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Faculty & Staff

Faculty Members Weigh In on the Gender Divide in Academia

Faculty Members Weigh In on the Gender Divide in AcademiaIn 2001, a roundtable on gender disparities for female professors in higher education was held at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The focus of the roundtable was “how best to ensure women professors experience the same opportunities, recognition and rewards as their male counterparts.” Some three […]

March 24, 2004

Faculty & Staff

Recent Scholarship on Blacks and the Cold War

Recent Scholarship on Blacks and the Cold War Beyond the Color Line and the Iron Curtain: Reading Encounters Between Black and Red, 1922–1963.By Dr. Kate A. Baldwin     Duke University Press, Nov. 2002346 pp. $59.95 cloth, ISBN 0-8223-2976-X$19.95 paper, ISBN 0-8223-2990-5Examining the significant influence of the Soviet Union on the work of four major African American […]

February 11, 2004

Students

Sharing the Responsibility: Increasing Black Male Student Enrollment

Sharing the Responsibility: Increasing Black Male Student EnrollmentEarlier this year, the University System of Georgia’s board of regents accepted 15 task-force recommendations designed to increase the number of African American males enrolling in Georgia’s colleges and universities (see Black Issues, Oct. 23). Yet, not one of the recommendations adequately incorporated the use of grass-roots efforts […]

December 17, 2003

Faculty & Staff

Celebrating Culture, Revisiting Classics

Celebrating Culture, Revisiting ClassicsAfricana Woman: Her Story Through TimeBy Dr. Cynthia Jacobs CarterIntroduction by Dr. Dorothy HeightNational Geographic Books, November 2003, 255 pp., $40.00 cloth, ISBN 0-7922-6165-8This lavishly illustrated volume traces the voices of women of African descent around the world, from ancient times to the present. Readers meet powerful ancient monarchs such as Queen […]

December 17, 2003

Faculty & Staff

Morris Brown Reopens $1 Million Richer, But Without Accreditation

Morris Brown Reopens $1 Million Richer, But Without AccreditationBy Tracie Powell ATLANTAAtlanta’s Morris Brown College reopened its doors late last month to fewer than 150 students, without a marching band, football team or accreditation. They are, however, $1 million richer. The million-dollar donation from the Tom Joyner Foundation, headed by the syndicated radio personality the […]

September 10, 2003

Faculty & Staff

On the Job Market

On the Job MarketNewly minted Ph.D. shares her experiences, advice on finding that coveted first academic job. By Keonya BookerIn these lean economic times, everyone is feeling the pressure to obtain full-time employment and the world of academia is no different. For a new Ph.D., securing a position in academia is becoming increasingly complicated. As […]

July 2, 2003

Faculty & Staff

Labor of Love

Labor of LoveLaw professors’ study provides new weapons in fighting job discriminationBy Ben HammerRuth and Alfred “Al” Blumrosen have worked for almost 50 years to improve labor conditions in this country and around the world. And despite recently buying a beach house in Naples, Fla., the couple, law professors at Rutgers University in Newark, N.J., […]

June 4, 2003

Faculty & Staff

Wayne State Opens High-Tech Clean Room

Wayne State Opens High-Tech Clean Room DETROITIn an effort to bolster its high-tech research capabilities, Wayne State University is launching a 3,700-square-foot clean room this month as part of its Sensors and Integrated Microsystems laboratories in the university’s College of Engineering.A clean room is an area in which the air quality, temperature and humidity are […]

May 21, 2003

Students

‘Educate, Don’t Segregate’

‘Educate, Don’t Segregate’ April 1st started out as a rainy, dreary day but that didn’t dampen the spirits of all of the people — young and old — who descended on the U.S. Supreme Court, carrying signs and banners, in support of affirmative action. Student and alumni associations representing a variety of colleges and universities […]

April 23, 2003

Faculty & Staff

Black Pilgrimage to Islam

Black Pilgrimage to IslamBy Robert Dannin Photographs by Jolie Stahl Oxford University Press, 2002, 368 pp. $35.00, ISBN 0-19-514734-0 The post-Sept. 11 political environment has given questions about Islam’s role and presence in America a vital urgency, and into that vacuum comes Robert Dannin’s work, a welcome and sweeping portrait of orthodox Islam in America. […]

February 12, 2003

Faculty & Staff

UNC Professors Seek Memorial to Honor Late Sen. Wellstone

UNC Professors Seek Memorial to Honor Late Sen. Wellstone CHAPEL HILL, N.C.A professor and a dean at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill are seeking a memorial on campus to the late Sen. Paul Wellstone, a two-time Carolina alumnus who died in a plane crash Oct. 25. Dr. Joel Schwartz, an adjunct professor […]

January 29, 2003

Faculty & Staff

Re-Assessing Faculty Development

Re-Assessing Faculty DevelopmentBy Dr. Ernesta P. Pendleton Whether full-time, adjunct, tenured, young or old, college and university faculty are perceived by students as the institution itself. Students judge the institution largely by the faculty that stand before them. Therefore, an institution would do well to treat faculty as what they are — its greatest resource. […]

November 6, 2002