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Faculty & Staff

Professional Appointments

DR. CORDELIA CHÁVEZ CANDELARIA has been appointed dean of Dedman College and University Distinguished Professor at Southern Methodist University (Texas), effective July 1. She previously served as dean of the Office of Strategic Affairs and Regents Professor in the Department of English and Department of Transborder Chicana/o and Latina/o Studies at Arizona State University. She […]

March 19, 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

Faculty & Staff

Fisk Discloses Major New Problems

Fisk University, beset with financial troubles before the nation’s economy began a free fall last year, has joined a growing list of prominent historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) signaling tougher times at hand.

February 24, 2009

Faculty & Staff

A Practical Ethnic Studies Program

The Asian American Studies Program at the University of Massachusetts Boston complements students’ career tracks and engages them in the surrounding Asian American community.

February 18, 2009

Faculty & Staff

Economic Woes Test Historically Black Colleges

Historically Black colleges and universities, which for decades have been educating students who can’t afford to go — or can’t imagine going — elsewhere, have been particularly challenged by the nation’s economic meltdown.

February 15, 2009

Faculty & Staff

UMass Boston’s Asian American Studies Program Takes a Practical Approach

The Asian American Studies Program at the University of Massachusetts Boston complements students’ career tracks and engages them in the surrounding Asian American community.

February 12, 2009

Faculty & Staff

Spelman, Morehouse Eliminate Positions

Spelman College will eliminate 35 positions, while Morehouse College will cut 25 adjunct faculty members, both belt-tightening moves sparked by the economic downturn and a drop in enrollment.

February 10, 2009

Faculty & Staff

Veteran Lawyer, Education Advocate Nominated to Head Office of Civil Rights

U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan wants a lawyer with a deeply unique understanding of academic challenges facing students of color to oversee the civil rights division in his department.

February 4, 2009

Faculty & Staff

New Mexico’s higher education relies heavily on part-time professors

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) – New Mexico’s higher education institutions are relying heavily on part-time or adjunct instructors who take on large course loads to make a middle-class living. But the colleges say hiring part-timers gives them flexibility to keep up with student needs and to hire professionals who are up-to-date in their fields, according to […]

January 13, 2009

Faculty & Staff

At Georgia Perimeter College, Online Teaching Has Its Benefits — Tenure

Michael T. Bradley is a full-time online- only professor. In the virtual classroom of his “World Religion and Introduction to Ethics” classes at Georgia Perimeter College, a two-year college in suburban Atlanta, Bradley employs a teaching style that both personalizes him to his students and encourages them to interact with one another.

October 15, 2008

Faculty & Staff

Librarian shot and killed on San Antonio campus

SAN ANTONIO (AP) – A librarian at Northeast Lakeview College was shot and killed Monday by a fellow employee, college president Eric Reno said. Reno identified the man who was killed in the library as Devin Zimmerman, 37. He said the gunman, a 62-year-old adjunct librarian, sat down after the shooting and waited to be […]

October 14, 2008

Students

More Than Gatekeepers

High school guidance counselors have extraordinary influence in steering Black males to college or to the streets.

August 6, 2008