African Perspectives in American Higher Education: Invisible VoicesFestus E. Obiakor, Jacob U. Gordon Nova Publishers, 2003 - Всего страниц: 139 Contents: Foreword; Preface; Through the Back Door: From Invisibility to Visibility; Close Encounters: A Pilgrimage of Penance and Expiation; Surviving the 'Killing Zones' of Higher Education; Connecting Teaching and Mentoring to Learning: My Contributions to the American Academy; Adventures in Turbulent Seas; A Complex Web of Acceptance and Misgiving: My Journey in American Higher Education; 'Seeing Colour': My Journey in American Higher Education; My Brother's Teacher: An African at the Vanguard of American Higher Education; Making a Difference: My Contributions to American Higher Education; And Don't Call me Arrogant; My Experiences as a Growing Scholar in US Higher Education; I am the Person I Know Best: Perspectives on American Higher Education; Index. |
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... began to understand the goings - on when students took over the administration building at Howard University in 1969 in a non - violent protest . Discrimination takes a concrete shape when a student leaves his African environment with ...
... began to understand the goings - on when students took over the administration building at Howard University in 1969 in a non - violent protest . Discrimination takes a concrete shape when a student leaves his African environment with ...
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... began teaching at William Paterson University , I was the first and only Black and foreign - born member of the Department of Economics and Business . I shared the teaching of Business Law and related subjects with another White ...
... began teaching at William Paterson University , I was the first and only Black and foreign - born member of the Department of Economics and Business . I shared the teaching of Business Law and related subjects with another White ...
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... began restructuring the university . I returned and taught for another year at the Associate Professor rank and returned to Nigeria to complete my study of Nigerian Indigenization disaster . I was in Nigeria when the army overthrew the ...
... began restructuring the university . I returned and taught for another year at the Associate Professor rank and returned to Nigeria to complete my study of Nigerian Indigenization disaster . I was in Nigeria when the army overthrew the ...
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... began to search for ways to make my circumstances better ( Obiakor , 1998 , 2002 ; Obiakor & Grant , 2002 ) . After graduating with a Master's degree in special education at Texas Christian University ( TCU ) , Fort Worth , Texas , I ...
... began to search for ways to make my circumstances better ( Obiakor , 1998 , 2002 ; Obiakor & Grant , 2002 ) . After graduating with a Master's degree in special education at Texas Christian University ( TCU ) , Fort Worth , Texas , I ...
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... began to be visible in scholarly arenas . As a result , I signed many book contracts — I was becoming a nationally known scholar in the field even in my young career . At UTC , the racism and discrimination that I encountered got more ...
... began to be visible in scholarly arenas . As a result , I signed many book contracts — I was becoming a nationally known scholar in the field even in my young career . At UTC , the racism and discrimination that I encountered got more ...
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Surviving the Killing Zones of Higher Education | 23 |
Bees in My Bonnet | 35 |
Connecting Teaching and Mentoring to Learning My Contributions to the American Academy | 47 |
Adventures in Turbulent Seas | 55 |
A Complex Web of Acceptance and Misgiving My Journey in American Higher Education | 65 |
Seeing Color My Journey in American Higher Education | 75 |
My Brothers Teacher An African at the Vanguard of American Higher Education | 89 |
Making a Difference My Contributions to American Higher Education | 97 |
And Dont Call Me Arrogant | 105 |
My Experience As A Growing Scholar In US Higher Education | 117 |
I am the Person I Know Best Perspectives on American Higher Education | 127 |
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Стр. 90 - If we work upon marble, it will perish ; if we work upon brass, time will efface it; if we rear temples, they will crumble into dust; but if we work upon immortal minds, if we imbue them with principles, with the just fear of God and love of our fellow-men, we engrave on those tablets something which will brighten to all eternity.
Стр. 35 - ... mind of the historian. Study the historian before you begin to study the facts. This is, after all, not very abstruse. It is what is already done by the intelligent undergraduate who, when recommended to read a work by that great scholar Jones of St Jude's...
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