Education
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Interviewing Essentials &
Possible Questions for Teaching Job Applications
By Eddie Thomas for
Teachers of Color
An interview is required for 99% of the job opportunities available. Therefore, effective interviewing skills are a must!
Q&A: Professor Rick Lopez, Amherst College
By Carol Amoruso, Hispanic American Village Editor
On class vs. race-based preferences, education paths, and what elite campus life
is like for a Latino
Who Will Teach Tomorrow's M.B.A.s?
By Ronald
Alsop, CareerJournal
Business schools face a shortage of Ph.D.s in accounting, finance and management
as they try to replace professors who are retiring or moving into corporate and
consulting jobs
What Prospective Teachers
Should Know
By
Teachers of Color Magazine
Tips on finding a job from Teachers of Color Magazine
Help Wanted: Great Teachers To Teach Great Kids!
By Reg Weaver, National Education Association
President of the National Education Association says that the U.S. student population grows ever more diverse, teachers of color are increasingly in short supply
-- and needed.
Diversity in the Ivory Tower
By Paul Igasaki, IMDiversity Featured EEO Columnist
On the unique nature of the Academic workplace and why this makes it so hard to
enforce the standards of our civil rights laws
Women and Minority Faculty in the Academic Workplace: Recruitment, Retention,
and Academic Culture
ERIC Digests - The ERIC
Clearinghouse on Higher Ed
ERIC Digest of Aguirre, Adalberto, Jr.'s monograph analyzing the organizational
structures of the academic workplace, and how women and minority faculty fit
into it
Science and Math Teacher
Scholarships Launched by AFCEA
By AFCEA International
AFCEA International and The AFCEA Educational Foundation today announced a
three-year initiative aimed at addressing the nation's shortfall in Science,
Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) education
Education & Diversity
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Classroom Lessons on Race,
Culture and Language
By Martha Sacks, Stacy Endman and Andrea Hunley, for
Teachers of Color
Three teachers' perspectives on the achievement gap (opportunity gap,
expectation gap, teaching gap) that persists in classrooms, even in the "age of
Obama"
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Arizona Puts a
New Face on Know-Nothingism
By Carol Amoruso, Hispanic American Village Editor
Ethnic studies banned, teachers with accents under assault
University Biases Keep Women,
Minorities Out of Science Careers
By Rosanne Skirble, VoA News
Survey: Poor schools, stereotypes, workplace & classroom barriers hold people
back
Back to School... at 47
By Patty Talahongva, IMDiversity Native American Village Contributor
And for Gary Tahmahkera, Comanche Indian who put his pre-med dreams on hold, it's just a beginning...
Navigating Higher Ed for Latinos: Part I
By Carol Amoruso, Hispanic American Village Editor
Part 1 of a series focusing on Hispanic Serving Institutions (HSIs) -- their
history, issues and what role they play in the education options available to
Hispanic students today
Navigating
Higher Ed for Latinos Part II
By Carol Amoruso, Hispanic American Village Editor
Series continues with a look at pluses and minuses of HSIs
Study:
More Asian Americans Meeting Obstacles to Academic Success
Release by by Kathleen Wyer, UCLA
UCLA study looks "beyond myths" at trends for APA college freshmen since 1971
Building Asian American and Ethnic Studies in the Midwest
By Sharon S. Lee, U.
Illinois-Urbana Champaign AAS
Challenges, growth prospects, and new opportunities in the Heartland
Juan Flores —
Defining Latino Studies at CUNY
By Carol Amoruso, Hispanic American Village Editor
Interview with Juan Flores, Professor of Africana and Puerto Rican – Latino Studies at Hunter
College and of Sociology at the CUNY Graduate Center
Goodbye, 'Mr. Chips' - Remembering a Tutor Who Made Math Matter
By Sarita Sarvate, Pacific News Service
At a memorial service for her children's beloved math tutor, a mother meets a
diverse community of parents whom the schools had failed, and who were moved by
the gentle dedication of 'Mr. Chips.'
Women in Academia
By Deborah Prussel, Women's Village Contributing Editor
The encouraging news: employment of college and university faculty is expected
to increase faster than the average for all occupations through 2008
Young Women Hear Mixed Signals at Harvard and Beyond
By Caille Millner, Pacific News Service
Opinion: A young Harvard grad finds some hard truths in controversial statements about
elite female professionals made by Harvard's President
Women's Colleges Resist Co-Ed Trend
By Sean Tubbs, VoA News
Over the past 100 years, schools began to open their doors to women, and most women's colleges went
co-ed themselves or were forced to close. Today, there are fewer than 60 women-only colleges, and
their number is dwindling.
Race on Campus
By David Pego, IMDiversity.com & Native American
Village
Returning after a 30-year absence to finally finish his degree, the author is
writing a series for the campus newspaper about what it is like to be a student
of color in a university setting where there is little diversity
What Do Native College Students Want in a Career?
By the IMDiversity Career Center Staff
Survey of UGs and MBAs finds Healthcare and Gov't/Public Service tied as top
career picks; work/life balance, opportunities to provide service and extend
education, highest priorities
Next Generation of Native
American Medical Researchers Goes to Harvard
By Jennifer K. Loukissas, NIH Record
Partnerships looks to encourage Native students to pursue studies, careers in
science and biomedical research
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