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Leadership & Policy
New Blueprint for Establishing Chief Diversity Officer Positions
Too often, college and university presidents are forced to reinvent the wheel when establishing the position of chief diversity officer (CDO) because they do not understand the role and function of the position, says Dr. Damon A. Williams, assistant vice provost for multicultural and international affairs at the University of Connecticut.
January 28, 2008
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Leadership & Policy
Vice Chancellor OK’d to Take Top Post at Fayetteville Campus
LITTLE ROCK  The University of Arkansas Board of Trustees voted unanimously Friday to name G. David Gearhart as the Fayetteville campus’ next chancellor. The 10-member board approved Gearhart, 55, after meeting in executive session for about 40 minutes. “I pledge I will do all I can to provide an administration that has a combination of […]
January 27, 2008
Leadership & Policy
Johnson C. Smith Names New President
The Johnson C. Smith University Board of Trustees has named Dr. Ronald L. Carter the university’s 13th president, effective July 1.
January 26, 2008
Leadership & Policy
Perspectives: AME-affiliated Colleges Need To Band Together in Cluster Endowment Trusts
It has been said that financially struggling AME-affiliated colleges should be allowed to die, leaving the strong to survive. An institutional development officer says small, religious-based colleges can all survive if they tackle fundraising as a coalition.
January 26, 2008
Leadership & Policy
Bishop State Community College Among Three HBCUs Placed On Accreditation Probation
The nation’s second-largest historically Black university received a laundry list of issues it needs to address in the next year to regain full accreditation, Southern Association of Colleges and Schools officials said at its annual meeting in New Orleans last month.
January 24, 2008
Leadership & Policy
Lack Of Black Coordinators Leads to Few Head Coaching Opportunities
If being a provost or vice president for academic affairs is a necessary last stop before becoming a college president, then putting in time as an offensive or defensive coordinator should be the surefire pathway to landing a highly coveted and lucrative collegiate football head coaching position. But for Blacks, the pipeline to the head coaching slot is choked at the coordinator level.
January 24, 2008
Faculty & Staff
College Endowments: Rich Get Richer
New figures on university endowments confirm it’s not just the “haves” and “have nots” in academe these days. Beyond the great majority of colleges, there’s a growing group of the newly rich schools, and at the top of the heap a tiny cadre of ultra-wealthy institutions.
January 24, 2008
Leadership & Policy
Accreditation Probation for Country’s Two Largest HBCUs
Institutions must address laundry lists of issues after the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools’ meeting last month.
January 23, 2008
Leadership & Policy
In Brief: College Advertisement Has Unintended Double Meaning
The advertisement said Blackhawk Technical College was a good fit for “the White family,” with White being the proper name of an actual family, but some read racial overtones. Also, the University of North Dakota opposes affirmative action ban. University of Maryland, Eastern Shores becomes the first HBCU with an accredited golf program.
January 21, 2008
Leadership & Policy
15 Schools Scrutinized in Study-abroad Program Probe
NEW YORK Study-abroad programs at 15 colleges and universities including Harvard and Columbia are being scrutinized by the New York attorney general’s office to ensure cozy deals between schools and companies that provide the programs are not cheating students, a top investigator said Monday.
January 21, 2008
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Leadership & Policy
Support For Undocumented Student Aid Costs California Community Colleges Board President Her Seat
This week in the majority-Democrat California State Senate, GOP senators succeeded in blocking the confirmation of Community Colleges Board of Governors President Katherine Albiani. The Senate voted along party lines to reject Albiani, the third of Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s appointees to the board voted down in the past year by united GOP opposition to the board’s decision to back the Dream Act, which would grant financial aid to undocumented students.
January 17, 2008
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Leadership & Policy
In Brief: ACE Names First Woman President
Former UNC president Molly Corbett Broad was named president of ACE; Johns Hopkins researchers find Blacks’ reluctance to participate in medical studies is a direct result of the Tuskegee experiment; and recipients of the Tien Education Leadership Awards are announced.
January 14, 2008
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Leadership & Policy
SC State Trustees Release Ex-presidents Performance Review
COLUMBIA S.C. Former South Carolina State University President Andrew Hugine failed to meet the expectations of his board of trustees in two areas, according to his performance review released by the school. Hugine was fired last month for what the board said was poor performance. The evaluation released last week shows that the board gave […]
January 13, 2008
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Leadership & Policy
Texas Southern U. Regents Pick New President
HOUSTON Texas Southern University regents on Friday named John Rudley as the sole finalist to succeed Priscilla Slade as president of the troubled historically Black school.
January 12, 2008
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Leadership & Policy
Professional Appointments
John Payton has been appointed director-counsel and president of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund. Most recently, he was a partner in the Washington, D.C., law firm Wilmer, Cutler, Pickering, Hale and Dorr. Payton earned a bachelor’s from Pomona College and a law degree from Harvard Law School. Dr. Tracey D. Ford has been named director […]
January 9, 2008
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Leadership & Policy
Michigan’s Only HBCU Struggling to Stay Afloat
Senior faculty members at Lewis College of Business in Detroit emerged from a recent meeting nervously optimistic. With the school on the brink of closure, that was all they could be, explains Deolis Allen, dean and chief academic officer of the school.
January 6, 2008
Leadership & Policy
Fisk Battles Donor Fatigue as Art Sale Bogs Down in Courts
NASHVILLE, Tenn. Despite two years of trying, Fisk University hasn’t been able to turn any of the valuable art donated by painter Georgia O’Keeffe into cash.
January 3, 2008
Faculty & Staff
Reveling in Retirement
After two college presidencies, Dr. James Hefner is taking time to pursue his avocations, while still in demand within academia.
December 26, 2007
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