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Leadership & Policy

A Year in Review: Saving Morris Brown

Saving Morris BrownThe Southern Association of Colleges and Schools (SACS) stripped Atlanta’s Morris Brown College of its accreditation last winter, citing the school’s mounting debt, institutional ineffectiveness, poor record keeping and difficulties with processing financial aid. When the school’s bid to appeal the SACS decision failed in April, most of the 1,500 enrolled students transferred […]

Mississippi State Names First Black SEC Head Coach

Mississippi State Names First Black SEC Head CoachSTARKVILLE, Miss.For the first time in its 71-year history, the Southeastern Conference has an African American head football coach. Sylvester Croom, a veteran of 28 years coaching on the professional and collegiate levels, was named head football coach at Mississippi State University earlier this month.“We went after the […]

Shifting in Division I-A Conference Influences Graduation Rates

Shifting in Division I-A Conference Influences Graduation RatesORLANDO, Fla.Recent changes in the Division I-A conference has not only influenced the game of football but conference graduation rates as well, according to a new study. The Institute for Diversity and Ethics in Sport at the University of Central Florida last month released “The Classroom Counts,” a […]

Basketball Boys Behaving Badly

Basketball Boys Behaving Badly: Would College Make a Difference?Los Angeles Lakers basketball player Kobe Bryant has been blessed with phenomenal basketball skills, and not a lot of common sense. He may not be guilty of raping the Colorado concierge who has accused him, but the $100 million player is clearly guilty of horrible judgment in […]

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On New Ground – DR. Elson S. Floyd

DR. Elson S. FloydPresident, University of Missouri systemEducation: Ph.D., Higher and Adult Education, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill; Master of Education, Adult Education, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill; Bachelor of Arts, Political Science and Speech, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill In early October, Black Issues caught up with Dr. Elson S. Floyd in Kansas City, […]

Professional Appointments

Professional Appointments Dr. Michael A. Battle is the new president of the Interdenominational Theological Center in Atlanta. Previously, he was vice president for student affairs at Chicago State University. Battle earned a bachelor’s degree from Trinity College, a master of divinity degree from Duke University and a doctor of ministry degree from Howard University. Dr. […]

Coaching Groups to Keep Up Fight Over Title IX

Coaching Groups to Keep Up Fight Over Title IX WASHINGTONA coalition of college coaching associations, aiming to change the way a major sports anti-discrimination law is enforced, will press its legal fight on two fronts. The College Sports Council announced plans last month to sue the U.S. Department of Education over its July decision to […]

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Virginia Union President Resigns to Take Job With NCAA

Virginia Union President Resigns to Take Job With NCAA RICHMOND, Va.The president of Virginia Union University has resigned to take a job with the National Collegiate Athletic Association beginning in November. Dr. Bernard W. Franklin submitted his resignation to the historically Black school’s board of trustees last month. He has been president of the Richmond […]

Study Finds 2002 a Safer Season for Football Players

Study Finds 2002 a Safer Season for Football PlayersCHAPEL HILL, N.C. In what has turned out to be a pleasant surprise, no deaths from heatstroke occurred among young U.S. football players during the 2002 season, a new University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill study shows.The safer season was a surprise since 21 players died […]

U.S. Tennis Association Honors Pioneering Black Female Athletes

U.S. Tennis Association Honors Pioneering Black Female Athletes TUSKEGEE, Ala.Long before Venus and Serena Williams became household names, nationally known tennis stars Margaret “Pete” and Maltida Roumania “Repeat” Peters proved that African Americans can dominate the sport.From the late 1930s into the early ’50s, the two sisters were known for their slice serves, fierce backhands […]

In Memoriam: Remembering Donald Phelps (1929-2003): Community College Leader

In Memoriam: Remembering Donald Phelps (1929-2003): Community College LeaderAUSTIN, Texas Dr. Donald G. Phelps, W.K. Kellogg Regents Professor in Community College Leadership at the University of Texas at Austin’s College of Education, died in Austin, on July 5, after a brief illness. Phelps was the first African American to serve as chancellor of both the […]

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Young College Athletes See ‘Raceless’ World, Study Says

Young College Athletes See ‘Raceless’ World, Study SaysNASHVILLE, Tenn. A new study showing similar levels of agreement among White and Black college athletes that racial and ethnic discrimination is no longer a problem bucks more than 70 years of social science trends relating to racial perceptions of discrimination. The report, “There’s No Race on the Playing […]

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