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The Controversial Move From Free to Fee in Online Publishing

The Controversial Move From Free to Fee in Online PublishingHow much would you pay for what you’re reading right now? Publishers are continually wrestling with questions about whether to charge (or how much to charge) readers and how to balance newsstand and subscription revenue with advertising revenue.For Web publishers, these questions are of utmost importance […]

September 25, 2002

The Anatomy of Textbook Publishing

The Anatomy of Textbook PublishingComplex publication process, lack of respect steer many scholars away from writing textbooksEverything else from your college days may be fading into the mists of middle age, but there’s one thing you probably remember with utter clarity: the first time you had to shell out more than $50 for a textbook.Let’s […]

June 19, 2002

Faculty & Staff

(Re)Tracing

(Re)Tracing Oral History in InkAfter years of teaching, researching and writing about literature of the African Diaspora, several English professors have turned their focus toward a more personal nature. By Robin V. SmilesGrowing up in Charles City County, Va., Dr. Daryl Cumber Dance and her family did not know the story of their great-great-great-great-great-great-grandmother Elizabeth […]

December 19, 2001

Maryland Recognized as Most Web-Enabled State

Maryland Recognized as Most Web-Enabled StateFOLSOM, Calif.The state of Maryland offers more government services online than any other state, according to a study released by the Center for Digital Government. The California-based center is an arm of the for-profit magazine publishing company E.Republic Inc.The only state to garner a perfect 100 percent rating in the […]

August 29, 2001

Yale Law Prof’s Novel Goes for $4 Million

Yale Law Prof’s Novel Goes for $4 MillionNEW HAVEN, Conn. Stephen L. Carter, an African American law professor at Yale, received a $4 million advance and as much as $1 million more for the film rights for his new fiction novel, The Emperor of Ocean Park, which was the subject of a publishing house bidding […]

March 28, 2001

Toni Morrison Society Honors Nobel Laureate With 70th Birthday Tribute

Toni Morrison Society Honors Nobel Laureate With 70th Birthday TributeNew YorkIn what turned out to be a who’s who in academia, the literary community and the entertainment industry, the Toni Morrison Society, together with Alfred A. Knopf publishing company, hosted a 70th birthday tribute for Nobel Laureate Toni Morrison.Approximately 500 people attended the black-tie affair […]

March 28, 2001

Electronic Textbooks: The Next Campus Fad?

Electronic Textbooks: The Next Campus Fad?NEW YORK For more than 20 years, Dr. Sanford Berg has taught “Managerial Economics,” a required business course at the University of Florida. He will do so again this fall —with one great difference. “Students will have the choice of using the traditional textbook or downloading an electronic version on […]

September 13, 2000

Faculty & Staff

Studied Indifference

Studied IndifferenceWhile education remains the most popular field for African American doctorate recipients, some analysts worry that jobs with better pay and less stress are luring these grads away from education research.Urbana-Champaign — Dr. Eboni Zamini is a newly minted Ph.D. in education. These days, the University of Illinois graduate’s mind is filled with thoughts […]

July 5, 2000

African American Studies

African American StudiesFive minutes on the World Wide Web makes the point more plainly than a full weekend with a stack of college catalogs: There are as many types of African American Studies programs as there are institutions of higher learning offering them.Some programs — like those at California State University-Long Beach and Cornell University […]

May 24, 2000

Faculty & Staff

Report Finds Majority of Faculty Technologically Stressed

Report Finds Majority of Faculty Technologically StressedComputer anxiety is surpassing traditional faculty troubles, according to a new national survey of facultyWASHINGTON — As college students research papers on the Internet and manipulate numbers on spreadsheets, their professors are feeling a little less in tune with the newest computer trends.Two out of three professors say they […]

September 29, 1999

Thank you so very, very much!

Thank you so very, very much!For many, 15 years may not seem to be an incredibly long time. But for those of us in the publishing industry, it is an unusual achievement since publishing is one of the most volatile segments of American business. We are so grateful that Black Issues In Higher Education is […]

August 18, 1999

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