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Leadership & Policy

Halftime show will look the same without Chief Illiniwek

No drastic changes are being made to the halftime show at Illini football games this year, despite the loss of the school’s longtime mascot, Chief Illiniwek.

July 22, 2007

Leadership & Policy

Arkansas State U. Committee Recommends Indians Nickname Change

JONESBORO Ark. The committee reviewing Arkansas State’s use of the nickname Indians formally recommended Monday that Chancellor Robert Potts appoint a panel to help change it.

July 18, 2007

Leadership & Policy

Roger Williams University board chairman in R.I. says racial slur ‘slipped out’

PROVIDENCE R.I. The longtime chairman of the Roger Williams University board admitted Monday that he had used the N-word during a board meeting, saying it “kind of slipped out.”

July 18, 2007

Leadership & Policy

Rare Letter for Sale: Pardon of Black Underground RR Hero

PHILADELPHIA A letter that documents President Franklin Pierce’s pardon of a black man who harbored slaves went up for sale Monday.

July 18, 2007

Leadership & Policy

Forced Out EMU Officials Get $550,000

YPSILANTI Mich. Three university administrators who were forced out this week after their school was accused of covering up the dorm room rape and killing of a student will receive nearly $550,000 in severance packages, documents show.

July 18, 2007

Leadership & Policy

Former Maryland-Eastern Shore President Hytche Dies at 78

PRINCESS ANNE, Md. The University of Maryland, Eastern Shore, was mourning the death of William Percy Hytche Sr., a former math professor who led the historically black institution for two decades.

July 17, 2007

Leadership & Policy

Report: Higher GPA Requirement Limiting Minority Enrollment at UNLV

LAS VEGAS Nevada’s two main universities should postpone making a “B” average the admission standard, said the president of the University of Nevada, Las Vegas after a new report appeared to find fewer minorities making the grade for admission.

July 17, 2007

Leadership & Policy

Gordon Gee to be Highest Paid College President in Ohio

AKRON Ohio Incoming Ohio State University president Gordon Gee will take a pay cut when he leaves Vanderbilt University to assume the helm of the nation’s largest university, but his $775,000 salary easily will make him the highest paid college president in the state.

July 15, 2007

Remote Desert College Nurtures Students’ Bodies and Minds

DEEP SPRINGS VALLEY Calif. In this remote stretch of desert near Death Valley, the young man who has to wake up early to milk the cows could have gone to Harvard or Yale or Berkeley.

July 15, 2007

Leadership & Policy

Former North Dakota Higher Ed Administrators Remain On Payroll

FARGO N.D. Two North Dakota higher education administrators who resigned last year under fire remained on the payroll through June 30, doing little work but costing taxpayers more than $450,000.

July 15, 2007

Leadership & Policy

Roger Williams Trustee Allegedly Forced Out After Making Slur Against Blacks

BRISTOL R.I. A former trustee at Roger Williams University said the longtime chairman of the board was forced to resign this week after he uttered a racist slur at a May meeting.

July 14, 2007

Leadership & Policy

Knowing the Real Score: Football vs. Mississippi Education

In fall 1993, while discussing a program for Sunday morning service in our church in Oxford, Miss., a committee member, after looking at her calendar, stated that Sunday would not be a good day for the program because Ole Miss was playing a home football game that weekend. Little did I know at that time how prophetic that statement was. Football is a religion in Mississippi.

July 14, 2007

Leadership & Policy

Beating the Odds: Raising Academically Successful African-American Males – Review

Beating the Odds: Raising Academically Successful African-American Males by Freeman A. Hrabowski III, Kenneth I. Maton and Geoffrey L. Greif, Oxford University Press, $25.00, 240 pages.

July 14, 2007

Leadership & Policy

Career CONSULTANTS

I am considering accepting my first president’s job. What things should I consider before I accept it? Does it matter whether I start at an HBCU or a traditionally White institution?

July 14, 2007

Leadership & Policy

Professional APPOINTMENTS

KARSTEN J.Y. CASH is the new director of the Black Culture Center at the University of Missouri-Columbia. He comes to UMC from Eastern Illinois University, where he was an academic advisor for the Gateway Program. Cash earned a bachelor’s degree in African American Studies from Wesleyan University (Conn.); and a master’s degree in social justice education from the University of Massachusetts-Amherst.

July 14, 2007

Leadership & Policy

At Presstime

JACKSON TO HEAD RENSSELAER

July 14, 2007

Faculty & Staff

Alabama’s Decree Of Difficulty

Despite a court order, achieving racial parity still appears a long way off

July 14, 2007

Faculty & Staff

Emerging From the Shadows – Spelman College

Audrey Forbes Manley, M.D., is a former student, activist alumna, trustee, and widow of a former Spelman College president. Now she’s in charge, but after more than a year in office, some observers still don’t know what she’s about.

July 14, 2007