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Faculty & Staff

Southern Methodist U. to Get $20M from Dallas Couple

DALLAS Philanthropists Harold and Annette Simmons plan to announce a $20 million gift to Southern Methodist University on Friday.

November 8, 2007

Recruitment & Retention

Cole says he won’t be just a care-taker at UMass-Amherst

AMHERST Mass. The new interim chancellor of the Univesity of Massachusetts-Amherst says he’ll be more than just a caretaker during his year at the helm.

September 20, 2007

Faculty & Staff

The tough sell – James Hill, University of Texas – Cover Story

With the appointment of its first African American vice president, the University of Texas tries to overcome its legacy of minority exclusion

July 14, 2007

Students

Winning to lose – academy losses of Black faculty to industry

When thirty-year-old Dr. Damian Rouson completed his Ph.D. last April, the Stanford University graduate took a job at Failure Analysis Associates, a prestigious Silicon Valley engineering firm.

July 12, 2007

Faculty & Staff

A scant presence – Black and Latino faculty at research institutions – includes related article

For many faculty, particularly those who favor research over teaching, securing a faculty position at a major research institution is a dream come true. These universities, of which there are 120 nationwide, offer some of the most ideal conditions available for the pursuit of scholarly and scientific research.

July 11, 2007

Faculty & Staff

Seeing no evil – Dr Shelby Steele’s speech on race-conscious affirmative action policies at the National Assn of Scholars conference in New Orleans – Cover Story

NEW ORLEANS Although academics who criticize multiculturalism often gripe about research or activism they contend represents nothing more than ideology masquerading as serious scholarly activity, a group of conservative scholars found several things to cheer about when the National Association of Scholars (NAS) honored the authors of California’s Proposition 209 and heard Dr. Shelby Steele deliver a withering critique of affirmative action.

July 11, 2007

Faculty & Staff

Berklee College of Music’s New Mission Statement Reflects African Contributions to Contemporary Music

BOSTON In what Berklee College of Music President Roger Brown calls a “psychological victory for the institution,” the board of trustees recently adopted an amended mission statement for the college that acknowledges the historical contributions that African descendants have made to the development of the contemporary American musical genres on which Berklee’s curriculum and training are based.

July 4, 2007

Faculty & Staff

First in family with degree, now Iowa president

IOWA CITY Iowa Sally Mason wasn’t brought up around higher education, but she plans to make herself right at home as the University of Iowa’s new president.

June 21, 2007

Faculty & Staff

Minority Faculty Recruitment Program Under Fire

EUGENE, Ore. The University of Oregon is taking issue with an economics professor’s claim that a program developed to recruit more minority faculty members is illegal.

June 3, 2007

Faculty & Staff

Black Faculty Shrinks at University of Texas at Arlington

The University of Texas at Arlington has failed to take the steps necessary to hire and retain Black professors even as the Black student body grows, concludes a recent report published in the Fort Worth Star-Telegram.

May 29, 2006

Faculty & Staff

California Taskforce Finds UC Faculty Still Not Diverse

All 10 University of California campuses need to make diversity an integral element of academic planning, faculty hiring, research agendas, curricular development and program reviews, a taskforce on improving faculty diversity recommended Tuesday.

May 23, 2006

Faculty & Staff

Columbia Professor Latest High-Profile Defection

Dr. Robin D.G. Kelley, one of the country’s most prominent Black intellectuals…

May 17, 2006