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Faculty & Staff

Tenure at HBCUs – historically Black colleges and universities

Tenure is as valued at historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) as it is at traditionally White institutions (TWIs). Given the current political and economic climate, however, faculty at HBCUs may ultimately be in greater danger of losing their tenure privileges than scholars at other institutions.

July 11, 2007

Faculty & Staff

The shelter of tenure is eroding and for faculty of color gaining membership may be tougher than ever – African American teachers – includes related articles on several cases regarding tenure

Hazing is the dark side of campus life. Desperate to be accepted into an exclusive club, bright young people will tolerate long periods of psychological abuse, often being forced to perform onerous tasks which established members consider below their dignity.

July 11, 2007

Faculty & Staff

Shattering the Silences: The Case for Minority Faculty. – movie reviews

I am associated with [the] Chicano Studies [department], where many people on this campus assume that we do second-rate scholarship and third-rate research, and that most of us are-fourth-rate teachers…. It is a continuous process of having to prove myself, including to students.” – Dr. Alex M. Saragoza, University of California Berkeley.

July 11, 2007

Faculty & Staff

Central State hires new president, fires one-sixth of faculty – Central State University’s John W. Garland

WILBERFORCE, Ohio Fighting to overcome a political and financial crisis that nearly forced the school to close this summer, Central State University has hired a new president and terminated nineteen faculty members.

July 11, 2007

Faculty & Staff

Moonlighting becomes them: college faculty become entrepreneurs, high-priced consultants off-campus – African Americans

This year, Dr. Iris Mack realized her proudest moments when Associated Technologists, Inc. (ATI) earned Small Business Administration Certification within three weeks and was chosen for NASA’s quarterly hightech business forum.

June 17, 2007

Faculty & Staff

Prairie View Boosters Petition For University To Leave Texas A&M System

A group of Prairie View A&M University alumni and university donors are petitioning the Texas A&M University System to either address concerns that its regents don’t represent the university’s interests, or let the university secede from the university system.

April 22, 2007

Faculty & Staff

MIT’s Black Hole

For at least 25 years, faculty diversity has been a recurrent, vexing issue at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology…

March 21, 2007

Faculty & Staff

Black Scientist Says Hunger Strike Is About Ending Racism At MIT

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. Dr. James L. Sherley is waging a hunger strike to protest the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s decision to deny him tenure after eight years as an associate professor of biological engineering. But Sherley, a rare Black scientist who researches human stem cells, says his ultimate cause is bigger than his own academic status.

February 15, 2007

Faculty & Staff

Resilience: My Pathway to the Information Technology Professoriate

While recently attending a conference in Atlanta, a scholarly gentleman and I struck up a conversation regarding academic life and multidisciplinary research…

January 10, 2007

Faculty & Staff

MIT Professor Threatens Hunger Strike Over Tenure Denial

A Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor has threatened to go on a hunger strike outside the provost’s office on February 5, 2007, if he is not granted tenure.

December 21, 2006

Faculty & Staff

AAUP: Colleges “Outsourcing” By Hiring More Non-Tenure Faculty

Washington D.C. A new report from the American Association of University Professors says the number of higher education faculty without tenure has increased significantly since 1975.

December 10, 2006

Faculty & Staff

AAUP: Women Professors Lag In Tenure, Salary

There are more women in full-time faculty positions than 30 years ago but research institutions are still reluctant to hire women or pay them in parity with their male hires, according to an annual report by the American Association of University Professors released today.

October 25, 2006