Verena Dobnik, Associated PressFaculty & StaffUniversity Teacher Lockout Ends; Contract Talks ContinueNEW YORK ― About 400 university faculty members who were locked out for 12 days over a bitterly contested contract went back to teaching on Thursday. The lockout action by Long Island University in Brooklyn that suddenly left professors without health insurance or access to email also deprived about 8,000 students of their teachers. The […]September 15, 2016Faculty & StaffProfessors Locked Out of Classrooms Over Labor DisputeNEW YORK ― Students at the New York City campus of Long Island University say they have begun the school year with classes being taught by replacement teachers of questionable quality after the administration locked out their regular professors as part of a bitter labor dispute. About 400 full-time and adjunct members of the faculty […]September 13, 2016African-AmericanSotomayor Makes Herself at Home at NYC Literature FestivalU.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor has said she wants to be called just “Sonia from the Bronx.”May 6, 2013African-AmericanHarvard Professor Ogletree: Sharpton is Obama’s Link to the StreetsThe Rev. Al Sharpton is a “lightning rod” for President Barack Obama on inner-city streets, Obama’s former Harvard mentor and friend Charles Ogletree said Saturday at a forum in Harlem.April 19, 2010African-AmericanVassar Professor Examines Black Women’s Film StardomIn new book, Dr. Mia Mask recounts struggles and triumphs of African-American women in American film.October 19, 2009Page 1 of 1
