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Leadership & Policy

Board Advocates Dumping UND Nickname, Logo

North Dakota’s Board of Higher Education has agreed to drop the University of North Dakota’s Fighting Sioux nickname and Indian head logo.

May 14, 2009

Leadership & Policy

Amid Financial Turmoil, Shaw University President Steps Down

Shaw University officials announced Wednesday that Dr. Clarence G. Newsome, the school’s president for the past six years, would be taking a one-year paid sabbatical from his post, effective immediately.

May 13, 2009

Leadership & Policy

Rutgers Names First Black Chancellor

Rutgers University’s board has appointed the school’s first Black chancellor.

April 5, 2009

Leadership & Policy

Morris Brown Pays Water Bill, Still Has Debt

Morris Brown has finally paid its $380,000 overdue water bill in full, a three-month effort against seemingly long odds as the historically Black college struggled for survival.

March 22, 2009

Leadership & Policy

Dartmouth’s New President First Asian To Lead Ivy League Institution

A Korean-born doctor and humanitarian known as a leader the global fight against HIV/AIDS and other diseases will become the next president of Dartmouth College.

March 2, 2009

Leadership & Policy

Indiana U’s Plan to Add Name of Black Basketball Star to Building Named for a Segregationist is Opposed

The widow of the Big Ten’s first Black basketball player says no one from Indiana University ever asked her about possibly adding his name to a campus gymnasium named for a trustee who advocated segregation in the 1940s.

February 26, 2009

Faculty & Staff

Fisk Discloses Major New Problems

Fisk University, beset with financial troubles before the nation’s economy began a free fall last year, has joined a growing list of prominent historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) signaling tougher times at hand.

February 24, 2009

Leadership & Policy

Documentary on Landmark Civil Rights Case Premiers Tonight on PBS

PBS tonight will premier a documentary, “A Class Apart,” that sheds light on a landmark Mexican-American civil rights case handed down by the U.S. Supreme Court on May 3, 1954 – two weeks before the watershed Brown v. Board of Education ruling.

February 22, 2009

Leadership & Policy

UDC launches community college, first in D.C. since 1977

Two-year school should not be run by UDC, some say.

February 16, 2009

Students

Man sues LA college over anti-gay-marriage speech

A community college student has filed a lawsuit claiming a public speaking professor berated him and refused to let him finish a speech opposing same-sex marriage.

February 16, 2009

Students

Hispanics in Health Care to Get Scholarships

Ten health professional students pursuing health-care careers in California will receive $5,000 and $2,000 scholarships today (Feb. 11) from the National Hispanic Health Foundation at a gala in Sacramento.

February 10, 2009

Leadership & Policy

The New Era of Diversity

Molly Corbett Broad, president of the American Council on Education, weighs in on the prospects for diversity in the Obama years.

January 21, 2009