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Leadership & Policy

AAUP: Regents Did ‘Serious Disservice’ in U. Iowa Search

IOWA CITY, Iowa ― A national group says Iowa regents did a “serious disservice” by influencing the University of Iowa presidential search to favor their pre-ordained candidate, businessman Bruce Harreld. The American Association of University Professors said in a report Thursday the Iowa Board of Regents “acted throughout in bad faith” the search to faculty […]

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Virginia State to Name Makola Abdullah President

Virginia State University will name Bethune-Cookman Provost and Academic Officer Makola M. Abdullah as its next president Friday. Abdullah, a Chicago native, succeeds interim President Pamela Hammond at the historically Black university in Petersburg, Va., and is expected to take office on Feb. 1. Hammond took over as president when Keith Miller resigned last December. […]

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Accrediting Agency Lifts Sanction on Norfolk State

The Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges (SACSCOC) has notified Norfolk State University that it has satisfied all the agency’s accreditation concerns and that it will be removed from probation status. NSU Interim President Eddie N. Moore Jr. was notified of the decision as he attended the agency’s annual meeting in Houston. […]

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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 […]

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Distinguished Guests

The Diverse staff would like to again thank University of Washington Bothell Chancellor Wolf Yeigh and Assistant Vice Chancellor Kelly Snyder for stopping by our offices in Fairfax, Va., Wednesday and bringing us up to speed on developments at their rapidly growing institution.

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Faculty & Staff

University of Missouri Faculty Suggest Revoking Cosby Degree

COLUMBIA, Mo. ― The University of Missouri Faculty Council has voted to recommend rescind an honorary doctorate given to Bill Cosby. The Columbia Missourian reports the council, which is made up of elected representatives of campus faculty, voted Nov. 5 to take back Cosby’s honorary doctorate in humane letters. Ben Trachtenberg, chair of the Faculty […]

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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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JULIE WOLLMAN

JULIE WOLLMAN has been appointed president of Widener University, effective Jan. 19. She is president of Edinboro University of Pennsylvania. Wollman earned a bachelor’s from Harvard University, a master’s from the University of Pennsylvania and a doctorate from New York University.

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.

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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. […]

Community College Students, Union Call for President’s Exit

ROCHESTER, Minn. ― Students and staff at a Rochester community college are calling for the school’s president to leave, citing excessive expenses for the school’s recent centennial celebration as the latest example of her mismanagement. The student association and a faculty and staff union at Rochester Community and Technical College sent an open letter to […]

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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