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Leadership & Policy
Cole’s shoes will be hard to fill: King Farris, Ladner said to be ‘fine candidates.’ – Johnetta Cole as President of Spelman College, Vera King Farris and Joyce Ledner
Johnetta Cole, the first African-American female president of Spelman College, nation’s premiere liberal arts schools, announced that she will relinquish the presidency next spring.
June 22, 2007
Students
Spelman mission was not impossible: how college’s fund-raising drive netted $113 million
Atlanta – When the totals were in, Spelman College had not only met its “mission impossible” goal of raising $81 million, it had outdone itself — amassing a record $113.3 million.
June 22, 2007
Leadership & Policy
OSU proposes raising tuition by almost 10 percent
OKLAHOMA CITY The Oklahoma A&M Board of Regents will consider a proposal Friday that would increase tuition and mandatory fee rates for students at Oklahoma State University’s Stillwater campus by almost 10 percent for the 2007-08 school year.
June 21, 2007
Leadership & Policy
UND search committee hopes to finish early next year
The president of the state Board of Higher Education says the membership of a 16-member committee searching for a new University of North Dakota president will not be changed, despite a request that an American Indian be added.
June 21, 2007
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Leadership & Policy
Indiana State president stepping down next year
A shake up at Indiana State University in Terre Haute continued Friday with the school president’s announcement that he would step down when his contract expires next summer.
June 21, 2007
Leadership & Policy
MiraCosta College president negotiates $1m buyout
OCEANSIDE, Calif. MiraCosta College’s embattled president Victoria Munoz Richart has negotiated a buyout worth at least $1 million that will see her employment end June 30.
June 21, 2007
Faculty & Staff
Mississippi Valley State president Lester Newman resigns
ITTA BENA, Miss. Mississippi Valley State University President Lester C. Newman announced his resignation Friday after serving nearly nine years as leader of the historically Black college.
June 21, 2007
Leadership & Policy
Accrediting group gives Florida A&M ultimatum for accounting woes
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. Florida A&M University has six months to clean up its troubled financial situation or could lose its accreditation, one of the nation’s top college associations said Friday.
June 21, 2007
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Leadership & Policy
Tribal College Honors American Indian Veterans
KYLE S.D. A monument honoring more than 1,800 American Indian military veterans will be dedicated Saturday six miles southwest of Kyle at the administrative headquarters of Oglala Lakota College.
June 20, 2007
Leadership & Policy
The HBCU presidential pressure cooker – historically Black colleges and universities
Faced with hostile legislatures, growing enrollments, and shrinking budgets, the presidents of many historically Black colleges and universities are also under increasing pressure from their boards of trustees to perform “satisfactorily” or get out.
June 20, 2007
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Leadership & Policy
Museum exhibit sheds historical light on Atlanta University Center
Atlanta Heidi Struve and her father, Larry Struve, had some time on their hands after attending a field hockey match on the campus of Morris Brown College during the Olympic Games in Atlanta. The Reno NV duo spotted an Olympic Arts Festival sign pointing to an exhibit on “The History of the Atlanta University Center” in the college’s Fountain Hall and decided to venture inside.
June 20, 2007
Leadership & Policy
University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School names new dean
PHILADELPHIA The University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School said Thursday that it has named Thomas S. Robertson as its new dean, effective Aug. 1.
June 20, 2007
Leadership & Policy
We’ve all had to adjust on Capitol Hill
Covering Capitol Hill over the past two years represents a prime example of how important it is for journalists to stay flexible and learn new rules of the trade to remain productive.
June 20, 2007
Leadership & Policy
UDC President William Pollard Abruptly Resigns
University of the District of Columbia President William L. Pollard unexpectedly resigned at a board of trustees’ meeting Tuesday, ending a five-year tenure. Despite tensions with the board over stagnant fundraising and the slow pace of facility improvements, board chairman James W. Dyke Jr. had talked publicly in recent months about extending Pollard’s contract, which expires July 1. Nevertheless, it appears that a plurality of board members wanted a fresh start.
June 20, 2007
Leadership & Policy
UMDNJ’s New President Talks About His Vision
On July 1, the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey will welcome its first African-American president, William F. Owen Jr., an accomplished researcher and clinician.
June 20, 2007
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Leadership & Policy
New Alcorn State University President Being Treated for Leukemia in Michigan.
JACKSON Miss. Mississippi higher education officials said Wednesday that it will be August or September before Alcorn State University’s new president assumes his post.
June 19, 2007
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Leadership & Policy
Prince George’s County: another ghetto in the making?
After U.S. Supreme Court justice Clarence Thomas agreed to speak at an awards ceremony for a middle school in Maryland, Kenneth F. Johnson, a school board member, objected, saying Thomas’ views had no place in Prince George’s County MD, the fastest-growing Black jurisdiction in the country.
June 18, 2007
Leadership & Policy
Alabama College President’s Indictment Leads to Internal Investigation of Two-Year System
MONTGOMERY Ala. Two-year colleges chancellor Bradley Byrne said n internal investigation has begun following the indictment of former Alabama Fire College President William Langston and will focus on the hiring of the director’s children.
June 18, 2007
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