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Leadership & Policy

Christopher Brown Named New President of Alcorn State

Fisk University provost has been named president of Alcorn State University in Mississippi.

November 30, 2010

Leadership & Policy

Virginia Tech To Honor School’s First Black Graduate

Virginia Tech will honor the university’s first Black graduate at an event Nov. 2.

October 24, 2010

Leadership & Policy

New Plans, Including One From Alumna, Presented To Keep Art Collection Intact at Fisk

A splinter group of alumni of financially troubled Fisk University, publicly asserting its opposition to the school’s plan to raise badly needed money by selling half its ownership in the Alfred Stieglitz Collection of photographs and art, has emerged with a $2.6 million plan it says will generate enough money annually to cover the costs of caring for and exhibiting the collection and give school officials time to find other ways to raise funds for the historic institution.

October 24, 2010

Leadership & Policy

Andrew Brimmer Retires as Tuskegee University Board Chairman

The longest-serving member of the Tuskegee University board of trustees, Dr. Andrew Brimmer, is retiring.

October 20, 2010

Students

Special Report: Puerto Rico’s Eleven Campuses, One University, Many Strikes

The two-month-long student strike that shuttered 10 of 11 University of Puerto Rico campuses this year has been settled, but the underlying issues that contributed to the unrest are far from resolved.

September 22, 2010

Leadership & Policy

University of North Carolina Celebrates 1955 Racial Integration Milestone

Fifty-five years after a federal court allowed them to register for classes by overturning the university’s racist admissions policy, John Brandon and brothers Ralph and LeRoy Frasier returned to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill to be celebrated as pioneers.

September 20, 2010

Leadership & Policy

Tuskegee Selects Purdue Administrator, Researcher as New President

Tuskegee University announced Friday the selection of Dr. Gilbert L. Rochon, associate vice president for collaborative research and engagement at Purdue University, as its sixth president.

September 19, 2010

Leadership & Policy

Dean Stabbed at Kansas City Community College

A man who was mumbling and carrying a knife in a building where Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon was scheduled to hold a news conference stabbed a college dean in the neck Tuesday before being subdued by witnesses.

September 14, 2010

Leadership & Policy

Shaw University Announces New President

A historically Black college in North Carolina’s capital city has named its first female president.

September 9, 2010

Leadership & Policy

Case of Missing $1 Million at Ala. A&M Unsolved After Two Years

The mystery of what happened to more than $1 million at Alabama A&M University hasn’t been solved two years after state examiners reported financial problems at the school.

September 2, 2010

Leadership & Policy

Analysis: Louisiana Higher Education Commissioner’s Job a Tough Sell

The next commissioner, whom Louisiana Regents hope to have in place by January, will step into the position as the state’s public colleges brace for the loss of at least $290 million in federal stimulus money.

August 30, 2010

Students

Against Steep Odds, HBCU Leaders Rebuild Trust in Their Institutions

At struggling schools, a number of HBCU presidents have surmounted the stigma of accreditation woes by communicating their vision to parents and prospective students.

August 26, 2010