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Leadership & Policy

South Carolina State pursuing solvency: controversial loan from University of South Carolina part of remedy

Orangeburg, S.C. Four years of operating in the red finally forced South Carolina State University to borrow $2.1 million from another state institution. But it appears the historically Black institution may be able to avoid that problem next year.

July 13, 2007

Leadership & Policy

Audit Clears UT-Pan Am President of Using Public Funds to Improve Residence

AUSTIN Texas The president of University of Texas-Pan American did not know she was breaking rules when more than $7,000 of public money went to improve her private residence and pay for her daily commute, according to a report released Wednesday by the University of Texas System Audit Office.

July 12, 2007

Leadership & Policy

White administrators charge college with racism – Houston Community College

Houston White administrators at Houston Community College (HCC) have accused the institution of racial discrimination in a lawsuit filed in federal court.

July 12, 2007

Leadership & Policy

The Community College Presidency at the Millennium. – book reviews

If anyone doubts Dr. George B. Vaughan is the nation’s leading expert on the community college presidency, the publication of this new book should lay that to rest.

July 12, 2007

Leadership & Policy

To educate a nation; Native American tribe hopes to bring higher education to an Arizona reservation – Tohono O’Odham Nation, Papago Indian Reservation, Sells, Arizona

When the Tohono O’Odham Nation’s surveyed its members last year about barriers that they faced to obtaining a college degree, recurring themes kept cropping up. The nearest college to the Sells, Arizona community was more than an hour’s drive away. Moving to a city with a college was not an option for others. And many found the high cost of big-city rent prohibitive.

July 12, 2007

Faculty & Staff

Plotting the assassination of little red Sambo: psychologists join war against racist campus mascots – Native American mascots

Psychologists Join War Against Racist Campus Mascots

July 12, 2007

New standards will send many CUNY students to community colleges – City University of New York

The man behind the ending of remediation in the City University of New York’s (CUNY) four-year colleges is not New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani — although the Republican mayor certainly set the political tone earlier this year by calling for the end of remediation.

July 12, 2007

Leadership & Policy

Powerful sisters – college presidents – Cover Story

Within only a couple of decades, women of color have come a long way in their representation among college presidents. The place where they are most abundant is at community colleges. There are currently 104 women of color heading postsecondary institutions, and 61 of these are at community colleges.

July 12, 2007

Leadership & Policy

Type casting for women presidents – of jobs and institutions

The just-released American Council on Education report, The American College President, found that there were no gains in the number of presidencies for African Americans. Research that I conducted in the spring of 1996 on data collected from African American and White women who were college presidents demonstrate, to some degree, why this is particularly true for African American women while women in general — clearly, White women — are experiencing progress.

July 12, 2007

Leadership & Policy

Scholars say basta to Chicano/Latino president shortage – enough

Efforts are underway to create a new pipeline to reverse shrinking representation

July 12, 2007

Leadership & Policy

Climbing to the top – African American community college presidents

Rising to the helm of two-year institutions continues to be a challenge for aspiring African American college presidents

July 12, 2007

Leadership & Policy

African American college presidents in decline

Yet the pipeline of Black scholars poised to assume presidential status is growing

July 12, 2007

Leadership & Policy

Reflections of a trailblazer – African American Clifton R. Wharton, Jr., former president of Michigan State University – Cover Story – Interview

Dr. Clifton R. Wharton Jr., reflects on his career and shares his insight on the current status of African Americans in higher education

July 12, 2007

Leadership & Policy

Black ivy mysteries – mystery books about black scholars in white institutions

WASHINGTON, D.C. It’s not uncommon for fiction writers to create heroes and heroines whose personalities and life circumstances stem from the writer’s own experiences. So it should come as no surprise that when Pamela Thomas-Graham decided to write a mystery novel, she created an African American heroine who teaches at the same university where she spent her undergraduate and graduate years.

July 12, 2007

Leadership & Policy

Honoring the past, leading toward the future – goals for president of Johnson C. Smith University

It is often the dream of professional educators in higher education to be tapped for the leadership position of the institution that nurtured them. But even when that occurs, no one is ever prepared f6r the realities, the real demands, and sometimes unrealistic expectations placed upon the head and shoulders of the college president.

July 12, 2007

Leadership & Policy

Path to the presidency – American Council on Education grants to develop academic management skills

Let’s say you want to be a college president some day. You’ve already survived the trials associated with earning a doctorate and winning tenure. You’ve even risen to a middle-management position on campus. Now what?

July 12, 2007

An enduring commitment – Xavier University’s president Norman C. Francis

In three decades, Norman C. Francis has led Xavier University from local fame to national acclaim

July 12, 2007

Leadership & Policy

Chicago board fires outspoken Temple – Black academic Ronald J. Temple

Chicago Dr. Ronald J. Temple, buoyed by the support of a group of African American ministers, recently waded into the murky, shark-infested waters of Chicago politics. But the chancellor of the City Colleges of Chicago system discovered his feisty rhetoric was no match for the vicious bite he received on March 5, when he was fired outright by the board of trustees.

July 12, 2007