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Community Colleges

Graduate and Continuing Education for Community College Leaders: What It Means Today. – book reviews

edited by James C. Palmer and Stephen G. Katsinas Jossey-Bass Inc., San Francisco, 1996 I had looked forward with considerable anticipation to the publication of Palmer’s and Katsinas’s Graduate and Continuing Education for Community College Leaders: What It Means Today.

July 4, 2007

Following the leaders – the establishment of Leadership Development Centers in historically Black colleges and universities

Leadership Development Becomes Priority for Many Institutions

July 4, 2007

Faculty & Staff

From the ivory tower to the White House … and back again – African American public servants who came from, and came back, to the academe – Cover Story

Shortly after resigning as associate director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) in February 1995, Christopher Edley Jr. prepared to resume teaching duties at Harvard Law School, where he had been tenured since 1986. But before he could leave the government, Edley was approached by White House officials who wanted him to chair a high-profile, interagency working group on affirmative action.

July 4, 2007

Despite Sallie’s success story… – welfare recipient and Santa Clara University student Sallie Shows

Welfare Reform Expected to Restrict College Access

July 4, 2007

Faculty & Staff

California chancellor’s compensation squabble – City College of San Francisco Chancellor Del M. Anderson

When Del M. Anderson accepted the position as chancellor of the City College of San Francisco (CCSF), she knew she wasn’t walking into the ideal situation. There had been relatively few applicants for the job, the pay was lower than she expected for such a large urban institution, and there was much work to be done in building community support.

July 4, 2007

Community Colleges

The educational horizon shifts south for U.S. border colleges

AUSTIN, Texas Inspired by – the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), community colleges throughout the Southwest are developing curricula catering to a growing number of students seeking careers linked to hemispheric trade.

July 4, 2007

Student loan default rates fall dramatically – includes related article on default violations of schools

Washington The nation’s student loan default rate has reached its lowest level ever, according to the U.S. Education Department (ED), which nonetheless identified more than 300 colleges and universities that could lose their right to participate in student-aid programs because of excessive defaults.

July 4, 2007

An organization by any other name… – controversial name change of Hispanic Student Services at the University of New Mexico to “Centro de la Raza – includes related article

Controversy Flares Over University of New Mexico’s Centro de la Raza

July 4, 2007

Knoxville College loses accreditation; accrediting agency warns University of Florida – Knoxville College, Tennessee

The Southern Association of Colleges and Schools decided to remove Knoxville College from membership in December because the college had failed to comply with the association’s criteria related to adequate financial resources, administrative processes and financial aid, said James T. Rogers, executive director of the association.

July 4, 2007

African-American

The Ebonics debate: separating fact from fallacy

For the past several weeks, the nation — and its news media — have been engrossed in an on going and highly emotional debate on the subject of “Ebonics,” a term used by some to define a linguistic system used by many — but certainly by no means all — African Americans.

July 4, 2007

Leadership & Policy

Hard-charging president of N.C.’s community college system resigns; Hackley calls it quits after two years doing ‘undoable’ job – Dr. Lloyd Hack

Hackley Calls It Quits after Two Years Doing `Undoable’ Job Charlotte, N.C. Soon after he became president of the North Carolina Community College System two years ago, Dr. Lloyd “Vic” Hackley began encountering friction.

July 4, 2007

The tax man cometh for UNC – proposed audits of UNC-Chapel Hill and UNC-Charlotte by the Internal Revenue Service

RALEIGH, N.C. UNC-Chapel Hill and UNC-Charlotte are among the targets of audits planned by the Internal Revenue Service in a crackdown that already has found multi-million-dollar tax violations on college campuses across the nation.

July 4, 2007

Group sues NCAA over eligibility rules – National Collegiate Alhletic Association – includes related article

Black Students Unfairly Affected, Suit says The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) has been hit with a lawsuit that charges that the association discriminates against Blacks by using freshman academic standards that are racially and culturally biased.

July 4, 2007

Small-school accreditation the business of ACBSP – Association of Collegiate Business Schools and Programs

Dear Editor: The articles written by Cheryl Fields only present one perspective of “Taking Care of Business at HBCUs” (Dec. 12, 1996). There is another specialized accrediting association for business schools and programs besides the the American Assembly of Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB).

July 4, 2007

Morehouse seeks football glory – Doug Williams as a Morehouse College’s football coach

In some circles, the news of former Super Bowl most valuable player Doug Williams taking the job as Morehouse College’s new head football coach was surprising. In recent weeks, it had been reported that Williams was the leading candidate to replace Grambling’s legendary coach Eddie Robinson at the end of the 1997 season. Williams, a […]

July 4, 2007

Sidetracked by pundocracy: speaking of education – Ebonics controversy of bilingualism in Oakland, California

To let the commentators tell it, educators in the city of Oakland have gone mad. They are teaching Black English as a second language and are seeking federal funds to do so, and depending on which “Black leader” you quote, this is a “bad joke” or a “cruel hoax” on the African American community. Coming a few days before Christmas, and a few weeks after affirmative action stumbled with the passage of Proposition 209, all one could say was, “Bah, humbug.”

July 4, 2007

Resolution of the Board of Education adopting the report and recommendations of the African American task force; A policy statement and directing the superintendent of schools to devise a program to improve the English language acquisition and application

Whereas, numerous validated scholarly studies demonstrate that African-Americ-an students as a part of their culture and history [as] an African people possess and utilize a language described in various scholarly approaches as “Ebonics” (literally “Blank sounds”) or “Pan-African Communication Behaviors” or “African Language Systems”; and

July 4, 2007

A military strategy for combatting institutional racism

Charles C. Moskos and John Sibley Butler’s pioneering study of Black leadership development and racial integration in the United States Army provides the reader with a glimpse into an institution that, while not utopian, has achieved remarkable success in race relations. That success was achieved because the U.S. Army developed policies which supported a philosophy that believed an absolute commitment to nondiscrimination and uncompromising standards of performance are absolutely necessary for achieving its goals. Indeed, the Army was able to relate nondiscrimination to goal attainment, which may be the key to solving many of the racial problems in contemporary American society.

July 4, 2007