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Section: Leadership & Policy

Leadership & Policy

Hampton Considers Legal Action Over Wrongful Arrest

HAMPTON, Va. Hampton University officials have hired renowned attorney Johnnie Cochran and two Texas lawyers to consider taking legal action against the city of Lubbock, Texas, for the wrongful arrest and detainment of the Hampton women’s basketball coach, her husband, and an assistant coach.

July 14, 2007

Faculty & Staff

Professional APPOINTMENTS

FISK UNIVERSITY NAMES NEW LEADER

July 14, 2007

Leadership & Policy

Fighting to Survive

EAST ST. LOUIS, Ill. This slowly decaying, city, once called “America’s Soweto,” is so impoverished that it lost its city hall six years ago in a court judgement to a creditor.

July 14, 2007

Kirwan’s Way

Ohio State University’s new president has taken a strong stand on diversity. Some say his is an example of the type of commitment White male senior executives need to make if higher education’s dreams of diversity are to be realized.

July 14, 2007

Faculty & Staff

Is Tenure In Your Future?

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. Tenure, an institution as hallowed as universities themselves, has been subject to a torrent of criticism in recent years, forcing academics to decide whether it is a college’s hallmark of academic excellence or the bane of its existence.

July 14, 2007

Academic Freedom without Tenure

Faculty & Staff

Career CONSULTANTS

DEAR BI CAREER CONSULTANTS: I am contemplating accepting a position as a minority affairs coordinator at a traditionally White institution. It is rumored that such positions can be dead-end career busters. Are there conditions or considerations that I should insist on before accepting the position?

July 14, 2007

Leadership & Policy

The Donation Station

Syndicated radio personality Tom Joyner’s growing popularity is raising needed money for Black Colleges

July 14, 2007

Leadership & Policy

Geo Sage

Dr. Randolph Wilson “Bill” Bromery had no intention of becoming a geologist when he graduated from Howard University in 1948 with a bachelor’s degree in mathematics and physics. He had planned to get a job at the U.S. Naval Research laboratory. But after applying for a job there four times, he was convinced the lab’s claim of having lost his application was a subtle way of saying his talents weren’t wanted.

July 14, 2007

Faculty & Staff

Central State Must Ante-Up for Faculty

Wilberforce, Ohio The administration claimed at a fiscal and political crisis left it with no choice but to take the actions it did. However, the Central State University (CSU) faculty union has won a series of legal victories over the past few weeks that could pose new financial problems for the state’s only historically Black institution of higher education.

July 14, 2007

Leadership & Policy

The River Running Through College Admissions. – Review – book reviews

If you don’t read another book about higher education this year, you must read William G. Bowen’s and Derek Bok’s The Shape of the River: Long Term Consequences of Considering Race in College and University Admissions (Princeton University Press, 1998).

July 14, 2007

Leadership & Policy

Sudarkasa resigns in wake of state’s audit report – Lincoln University, Niara Sudarkasa

LINCOLN UNIVERSITY, Pa. Faced with a scathing report from the state, Lincoln University’s president, Dr. Niara Sudarkasa, announced on September 15 that she would relinquish her position at the end of the calendar year.

July 14, 2007

Giant steps on the road to renewal – Central State University

Central State University has accreditation renewed and is released from U.S. Department of Education penalty

July 13, 2007

Faculty & Staff

Padron’s way – Miami-Dade Community College

Combined with racial and faculty/administrative tensions, the take-charge style of President Eduardo J. Padron is creating a highly-charged power struggle at Miami-Dade Community College

July 13, 2007

Leadership & Policy

Why can’t black folks stand success? – unjust accusations against Lincoln University President Niara Sudarkasa

It is Saturday, July 25, and the National Association of Negro Business and Professional Women’s Clubs, Inc., is celebrating a successful conference with a fantastic closing banquet. The keynote speaker, Dr. Niara Sudarkasa, is talking about the seven Rs — the essential African values that African American people must embrace and rediscover if we are to move smoothly and successfully into the twenty-first century.

July 13, 2007

Leadership & Policy

More rigorous reporting needed – on affirmative action

WASHINGTON, D.C. When a news reporter fails o bring depth and sophistication to his or her reporting about affirmative action issues, he or she runs the risk of being a “megaphone for PR agents,” Harvard Law School Professor Christopher Edley Jr. told a gathering of more than fifty reporters and educators at a National Association of Black Journalists convention workshop here last month.

July 13, 2007

Leadership & Policy

Out of the public eye – Bryant Gumbel – Cover Story – Interview

For fifteen years, Bryant Charles Gumbel was a part of America’s morning ritual. As the co-host of NBC’s Today Show, he would meet you at the morning breakfast table, wide-eyed and brimming with the new day’s headlines and trivia, which he delivered with his easy smile, sharp intellect, and quirky wit.

July 13, 2007

Leadership & Policy

Art, audits, and allegations – Lincoln University, President Niara Sudarkasa

Lincoln University, Pa. Summer break is normally a time of respite, a pause in the scholastic action to allow administrators, faculty, and students a little timeout and a chance to get the batteries charged. But it seems the only things being charged at Lincoln University in rural southeastern Pennsylvania this summer are highly publicized allegations of fiscal mismanagement and misconduct.

July 13, 2007

Leadership & Policy

Art, audits, and allegations – Lincoln University, President Niara Sudarkasa

Lincoln University, Pa. Summer break is normally a time of respite, a pause in the scholastic action to allow administrators, faculty, and students a little timeout and a chance to get the batteries charged. But it seems the only things being charged at Lincoln University in rural southeastern Pennsylvania this summer are highly publicized allegations of fiscal mismanagement and misconduct.

July 13, 2007