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Black Colleges Seek More Alumni Support
Alumni financial support of Black colleges has risen from 7 percent to 10 percent in the past 5 years according to figures presented earlier this year.
The United Negro College Fund represents 39 private Black schools. Since 2006, the fund has granted $8.1 million to 29 member schools.
As state and federal monies continue to be reduced, the need for alumni to increase its efforts to continue scholarship and support monies. In 2005-2006, 142,500 bachelor’s degrees were conferred to Blacks which is significantly from fewer than 92,000 degrees 10 years ago.
But Black alums do offer a warning to university administrators and Black college communities. “If I’m going to give my money to a university, I want to be sure that it’s used for the very best,” said a Florida entrepreneur who’s already given about $60,000. Others agree.
Ball State Daily News, April 21, 2008
Faculty Claim Duties Require More Than 40 Hours A Week
Although few colleges and universities examine how faculty handle their work weeks, an informal survey of University of Nebraska-Lincoln instructors show virtually all work more than 40 hours a week.
Faculty use percentages to distribute their time in dealing with duties. The breakdown shows the following: 55 percent for teaching, 35 percent toward research and 10 percent for meetings and prep work.
“We have a lot of freedom and flexibility pertaining to getting work done, but the flip side is that we are always working, “ said a UNL math professor.
Faculty work requires being flexible and working 24/7 at times. “Students e-mail me at any time of the day---usually after 11 p.m. with questions or problems and I make it a priority to get back to them as soon as I can,” said a chemistry professor. “Its hard to put a clock on your work but if I didn’t love what I was doing and enjoy putting the hard time into teaching and my research then I definitely would have picked another major in college.”
Daily Nebraskan, April 8, 2008
Business Plan Called Poo You Wins
It takes all kinds of ideas and business plans but senior entrepreneurship major Matt Bare’s details about selling poo won the competition at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway in what was called the Nascent 500.
The novelty of his idea didn’t help him as much, he said, as the business plan he presented. It included statistics and financial data. He took a victory lap around the speedway in a pace care at 100 miles per hour after his win.
Bare said he plans to take the $10,000 prize and put it into his company. His web site, www.pooyou.com is still running.
Daily Nebraskan, April 2, 2008
Michigan Takes Aggressive Step to Aid Handicapped
A deal last March with a paralyzed veterans’ group has helped the University of Michigan Administration help handicapped football fans see Michigan play this season.
The stadium this season will offer 96 new accessible seats (as well as seats for companions) on the east side of the 107,000 plus seat stadium. By the start of the 2010 season, the university expects to have 329 seats and companion seats available to assist the handicapped.
The university also promised to work with architects to enhance wheelchair accessibility of parking, access routes, restrooms, concessions and other amenities.
Daily Nebraskan, March 11, 2008
College Students Do Poorly on History Exam
It continues to demonstrate a serious deficiency in the background of college graduates today and the results of the most recent Intercollegiate Studies Institute history exam given nationwide show American students are losing ground.
The average score of 14,000 college seniors was 54.2 percent. Freshmen scored 4 points less at 50.4 percent on average.
Even more perplexing to scholars and academic specialists, the worst performances showed up in America’s elite institutions. Princeton, Yale and Cornell seniors, for example, scored lower than their freshmen counterparts.
A research fellow with ISI said that instead of blaming students “We are putting the burden mostly on the university. Seniors failed because colleges are stalling student learning.”
Daily Nebraskan, February 12, 2008
SPJ Warns Quinnipiac College About Threats to Student Freedom
The Society of Professional Journalists expressed serious concern to administrators at Quinnipiac College about a threat to ban the university’s SPJ chapter if any members endorse or cooperate with the online student newspaper, The Quad News.
Although a private university with broad powers to control campus activities, said SPJ “we hope that you will realize that banning a student organization for actions that are not only legal but well-intentioned would send a message across the country that the university leadership does not support the principles of free speech and free association that are outline in the First Amendment.”
The rebuke came after the Student Center director at Quinnipiac told the SPJ campus chapter that if it continued contact with the independent student run online publication, which was begun to oppose administration efforts to control content in the student newspaper, it could lose its campus status.
SPJ News Release, Sept. 15, 2008
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