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Leadership & Policy: Page 282
Leadership & Policy
Long-time Instructors Finally Get Benefits
BALTIMORE The Maryland Board of Regents has approved giving traditional benefits to long-term contractual lecturers. Some lecturers at Coppin State and Frostburg State universities weren’t even getting health insurance, even though they have been teaching for more than 10 years. The Baltimore Sun reported in December that nearly 300 full-time instructors were not eligible for retirement and other benefits.
Leadership & Policy
Community College Presidents And Congressional Black Caucus Join Forces To Reverse Decline In Black Male Enrollment
Alarmed by the declining number of Black males seeking higher education, the Presidents’ Round Table, a group of Black community college presidents, has mobilized to tackle that crisis.
Leadership & Policy
IU Reconsiders Gym’s Name Over Segregationist Letters
BLOOMINGTON, Ind. Indiana University officials are considering whether to keep the name of a longtime school trustee on a gymnasium following a student newspaper article about 1940s letters in which he advocated racial segregation.
Leadership & Policy
Dine College Blends Two Cultures in Learning
A herd of sheep graze peacefully outside the library of Dine College on a recent afternoon as a student casually strolls by with a laptop case in his right hand. The image is symbolic of the school’s purpose: to provide a balance between traditional Navajo knowledge and Western education.
Leadership & Policy
FAMU’s Fiscal Fumblings
The institution’s financial problems has resulted in financial control of the College of Engineering, a joint venture with neighboring Florida State University, being handed off to FSU.
Leadership & Policy
Fisk’s Fire Sale of O’Keeffe Painting Blocked by Tennessee Attorney General
Fisk University’s proposed sale of a priceless Georgia O’Keeffe painting was blocked Thursday by the Tennessee Attorney General, who said the sale would be “an artistic and financial loss for Fisk and would detract from the rich cultural environment of this community.”
Leadership & Policy
Sparring Continues Over Cuny black male initiative
I have never met the young African-American man who writer Christina Asquith claims (see “Dreams Deferred?” Feb. 22) we are trying to put out of a job as a counselor at Medgar Evers College’s Male Development and Empowerment Center.
Leadership & Policy
Farewell To the Chief
American Indian groups and others have largely won their battle over the use of Native images by college sports teams, but the economic backstory is seldom reported.
Students
Howard University First HBCU to Divest From Sudan
Calling the human rights abuses in Sudan “intolerable,” Howard University’s Board of Trustees voted recently to cut off all ties with companies doing business in the war-torn African nation.
Leadership & Policy
Fisk University Ready to Sell Prized O’Keeffe Painting
Officials at financially troubled Fisk University have signaled to state officials this week that the Nashville, Tenn., school is ready to sell its prized Georgia O’Keeffe painting to the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum for $7 million, although other potential buyers have offered more than three times that amount in the past month.
Leadership & Policy
Texas Southern Advisory Panel Says Strict Oversight Needed
HOUSTON Financially troubled Texas Southern University needs a revamped board of regents, a new mission and strict oversight by the state auditor, according to recommendations released Monday by a governor-appointed advisory panel.
Leadership & Policy
Julianne Malveaux Named Bennett College President
In a move that surprised many within academia, Bennett College trustees have named noted commentator and economist Dr. Julianne Malveaux president of the women’s college, effective June 1. Malveaux is best known for her numerous appearances on CNN and BET, and her columns have appeared regularly in USA Today, Ms. Magazine, Essence and this publication, Diverse: Issues In Higher Education. Malveaux replaces retiring Bennett College President Johnnetta Cole, whose leadership is credited with bringing Bennett back from the brink of deaccreditation and fiscal insolvency.
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