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Leadership & Policy

FAMU Trustee at Center of Fight with President Resigns

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. ― The outspoken Florida A&M University trustee involved in a power struggle with the school’s president is resigning. Rufus Montgomery resigned from the FAMU board on Thursday. Montgomery, an alumnus and successful lobbyist in Georgia, had stepped down as the board chairman in October. Montgomery leaves the FAMU board several weeks after trustees […]

CAROLYN MA

CAROLYN MA has been appointed interim dean of the University of Hawaii at Hilo Daniel K. Inouye College of Pharmacy. Ma is also pharmacy practice department chair and an associate professor. She was in charge of operations, faculty and residents for the college on Oahu, Maui and Kauai. Ma received a bachelor’s from the University of Santa Clara and a doctorate from the University of California, San Francisco.

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Alcorn State Breaks Through with CAEP Accreditation

Alcorn State University is the first Historically Black College and University and the only institution of higher learning in the state of Mississippi to receive accreditation from the Council for the Accreditation of Educator Preparation (CAEP).

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Faculty & Staff

Defending the Relevance, Importance of HBCUs in a White Privileged Society

There are some HBCUs that are struggling to survive and there are some thriving as well. The same applies to PWIs. However, unlike HBCUs, these institutions are not lumped into one category and treated as monolithic.

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Leadership & Policy

ALLISON GARRETT

ALLISON GARRETT has been named president of Emporia State University, effective in January. She is executive vice president at Abilene Christian University in Texas. Garrett earned a bachelor’s from Oklahoma Christian University, a juris doctor from the University of Tulsa and a master’s from Georgetown University Law Center.

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LIZETTE V. RIVERA

LIZETTE V. RIVERA has been appointed director of diversity, inclusion and student activities at Westfield State University. She was director of Upward Bound Pre-Collegiate and Educational Support Programs at the University of Massachusetts Boston. Rivera earned a bachelor’s from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and a master’s from Roosevelt University in Illinois.

Leadership & Policy

University of Kansas Chancellor Addresses Diversity Issues

LAWRENCE, Kan. — The University of Kansas’ chancellor says hiring a new provost and addressing campus concerns about race are among her top priorities. The Lawrence Journal-World reports Chancellor Bernadette Gray-Little was hired by the university in 2009. She says it is expected to take six to nine months to hire a new provost. […]

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Tradition of Exclusion at PWIs Harmful for Diversity

The success that HBCUs, tribal colleges, Hispanic-Serving Institutions and other minority-serving colleges have with maintaining diversity on their campuses can be attributed to their mission, sense of community and inclusion.

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Colleges Trying to Find Ways to Deal with Racial Incidents

WASHINGTON ― Officials were slow to handle racial incidents at the University of Missouri, and that contributed to protests, a student hunger strike, a threatened boycott by the football team and ultimately, the resignations of two administrators. At the University of Oklahoma, damage over a racist chant that was caught on video was kept to […]

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In Case You Missed It…

Lincoln University Tells Parent’s Association to Back Off Diverse Docket: African-American Student Loses Bias Suit Against Valparaiso A Lesson in Isolation: Being Hopi in Higher Education In Malaysia, Obama Says Education an Anti-Terrorism Strategy

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At UMD, New Frederick Douglass Square Illustrates State’s Racial Duality

Maryland and its flagship campus’ celebration of diversity and inclusion served as an ironic contradiction of the state’s own participation in the limited opportunities for and representations of Black students within its borders.

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Time to Save Our HBCUs Ourselves

Business as usual is dead and it is time for HBCUs to adapt to a new environment never seen before.

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