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Students

Perspectives: More Than Gatekeepers

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

August 4, 2008

Students

`Tenured radical’ tries to revive professors group

In his professorial attire and flowing, Zeus-like beard, Cary Nelson would look right at home behind a lectern, expounding on obscure poets. He even resembles one of the leading influences on his scholarship: Karl Marx.

July 16, 2008

Faculty & Staff

Are Magnet Schools the Answer

The concept of diversity in America is likely to become more of a reality with the prospect of a Black man or female becoming the next president of the United States. However, outside the Oval Office, minority students are still not well represented within the country’s best educational systems.

March 19, 2008

Students

Babson College Meets Changing Needs With Diversity Officer

Dr. Elizabeth Thornton, Babson College’s newly appointed chief diversity officer, wasn’t hired to mitigate a highly charged climate of racial violence or vandalism or to appease student and faculty complaints on multiculturalism.

March 2, 2008

Faculty & Staff

Chicano Nationalist Professor Fired Despite Student Protests of Censorship

The teaching contract of a 25-year University of New Mexico instructor, who supports the secession of Southwest states to form an independent Chicano nation, is not being renewed despite protests from students who fear the university is stifling academic freedom.

November 19, 2007

Faculty & Staff

Outgoing Philadelphia Mayor to Teach Urban Policy at Temple U.

PHILADELPHIA Outgoing Philadelphia Mayor John Street will enter the world of academia when he leaves office in a couple of months.

November 8, 2007

Faculty & Staff

Title III Grant Helps Expand Distance Education In Indian Country

BISMARCK, N.D. A grant from the U. S. Department of Education will enhance the distance education programs at United Tribes Technical College.

October 31, 2007

Faculty & Staff

Perspectives: Entrepreneurship Training Can Empower Students Being Left Behind

The rote learning taking place day after day in classrooms across the country in order to meet minimum No Child Left Behind benchmarks leaves most students bored and many teachers demoralized. Missing from the NCLB renewal discussion is the benefit of entrepreneurship education, with its experiential and contextual methods that empower students and keep them engaged.

October 23, 2007

Faculty & Staff

Board narrows education commissioner list to 7

TALLAHASSEE Fla. The chancellor who oversees Florida’s elementary and secondary schools and her predecessor are among seven semifinalists in the State Board of Education’s nationwide search for a new education commissioner.

August 13, 2007

Faculty & Staff

Ex-Colorado education commissioner a candidate for Florida post

TALLAHASSEE Fla. Former Colorado Education Commissioner William Moloney is a semifinalists for the education commissioner’s job in Florida.

August 13, 2007

Students

Best & Brightest: Obligation To Native Culture, Community Fuels Academic Drive

Karletta Chief has come a long way since the days when, as a Stanford University undergrad, her father had to sell the family’s cattle to cover the costs of her engineering books. Such were the sacrifices of the Navajo first-generation college student and her parents, a minister and a Navajo weaver.

July 18, 2007

Faculty & Staff

Career CONSULTANTS

DEAR BI CAREER CONSULTANTS: I am contemplating accepting a position as a minority affairs coordinator at a traditionally White institution. It is rumored that such positions can be dead-end career busters. Are there conditions or considerations that I should insist on before accepting the position?

July 14, 2007