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Leadership & Policy

AAUP Censure Could Hinder Philander Smith’s Search for President

AAUP Censure Could Hinder Philander Smith’s Search for PresidentLITTLE ROCK, Ark.Philander Smith College will have the handicap of censure by a nationwide faculty group as it seeks a new president.   Dr. Trudie Kibbe Reed, 56, is leaving Philander Smith after six years as its president to take the same job at Bethune-Cookman College in […]

June 30, 2004

Leadership & Policy

Hefner to Retire From Tennessee State University

Hefner to Retire From Tennessee State UniversityNASHVILLE, Tenn.Dr. James A. Hefner, president of Tennessee State University, plans to retire as the sixth president of the university effective May 31, 2005. J. Stanley Rogers, vice chair of the Tennessee Board of Regents, praised Hefner’s “steadfast commitment to opening the doors of education to all. Jim Hefner […]

June 30, 2004

Leadership & Policy

Louisiana School Board Member First To Be Implicated in Grade-Changing Scandal

Louisiana School Board Member First To Be Implicated in Grade-Changing Scandal By Scott DyerBATON ROUGE, La.A criminal probe of Southern University’s grade-buying scandal has already prompted a plea bargain from one St. Landry Parish school board member, and could implicate two other members of the same board.St. Landry school board member Quincy Richard Sr., whose […]

June 30, 2004

Leadership & Policy

Bethune-Cookman Names New President — Again

Bethune-Cookman Names New President — AgainDAYTONA BEACH, Fla.Bethune-Cookman College (B-CC) has tapped the sitting president of Philander Smith College in Little Rock, Ark., as its new president. Dr. Trudie Kibbe Reed is expected to begin her duties July 1, according to Dr. J. Stanley Marshall, chairman of the B-CC board of trustees. The board voted […]

May 19, 2004

Leadership & Policy

False Transcripts Add to Southern University Grade-Changing Scandal

False Transcripts Add to Southern University Grade-Changing ScandalBATON ROUGE, La.A Southern University assistant registrar who sold grade changes for cash also allegedly manufactured entire academic transcripts for people who never enrolled on the Baton Rouge campus, according to an internal investigative report obtained by Black Issues In Higher Education. In an internal report, campus auditors […]

May 5, 2004

Students

Pioneering Cellist to Head Wheaton College

Pioneering Cellist to Head Wheaton CollegeNORTON, Mass.Wheaton’s board of trustees has appointed Dr. Ronald Crutcher, provost of Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, as the seventh president of Wheaton College. In taking Wheaton’s highest post, Crutcher becomes the first African American to lead the national liberal arts college. It will be the latest pioneering role for […]

April 21, 2004

Faculty & Staff

On the Right Path

On the Right PathMillersville president’s personal commitment to minority student recruitment, retention brings her to historic post.By Erv Dyer At 150 years old, Millersville University is still making history. One of its defining moments came just one year ago when Dr. Francine McNairy was appointed as the first Black and first female president of the […]

March 24, 2004

Leadership & Policy

Bennett President Receives Human Rights Award

Bennett President Receives Human Rights AwardGREENSBORO, N.C. The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) presented Dr. Johnnetta B. Cole with its Joseph Prize for Human Rights during their National Executive Committee Meeting last month. The Anti-Defamation League was founded in 1913 to combat anti-Semitism and all forms of bigotry. The ADL established the Joseph Prize for Human Rights […]

March 10, 2004

Leadership & Policy

Ramapo College President to Step Down

Ramapo College President to Step DownMAWAH, N.J. Dr. Rodney D. Smith recently announced that he will step down as president of Ramapo College of New Jersey, effective June 30, for personal and professional reasons. He went on to say he will focus on completing the semester and working closely with the new provost and senior […]

March 10, 2004

Students

Placing Diversity at the Core Of Institutional Excellence

Placing Diversity at the Core Of Institutional ExcellenceIn its Oct. 23, 2003, publication, Black Issues In Higher Education identified the Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) as one of a group of universities that have made progress in recruiting and retaining ethnically diverse faculty. As gratifying as that recognition is, it speaks to only part of […]

February 25, 2004

Leadership & Policy

Bethune-Cookman Renews Search

Bethune-Cookman Renews Search For President After Talks FailDAYTONA BEACH, Fla.Contract negotiations with the woman selected to become Bethune-Cookman College’s new president have been abandoned, school officials said recently. The college will renew its search to replace retiring President Oswald P. Bronson after the school could not agree to terms with Gloria Bromell-Tinubu, spokeswoman Catherine Kershaw […]

February 11, 2004

Leadership & Policy

MIT President to Step Down After 13 Years

MIT President to Step Down After 13 YearsCAMBRIDGE, Mass.Dr. Charles M. Vest, the 15th president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, announced plans to step down from his post last month at a quarterly meeting of MIT’s board of trustees.Vest, 62, who has led one of the most intense periods of change at MIT since […]

December 31, 2003