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Section: Leadership & Policy
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
Students
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
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
Students
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
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
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