Tag: Presidents/Chancellors: Page 105

Leadership & Policy

Bowling Green State President Named Next Leader of Howard University

Bowling Green State University President Sidney A. Ribeau has been named president of Howard University, its Board of Trustees announced Wednesday.

May 7, 2008

Faculty & Staff

New Chancellor Named For UMass-Amherst

An administrator and German scholar who has made a career of working at public universities has been selected to be the next chancellor of the University of Massachusetts’ flagship Amherst campus.

April 30, 2008

Leadership & Policy

African-U.S. University Partnerships Among Collaborations Urged By Global Leaders

In this globalized society, the need for intellectual collaboration across continents, cultures, institutions and disciplines is imperative in solving the scientific and technological mysteries that lie ahead, said panelists during the opening session Wednesday of the Higher Education Summit for Global Development at the Department of State.

April 30, 2008

Leadership & Policy

Twenty-Nine Years of Being on the Front Lines Of Affirmative Action

Twenty-nine years ago when I started working in this field, I knew little and had no exposure to the underpinnings of this difficult compensatory process called affirmative action. I sought friends who were working in the field and began a process of acquiring all the knowledge I could about the laws and what they were intended to do.

April 30, 2008

Leadership & Policy

A Unique Approach to Funding Community College Operations

As community colleges continue to serve an increasingly diverse student body, enrollment continues to grow along with capacity challenges. Developing a facilities master plan is critical to serving students and ensuring their success. It takes more than a master plan, however, to actually design and construct buildings. Financing the facilities is job No. 1.

April 30, 2008

Students

Remedying the Black Male “Crisis”

With high dropout, unemployment and incarceration rates, more than 50 organizations convene to develop action plans to address a disturbing trend.

April 30, 2008

Leadership & Policy

Grants & Gifts

CLAYTON STATE UNIVERSITY’S SCHOOL OF NURSING (Ga.) has been awarded the Nursing Workforce Diversity Grant of $335,299 for three years from the Department of Health and Human Services Health Resources and Services Administration. INDIANA UNIVERSITY, BLOOMINGTON, has been awarded an $80,000 grant from the Spencer and Teagle Foundations’ initiative for Systematic Improvement of Undergraduate Education […]

April 30, 2008

Leadership & Policy

SC State Plans to Display James Brown Memorabilia

An exhibit of James Brown memorabilia is being organized at South Carolina State University.

April 28, 2008

Students

In Changing Economy, Graduate School Becoming a Necessity

Access to graduate education is an invaluable resource for this generation of Americans. For the “public good” of the nation, the U.S. government must allocate more in the way of financial support and public policy to ensure that students have access to and experience success in some form of graduate studies, a new study reports.

April 24, 2008

Leadership & Policy

Panel: WVU Improperly Granted Degree to Governor’s Daughter

An independent panel has chastised West Virginia University for retroactively awarding the governor’s daughter a master’s degree she did not earn.

April 24, 2008

Leadership & Policy

Orangeburg Massacre Survivor Named College President

Cleveland Sellers, a survivor of the deadly 1968 protest known as the Orangeburg Massacre, was named president of Voorhees College on Tuesday by the school’s board of trustees.

April 22, 2008

Leadership & Policy

UMES First HBCU To Receive the PGA Professional Golf Management Program

University of Maryland Eastern Shore officials announced this week at a press conference that the institution has become the 20th university to attain the highly sought after Professional Golf Association’s Professional Golf Management University Program.

April 17, 2008