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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

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

Career Insights: Timetable and checklist for the academic job search
By Virginia Steinmetz, Ph.D., Duke University Career Center
"Not all graduate students are larval professors..." nor should they be. It's important to keep in mind that there is life - and great opportunity - outside of the university.

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 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

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

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

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

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

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.'

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