Tag: Professional Development: Page 9

Tenure

New Academic Home Expected To Help Maryland Update Journalism Education

With the National Association of Black Journalists on board as a tenant, the University of Maryland’s new state-of-the-art journalism building is said to embody the innovation of a changing media landscape.

April 25, 2010

African-American

Incoming IRA President Aims to Prepare Literacy Teachers to Instruct Diverse Classrooms

As a teenager in Albany, Ga., Patricia A. Edwards took the lead in teaching the younger kids in her community to read. When boys came to her father’s barbershop for haircuts she told them, “If you don’t let me teach you the alphabet, I’ll tell my daddy to give you a baldy.”

April 21, 2010

Home

Diversity Officers Group to Launch State Chapters

The National Association of Diversity Officers in Higher Education (NADOHE) will expand its activities later this year to include state chapters, the organization’s leaders decided in Phoenix at their annual meeting earlier this month.

March 24, 2010

STEM

Survey: U.S. Women and Minority Scientists Often Discouraged from Pursuing STEM Careers

A Bayer Facts of Science Education survey examined the root causes of underrepresentation in STEM fields by gauging the life experiences of female, African-American, Hispanic and American Indian scientists.

March 22, 2010

African-American

Ohio Institutions Focus on Black Male Achievement

Ohio-based schools and organizations have developed education initiatives aimed at helping African-American male students succeed.

March 4, 2010

Faculty & Staff

Black Professor Denied Tenure at Emerson Vindicated by Report

Emerson College has released a report produced by an independent panel that has found fault with the institution’s tenure process.

February 15, 2010

Leadership & Policy

Diversity a Winner in NFL Head Coach Hires; Minorities Gaining Modest Ground in College Ranks

While progress in minority head coach hiring in the NFL is on display with the fourth African-American leading a Super Bowl team this weekend, the college ranks have seen their less-than-stellar record in top coaching hires improve in recent months.

February 4, 2010

Students

Lottery-winning Alumnus Donates $10 Million to South Carolina HBCU

Hoping to spread the joy of a $260 million Powerball lottery jackpot, the Rev. Solomon Jackson has donated $10 million of his “good fortune” to his alma mater, Morris College, a historically Black college in Sumter, S.C.

January 19, 2010

Faculty & Staff

National Faculty Group Convened at Atlanta HBCUs Urged to Help Determine U.S. Education Priorities

Faculty members from more than 50 U.S. colleges and universities gathered in Atlanta for the Faculty Resource Network’s annual national symposium, which was held this year at three neighboring historically Black campuses.

November 24, 2009

Faculty & Staff

National Faculty Group Convened at Atlanta HBCUs Urged to Help Determine U.S. Education Priorities

Faculty members from more than 50 U.S. colleges and universities gathered in Atlanta for the Faculty Resource Network’s annual national symposium, which was held this year at three neighboring historically Black campuses.

November 24, 2009

Students

New Minority Engineering Leader Stresses K-12 Exposure to Careers

Dr. Irving Pressley McPhail, president and CEO of the National Council for Minorities in Engineering (NACME), says developing more elementary and secondary school initiatives that help steer under-represented minority students into undergraduate engineering programs will be a high priority during his tenure.

October 29, 2009

Students

LASTWORD: PREPPING FOR THE PROFESSORIATE

Professional development mentoring, for the professoriate, is a postsecondary tool that can be used by graduate faculty to complement graduate students’ formal doctoral level course work.

October 14, 2009