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Faculty & Staff

Berklee College of Music’s New Mission Statement Reflects African Contributions to Contemporary Music

BOSTON In what Berklee College of Music President Roger Brown calls a “psychological victory for the institution,” the board of trustees recently adopted an amended mission statement for the college that acknowledges the historical contributions that African descendants have made to the development of the contemporary American musical genres on which Berklee’s curriculum and training are based.

Leadership & Policy

Knoxville College President-Elect Starts At A Different Institution

This week, Dr. Earl Yarbrough Sr. is finally occupying the seat he’s sought most of his professional life — the one belonging to a historically Black university president.

‘Federalizing Accreditation’

Standards may include student outcomes, but should the government or accrediting agencies implement the change?

Recruitment & Retention

Pa. state universities’ chancellor says she’ll step down in 2008

HARRISBURG Pa. The chief executive of Pennsylvania’s 14 state-owned universities gave notice Monday that she plans to resign more than a year from now.

If You Can Walk, You Can Dance; If You Can Talk, You Can Sing: A Successful African American Doctoral Fellowship Program. – book reviews

Time out, higher education. This book has a proven model for increasing the pool of African Americans with doctorate degrees in non-traditional courses of study. With valuable resource information, this book has special importance for the administrators of traditionally white colleges and universities who are sincerely interested in providing a positive campus climate for African-American students to experience success in doctoral programs.

Faculty & Staff

First in family with degree, now Iowa president

IOWA CITY Iowa Sally Mason wasn’t brought up around higher education, but she plans to make herself right at home as the University of Iowa’s new president.

Staying competitive – marketing campaigns of historically Black colleges and universities

Nashville, Tn — After a decade of watching enrollment swell at almost twice ,the rate of predominantly white institutions, some historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) are beefing up marketing efforts to remain competitive.

Faculty & Staff

The sound of a gateway closing – how anti-affirmative action was organized for national debate – Special Report Top 100 Degree Producers

In America, education remains the gateway to upward social mobility, to opportunity, to self-sufficiency, successful families and political participation. That’s the reality.

Making retention work

Since 1988’s all-time high in the college enrollment African Americans enrollment of African, American, declining high school completion figures have contributed to a slower increase in minority college participation After more than a decade of intensely examining factors that influence retention, we seem to be in a period of slippage of minority participation and success at the post-secondary level.

Student Retention Success Models in Higher Education. – book reviews

A new book edited by Dr. Clinita Ford provides unusual insight into the lessons taught by more than two decades of experience with improving educational opportunities for African American, Latino, and Native American students.

Holding on to what they’ve got – analysis of programs implemented by six institutions to keep college students in school

A generation ago, when there were more college-age students than there were desks in America’s public and private colleges and universities, making sure that students stayed in school was hardly a priority. Even less exclusive institutions could be selective about which students they admitted and cavalier about those they lost.

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Recruitment & Retention

Where are the CEOs at recruitment and retention conferences? – minority recruitment

Attending conferences on the recruitment and retention of minorities is often bittersweet. While it is energizing to meet others in higher education who are concerned and dedicated to the issues of recruitment and retention, it is equally as frustrating to see so few high-level administrators in attendance.

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