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Leadership & Policy

Accrediting Group Sees 2017 as Year of Governance

At a time when the roles and functions of college governing boards are being increasingly debated, the SACSCOC is focusing on “effective governance” at its Small College Initiative meeting next month.

“The governance of an institution sets the tone for everything,” says Dr. Belle Wheelan, SACSCOC president.

State-focused Leaders Backing Free K-14 System

Advocates say policymakers and higher education leaders should initiate a national discussion to establish a free and universal K-14 system to reduce disparities and make college more accessible.

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Partnership Aims to Boost LGBTQ Inclusion at HBCUs

The Center for Minority Serving Institutions at the University of Pennsylvania is teaming up with the Human Rights Campaign Foundation to launch a three-year initiative to develop LGBTQ-inclusive programming at HBCUs across the nation.

Mary Beth Maxwell is a senior vice president at HRC.

Asian American Pacific Islander

Asian-American Studies Pioneer Philip Choy Dies

A self-trained historian who was part of a teaching tandem behind the first college-level, Chinese American course in this country has died. Philip P. Choy, 90, passed away at his San Francisco home last week.

Native Americans

Ponca Tribe’s History Played Key Role at Conference

Educators and stakeholders of two-year institutions shared best practices, along with new and different ways to teach, stimulate learning and enhance the community college experience at last week’s League for Innovation.

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Paul Quinn Becomes 1st HBCU to Gain Work College Designation

Two years after embracing the work college model, Paul Quinn College officially will join the ranks of schools such as Berea College that have earned federal recognition as a work college.

Paul Quinn College President Michael Sorrell

African-American

Persistence Puts Turner on Path to Education, Politics

Her mother’s sudden death, left Turner, who was then a 22-year-old sophomore at Cuyahoga Community College, and her police officer husband Jeffery, the task of caring for her six siblings and their own child.

Nina Turner (Photo courtesy of Nina Turner)

Who’s Winning? Why HBCU Athletic Branding Strategies Matter

If you ask the question “who’s winning?” and routinely cannot answer the question, allow me to answer it. Your team is not winning.

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New Budget Proposal May Hit Hispanic-Serving Institutions Hardest

So far, President Trump’s budget proposal doesn’t come close to the “aspirational” levels of funding that HBCU advocacy organizations had been seeking.

Faculty & Staff

Amid Controversy, Kentucky State Names Brown President

A divided Board of Regents at Kentucky State University selected a new chief executive to lead the troubled state-controlled, land-grant institution, despite concern that the process of selecting a new leader was flawed and concluded too quickly.

Dr. M. Christopher Brown

Expert: College Promise Programs must be ‘Sustainable’

To succeed over the long term, promise programs “should be sustainable,” said Dr. Martha Kanter, meaning that they “shouldn’t just redirect federal or state aid.”

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Venerable Basketball Coach, Mentor Ben Jobe Dies

Ben Jobe, the college basketball coach who won more than 500 games in more than five decades of coaching around the nation, died Friday night in Montgomery, Alabama, the city to which he moved after retiring in 2003.

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