Mark FisherStudentsKirwan’s WayOhio State University’s new president has taken a strong stand on diversity. Some say his is an example of the type of commitment White male senior executives need to make if higher education’s dreams of diversity are to be realized.July 14, 2007Faculty & StaffCentral State Must Ante-Up for FacultyWilberforce, Ohio The administration claimed at a fiscal and political crisis left it with no choice but to take the actions it did. However, the Central State University (CSU) faculty union has won a series of legal victories over the past few weeks that could pose new financial problems for the state’s only historically Black institution of higher education.July 14, 2007StudentsGiant steps on the road to renewal – Central State UniversityCentral State University has accreditation renewed and is released from U.S. Department of Education penaltyJuly 13, 2007Leadership & PolicyWright State president succumbs to cancer – Harley E. FlackDayton, Ohio Dr. Harley E. Flack, the first African American president of a major metropolitan university in Ohio, died March 29 following five-month battle with cancer. He was fifty-five.July 12, 2007Leadership & PolicyFeds Close Title VI Investigation in OhioDAYTON, Ohio The decision by the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR) to close its active Title VI investigation into the state of Ohio’s treatment of Central State University (CSU) triggered mixed reactions ranging from praise to sharp criticism in and around the Wilberforce, Ohio campus.July 12, 2007StudentsBack from the brink – averted crisis for Central State University, OhioWILBERFORCE, Ohio Central State University (CSU), which only seven months ago faced a very real threat of extinction from Ohio legislators, has emerged from a financial and political crisis and is showing strong signs of renewal.July 11, 2007Faculty & StaffCentral State hires new president, fires one-sixth of faculty – Central State University’s John W. GarlandWILBERFORCE, Ohio Fighting to overcome a political and financial crisis that nearly forced the school to close this summer, Central State University has hired a new president and terminated nineteen faculty members.July 11, 2007StudentsSet up to fail? New restrictions on Central State University considered “punitive” by supportersCentral State University supporters fear that a compromise plan to rescue the school could end up killing it instead.July 10, 2007Leadership & PolicyA remedy for Central State’s problems?DAYTON, OHIO Some Ohio legislators want to force Central State University to merge with another institution of higher education despite a graduation rate for Black students that exceeds that of nearly half of the state’s public universities.July 5, 2007Leadership & PolicyCentral State University: what happened? – financial crisis in Central State University, OhioWILBERFORCE, OHIO Dr. Herman B. Smith Jr. stepped onto Central State University’s campus in early 1995 with hope, ambition and a clear idea of the task he faced.June 26, 2007Page 1 of 2Next Page
