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Section: Leadership & Policy

Leadership & Policy

Hispanic graduation rate at the University of Maryland lagging

The six-year graduation rate among Hispanic students at the University of Maryland is lagging behind those of white and Asian students by about 15 percent, university President Dan Mote said in his State of the Campus address this year.

October 8, 2007

Leadership & Policy

Alabama Architect Defrauded Two-Year System With Bribes, Prosecutors Say

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. Federal prosecutors say Anniston, Ala. architect Julian W. Jenkins gave bribes worth $85,000 to two-year college system Chancellor Roy Johnson and his family and $1,800 to a college president in return for more than $2.6 million in contracts.

October 3, 2007

Leadership & Policy

New HBCU Rankings Get Mixed Reviews

U.S. News & World Report has launched a new ranking series, “America’s Best Black Colleges,” which ranks historically Black colleges and universities separately but by using the same methodology as its annual “America’s Best Colleges” rankings.

October 2, 2007

Leadership & Policy

Getting to Know: Dr. Robert Franklin Jr.

Prior to profiling Morehouse’s new president in the pages of Diverse, we reported online about his speech at the HBCU Week conference last month where he essentially outlined some of his plans for the all-male college.

October 2, 2007

Leadership & Policy

Hispanic graduation rate at the University of Maryland lagging

The six-year graduation rate among Hispanic students at the University of Maryland is lagging behind those of white and Asian students by about 15 percent, university President Dan Mote said in his State of the Campus address this year.

October 2, 2007

Leadership & Policy

Oregon Coast Community College Gets New Home, At Last

NEWPORT Ore. Oregon Coast Community College has been without a home for 20 years.

October 2, 2007

Leadership & Policy

Ohio State University president Gordon Gee officially takes over

COLUMBUS Ohio The Ohio State University’s rehired president Gordon Gee officially took over Monday, telling well-wishers who greeted him with a surprise celebration that it was the first day of his dream of returning to the university.

October 1, 2007

Leadership & Policy

Shelton State finance chief placed on leave pending probe

TUSCALOOSA Ala. The head of Shelton State Community College’s finance office was placed on paid leave Monday pending a probe of financial operations by the office, school officials said.

October 1, 2007

Leadership & Policy

Troubled FAMU Law School Gets A Boost From New Dean, Higher Bar Exam Pass Rate

Florida A&M University’s Law School, which faces a possible loss of its accreditation, recently got a boost in the form of a new dean and good news about higher pass rates on the bar exam.

September 30, 2007

Grambling Investigating Pictures of Noose Lesson

GRAMBLING, La. The Grambling State University president is investigating a case in which adults at the university-run elementary school on campus put a noose around at least one child’s neck and the school newspaper’s publication of photographs of it.

September 30, 2007

Leadership & Policy

Visit by Iranian President Was Just the Latest Controversy for Columbia University Leader

Columbia University President Lee Bollinger keeps finding himself in the middle of campus turmoil. He enrolled at Columbia’s law school in 1968, when the campus was convulsed by anti-war protests. He was a dean at the University of Michigan during a struggle over the school’s speech code. Later, as the university’s president, he defended its affirmative action policies all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court.

September 30, 2007

Leadership & Policy

Duke President Apologizes to Lacrosse Players, Families Following False Rape Case

DURHAM, North Carolina Duke University President Richard Brodhead apologized Saturday for not better supporting the men’s lacrosse team and players’ families after three players were falsely accused in last year’s highly publicized rape scandal.

September 29, 2007

Leadership & Policy

Community College Aims to be First to Sponsor Presidential Debate

Clark College in Vancouver, Wash., may be the first community college to ever sponsor a presidential debate. In partnership with the Metropolitan Exposition Recreation Commission of Portland, Ore., Clark aims to convince the Commission on Presidential Debates to select the Oregon Convention Center to host the candidates.

September 25, 2007

Leadership & Policy

Fisk University, Wal-Mart Heiress Strike Deal on Stieglitz Art Collection

The Fisk University board of trustees approved a deal this week selling the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art a 50 percent interest in the school’s prized Alfred Stieglitz Collection of art and photographs. The price: $30 million.

September 25, 2007

Leadership & Policy

Officials at North Carolina A&T, NCCU mull future of series after brawl

GREENSBORO N.C. Officials at North Carolina A&T and North Carolina Central are considering the future of their football series after the latest meeting ended in a post-game brawl that police broke up with pepper spray.

September 24, 2007

Leadership & Policy

Gay College President Has Few Peers

When Ralph Hexter assumed the presidency of Hampshire College in western Massachusetts in 2005, his partner of 25 years, Manfred Kollmeir, was officially welcomed with all the trappings of a presidential spouse. Over Labor Day weekend, the couple made it official, exchanging vows in a private ceremony (Massachusetts is the only state allowing gay marriage) and breaking the news last week to the campus community.

September 24, 2007

Leadership & Policy

SC educator appointed Coppin State University president

ADELPHI Md. Reginald S. Avery has been appointed president of Coppin State University.

September 24, 2007

Leadership & Policy

Columbia president Bollinger reviled, praised for allowing Ahmadinejad

NEW YORK Columbia University President Lee Bollinger, heavily criticized for allowing Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to speak at the school, on Monday was enthusiastically applauded for his tough remarks to the Iranian leader.

September 24, 2007