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Leadership & Policy

Bishop State Community College Among Three HBCUs Placed On Accreditation Probation

The nation’s second-largest historically Black university received a laundry list of issues it needs to address in the next year to regain full accreditation, Southern Association of Colleges and Schools officials said at its annual meeting in New Orleans last month.

Leadership & Policy

Lack Of Black Coordinators Leads to Few Head Coaching Opportunities

If being a provost or vice president for academic affairs is a necessary last stop before becoming a college president, then putting in time as an offensive or defensive coordinator should be the surefire pathway to landing a highly coveted and lucrative collegiate football head coaching position. But for Blacks, the pipeline to the head coaching slot is choked at the coordinator level.

Faculty & Staff

College Endowments: Rich Get Richer

New figures on university endowments confirm it’s not just the “haves” and “have nots” in academe these days. Beyond the great majority of colleges, there’s a growing group of the newly rich schools, and at the top of the heap a tiny cadre of ultra-wealthy institutions.

Leadership & Policy

Accreditation Probation for Country’s Two Largest HBCUs

Institutions must address laundry lists of issues after the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools’ meeting last month.

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In Brief: College Advertisement Has Unintended Double Meaning

The advertisement said Blackhawk Technical College was a good fit for “the White family,” with White being the proper name of an actual family, but some read racial overtones. Also, the University of North Dakota opposes affirmative action ban. University of Maryland, Eastern Shores becomes the first HBCU with an accredited golf program.

Leadership & Policy

15 Schools Scrutinized in Study-abroad Program Probe

NEW YORK Study-abroad programs at 15 colleges and universities including Harvard and Columbia are being scrutinized by the New York attorney general’s office to ensure cozy deals between schools and companies that provide the programs are not cheating students, a top investigator said Monday.

Leadership & Policy

Support For Undocumented Student Aid Costs California Community Colleges Board President Her Seat

This week in the majority-Democrat California State Senate, GOP senators succeeded in blocking the confirmation of Community Colleges Board of Governors President Katherine Albiani. The Senate voted along party lines to reject Albiani, the third of Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s appointees to the board voted down in the past year by united GOP opposition to the board’s decision to back the Dream Act, which would grant financial aid to undocumented students.

Leadership & Policy

In Brief: ACE Names First Woman President

Former UNC president Molly Corbett Broad was named president of ACE; Johns Hopkins researchers find Blacks’ reluctance to participate in medical studies is a direct result of the Tuskegee experiment; and recipients of the Tien Education Leadership Awards are announced.

Leadership & Policy

SC State Trustees Release Ex-presidents Performance Review

COLUMBIA S.C. Former South Carolina State University President Andrew Hugine failed to meet the expectations of his board of trustees in two areas, according to his performance review released by the school. Hugine was fired last month for what the board said was poor performance. The evaluation released last week shows that the board gave […]

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Texas Southern U. Regents Pick New President

HOUSTON Texas Southern University regents on Friday named John Rudley as the sole finalist to succeed Priscilla Slade as president of the troubled historically Black school.

Leadership & Policy

Professional Appointments

John Payton has been appointed director-counsel and president of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund. Most recently, he was a partner in the Washington, D.C., law firm Wilmer, Cutler, Pickering, Hale and Dorr. Payton earned a bachelor’s from Pomona College and a law degree from Harvard Law School. Dr. Tracey D. Ford has been named director […]

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Michigan’s Only HBCU Struggling to Stay Afloat

Senior faculty members at Lewis College of Business in Detroit emerged from a recent meeting nervously optimistic. With the school on the brink of closure, that was all they could be, explains Deolis Allen, dean and chief academic officer of the school.

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