.The Survey of Adult and Continuing Education Progams in Higher Education also found that the most common credentials offered through distance learning courses are non-degree certificates. Other […]

December 22, 1999