Colleges lagging on faculty diversity – Numbers trail makeup of Hub’s student bodies
By Tracy Jan – Globe Staff / February 16, 2010

The lack of black and Hispanic professors, highlighted in two recent reports critical of the faculty makeup at MIT and Emerson College, is a problem shared by the most prominent universities in the Boston area, a Globe survey reveals.

Among those struggling the most is the city’s largest school, Boston University, where blacks and Hispanics make up 3.4 percent of tenured and tenure-track faculty, a figure that has barely budged over the past decade. At BU, like the other schools, the percentage of minority faculty lags far behind the demographics of its student body.

Other local institutions don’t fare much better. At Brandeis University, 3 percent of so-called tenure-line professors are black or Hispanic, and at Harvard, they make up 5.8 percent.

Colleges across the country are struggling to bolster the faculty ranks of these underrepresented minority groups as student populations grow more diverse. Nationally, blacks and Hispanics constitute 8.8 percent of tenure-line faculty, according to the American Council on Education.

[Be sure to check out the graphic when you follow this link:  Wheelock College looks relatively good in faculty diversity, compared to the others.  ed]

Alleged murderer attended Northeastern
By Eric Allen/Huntington News Staff – February 15, 2010

Amy Bishop, the University of Alabama professor accused of shooting three fellow professors, attended Northeastern as an undergraduate, according to The Boston Globe.

Bishop’s husband, James Anderson, told The Globe the couple met at Northeastern in the 1980s.

Bishop allegedly killed three University of Alabama faculty members and injured three others after she was denied tenure at a faculty meeting Friday.

Anderson, who has four children with Bishop, told The Globe he was “shocked” by the alleged shooting.