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International

AP Students With ‘3 or Higher’ Outperform Advanced Math, Physics Students Both in U.S., Abroad

AP Students With ‘3 or Higher’ Outperform Advanced Math, Physics Students Both in U.S., AbroadNew YorkA College Board-commissioned study by the TIMSS International Study Center shows that Advanced Placement students who score three or higher on physics and calculus AP Exams outperform physics and advanced math students from the United States and other countries in […]

August 1, 2001

International

A Renaissance Center Named for a Renaissance Man

A Renaissance Center Named for a Renaissance ManMany people do not know that in addition to being a world-renowned historian, Dr. John Hope Franklin is also a lover and grower of orchids. There’s even one named after him, the Phalaenopsis-John Hope Franklin.Considering his varied interests, its seems only fitting that the Duke University center that […]

January 17, 2001

International

The Sage In his own Words

The Sage In his own WordsDr. John Hope Franklin is without question a giant among historians. His outstanding record of  research and scholarship has won the admiration of U.S. presidents, fellow educators and scholars from around the globe. This gentleman/scholar is still turning out award-winning books even as an octogenarian. BI Senior Writer Joan Morgan […]

January 17, 2001

Faculty & Staff

Creating a Fitting Tribute Duke University Honors Historian John Hope Franklin

Creating  a Fitting Tribute Duke University Honors Historian John Hope FranklinThe idea of creating a tribute to world-renowned historian Dr. John Hope Franklin at Duke University was easy for administrators and faculty to support. Deciding what the tribute should be and raising the $20 million dollars needed to build it, however, has proven more challenging than […]

January 17, 2001

International

Looking Like America

Looking Like AmericaA s we usher in the “real” new millennium and with the presidential inauguration just around the corner, many eyes have been on President-elect George W. Bush’s Cabinet picks. Many wondered whether he would choose a bi-partisan Cabinet to appease Democrats, considering the outcome of the presidential election, or whether he would select […]

January 17, 2001

Asian American Pacific Islander

Think TANKs in the United States

Think TANKs in the United States• American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research (AEI), Washington• American Foreign Policy Council (AFPC), Washington• Asia Pacific Policy Center (APPC), Washington• Asia/Pacific Research Center (A/PARC), Stanford, Calif.• Asia Society, New York• The Aspen Institute, Washington• Atlantic Council of the United States (ACUS), Washington• Atlas Economic Research Foundation, Fairfax, Va.• Berkeley Roundtable on the International Economy (BRIE), Berkeley, Calif.• The Brookings […]

December 20, 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

International

Re-Calculating Math Instruction

Re-Calculating Math InstructionProfessors in the ethnomathematics movement are bringing diversity, culture and a more accurate history to math instructionBy Pamela R. WeigerOrange Coast, Calif.ichael Jordan, according to some math professors, is a mathematician. He estimates wrist angles, calculates the relationship between distance and speed and analyzes circumference. Interpreting the work of people like Jordan in […]

August 16, 2000

Faculty & Staff

Rafting Towards New Major’s

Rafting Towards New Major’s“Mom, I’ve decided to major in adventure sports.”   Not words every mother wants to hear. We’re talking mountain biking. Scuba diving. Spelunking. It’s news to test a parent’s open-mindedness. Exotic or highly specialized majors carry the baggage of the unfamiliar — negative assumptions come easy. But parents who fret about a child’s […]

April 12, 2000

Asian American Pacific Islander

The ‘Other’ Asians

The ‘Other’  AsiansWith their numbers on the rise, Indian, Pakistani and other South Asian scholars are gradually emerging from academe’s shadows.When Dr. Madhulika Khandelwal did a computer search for literature about Indian immigrants in 1986, she got back thousands of hits.“I thought,  ‘Wow! I thought there was nothing.’ But there were thousands of titles,” says Khandelwal, […]

February 2, 2000

Faculty & Staff

Professional Appointments

PresidentsRoman Picked as Interim Head at CCNYDr. Stanford A. Roman Jr.  has been named interim president of the City University of New York’s City College. Since 1990, he had served as dean of the CUNY Medical School and Sophie Davis School of Biomedical Education at CCNY, a post he will continue to hold. Roman earned […]

October 27, 1999

International

Grants & Awards

Colorado State University has received a $1.8 million federal grant to assist public schools across the West with desegregation efforts and to promote equity in education for all students. The funds will go to a new Equity Assistance Center designed to serve public school districts and tribal education agencies across a six-state region that includes […]

August 18, 1999