Careers at community colleges. Indeed, teaching, rather than research, is the priority among community college faculty. Here, teaching is what you need to do well, so you need to know your material and how to convey it to people, says LaDonna Lewis, PhD, chair of the Glendale Community College psychology department.
Miller attended Riverside Polytechnic High School and the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), where he received a degree in history. In the 1984â1985 NCAA season he helped the UCLA Bruins to an NIT championship.
William Parham, College of Law, was the first African-American graduate of the University of Cincinnati in 1874. Research biologist and educator Charles Henry Turner, who received his masterâs in 1892, was the first African American to earn a graduate degree (of any kind) at UC. In 1928, Jennie Davis Porter became the first African-American woman to earn a PhD at UC. She received national acclaim for her educational methods as principal of Cincinnatiâs Stowe School. Lucy Oxley received an MD and became the first African-American graduate of the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine in 1935.