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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 […]
Leadership & Policy
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 […]
Leadership & Policy
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 […]
Students
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 […]
Leadership & Policy
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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Leadership & Policy
University of South Carolina Appoints
University of South Carolina Appoints First Black Law School DeanCOLUMBIA, S.C.The first Black dean has been appointed at the University of South Carolina’s School of Law. Burnele Venable Powell was introduced to the law school faculty, students and staff last month by university President Andrew Sorensen.“Burnele Powell has the right combination of administrative, teaching and […]
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Students
Education Department Takes Steps to Curb Identity Theft Among Students
Education Department Takes Steps to Curb Identity Theft Among StudentsU.S. Secretary of Education Roderick Paige urged college students to be aware of the growing problem of identity theft, and announced recently several action steps the Department of Education is taking to help combat this problem. Paige made the announcement at a December press conference held […]
Leadership & Policy
The Business of Academia
The Business of AcademiaHappy New Year! We are starting off 2004 with an edition about shared governance in academia. Are administration and faculty on the same page when it comes to shared governance and trust? What about historically Black colleges and universities versus traditionally White institutions?Assistant editor Kendra Hamilton takes a look at Dr. […]
Leadership & Policy
A Year in Review: Gone But Not Forgotten
Gone But Not Forgotten                  Dr. John Ogbu, professor of anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley, and a path-breaking scholar in the fields of minority education and identity, died in August. Ogbu is known for his work that attempted to understand how race and ethnic differences played out in educational and economic achievement. His most […]
Leadership & Policy
A Year in Review: Saving Morris Brown
Saving Morris BrownThe Southern Association of Colleges and Schools (SACS) stripped Atlanta’s Morris Brown College of its accreditation last winter, citing the school’s mounting debt, institutional ineffectiveness, poor record keeping and difficulties with processing financial aid. When the school’s bid to appeal the SACS decision failed in April, most of the 1,500 enrolled students transferred […]
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