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Faculty & Staff

Creating a powerhouse: compensation research perks sweeten pot in high-stakes competition for scholars

For the past 24 years Dr. Ron Walters has been a fixture at Howard University. The tenured chairman of the university’s political science department is widely respected in the academic community and is one of an elite group of national scholars who are considered “public intellectuals.”

Test-driven admissions: ETS responds to criticisms of SATs – Educational Testing Service

After decades of criticism that standardized testing is culturally biased, officials from the Educational Testing Service (ETS) say they have made great strides in eliminating those biases.

Leadership & Policy

MiraCosta College president negotiates $1m buyout

OCEANSIDE, Calif. MiraCosta College’s embattled president Victoria Munoz Richart has negotiated a buyout worth at least $1 million that will see her employment end June 30.

Community Colleges

SACS probation for Bishop State extended 6 months

MOBILE, Ala. Bishop State Community College will remain on probation for another six months, a decision by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools that cited failures in financial and academic areas.

Faculty & Staff

Mississippi Valley State president Lester Newman resigns

ITTA BENA, Miss. Mississippi Valley State University President Lester C. Newman announced his resignation Friday after serving nearly nine years as leader of the historically Black college.

Leadership & Policy

Accrediting group gives Florida A&M ultimatum for accounting woes

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. Florida A&M University has six months to clean up its troubled financial situation or could lose its accreditation, one of the nation’s top college associations said Friday.

Michigan’s Only HBCU Likely to Lose Accreditation

DETROIT Lewis College of Business, the only historically Black college in Michigan, has been given a one-month extension before its accreditation is removed by the Higher Learning Commission. The college’s original deadline was June 30.

Leadership & Policy

Tribal College Honors American Indian Veterans

KYLE S.D. A monument honoring more than 1,800 American Indian military veterans will be dedicated Saturday six miles southwest of Kyle at the administrative headquarters of Oglala Lakota College.

Taking stock and refocusing: foundations forcing shifts in educational priorities

Atlanta Foundations have a long history of support for American higher education. But as foundations re-focus and shift their priorities, new trends in philanthropic giving are challenging colleges and universities to examine their ability to attract funding.

Faculty & Staff

Minority businesses collaborate with HBCUs to develop new technologies – Federal Government Encouraging HBCU-minority business alliance – historically Black colleges and universities

When Veatronics Corporation needed engineering expertise to develop a highly advanced fetal monitor last year, it turned to North Carolina A&T State University for help.

Leadership & Policy

The HBCU presidential pressure cooker – historically Black colleges and universities

Faced with hostile legislatures, growing enrollments, and shrinking budgets, the presidents of many historically Black colleges and universities are also under increasing pressure from their boards of trustees to perform “satisfactorily” or get out.

Washington update – major topics of 1996 that concern the academic world

Reauthorization On the Horizon

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