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• Shipping in: for a second consecutive year, the Naval Academy has admitted its most diverse class, and its work isn't done 

  [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Sixty years after graduating its first Black midshipman, Wesley Brown, the U.S. Naval Academy has admitted its most...

  Diverse Issues in Higher Education, 09/03/09 by Kenneth J. Cooper · More from publication

• Parts of Speech 

  Some Jamaicans want to make patois their island's official language THEY SPEAK ENGLISH IN JAMAICA, RIGHT? ACTUALLY, most Jamaicans don't, at...

  Crisis, The, 07/01/09 by Cooper, Kenneth J · More from publication

• A disturbing trend: institutions have grown increasingly dependent on adjunct faculty over the last few decades, and scholars of color are ever present among this group 

  [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Dr. Ansley Abraham and Dr. Anthony DePass started their academic careers as part-time adjunct...

  Diverse Issues in Higher Education, 06/11/09 by Kenneth J. Cooper · More from publication

• IT: Intellectually Taxing? At least one professor worries about the intellectual impact of some student-directed uses of technology 

  By the professor's rule, students in the English classes of Dr. Mark Bauerlein at Emory University must take notes by hand. Laptops must be turned...

  Diverse Issues in Higher Education, 03/19/09 by Kenneth J. Cooper · More from publication

• The presidential search 'plateau': once a pioneer, Massachusetts is experiencing a slowdown in the promotion of minorities to the university president ranks, particularly at elite private institutions 

  [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] As the new vice chancellor for student affairs at the University of Massachusetts Amherst in...

  Diverse Issues in Higher Education, 02/19/09 by Kenneth J. Cooper · More from publication

• The world wide web of Ed.D.s: the flexibility and convenience of online degree programs have attracted minorities in droves, especially Black K-12 educators 

  [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Universities that deliver most or all of their courses online have become the leading producers...

  Diverse Issues in Higher Education, 10/16/08 by Kenneth J. Cooper · More from publication

• Promoting international interest: a commitment to preparation combined with a long-serving adviser propelled one HBCU to become the all-time leader in producing Black Fulbright students 

  Which historically Black college or university has produced the most students to receive a prestigious Fulbright award? Which historically Black...

  Diverse Issues in Higher Education, 06/26/08 by Kenneth J. Cooper · More from publication

• Blacks Still Face Disparities in Healthcare 

  It's more than just "a Black thing": Minorities' mounting medical expenses could have calamitous consequences for the entire country. FOR TWO...

  Crisis, The, 01/01/08 by Cooper, Kenneth J · More from publication

• A tenure not soon forgotten: after 34 years on the Wellesley College faculty, Dr. Tony Martin's teachings have at times been controversial, but his mentoring of Black women is what his students will remember most 

  WELLESLEY, Mass. WELLESLEY, Mass. Scan references to Dr. Tony Martin in newspaper databases, and you would think the Africana studies professor...

  Diverse Issues in Higher Education, 05/17/07 by Kenneth J. Cooper · More from publication

• MIT's black hole: Dr. James L. Sherley is just the latest professor to protest the lack of Black tenured faculty at MIT 

  CAMBRIDGE, Mass. CAMBRIDGE, Mass. For at least 25 years, faculty diversity has been a recurrent, vexing issue at the Massachusetts Institute of...

  Diverse Issues in Higher Education, 03/22/07 by Kenneth J. Cooper · More from publication