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Community Colleges
The Magnificent Twelve: Florida’s Black Junior Colleges. – book reviews
by Walter L. Smith, Ph.D. Four-G Publishers Available through Smith and Smith, Inc. 4830 N.W. 43rd Street Suite 291 Gainesville, FL 38602 Hardcover: $25.00
June 22, 2007
Faculty & Staff
Appreciation: Louis Westerfield, 1949-1996 – Obituary
On August 2-4. 1996. Louis Westerfield — law school dean at three schools, law professor at four schools, author, judge, community leader, and dedicated family man — died of a heart attack in New Orleans.
June 22, 2007
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Students
Community college becomes battleground for complaint about privately funded scholarship – Northern Virginia Community College
A white male student at Northern Virginia Community College is charging that a minority scholarship program at the school violates his constitutional rights, pointing to a federal court ruling that banned a university from awarding publicly-funded scholarships exclusively to African Americans.
June 22, 2007
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Senate bill freezes HBCUs – Historically Black Colleges and Universities – includes related article on special education grants – Washington Update
Education Department (ED) support for historically Black colleges and universities likely will remain frozen at current levels next year, based on recent action by members of the U.S. Senate.
June 22, 2007
Students
If You Can Walk, You Can Dance; If You Can Talk, You Can Sing: A Successful African American Doctoral Fellowship Program. – book reviews
Time out, higher education. This book has a proven model for increasing the pool of African Americans with doctorate degrees in non-traditional courses of study. With valuable resource information, this book has special importance for the administrators of traditionally white colleges and universities who are sincerely interested in providing a positive campus climate for African-American students to experience success in doctoral programs.
June 22, 2007
Community Colleges
Dean of CMC Summit Campus to leave for position in Arizona
BRECKENRIDGE Colo. The dean of the Summit Campus of Colorado Mountain College announced plans this week to leave the school to become the first female president of an Arizona community college.
June 22, 2007
Community Colleges
SACS probation for Bishop State extended 6 months
DATELINE: MOBILE Ala. Bishop State Community College will remain on probation for another six months, a decision by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools that cited failures in financial and academic areas.
June 22, 2007
HBCUs
Following the leader: other institutions search for the secrets of Spelman’s success – fundraising
Atlanta The spectacular success of Spelman College’s fundraising efforts has caused many in the higher education world — particularly at the historically Black colleges and universities — to take notice. As a result, some institutions have reevaluated their own efforts to raise money.
June 22, 2007
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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
Faculty & Staff
Creating a powerhouse: compensation research perks sweeten pot in high-stakes competition for scholars
For the past 24 years Dr. Ron Walters has been a fixture at Howard University. The tenured chairman of the university’s political science department is widely respected in the academic community and is one of an elite group of national scholars who are considered “public intellectuals.”
June 22, 2007
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HBCUs
Test-driven admissions: ETS responds to criticisms of SATs – Educational Testing Service
After decades of criticism that standardized testing is culturally biased, officials from the Educational Testing Service (ETS) say they have made great strides in eliminating those biases.
June 22, 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
Community Colleges
SACS probation for Bishop State extended 6 months
MOBILE, Ala. Bishop State Community College will remain on probation for another six months, a decision by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools that cited failures in financial and academic areas.
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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HBCUs
Michigan’s Only HBCU Likely to Lose Accreditation
DETROIT Lewis College of Business, the only historically Black college in Michigan, has been given a one-month extension before its accreditation is removed by the Higher Learning Commission. The college’s original deadline was June 30.
June 21, 2007
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
HBCUs
Taking stock and refocusing: foundations forcing shifts in educational priorities
Atlanta Foundations have a long history of support for American higher education. But as foundations re-focus and shift their priorities, new trends in philanthropic giving are challenging colleges and universities to examine their ability to attract funding.
June 20, 2007
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