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Leadership & Policy

Women College Presidents Share Perspectives on Leadership

Women College Presidents Share Perspectives on Leadership WASHINGTONWomen college and university presidents and chancellors came together to discuss leadership and ways that women leaders can affect higher education at the American Council on Education’s Office of Women in Higher Education (OWHE) Fourth Women Presidents’ Summit last month in Washington. “The Summit enables women presidents and […]

Changes to SAT I Sparks Disparity Debate

Changes to SAT I Sparks Disparity DebateFirst revision in eight years reintroduces the question of biasBy Gabrielle FinleyThe new changes to the SAT I test may create an even larger disparity in test scores among minority and majority students, says an advocacy organization for fair testing.However, Gaston Caperton, president of the College Board, which administers […]

Filling the Budget GAP

Filling the Budget GAPUniversity administrators face tough choices as states cut deep into higher education budgetsBy Page Boinest Melton Norfolk State University President Marie McDemmond hoped this year to tackle the university’s student space shortage. Troubled that financial aid students spill out the doors of the administration building, and that admissions officers interview prospective students […]

Research & Reality

Research & RealityMorgan State takes two-prong approach to stemming educational leadership deficit.BALTIMOREJuanita Eagleson, a former associate dean at Southeastern University in Washington, was in the midst of a “career doldrums” when she heard that Dr. Howard Simmons, the former executive director of the Commission on Higher Education, Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools, was […]

Leadership & Policy

Hoodwinked and Bamboozled: Black Colleges, Desegregation And Selling Out

Hoodwinked and Bamboozled: Black Colleges, Desegregation And Selling OutIt is a rainy Tuesday afternoon at the end of the semester. I am at home trying to grade final exams that are due by Friday. As I often do, I have a video playing quietly in the background. Today it has been Spike Lee’s “Malcolm X” […]

Leadership & Policy

Criticism of Howard University Hospital

Criticism of Howard University Hospital Residency Programs Raises QuestionsBy Cheryl D. FieldsWASHINGTONAn unfavorable assessment by the Accrediting Council of Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) of the residency programs at Howard University Hospital has generated a flurry of activity, including a major story in the Washington Post and the subsequent reorganization of the oversight committee that manages […]

Leadership & Policy

Engaging in Academic Racial Profiling

Engaging in Academic Racial ProfilingSUNY Trustee Candace de Russy is quoted in Newsday (Feb. 4, 2002) as stating, “… most Black studies departments are flabby, feel-good programs that carry anti-American bias and do little to advance hard knowledge.” And she further asserts, “Black studies departments became therapeutic in nature, and the goal became consciousness raising […]

Leadership & Policy

Bringing Stowe’s Message Up to Date

Bringing Stowe’s Message Up to DateStowe Center Seeks to Educate Community and Beyond about Writer’s IdeasHARTFORD, Conn.Uncle Tom’s Cabin was and still is the most famous American book ever written. It sold three million copies in the United States between its publication in 1852 and the start of the Civil War, nine years later. In […]

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‘The Victorian Oprah’

‘The Victorian Oprah’With the publication of Uncle Tom’s Cabin, Stowe became one of the most influential and popular figures of the 19th centuryHARTFORD, Conn.Uncle Tom’s Cabin was and still is the most famous American book ever written. It sold three million copies in the United States between its publication in 1852 and the start of […]

Faculty & Staff

SUNO Board Forgoes Search, Appoints New Chancellor

SUNO Board Forgoes Search, Appoints New ChancellorFaculty leaders protest move; board cites accreditation concerns as reason for rushBy Scott DyerBATON ROUGE, La.Southern University at New Orleans (SUNO) faculty leaders are crying foul over a move by the school’s governing board to hire a new chancellor without a search.It’s the latest controversy at the same campus […]

Faculty & Staff

Columbia Launches David N. Dinkins Archives, Oral History Project

Columbia Launches David N. Dinkins Archives, Oral History ProjectNEW YORKColumbia University has launched the David N. Dinkins Archives and Oral History Project, which will include an archive of Dinkins’ official and personal papers and correspondence, an oral history of Dinkins’ life, political philosophy and policy agenda, and a program initiative documenting the influences of Black […]

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Central State Trustees Regain Control of Finances

Central State Trustees Regain Control of FinancesWILBERFORCE, OhioCentral State University has balanced its budget, paid its debts and is out from under state supervision. Gov. Bob Taft released Ohio’s only public, historically Black university from state fiscal oversight late last month, five years after the state took over the school’s finances. “In 1997, the school […]

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