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Leadership & Policy
Baton Rouge CC opening still on hold; rebel shopping center to be part of desegregated campus
BATON ROUGE, La. The long-awaited opening of a community college that will help integrate this city’s higher education community will have to wait a little longer.
July 10, 2007
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Faculty & Staff
Athletics return, but the struggle continues at UDC; Harvard professors, local AAUP members unite to aid faltering institution – University of the District of Columbia; American Association of University Professors
Washington The University of the District of Columbia (UDC) will reinstate its athletics program in the fall, thanks to a referendum vote by students to increase student athletic fees by $50.
July 10, 2007
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Faculty & Staff
Athletics return, but the struggle continues at UDC; Harvard professors, local AAUP members unite to aid faltering institution – University of the District of Columbia; American Association of University Professors
Washington The University of the District of Columbia (UDC) will reinstate its athletics program in the fall, thanks to a referendum vote by students to increase student athletic fees by $50.
July 10, 2007
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Leadership & Policy
Conceptual shift needed to diversify higher education
At a recent meeting in Los Angeles, the American Association of Community College board of directors unanimously approved a statement on inclusion.
July 10, 2007
Leadership & Policy
“Techie” sets pace – Dr. Alan G. Merten, new president of Georgia Mason University
In American higher education, rarely have computer scientists advanced to the top ranks of university leadership. At George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia, Dr. Alan G. Merten, the school’s newly inaugurated president, is getting the opportunity to demonstrate the leadership, administrative and academic skills he has acquired during his twenty-seven-year career as a computer scientist and teacher.
July 10, 2007
Leadership & Policy
Fayetteville State University Chancellor Resigns
RALEIGH N.C. Facing a financial audit and criticism over a new nursing program, Fayetteville State University’s chancellor announced Monday she will resign this month.
July 9, 2007
Leadership & Policy
Interim Mississippi Valley State U. Leader Named
JACKSON, Miss. Veteran administrator Roy C. Hudson on Monday was named interim president of Mississippi Valley State University.
July 8, 2007
Leadership & Policy
University of Maine-Farmington Joins Others in Withdrawing From Part of U.S. News Survey
PORTLAND Maine The University of Maine at Farmington is joining a growing list of colleges and universities declining to complete a survey for the U.S. News & World Report rankings of higher-education institutions.
July 8, 2007
Students
U of North Alabama First In State To Offer Culinary Arts Degree
FLORENCE Ala. The University of North Alabama is the state’s first four-year public college to cook up a culinary arts degree.
July 8, 2007
Leadership & Policy
Moving on up: the allure and the aggravation of becoming a Division I school
Eight year a ago, Dr. William R. Harvey had a vision. The Hampton University president was convinced that with the right approach, the school could hold its own at the highest level of collegiate competition. Now that is is clear that Harvey’s vision was not just a case of wishful thinking, there appears to be another school — Norfolk State University (NSU) — ready to follow his lead.
July 6, 2007
Leadership & Policy
UDC battling back after major surgery – University of the District of Columbia
WASHINGTON It was with poetic irony that Mother Nature dealt the northeastern states one final blow of frosty weather on April Fool’s Day.
July 6, 2007
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Leadership & Policy
A remedy for Central State’s problems?
DAYTON, OHIO Some Ohio legislators want to force Central State University to merge with another institution of higher education despite a graduation rate for Black students that exceeds that of nearly half of the state’s public universities.
July 5, 2007
Leadership & Policy
Searching for the best – officials of African American universities and colleges
At his ranch-style home in Durham, North Carolina, Dr. Mickey L. Burnim keeps a file that can perhaps best be labeled. “Things not to do as chancellor of a university.”
July 5, 2007
Students
Stillman’s Wynn provided accessible visibility – Stillman College Pres Dr. Cordell Wynn
Dr. Cordell Wynn, president of Stillman College in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, may be retiring, but he’s not going to stop working. He plans to remain active in the world of higher education, writing and consulting on the relationship between presidents and boards of trustees of historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs).
July 5, 2007
Faculty & Staff
Dillard’s Cook put hearts and minds to work – Dillard University Pres Dr. Samuel DuBois Cook
In September 1986, then-Japanese Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone shocked many Americans when he asserted that America was intellectually inferior to Japan “because of a considerable number of Blacks, Puerto Ricans and Mexicans.”
July 5, 2007
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Students
Wilson proud of Norfolk State’s “X” factor – Norfolk State University president Dr. Harrison B. Wilson
His grandfather on his father’s side was a tenacious Virginia slave Who fought in the Civil War, first for the Confederacy and the Union Army. His grandmother on his mother’s side was educated at Wilberforce University and taught in a one-room schoolhouse in Kentucky.
July 5, 2007
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Students
Suit Would Have Board of Governors Set Tuition for Florida’s Public Universities
TALLAHASSEE Fla. Former Gov. Bob Graham and others are suing to have the courts declare that tuition at Florida’s 11 public universities should be set by the state Board of Governors rather than the Legislature.
July 5, 2007
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Leadership & Policy
Purdue Construction Plans Include Clean-coal Boiler
LAFAYETTE Ind. Purdue University officials plan on moving forward with nearly $90 million in construction projects.
July 5, 2007
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