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University of Georgia Names New Athletic Director

University of Georgia Names New Athletic DirectorATHENS, Ga.The University of Georgia hired Damon Evans as its athletic director last month, the first Black person to hold that job in the Southeastern Conference. Evans, 34, will take the position of his mentor, Vince Dooley, who is being forced out of the athletic director job and will […]

A Year in Review: Headliners

HeadlinersHoward University’s School of Communications was renamed the John H. Johnson School of Communications in recognition of a $4 million contribution from the legendary founder of Johnson Publishing Co., which produces Ebony and Jet magazines.University of Virginia student Daisy Lundy, a student of African American and Korean background, reported being assaulted in February by a […]

A Year in Review: Milestones

MilestonesHistorically Black Lincoln University in Pennsylvania kicked off its 150th anniversary celebration in April. The sesquicentennial celebration will last through May 2004 and will encompass a variety of special events. The University of Pennsylvania became the first and only Ivy League institution to establish a criminology department. The University of California-Santa Barbara announced that it […]

A Year in Review: A Tribute to Academic, Athletic Excellence

A Tribute to Academic, Athletic ExcellenceThe 10th anniversary of tennis legend Arthur Ashe’s death in February triggered an outpouring of tributes in the news media and by some sports organizations. Ashe, who was 49 years old when he succumbed to an AIDS-related illness on Feb. 6, 1993, is now celebrated as much for his social […]

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 […]

Leadership & Policy

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 […]

Leadership & Policy

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 […]

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