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California State-Stanislaus President To Head Dillard University

California State-Stanislaus President To Head Dillard UniversityNEW ORLEANS Dr. Marvalene Hughes, the first woman or African American to be named president of California State University’s Stanislaus campus, was chosen in early March as Dillard University’s first female president. Hughes will officially begin July 1 as the ninth president of Dillard, a private, predominantly Black school […]

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Coalition of States Agree to Raise High-School Standards

Coalition of States Agree to Raise High-School StandardsWASHINGTON A coalition of 13 states confirmed plans recently to require tougher high-school courses and diploma requirements, changes that could affect about one in three students. The announcement is the most tangible sign that the nation’s governors, gathered in the capital for a summit on improving high schools, […]

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University of Michigan to Offer Grants for Needy Students

University of Michigan to Offer Grants for Needy StudentsANN ARBOR, Mich. Nearly 3,000 needy undergraduate students at the University of Michigan would see their tuition bills lowered under a new grant program. The program, called M-PACT, would allow the students to tap into $3 million a year in grants, in addition to any other scholarships […]

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Penn State Black Caucus Calls School’s Response to Racism ‘Halfhearted’

Penn State Black Caucus Calls School’s Response to Racism ‘Halfhearted’STATE COLLEGE, Pa. The Penn State Black Caucus called on students, administrators and university President Graham Spanier to assure the safety of minorities on campus and claimed the school takes a halfhearted approach to racial tensions.“This is about students’ rights, students’ welfare,” caucus President Ed Smith […]

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California Tribal College Loses Accreditation, Closes

California Tribal College Loses Accreditation, ClosesWOODLAND, Calif. American Indian leaders who tried to save California’s only tribal college say that problems at D-Q University are insurmountable. The two-year college in rural Yolo County lost its accreditation in January, after school officials failed to fix financial and management troubles. “We realize the school has reached its […]

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UAB Reaches Settlement With Former President Ann Reynolds

UAB Reaches Settlement With Former President Ann ReynoldsBIRMINGHAM, Ala. The University of Alabama System has reached a $475,000 settlement with former UAB president Dr. W. Ann Reynolds, who filed a discrimination lawsuit against the system’s board of trustees.In the settlement, the system and its trustees did not admit wrongdoing in her reluctant departure in 2002 […]

Faculty & Staff

Aptitude or Acculturation?

Aptitude or Acculturation?By Julianne MalveauxWhat was Larry Summers thinking? The Harvard president, as well known for his brilliance as for his tactlessness, must enjoy the taste of shoe leather, given the frequency he puts his foot in his mouth. Some “off the record” remarks he made at a research meeting of the National Bureau of […]

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Oswald Bronson Named Interim President of Edward Waters College

Oswald Bronson Named Interim President of Edward Waters CollegeJACKSONVILLE, Fla. Dr. Oswald P. Bronson, who served 29 years as president of Bethune-Cookman College, was named last month as interim president of struggling Edward Waters College. Bronson, 77, began work at the historically Black college and replaced former President Jimmy Jenkins, who resigned recently in the […]

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Harvard President Outlines Mission For Two Committees on Women

Harvard President Outlines Mission For Two Committees on WomenBOSTONSaying he hoped to “turn heat into light” after the recent controversy over his remarks on women in science, Harvard University President Lawrence Summers recently announced the appointment of two faculty task forces on women and pledged to create a senior administrative position to support gender diversity.Summers […]

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Langston President to Retire, Search for New Leader Begins

Langston President to Retire, Search for New Leader BeginsWARNER, Okla. The Board of Regents for the Oklahoma A&M Colleges has started its search for a new president of Langston University. Dr. Ernest Holloway is retiring this year after 25 years as president of the historically Black university that has about 2,000 full-time students. A new […]

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Edward Waters College President Jimmy Jenkins Resigns Following Plagiarism Scandal

Edward Waters College President Jimmy Jenkins Resigns Following Plagiarism Scandal JACKSONVILLE, Fla. Dr. Jimmy Jenkins, who was credited with turning around Edward Waters College, increasing its enrollment and its standards, resigned earlier this month after a plagiarism scandal cost the school its accreditation (see Black Issues, Dec. 30, 2004). The executive committee of the board […]

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A Voice for Access and Equity

A Voice for Access and EquityAfter serving on the Georgia board of regents for 30 years, Elridge McMillan is honored with lifetime achievement awardBy Tracie PowellATLANTAWhen Elridge McMillan became the second Black trustee to serve on the University of Georgia System Board of Regents in 1975, his Afro and past advocacy made colleagues think he […]

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