Diverse Issues in Higher Education articles from January 2009

Diverse Issues in Higher Education archives from January 2009

The right approach.(editor'snote)(Editorial)
January 8, 2009... Do the following words ring a bell. Someday, I'm going to come back to you and let you know how I am doing, or you're going to read about me." Many of us have had experiences during our developing years where someone--a relative, friend,...

Not just black and white.(Anne Cheng)
January 8, 2009... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] As a teenager, Dr. Anne Cheng held in awe the novel Invisible Man. She considered its words "nothing short of beautiful." But as an adult, she realized the novel resonated with her for other reasons too. Author...

Still building the dream.(plan for a Martin Luther King monument)(Brief article)
January 8, 2009... Fundraising organizers for a national monument to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. report they have topped more than $100 million in donations. Plans call for the King memorial to be built on Washington, D.C's National Mall, between the Lincoln...

The evolution of Barack Obama.(spectrum)(Brief article)
January 8, 2009... With President-elect Barack Obama set to take the oath of office, it's worth noting how Black Issues in Higher Education, the predecessor to Diverse, has covered him over the years. Black Issues chronicled Obama when he came into prominence...

Most laud Obama's choice for education post: Arne Duncan's supporters praise his inner-city reforms, while others decry his lack of experience on higher education issues.(Barack Obama)
January 8, 2009... Education secretary-designate Arne Duncan is drawing praise for his ability to bridge gaps between competing K-12 factions, though his lack of experience in public higher education may require some on-the-job training, analysts say. ...

Emerging scholars 2009.(Brief article)
January 8, 2009... This year's group of "emerging scholars" is a force to be reckoned with. The audacity of their excellence inspires everyone around them, and we at Diverse cannot help but marvel at this extraordinary ensemble of academicians. This diverse group...

Serving up relevant scholarship.(AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES)
January 8, 2009... While in graduate school, a professor of Dr. Yohuru Williams' told him that his scholarship was his ticket to the classroom and that he had a responsibility to make it relevant and have value. It's something Williams never forgot. But...

Diverse history in the making.(Ned Blackhawk)
January 8, 2009... When Dr. Ned Blackhawk steps into the classroom, he never uses the term "discovery" when addressing the history of European contact with the indigenous peoples of this continent--and it's not because he feels the pressure to be politically...

Building academic bridges.(ASIAN AMERICAN STUDIES)
January 8, 2009... With a dual appointment in the African-American studies department and the Asian American studies program at Northwestern University, Dr. Nitasha Sharma is well positioned to produce scholarship that bridges the two disciplines. Sharma's...

Sharing the knowledge.(Laquita Blockson)
January 8, 2009... Between Enron and the Wall Street-induced credit crisis that has thrown the world economy in turmoil, business ethics and entrepreneurship professors like Dr. Laquita Blockson are in short supply. Blockson, who gave up a lucrative career...

Exploiting one's true potential.(Carlos Rinaldi Ramos)
January 8, 2009... Underachiever is not a term one would use to describe Dr. Carlos Rinaldi Ramos. Late in 2007, at 32, he was feted at the White House with the government's highest honor for young researchers: the Presidential Early Career Awards for Scientists...

Professor, activist and 'homegirl'.(Frances Contreras)
January 8, 2009... The most surprising finding by Dr. Frances Contreras in interviewing teachers, parents and students in eight school districts across Washington state is what little progress has been made in Hispanic educational attainment. "I've witnessed...

Building a bionic woman.(Ayanna MacCalla Howard and robotics)
January 8, 2009... Most people would marvel at the 1970s television show The Bionic Woman" and just hope to emulate the technologically advanced heroine. Not a young Dr. Ayanna MacCalla Howard. "I said, 'I can build The Bionic Woman,'" she says with a laugh....

A scholar of the people.(William Jelani Cobb)
January 8, 2009... As a broke graduate student, Dr. William Jelani Cobb wrote music reviews to earn extra cash. "I had this naive idea that no one from my academic life would ever read anything I wrote as a music reviewer. I ran into this really esteemed...

Engaging in the 'creative act' of science.(Stephon Alexander )
January 8, 2009... Dr. Stephon Alexander is as intricate as the quantum theories he works to demystify. Seduced by two activities so utterly engaging there is no escaping their allure, Alexander fills blackboards with mathematical equations by day and satiates...

'The picture perfect' inventor.(Tejal Desai)
January 8, 2009... During high school and college internships, Dr. Tejal Desai shadowed doctors treating diabetic patients. Their treatment typically consisted of daily insulin shots along with pinpricks to draw blood for glucose monitoring. Their pain made Desai...

New books focus on the needs of emerging faculty.(The Black Academic's Guide to Winning Tenure--Without Losing Your Soul; What They Didn't Teach You in Graduate School: 199 Helpful Hints for Success in Your Academic Career)(Book review)
January 8, 2009... As expected, new faculty members spend most of their time focusing on their students, but where can a budding professor go to learn how to be a better instructor or how to survive in the institution? Who stands ready to help the young...

Case Western Reserve University.(Marilyn Sanders Mobley as vice president)(Brief article)
January 8, 2009... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] DR. MARILYN SANDERS MOBLEY has been named the first Vice President for Inclusion, Diversity and Equal Opportunity at Case Western Reserve University (Ohio). Previously, she was the provost at Bennett College for...

Prairie View A&M University.(Miron Bilungsley as associate vice president)(Brief article)
January 8, 2009... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] DR. MIRON BILUNGSLEY is associate vice president for student affairs at Prairie View A&M University (Texas). Billingsley formerly served as the vice president of student affairs at Arkansas Baptist College. He earned...

Austin College.(on the move)(Brief article)
January 8, 2009... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] DR. MARJORIE HASS has been named president of Austin College (Texas), effective July 1, 2009. Hass previously served as provost of Muhlenberg College in Pennsylvania. She holds a bachelor's, master's and doctorate...

Texas State Technical College Harlingen.(Cesar Maldonado as president)(Brief article)
January 8, 2009... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] DR. CESAR MALDONADO is president of Texas State Technical College Harlingen. Maldonado previously served as vice president of system development at Maverick Engineering, Inc. He holds a bachelor's and master's from...

GROW Santa Fe Community College Foundation.(on the move)(Brief article)
January 8, 2009... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] JEAN MARQUARDT has been named director of the GROW Santa Fe Community College Foundation (N.M.). Previously, Marquardt served as executive director of the Southwestern Association for Indian Arts. She earned a...

California State University, Northridge has received a $200,000 grant from State Farm Insurance.(grants & gifts)(Brief article)
January 8, 2009... CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY, NORTHRIDGE has received a $200,000 grant from State Farm Insurance to develop an arts program that would bring K-12 students from the San Fernando Valley to the CSUN campus.

The Department of Journalism at Columbia College Chicago has received a $10,000 grant from the Tribune Foundation to support the school's Minority Journalism Internship program.(grants & gifts)(Brief article)
January 8, 2009... The Department of Journalism at COLUMBIA COLLEGE CHICAGO has received a $10,000 grant from the Tribune Foundation to support the school's Minority Journalism Internship program. The monies will provide minority graduate and undergraduate...

The Community College of Baltimore COUNTY (MD.) has received $18,000 from the Baltimore Community Foundation to support its "Healthy Teeth for Children" initiative, which provides oral health to students in several local head start programs.(grants & gifts)(Brief article)
January 8, 2009... THE COMMUNITY COLLEGE OF BALTIMORE COUNTY (MD.) has received $18,000 from the Baltimore Community Foundation to support its "Healthy Teeth for Children" initiative, which provides oral health to students in several local Head Start programs....

Florida Atlantic University has received a $100,000 grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to aid students from underrepresented groups enroll in accelerated nursing programs.(grants & gifts)(Brief article)
January 8, 2009... FLORIDA ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY has received a $100,000 grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to aid students from underrepresented groups enroll in accelerated nursing programs. Students who have already earned bachelor's degrees but want...

North Carolina Central University School of Business Scholarship Endowment Fund has received a $100,000, gift from the Independent Insurance Agents of North Carolina.(grants & gifts)(Brief article)
January 8, 2009... NORTH CAROLINA CENTRAL UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF BUSINESS Scholarship Endowment Fund has received a $100,000, gift from the Independent Insurance Agents of North Carolina to provide a $1,000 annual scholarship to juniors and seniors pursuing a...

The Institute for Advanced Journalism Studies at North Carolina A&T State University has received a $254,000 grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.(grants & gifts)(Brief article)
January 8, 2009... The Institute for Advanced Journalism Studies at NORTH CAROLINA A&T STATE UNIVERSITY has received a $254,000 grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to support the institute's One Society Journalism Program, which works to increase...

Oberlin College (OHIO) has received a $812,00 grant from the Great Lakes Protection Fund.(grants & gifts)(Brief article)
January 8, 2009... OBERLIN COLLEGE (OHIO) has received a $812,00 grant from the Great Lakes Protection Fund for a four-year pilot project that will develop new approaches to monitoring personal and community-wide electricity and water consumption.

Rutgers University, the State University of New Jersey has received a $10 million grant.(grants & gifts)(Brief article)
January 8, 2009... RUTGERS UNIVERSITY, The State University of New Jersey has received a $10 MILLION grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to establish the Institute for Food, Nutrition and Health.

The University of Colorado Law School has received a $5 MILLION gift from Richard F. Schaden and Rick E. Schaden, owners of the Denver-based Quiznos Corp.(grants & gifts)(Brief article)
January 8, 2009... THE UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO LAW SCHOOL has received a $5 MILLION gift from Richard E Schaden and Rick E. Schaden, owners of the Denver-based Quiznos Corp. The gift will be used to equip students with "realworld" practice of their skills.

Diverse calendar.(Brief article)(Calendar)
January 8, 2009... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] FEBRUARY Feb. 1-4 National Association of Independent Colleges and Universities 2009 Annual Meeting Hyatt Capitol Hill Washington, D.C. Web: www.naicu.edu Feb. 5-7 Research...

A golden opportunity: with a spike in Black and Hispanic college enrollment, junior faculty have an unprecedented opportunity to mentor minority students to graduation and into faculty ranks.(last word)
January 8, 2009... As a junior faculty member, Dr. John Youngblood faces a very different group of students than the relatively few minority faculty members who preceded him. Youngblood, a Ph.D. graduate in communications from the University of Kentucky, is...

Much work to be done.(editor's note)(Editorial)
January 22, 2009... AS the country this month celebrates the commencement of the Obama era and annual observance of Martin Luther King's birthday and legacy, many events conspire to remind us much remains to be done. Nowhere are such reminders more pressing and...

Jefferson, not Hemings, inspiration for top book award.(Thomas Jefferson, Annette Gordon-Reed )
January 22, 2009... It would be easy to assume that a desire to document an enslaved woman's rightful place in history started Dr. Annette Gordon-Reed down the path that led to her recent triumph as the winner of the National Book Award for nonfiction. But it is a...

On DiverseEducation.com: Ivy league 'discomfort' leads to Black Cuba.(Robin Hayes' Finding our Revolutionary Selves in Black Cuba)(Brief article)
January 22, 2009... In 2002, Robin Hayes was a Ph.D. candidate at Yale University in African American studies and political science. Yet, she wasn't feeling so Ivy League. So she embarked on a journey to find herself, along with several other academics who...

Not your parents' dorm.(University of Chicago's dorm policy)(Brief article)
January 22, 2009... Students at the University of Chicago now have the option of living in coed dorm rooms without permission from their parents, a policy that marks a sharp departure from the institution's more traditional campus culture. The pilot program...

Diversity report card: A+ for UC San Francisco.(spectrum)(Brief article)
January 22, 2009... Nearly one-third of students in last fall's entering medical school class at the University of California, San Francisco are from an underrepresented minority group, a figure that won the school the title "most improved" in a Greenling...

Percentage breakdown of tenure-track faculty by race, fall 2007.(Diverse Digits)(Table)
January 22, 2009... Percentage breakdown of tenure-track faculty by race, fall 2007. White 69.5% Black 6.5% Hispanic 4.2% Asian 9.8% Native American 0.4% Race unknown 2.3% Foreign national 7.9% ...

Job training issues to get greater visibility: community colleges seek funding and policy changes to job training law to better meet evolving needs of the American work force.
January 22, 2009... As the first Hispanic woman nominated as U.S. secretary of labor, U.S. Rep. Hilda Solis, D-Calif., faces a series of challenging work force issues, including the role of postsecondary education in preparing Americans--counting the recently...

Battle of wills: in Georgia, the budget crunch has prompted one state senator to propose closing some public colleges, but not the ones you think.
January 22, 2009... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Seth Harp speaks with a distinctive Georgia drawl that authenticates his Deep South roots, but also hints at a former life as a captain in the United States Marine Corps. Despite such bona tides, Harp is a far...

The new era of diversity: Molly Corbett Broad, president of the American Council on Education, weighs in on the prospects for diversity in the Obama years.(Interview)
January 22, 2009... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Early next month, Molly Corbett Broad for the first time in her tenure as the American Council on Education's president will preside over the organization's annual national meeting in Washington, D.C. ACE is the...

A 22-year transformation: Dr. Modesto Maidique reflects on the evolution he has shepherded Florida International University through as he prepares to leave his post as president after 22 years.
January 22, 2009... When Dr. Modesto "Mitch" Maidique was tapped to be president of Florida International University in 1986, the public commuter school in Miami-Dade County wasn't much of a head-turner. It had 15,000 students and offered eight doctoral degree...

University of Maryland.(Daryll J. Pines as dean)(Brief article)
January 22, 2009... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] DR. DARYLL J. PINES is dean of the A. James Clark School of Engineering and the Nariman Farvardin Professor of Engineering at the University of Maryland, College Park. Pines previously served as chair of the...

Bristol Community College (Mass.).(Sharon T. Davis as associate vice president )(Brief article)
January 22, 2009... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] SHARON T. DAVIS has been named associate vice president of academic affairs at Bristol Community College (Mass.). Formerly, she served as the assistant vice president of academic affairs at Baltimore City Community...

California Baptist University.(Marilyn Johnson as vice president)(Brief article)
January 22, 2009... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] DR. MARILYN JOHNSON has been named vice president for institutional advancement at California Baptist University. She previously served as vice president of institutional advancement for Nova Southeastern University....

North Carolina A&T State University.(George McCormick as coordinator of graduate recruitment )(Brief article)
January 22, 2009... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] GEORGE MCCORMICK is coordinator of graduate recruitment at North Carolina A&T State University. He previously served as associate director in the university's Office of Undergraduate Admissions. Mccormick earned a...

The University of Denver's Morgridge College of Education has received a $10 million gift from James (Jim) Cox Kennedy to establish the James C. Kennedy Institute for Educational Success.(grants & gifts)(Brief article)
January 22, 2009... The UNIVERSITY OF DENVER's Morgridge College of Education has received a $10 MILLION gift from James (Jim) Cox Kennedy to establish the James C. Kennedy Institute for Educational Success. The funds will endow three faculty chairs and...

The Kremen School of Education and Human Development at the University of California, FRESNO, has received a $5,000 grant from Dr. Walter Buster, director of the Central Valley Education Institute at CSUF, to provide professional and educational leadership training in the central San Joaquin Valley through the institute.(grants & gifts)(Brief article)
January 22, 2009... The Kremen School of Education and Human Development at the UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, FRESNO, has received a $5,000 grant from Dr. Walter Buster, director of the Central Valley Education Institute at CSUF, to provide professional and...

Rutgers University's Institute for Food, Nutrition and Health at the Cook Campus (N.J.) has received a $10 million grant.(Brief article)
January 22, 2009... RUTGERS UNIVERSITY'S Institute for Food, Nutrition and Health at the Cook Campus (N.J.) has received a $10 MILLION grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to study the causes of obesity in the New York, New Jersey and Philadelphia areas.

The College of Engineering at the UNIVERSITY OF IOWA has received a three-year, $899,391 National Science Foundation grant.(grants & gifts)(Brief article)
January 22, 2009... The College of Engineering at the UNIVERSITY OF IOWA has received a three-year, $899,391 National Science Foundation grant to improve water pollution monitoring.

The University of New Haven has received a $135,276 grant.(grants & gifts)(Brief article)
January 22, 2009... The UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAVEN has received a $135,276 grant from the Connecticut Center for Advanced Technology to fund research on Long Island Sound algae as a fuel source.

The University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute has received a two-year, $300,000 grant.(grants & gifts)(Brief article)
January 22, 2009... The UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH Cancer Institute has received a two-year, $300,000 grant from the Susan G. Komen for the Cure Foundation to develop biomarkers that will help identify which forms of a common, noninvasive cancer will metastasize.

The University of Wisconsin-Whitewater has received a $100,000 grant from the Institute for Study Abroad Foundation to provide 90 students with funds to study abroad.(Brief article)
January 22, 2009... The UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-WHITEWATER has received a $100,000 grant from the Institute for Study Abroad Foundation to provide 90 students with funds to study abroad. The funds will go mostly to students of color, first-generation students,...

Winston-Salem State University (N.C.) has received a $408,567 Title III grant from the N.J. Reynolds Center for the university's School of Business and Economics.(grants & gifts)(Brief article)
January 22, 2009... WINSTON-SALEM STATE UNIVERSITY (N.C.) has received a $408,567 Title III grant from the N.J. Reynolds Center for the university's School of Business and Economics. The funds will be used to renovate the business school's facilities.

Yale university (Conn.) has received a $6.4 million grant.(grants & gifts)(Brief article)
January 22, 2009... YALE UNIVERSITY (Conn.) has received a $6.4 MILLION grant from the National Institute on Drug Abuse and the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration for the Yale University AIDS Program.

Diverse calendar.(Brief article)(Calendar)
January 22, 2009... March 2-6 Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education 20th International Conference Embassy Suites Hotel Airport & Convention Center Charleston, S.C. Web: site.aace.org March 5-7 American Association...

From first-generation college student to first lady: as we celebrate the success of a first lady who matriculated through urban public schools, we must recommit ourselves to ensure the system works for more young people.(Michelle Obama and public education)
January 22, 2009... As the nation faces a historic moment of change with the election of Barack Obama, we are also celebrating another American success story in the ascent of Michelle Obama from first-generation college student to first lady of this great nation....