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Tumultuous Tenure
Tumultuous TenureCHICAGO — Dr. Charles Green’s resume was im-pressive. He had served as president of the Hous-ton Community Colleges system for five years, before that, president of one of the prestigious Maricopa Community Colleges in Phoenix for nine years and, prior to that, as a dean at Inver Hills Community College in Minnesota. But suddenly […]
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Leadership & Policy
Thinking K-16
Thinking K-16Once again, higher education and K-12 officials try to align standards.WASHINGTON — A group of 18 higher education leaders, most of whom are university system chancellors and presidents, joined with 10 state school superintendents last month to pledge that they will each do their part to ensure that all high school students are prepared […]
Leadership & Policy
BI What’s New
Dr.  Randolph Bromery, the former chancellor of the University of Massachusetts, has set up a fund on that campus for minority students in the geosciences.“The fund represents a larger philosophy of increasing the numbers of African Americans in the scientific professions across the board,” Bromery says.Bromery, who used to teach in the department, has been […]
Faculty & Staff
BI News Briefs
Hampton Coach’s Civil Rights Lawsuit Thrown OutLUBBOCK, Texas — A judge has dismissed a college basketball coach’s civil rights lawsuit, ruling she, her husband and an assistant failed to establish that racial bias was a factor in their 1998 arrests. Hampton University women’s coach Patricia Bibbs and the others sued the city, several police officers […]
Leadership & Policy
Professional Appointments
Professional AppointmentsJackson State to Get New LeaderRonald Mason Jr. has been named by the board of trustees to become the next president of Jackson State University in Mississippi effective Feb 1. He is currently executive director of the National Center for the Urban Community at Tulane and Xavier universities in New Orleans. Mason has 17 […]
Students
Noteworthy Briefs
Minority Business School Faculty Increases 50 Percent in Five YearsCHICAGO — Minority representation among the nation’s business school faculties has increased by almost 50 percent in five years, according to The Ph.D. Project.The project to attract and encourage more minorities to become business professors started in 1994. At that time, there were 294 African Americans, […]
Leadership & Policy
20th Century Presidents
20th Century Presidents Who Have Influenced the Higher Education LandscapeInstitutions that have made the most progress in terms of access, matriculation and diversity in the 20th century owe much of their success to the leadership of bold chief executives  who were unafraid to take risks and unyielding in their commitment to educational equity.  Black Issues […]
Faculty & Staff
100 Years of Change
100 Years of ChangeFor Better, For WorseThere is no doubt that access to higher education has played a critical role in the evolving status of people of color in the 20th century. In this edition, Black Issues reviews the century throught the prism of some of the personalities whose vision, sacrifice and, in some cases, […]
Leadership & Policy
Professional Appontments
Professional AppontmentsGilberto Cardenas has been named assistant provost and director of the newly established Institute for Latino Studies and Julian Samora Chair of Latino Studies at the University of Notre Dame. He was previously an associate professor of sociology and executive director of the Inter-University Program for Latino Research at the University of Texas. Cardenas […]
Leadership & Policy
W. Va.Presidential Appointment Draws Charges of Nepotism, Racism
W. Va.Presidential Appointment Draws Charges of  Nepotism, RacismCHARLESTON, W.Va. — The head of the state NAACP is claiming the new president at Southern West Virginia Community and Technical College received the job because her husband is state Senate President Earl Ray Tomblin.The State College System Board of Directors named Joanne Tomblin late last month to […]
Faculty & Staff
Faculty Workload
Faculty WorkloadRuled Non-Negotiable in OhioWILBERFORCE, Ohio — The Central State University faculty union has lost a lengthy court battle concerning its right to bargain over professors’ workload.The Ohio Supreme Court, in a 5-2 decision, ruled in late October that a 1993 law requiring professors at that state’s public universities to spend more time in the […]
Leadership & Policy
Tech Briefs
Professor Urges Students to Beware  Hate Sites on the InternetDETROIT — A Wayne State University communications professor and Holocaust survivor considers the Internet an increasingly used, effective marketing tool by hate groups.“The Internet is the greatest thing that ever happened to hate,” Jack Kay, also an associate provost at the school, said last month while […]
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