Higher education officials say
hiring black college presidents for the first time provides an opportunity to break new ground and set an example.
Not exact matches
97, ED.D.» 09, mentions recruitment trips to historically
black colleges and universities, a «community - to - teacher» program that offers
college graduates with a four - year degree a pathway to becoming teachers, getting successful high school students to consider careers in the classroom, and
hiring teachers beginning in March instead of the summer like many other districts.
The two populations — uncertified and AC teachers — differ in a number of ways: AC teachers are less likely to be
black or Hispanic, tend to be several years younger when
hired, and attended
colleges with substantially higher median SAT scores (see Figure 1).
«Boston
hires 49 percent of
black teacher graduates and 24 percent of Latino educators» who come out of the state's teacher
colleges, says Ceronne Daly, the district's managing director of recruitment, cultivation, and diversity programs.
He showed an early talent for painting, studying at
Black Mountain
College in North Carolina — one of the first American
colleges to
hire major modern artists as faculty members.
However, via a recommendation from the Museum of Modern Art, he was soon
hired as the first head of
Black Mountain
College, a new art school in the relative obscurity of Ashville, North Carolina.
One of the things that I would definitely consider is when you go to
hire be very conscientious about posting your job not just in places where your friends and family and people who look like you will go and find those jobs, but consider posting at historical
black colleges and universities.