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Leadership & Policy

Alabama School Board Votes to Accept Retirement of Kennedy and Rogers

MONTGOMERY Ala. The state school board voted Thursday to accept the retirement of Bishop State Community College President Yvonne Kennedy and Shelton State President Rick Rogers, despite calls for their firing over financial scandals on their campuses.

Brother of Oklahoma University student who blew himself up guilty of threatening agent

DENVER The brother of a University of Oklahoma student who blew himself up on campus was convicted Wednesday of threatening an FBI agent.

University of Louisiana team retires Cajunbot; robotics challenge now city, not desert

DATELINE: LAFAYETTE La. A six-wheeled robot that twice made the finals in a hot national competition was officially retired, then cannibalized for parts

Bowling Green U. says professor lost drive with student info

BOWLING GREEN Ohio About 1,800 current and former Bowling Green State University students are being notified about the loss of a computer flash drive containing their personal information, the university has announced.

Appreciation: Dr. Elias Blake, 1929-2007

Leonard Haynes reflects on the contributions of Dr. Elias Blake Jr., the former Clark College president who advocated tirelessly for Blacks in higher education. Blake died last week at the age of 77.

History Matters

History Matters Dr. James Minor puts forth a flawed premise about the value of historically Black colleges and universities in the April 5 “Last Word” (see “Success of HBCUs Means Looking Forward, Not Backwards”). He seems to question the rationale of having higher education institutions focus on a specific segment of our society. Absent from […]

Fund-raising Support for Black Colleges

Fund-raising Support for Black Colleges It is indeed difficult to raise funds at historically Black colleges and universities (see “Bettering the Black College Paradigm,” May 3). It is difficult because of the lack of unrestricted funds to support fund-raising efforts. I surmise that that was one of the driving forces behind creating the UNCF’s Institute […]

More Compelling Explanations for HBCU-TWI Salary Disparities

More Compelling Explanations for HBCU-TWI Salary Disparities According to the article, “Study: HBCU Graduates Earn Less Than Black Graduates of Traditionally White Institutions” (see Diverse, May 17), the economic gains of Blacks who attended historically Black institutions as opposed to Blacks who attended traditionally White institutions declined dramatically from the 1970s to the 1990s, according […]

Getting to Know:Yolanda Cash Jackson

Lobbyist for Florida’s HBCUs Works the Capitol on Behalf of Minority Students

Bill May Build Consensus on Aid To Predominantly Black Colleges

A series of changes on Capitol Hill is providing new momentum for efforts to create a federal aid program for predominantly Black colleges — institutions that enroll a large number of African-Americans but are not recognized as historically Black schools.

Are U.S. News’ Rankings Inherently Biased Against Black Colleges?

The U.S. News & World Report’s annual college rankings have long had their share of critics, and Dr. Walter Kimbrough, president of historically Black Philander Smith College, is trying to enlist his HBCU counterparts in boycotting the rankings.

Community Colleges

Establishing a Real-World Credential

Community College of the Air Force to award 300,000th associate degree.

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