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Leadership & Policy

Wilkes University Diversity Officer’s Firing Challenged By NAACP

WILKES-BARRE, Pa. The local chapter of the NAACP is accusing Wilkes University of retaliating against its former multicultural coordinator, who it says was fired because she refused to apologize to police after a traffic stop, as instructed by her supervisors, and instead filed a civil rights lawsuit.

October 3, 2006

Leadership & Policy

Langston University’s New Leader Is Oklahoma’s First Black, Female University President

LANGSTON, Okla. Dr. JoAnn W. Haysbert was formally installed Saturday as president of Langston University, becoming Oklahoma’s first Black, female university president.

October 1, 2006

Faculty & Staff

First Haitian-American College President Encourages Faculty to ‘Infuse Globalism into Their Curriculum’

BOSTON For a year and a half, Berotte Joseph has led Massachusetts Bay Community College in Wellesley, a prosperous Boston suburb that is a long way from the colonial-style neighborhood in Port-au-Prince where she spent her first eight years before emigrating to the United States in 1957.

September 27, 2006

Students

U.S. College Drop-out Rate Sparks Concern

NEW YORK For decades, getting more students into college has been the top priority of America’s higher education leaders. But what’s the point, a growing number of experts are wondering, when so few who go to school finish a degree?

September 26, 2006

Leadership & Policy

Bishop State President: No Plans To Resign Amid Probe

MOBILE, Ala. Bishop State Community College President Yvonne Kennedy said last week she has no plans to resign during a financial aid probe at the two-year school.

September 25, 2006

Leadership & Policy

Quotes of Note

“Let’s talk about the complicity of the Episcopal Church as one of the institutions of this country who, of course…

September 20, 2006

Leadership & Policy

Officials Abandon Fight to Save Troubled Compton Community College’s Accreditation

In its latest woeful chapter, Compton Community College’s accreditation has been formally revoked

September 20, 2006

Leadership & Policy

Bishop State President’s Future In Doubt Amid Financial Aid Probe

MOBILE Ala. Bishop State Community College President Yvonne Kennedy’s future at the two-year school is reportedly in doubt amid a probe of student aid fraud claims and reports of financial irregularities.

September 19, 2006

Faculty & Staff

Princeton Establishes Center for African American Studies

Princeton University announced this week the creation of a Center for African American Studies — a plan that includes doubling the number of faculty in its African American studies program, enhancing the undergraduate curriculum and seeking funds to endow the new center.

September 19, 2006

Leadership & Policy

Spellings Drops By “HBCU Week” Festivities To Tout New Grants

WASHINGTON The White House Initiative on Historically Black Colleges and Universities is wrapping up a conference in Washington, D.C., today commemorating “National HBCU Week.”

September 11, 2006

Leadership & Policy

Virginia’s Randolph-Macon Woman’s College Considers Admitting Men

The Randolph-Macon Woman’s College board of trustees will vote tomorrow (Saturday) on whether to admit male students for the first time in the institution’s 115-year history.

September 6, 2006

Leadership & Policy

Georgia’s On Our Mind

Music lovers have long counted Ray Charles’ bittersweet rendition of Hoagy Carmichael’s…

September 6, 2006