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Measuring Entrepreneurial Success. – Review – book reviews

Race, Self-Employment, and Upward Mobility: An Illusive American Dream

July 14, 2007

Faculty & Staff

Is Tenure In Your Future?

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. Tenure, an institution as hallowed as universities themselves, has been subject to a torrent of criticism in recent years, forcing academics to decide whether it is a college’s hallmark of academic excellence or the bane of its existence.

July 14, 2007

Health

A shopper’s market; economy brightens job picture for professional school graduates

Economy brightens job picture for professional school graduates

July 12, 2007

STEM

Graduating in prosperous times

When Ed Wrenn pursued a bachelor’s degree in computer information systems at Florida A&M University, the young Boston-area native kept an unwavering watch on the job market. During his time at FAMU, Wrenn estimates that he had contact with nearly one hundred potential employers about jobs after college. By fall 1997, his last semester at FAMU. Wrenn had five job offers to consider.

July 12, 2007

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Specializing in the air – interview with Urban and Community Relations for American Airlines managing director Lou Phillips – Interview

As Managing Director of Urban and Community Relations for American Airlines, part of Laugh Phillips’s responsibilities include recruiting students for employment, developing the concept of ethnotourism, and building relations with Black colleges and universities. He recently sat down with Black Issues to discuss these and other aspects of specialization in the fastest growing industry in America.

July 11, 2007

Leadership & Policy

The shifting terrain of welfare reform: educational advocates for low-income students looking for solid ground

For hundreds of thousands of the nation’s poor adults, community colleges have long delivered their best chance for gaining sufficient education and training to land a job that could break their dependence on welfare.

July 11, 2007

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Call Centers Serving U.S. Clients Mostly at Home, Says Study

Contrary to what many people think, most call centers serving U.S. customers – service centers in remote locations that handle telephone and Web-based inquiries – are operated in the United States, not in India or other overseas locations.

June 24, 2007

Faculty & Staff

Reporters, curators, security chiefs … faculty aren’t the only ones with careers at universities

Universities and colleges may have had to streamline their employment rolls in recent years, but they still employ more than two-and-a-half million people — and by far most of them are not faculty members.

June 22, 2007

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Ironies & origins: affirmative action’s history key to informed debate

Many books have been written about affirmative action since it emerged on the scene some 30 years ago.

June 18, 2007

Students

Who benefits from affirmative action? – Whites are key beneficiaries of special admission standards at Washington State

In the midst of all the current breast-beating about affirmative action, the Washington State Commission on African-American Affairs has found that data — provided by four-year institutions and compiled by the Washington State Office of Financial Management show that whites are the key beneficiaries of “special/alternative admission standards” and affirmative action affecting hiring at Washington States’s four-year schools. The beneficiaries include significant numbers of white men as well as white women.

June 17, 2007

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Hysterical sloganeering has replaced rational debate on affirmative action

More than any other issue of public policy, the national debate over affirmative action has been characterized by confusion and even deliberate distortion. One of the saddest consequences of this has been a challenge to the historic coalition between the Jewish and African-American communities.

June 17, 2007

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Just the Stats: Certification or Degree — What Makes the Most Cents?

The Bureau of Labor and Statistics projects that computer and mathematical science-related jobs will grow by 31 percent, to 967,000 jobs, by 2014. Clearly, computer science is a promising field of study for those basing their decisions on employment prospects. But does it make more “cents” to get a degree or a certification?

June 14, 2007