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Faculty & Staff

Survey Shows More Diversity and Higher Graduation Rates at Public HBCUs

Public Historically Black Colleges and Universities have grown and expanded in the last 20 years, making their students and faculty among the most intellectually and racially diverse in higher education, according to a survey released Monday.

September 13, 2009

Faculty & Staff

UH semester starts with fewer classes, more Anxiety

Classes were cut this semester at the University of Hawai’i-Manoa and students worried as they returned to the university Monday.  According to the Honolulu Advertiser, the public university system struggled to slash $76 million from its budget, including $45 million at its flagship Manoa campus. At the same time, enrollment is up on all campuses.  […]

August 24, 2009

Students

COMMUNITY COLLEGE FORUM: Sustaining Enrollment Growth in Difficult Financial Times

As more people head back to school in these recessionary times, many community colleges across the United States are struggling to handle the influx of new students.

August 5, 2009

Students

ISU to hire for graduate students to teach

The provost for Idaho State University says the school will rely more on graduate students rather than temporary faculty members to teach in the classroom.  According to the Idaho State Journal, he university fired several full-time adjunct faculty during the most recent school year, and sent notices to another 20 saying their contracts for the […]

August 5, 2009

Students

ISU to hire for graduate students to teach

The provost for Idaho State University says the school will rely more on graduate students rather than temporary faculty members to teach in the classroom.  According to the Idaho State Journal, he university fired several full-time adjunct faculty during the most recent school year, and sent notices to another 20 saying their contracts for the […]

August 5, 2009

Faculty & Staff

Sustaining Enrollment Growth in Difficult Financial Times

A coordinated strategic plan ensures enrollment growth is not an unexpected tsunami for community colleges.

August 5, 2009

Faculty & Staff

Community Colleges Lobby to Offer Four-year Degrees

Michigan community colleges are challenging four-year universities for the right to offer bachelor’s degrees, and if they succeed, would join more than a dozen states across the country that already allow such degrees.

July 28, 2009

Faculty & Staff

Students plan return to debt-ridden NC school

Students return next week to Greensboro College, a school that has laid off staff to deal with debt of more than $19 million. The News & Record of Greensboro reported Tuesday that the small Methodist college has laid off 10 more staff members, including three part-time music teachers and the band director. The school is […]

July 27, 2009

Faculty & Staff

The Overqualified Professor

Community and junior colleges are seeing a substantial increase in the number of job seekers, particularly Ph.D.s, who in other years might have opted for higher-profile opportunities.

July 22, 2009

Faculty & Staff

Cutting Costs, Improving Learning

Despite a decade-long track record, many academics are still skeptical of the technology-fueled course redesign movement.

April 29, 2009

Faculty & Staff

Perspectives: African-American Ph.D.s: Good Enough for America’s Educational Institutions?

For several years after receiving our doctorates, we struggled to find full-time work as tenure-track professors. Despite having more qualifications than many of the fresh Ph.D.s who were getting interviews and job offers, we were relegated to adjunct faculty positions that offered none of the benefits of tenure-track jobs.

April 29, 2009

Faculty & Staff

Professional Appointments

DR. MARK BREITENBERG is provost of the California College of the Arts. He previously served as dean of Humanities and Design Sciences at Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, Calif. Breitenberg holds a bachelor’s from the College of William & Mary and a master’s and doctorate from the University of California, San Diego. WANDY […]

March 4, 2009