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Leadership & Policy

No Child Left Behind Has Potential For Teacher Improvement

No Child Left Behind Has Potential For Teacher ImprovementWHITEWATER, Wis. No Child Left Behind, the federal education reform act implemented two years ago, warrants broader support among universities for its push to strengthen teacher quality, according to a position paper by The Renaissance Group. The Renaissance Group (TRG), located at Emporia State University in Kansas, […]

Placing Diversity at the Core Of Institutional Excellence

Placing Diversity at the Core Of Institutional ExcellenceIn its Oct. 23, 2003, publication, Black Issues In Higher Education identified the Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) as one of a group of universities that have made progress in recruiting and retaining ethnically diverse faculty. As gratifying as that recognition is, it speaks to only part of […]

Leadership & Policy

New Guide Aims to Help Colleges Keep Diversity Efforts Within the Law

New Guide Aims to Help Colleges Keep Diversity Efforts Within the LawWASHINGTONThe College Board recently released an important new resource to help colleges and universities who are grappling with the issues of recruiting and admitting a diverse student body in the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court decisions in the University of Michigan cases. Specifically, […]

Leadership & Policy

Dillard President Michael Lomax to Head UNCF

Dillard President Michael Lomax to Head UNCFWASHINGTONThe United Negro College Fund (UNCF) has announced that Dr. Michael L. Lomax will succeed William H. Gray III as president and CEO of the organization. Lomax, who currently serves as president of Dillard University in New Orleans, will officially join UNCF on June 1, 2004.“Dr. Lomax brings a […]

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State Department, Howard University Launch Program to Produce Diplomats

State Department, Howard University Launch Program to Produce DiplomatsWASHINGTONUnder a unique agreement between Howard University and the Department of State, members of underrepresented groups and students with financial needs selected as Charles B. Rangel Fellows will qualify for the U.S. diplomatic service upon completion of a master’s degree in international relations or related fields. Candidates […]

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Hispanic Leaders, Maricopa Board Continue to Clash

Hispanic Leaders, Maricopa Board Continue to ClashLatino community looks to legislators to rein in community-college board membersBy Pamela Burdman PHOENIXA board member’s habit of maintaining an office on campus has gone from an arcane governance question to political controversy here, where Hispanic leaders are fed up with what they see as a pattern of micromanagement […]

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Community Colleges Seek Homeland Security Education

Community Colleges Seek Homeland Security EducationWASHINGTONThe American Association of Community Colleges (AACC) has announced the appointment of a 21-member task force to craft a long-range strategy for developing homeland security education and training programs for the nation’s 1,173 two-year colleges. The AACC Ad Hoc Task Force on Homeland Security is comprised of 18 community-college presidents […]

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Bethune-Cookman Renews Search

Bethune-Cookman Renews Search For President After Talks FailDAYTONA BEACH, Fla.Contract negotiations with the woman selected to become Bethune-Cookman College’s new president have been abandoned, school officials said recently. The college will renew its search to replace retiring President Oswald P. Bronson after the school could not agree to terms with Gloria Bromell-Tinubu, spokeswoman Catherine Kershaw […]

University President Confident of Meeting Bill Cosby Challenge

University President Confident of Meeting Bill Cosby ChallengeWILBERFORCE, OhioCentral State University officials are confident they will meet a challenge from comedian Bill Cosby to raise $750,000 for scholarships in exchange for a benefit performance. Cosby challenged officials at the historically Black university during a campus visit in September. He asked Central State President John Garland […]

Faculty & Staff

About the Survey

About the SurveyIn 2002, the Center for Higher Education Policy Analysis at the University of Southern California conducted a national survey that analyzed perceptions of shared governance as well as functions and structure. The survey was undertaken as part of a three-year project titled “Challenges for Shared Governance: Improving Decision-Making Structure and Accountability in Higher […]

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Of Shared Governance & Trust

Of Shared Governance & Trust Survey reveals differences in institutional values between HBCUs, TWIs, but not all scholars agree By KENDRA HAMILTONA new survey appears to reveal sharply different perceptions of shared governance between historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) and traditionally White institutions (TWIs). The study’s author, Dr. James T. Minor, a research associate […]

Leadership & Policy

MIT President to Step Down After 13 Years

MIT President to Step Down After 13 YearsCAMBRIDGE, Mass.Dr. Charles M. Vest, the 15th president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, announced plans to step down from his post last month at a quarterly meeting of MIT’s board of trustees.Vest, 62, who has led one of the most intense periods of change at MIT since […]

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