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Howard University School Of Law Dean Resigns

Howard University School Of Law Dean Resigns WASHINGTONHoward University School of Law Dean Alice Gresham Bullock announced last month she would resign from her position, effective June 30.Following a yearlong sabbatical, she will return to a faculty position at the law school. Bullock, an alumna of the law school, a tax lawyer and a member […]

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Morris Brown President to Resign in June

Morris Brown President to Resign in JuneATLANTADr. Dolores Cross, who has been president at Morris Brown College since 1999, announced plans to resign effective June 30. Cross was the first female president at the private liberal arts and historically Black college that now serves more than 2,700 students. The college is affiliated with the African […]

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St. Augustine’s College Faces Sanction by Accreditation Board

St. Augustine’s College Faces Sanction by Accreditation BoardBy Eleanor Lee YatesRaleigh, N.C.St. Augustine’s College has been issued a 12-month warning from the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools. SACS denied St. Augustine’s 10-year accreditation renewal, instead renewing accreditation for only one year. The historically Black college in Raleigh, N.C., was cited for failure to comply […]

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Gates Ponders Move to Princeton; Chicago Scholar Joins Harvard’s Ranks

Gates Ponders Move to Princeton; Chicago Scholar Joins Harvard’s RanksNEWARK, N.J.The head of Harvard’s Afro-American studies program, Dr. Henry Louis Gates Jr., says he will decide this summer whether he will follow his colleague Dr. Anthony Appiah to Princeton University. Last month, Princeton appointed Appiah as a full professor in the university’s philosophy department (see […]

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For an Alternative to Windows, an Unclear Future

For an Alternative to Windows, an Unclear Future The recent appearance of Lindows, a novel fusion of the ubiquitous Windows and the maverick Linux operating systems, could mean a changing of the guard for academic computing in this new century. Why? It’s not often that a new operating system comes along offering a combination of […]

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ABCC: An Idea Born Out of Frustration

ABCC: An Idea Born Out of FrustrationDr. Fred Hord, founder of the Association of Black Culture Centers (ABCC), like many of his mentors, has spent almost his entire life advocating racial justice in the streets and Black intellectual prowess in the classroom.So no one was particularly surprised when in 1987, Hord, then the director of […]

Faculty & Staff

LeMoyne-Owen, S.C. State Presidents to Step Down

LeMoyne-Owen, S.C. State Presidents to Step DownMEMPHIS, Tenn.LeMoyne-Owen College president Dr. George R. Johnson Jr. says, “it’s time to do something else,” and plans to step down this summer. Johnson, who didn’t elaborate on what he’ll do, has been at the helm of the private, historically Black college for six years. Lucille V. Smith, chairwoman […]

Lack of Board’s Support Prompts Bennett President to Resign

Lack of Board’s Support Prompts Bennett President to Resign Board selects retired university administrator to serve as interim presidentBy Allison ForemanGREENSBORO, N.C.After less than a year on the job, Dr. Althia Collins is resigning her post as president of historically Black Bennett College, a small, all-women’s school in Greensboro, N.C.Collins says she’s leaving this June […]

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Opening the Schoolhouse Door

Opening the Schoolhouse DoorThere has been a great deal of discussion over the past decade about the recruitment and retention of African American students. The intensity, if not the frequency, of these conversations has been increased by the national debate on affirmative action and recent attacks on the use of affirmative action in college admissions. […]

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Anthropologist Searches for Site of Escaped Slave Settlement

Anthropologist Searches for Site of Escaped Slave SettlementKALAMAZOO, Mich.A Western Michigan University anthropologist has begun a search to pinpoint the site of a large settlement of escaped slaves near Vandalia, Mich. The settlement disappeared more than a century ago.Armed with a $21,000 grant from the state of Michigan and the Michigan Historical Center, Dr. Michael […]

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Southern University Board Ousts New Orleans Chancellor

Southern University Board Ousts New Orleans ChancellorBATON ROUGE, La.The board that governs Southern University in New Orleans voted 9-2 earlier this month to fire Chancellor Joseph Bouie, ending a months-long power struggle at the school. A majority of the Southern University Board of Supervisors, with one abstention, said Bouie must vacate the chancellor’s office in […]

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Massey Appointed to Presidential Council

Massey Appointed to Presidential CouncilATLANTAPresident George W. Bush has appointed Dr. Walter E. Massey, president of Morehouse College in Atlanta, to his Presidential Committee on Science and Technology. Bush made the announcement last month at the White House. “I am pleased and excited to have been asked to serve, again, on the President’s Council on Science […]

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