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Faculty & Staff

Professional APPOINTMENTS

FISK UNIVERSITY NAMES NEW LEADER

July 14, 2007

Students

Kirwan’s Way

Ohio State University’s new president has taken a strong stand on diversity. Some say his is an example of the type of commitment White male senior executives need to make if higher education’s dreams of diversity are to be realized.

July 14, 2007

Faculty & Staff

Central State Must Ante-Up for Faculty

Wilberforce, Ohio The administration claimed at a fiscal and political crisis left it with no choice but to take the actions it did. However, the Central State University (CSU) faculty union has won a series of legal victories over the past few weeks that could pose new financial problems for the state’s only historically Black institution of higher education.

July 14, 2007

Leadership & Policy

Sudarkasa resigns in wake of state’s audit report – Lincoln University, Niara Sudarkasa

LINCOLN UNIVERSITY, Pa. Faced with a scathing report from the state, Lincoln University’s president, Dr. Niara Sudarkasa, announced on September 15 that she would relinquish her position at the end of the calendar year.

July 14, 2007

Students

Giant steps on the road to renewal – Central State University

Central State University has accreditation renewed and is released from U.S. Department of Education penalty

July 13, 2007

Leadership & Policy

Art, audits, and allegations – Lincoln University, President Niara Sudarkasa

Lincoln University, Pa. Summer break is normally a time of respite, a pause in the scholastic action to allow administrators, faculty, and students a little timeout and a chance to get the batteries charged. But it seems the only things being charged at Lincoln University in rural southeastern Pennsylvania this summer are highly publicized allegations of fiscal mismanagement and misconduct.

July 13, 2007

Leadership & Policy

Art, audits, and allegations – Lincoln University, President Niara Sudarkasa

Lincoln University, Pa. Summer break is normally a time of respite, a pause in the scholastic action to allow administrators, faculty, and students a little timeout and a chance to get the batteries charged. But it seems the only things being charged at Lincoln University in rural southeastern Pennsylvania this summer are highly publicized allegations of fiscal mismanagement and misconduct.

July 13, 2007

Leadership & Policy

South Carolina State pursuing solvency: controversial loan from University of South Carolina part of remedy

Orangeburg, S.C. Four years of operating in the red finally forced South Carolina State University to borrow $2.1 million from another state institution. But it appears the historically Black institution may be able to avoid that problem next year.

July 13, 2007

Leadership & Policy

White administrators charge college with racism – Houston Community College

Houston White administrators at Houston Community College (HCC) have accused the institution of racial discrimination in a lawsuit filed in federal court.

July 12, 2007

Leadership & Policy

The Community College Presidency at the Millennium. – book reviews

If anyone doubts Dr. George B. Vaughan is the nation’s leading expert on the community college presidency, the publication of this new book should lay that to rest.

July 12, 2007

Faculty & Staff

Plotting the assassination of little red Sambo: psychologists join war against racist campus mascots – Native American mascots

Psychologists Join War Against Racist Campus Mascots

July 12, 2007

Students

New standards will send many CUNY students to community colleges – City University of New York

The man behind the ending of remediation in the City University of New York’s (CUNY) four-year colleges is not New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani — although the Republican mayor certainly set the political tone earlier this year by calling for the end of remediation.

July 12, 2007