Research Publication Tips Dr. Mona Lisa Saloy April 2011

Research Publication Tips Dr. Mona Lisa Saloy April 2011

DIllard University Deep South Center HBCU Enviornmental Health and Safety Compliance Symposium

For Immediate Release
What: HBCU Environmental Health and Safety Compliance Symposium
When: April 25 – 27, 2011 @ Dillard University, Professional Schools Building, Room 135, 8:30 am – 5:00 pm
Who: Dillard University Deep South Center for Environmental Justice
504‐816‐4005

The Deep South Center for Environmental Justice is hosting the Environmental Health &
Safety Compliance Symposium April 25 – 27, 2011 in the Professional Schools Building,
Room 135 at Dillard University. The three day symposium will cover a variety of
environmental compliance topics and equip participants with the latest information on
environmental regulations. Dillard faculty, staff and students are invited to attend the
symposium free of charge. You must RSVP for the April 25th luncheon; available seating is
limited.

Special Guest Dr. Benjamin Chavis will be the luncheon keynote speaker
Monday, April 25th from 12:15 – 1:15 pm. Dr. Chavis and Russell
Simmons co‐founded the Hip‐Hop Summit Action Network. Dr. Chavis is
also President of Education Online Services Corporation (EOServe, Corp),
the world’s leading provider of online higher education for HBCU’s
across America. He has authored several books and publications
including Toxic Waste and Race in the United States, A National Report
on the Racial and Socioeconomic Characteristics of Communities with
Hazardous Waste Sites, and The National Agenda: Public Policy Issues, Analyses, and
Programmatic Plans of Action.
The symposium will provide information sharing and professional development opportunities.
Symposium sessions will include topics on hazardous communication, blood‐borne pathogens,
indoor air quality, green construction, and interpretation of federal regulations to ensure a
safe working environment. For more information about the symposium call 504‐816‐4005.

DIllard University Deep South Center HBCU Enviornmental Health and Safety Compliance Symposium

TLT Group TGIF 4.21.2011 - (twenty-second issue, volume four)

TLT Group TGIF 4.21.2011 - (twenty-second issue, volume four)

Diverse Issues in Higher Education: UC Davis Law Professor Creates Cartoons to Teach Copyright Law

by Lydia Lum , April 15, 2011

Keith Aoki grew up devouring comics and TV cartoons. He spent countless hours drawing and creating his own stories, eventually becoming an artist in New York City struggling to eke out a living.

Now, having traded in a nomadic existence for life as a college professor, Aoki has carved a niche in which his comics explain and explore intellectual property law. He hopes his time-consuming labor teaches and empowers not only students but also the countless artists whose creativity can be stymied by trademark and copyright laws. Aoki’s comic book characters show readers how to more easily discern the difference between piracy and public domain. The cartoons suggest, for example, how a person could make an artistic parody of a Barbie doll without copyright infringement or how to legally include fragments of a TV program in the background shot of a videotaped documentary.

“Comics are more in-your-face than scholarly articles,” explains Aoki, a University of California, Davis law professor since 2007.

His drawing style is inspired by famous artists such as Steve Ditko (Spider-Man), the late Jack Kirby (Fantastic Four) and the late Chester Gould (Dick Tracy).

Despite devoting himself to producing comic strips for nearly a decade after earning a bachelor’s in fine arts from Wayne State University in 1978, Aoki didn’t illustrate a full-length comic book until becoming a University of Oregon law professor. For three years, until 2005, he and two Duke University law faculty brainstormed, wrote, drew, laughed, tore up and re-drew their way through a collaboration. It resulted in Bound by Law? — a 78-page book starring a filmmaker planning a documentary about daily life but confused about copyright law.

Aoki portrayed the heroine, Akiko, on a riff of the iconic Marvel Comics superhero Captain America, arming her with a shield bearing a giant “C” — as in “copyright.” Aoki sketched hundreds of copyrighted works — a Budweiser beer ad, SpongeBob SquarePants and Leonardo da Vinci’s “The Last Supper,” to name a few — into the book’s narrative, a living exercise in fair use because neither he nor his co-authors obtained permission to use those images. Yet at one point, protagonist Akiko bemoans her inability to purchase a copy of the civil rights documentary “Eyes on the Prize” because it went out of circulation once its producers were unable to afford licensing fees on copyrighted music and footage.

Co-author James Boyle recounts “long, hilarious Skype calls whenever they brainstormed. “Keith’s artistry is a wonderful mixture of allusions to classic comics. It’s a kind of inspired remix — appropriately, because remix is the subject of the comics we’ve worked on together,” says Boyle, referring to the artist’s use of everyday familiar-but-copyrighted images to construct an original narrative.

Aoki, Boyle and Duke senior lecturing fellow Jennifer Jenkins hope to publish their second comic book later this year. Bound by Law? was published in 2006 by Duke’s Center for the Study of the Public Domain.

Three times longer than Bound by Law?, the trio’s second book traces the history of music borrowing, hoping to bring some perspective to today’s technology-infused music wars. Aoki has come a long way from drawing comic strips, mostly unpaid, for New York publications such as East Village Eye, an arts and culture paper. Aoki supported himself as a bike messenger, bartender and construction worker until getting married, and the desire for a stable income led him to enroll in law school. After two years of practicing technology law at a Boston firm, he moved into academia.

Aoki compartmentalizes his artistry into weekends and summers. Weekdays are confined to classroom teaching — “the Cartesian, rational, logical side of life,” he jokes. To download a free copy of Bound by Law? Visit http://www.thepublicdomain.org/comic/

Diverse Issues in Higher Education: UC Davis Law Professor Creates Cartoons to Teach Copyright Law

Diverse Issues in Higher Education: UNCF Study Shows HBCUs Chosen for Small Faculty-Student Ratio, Sense of Belonging

April 19, 2011 by Amara Phillip

In the presumably post-racial age, are historically Black colleges and universities necessary? A new study from the United Negro College Fund’s Frederick D. Patterson Research Institute, attempts to answer this question. The study, “Students Speak! Understanding the Value of HBCUs from Student Perspectives,” uses first-person interviews from UNCF member institutions to uncover the reasons why many students choose to attend HBCUs.

The report was co-authored by Dr. Tammy L. Mann, executive director of the Frederick D. Patterson Research Institute; and Janet T. Awokoya, a senior research associate at the Institute.

Thirteen of the students participated in a focus group while 10 students had one-on-one interviews. Each student offered candid assessments of their secondary education, highlighting the pivotal role that individual experiences played in shaping their decisions to attend HBCUs.

“The reality is that everyday experiences of individuals continue to drive how they perceive and act on those perceptions when it comes to making major life decisions, including where they will seek a college education,” the authors write.

Among the study’s findings: students prize small student-to-faculty ratios. The typical UNCF institution enrolls an average of 1,379 undergraduates, compared with 1,908 for other four-year, private institutions. Mann and Awokoya observed that, for many of these students, smaller classrooms facilitate learning and provide a more active support system.

“Many of the comments shared by the students focuses on the need to feel connected — a sense of belonging — as an important driver influencing the decision to attend their institution of choice,” they write.

Other students chose to attend HBCUs after graduating from predominately White high schools, which, they believed, left them without a strong sense of their racial or cultural identities.

Among students, one widely expressed view was that HBCUs gave them an opportunity to be surrounded by perspectives and experiences that mirrored their own.

“I made a decision to come after the experience that I had at a predominantly [White] institution in order to embrace my own history, heritage and everything that has gone into making us who we are,” said one student.

The authors caution that the study’s small sample size makes it difficult to draw broad conclusions about its implications.

For example, at least 20 percent of HBCU students are not Black. The authors admit that there have not been “nearly enough [studies] devoted to understanding why these students find these institutions attractive.”

But the study provides enough encouraging evidence to suggest that HBCUs fare well against traditional universities when it comes to providing more engaged learning environments.

HBCUs should build upon these advantages, the authors say, by using face-to-face outreach programs and social media networks to connect with students.

Ultimately, say the authors, attending HBCUs allows students to “benefit from positive cultural experiences around being Black that they may not have received during their formal elementary and secondary education experiences.”

Diverse Issues in Higher Education: UNCF Study Shows HBCUs Chosen for Small Faculty-Student Ratio, Sense of Belonging

New Orleans Hornets: "I'M IN!"

New Orleans Hornets: "I'M IN!"

Inside Higher Ed: Big Cuts to International Programs

April 15, 2011
When a chart of all cuts in the 2011 budget passed by Congress on Thursday was made public earlier this week, international-education advocates received an unpleasant surprise: funding for foreign language and area studies programs within the Education Department could be cut by as much as $50 million, rolled back to levels last seen before Sept. 11, 2001. (Note: This article has been updated from an earlier version to reflect new developments.)

Inside Higher Ed: Big Cuts to International Programs

Diverse Issues in Higher Education: Scholars of Minority-Serving Institutions Remain Dedicated, Enthusiastic and Passionate About Their Research

April 13, 2011 by Dr. Marybeth Gasman

My very favorite aspect of being a faculty member is the work I get to do with new scholars. This past week at the American Education Research Association's annual meeting in New Orleans, my colleague Clif Conrad of the University of Wisconsin and I hosted a lunch for new scholars. The focus was on research related to Minority Serving Institutions. As we all know, these institutions are growing rapidly (especially the Hispanic Serving Institutions and Asian American Pacific Islander Serving Institutions). MSIs also are doing the lion's share of the work when it comes to educating students of color. That said, it is vital that we know more about MSIs

During the luncheon, Clif and I asked the young scholars to share their research interests and also their reason for doing research on MSIs. What resulted was a rich exchange and the discovery (on my part) that we have some amazing young scholars among us who should be tapped to help us understand the work that MSIs are doing.

Taryn Ozuna at the University of Texas, Rebecca Villareal at the University of Maryland and Dina Maramba and Robert Palmer at SUNY-Binghamton are interested in the experiences of Hispanic or Asian students at historically Black colleges and universities. Both of these populations are growing on HBCU campuses but we know very little about these students' experiences.

In the room, there also was a great deal of interest around issues of success at Hispanic Serving Institutions. Laura Cortez at the University of Texas-El Paso is doing research on Hispanic students at HSIs along the Texas border. And Gina Garcia at UCLA is doing a comparison of emerging HSIs (those with fewer than 25 percent Hispanic students on their campuses) and traditionally White institutions.

Amy Fann of the University of North Texas is doing research related to tribal colleges and universities, specifically exploring how tribes are managing the higher education process for American Indian students.

Tafaya Ransom at the University of Pennsylvania, Valerie Lundy-Wagner at New York University, Terrell Strayhorn at Ohio State University, Kim Griffin at Penn State and Brian Burt at the University of Michigan all are doing work related to minorities in the STEM fields. In particular, they are looking at the role that HBCUs play in preparing students for success in graduate STEM programs.

Lastly, Steve Mobley and Noah Drezner at the University of Maryland, Brian McGowan at Indiana University, James Ellis at the University of Michigan, Anya Johnson at the University of Mississippi and Samaad Keys at the University of Georgia are all interested in the complex experiences of students at HBCUs - both traditional students and those that are often overlooked, such as gay and lesbian students.

There were several other young scholars attending the luncheon in addition to those mentioned above - they were all enthusiastic and passionate about their work. Given their dedication to the craft of research and their innovative spirits, I think that we will have a good start in terms of the research that we need to better understand the strengths and challenges of Minority Serving Institutions in the 21st century. I urge you to seek these young scholars out and find out more about their important and innovative research agendas.

Diverse Issues in Higher Education: Scholars of Minority-Serving Institutions Remain Dedicated, Enthusiastic and Passionate About Their Research

Tuskegee University News: Bioethics Center to commemorate U.S. presidential apology for syphilis study

TUSKEGEE, Ala. (April 12, 2011) - The Tuskegee University National Center for Bioethics in Research and Health Care will observe the Commemoration of the Presidential Apology for the United States Public Health Study of Untreated Syphilis in the Negro Male in Macon County, Alabama on April 14 - 15 at the Kellogg Hotel and Conference Center on campus. The theme for this year's celebration is "U.S. Public Health Service Syphilis Study at Tuskegee: A Metaphor for Bioethics Abuse."

This year, the commemoration will include two bioethics panel discussions on Thursday, April 14 beginning at 9 a.m. The opening session, which will address health care reform, will feature Dr. Bailus Walker of Howard University, Dr. Jay Chun from Morgan State University and Dr. Charaye Farmer-Dixon from the Meharry School of Dentistry. Dr. Darryl Scriven, associate director for education for the Bioethics Center, will serve as moderator and provide response to the comments in ethical terms.

The Friday program topic is "Ethical Problematic: Benevolence, Beneficence and Malevolence." Presentations will be made by Fred D. Gray, Esq., the attorney for the participants and families of the U.S. Public Health Service Syphilis Study; Dr. John Douglas, chief medical officer, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, on the Guatemalan Syphilis Research Study; and Carletta Tilousi, Havasupai Tribal Council member and the lead plaintiff in the suit against Arizona State University's Havasupai Research Study.

Other topics to be covered over the two-day period include human subject research, health equity, trust between minorities and researchers, clinical trials and training in bioethics for researchers.

This event is free and open to the public. For more information, contact the Bioethics Center at 334-725-2319. For a schedule of events, click here.

About the Apology

The commemoration marks the 1997 apology from U.S. President Bill Clinton to the victims of the infamously known "Tuskegee Experiment." The U.S. Public Health Service program, "Tuskegee Study of Untreated Syphilis in the Negro Male," wreaked havoc on hundreds of black men and their families in Macon County, Ala., from 1932 to 1972. Some of their relatives attend the commemoration at Tuskegee annually.

About the National Center for Bioethics in Research and Health Care

The Tuskegee University National Center for Bioethics in Research and Health Care was officially established on May 16, 1999. It officially opened in 2006. The Center continues to build upon the rich history and commitment of Tuskegee University to seek improvements in the health and health care of people living in underrepresented areas.

Tuskegee University News: Bioethics Center to commemorate U.S. presidential apology for syphilis study

The Economist Intelligence Unit: The future of higher education:How technology will shape learning

A report from the Economist Intelligence Unit Sponsored by the New Media Consortium

The Economist Intelligence Unit: The future of higher education:How technology will shape learning