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Faculty & Staff

Bluefield State President Resigns

Bluefield State President Resigns, Plans to Teach at CollegeBLUEFIELD, W.Va.Bluefield State College president Dr. Robert Moore announced his resignation last month, citing a desire to pursue new personal and professional goals. Moore, who became BSC president in June 1993, following 19 years as a member of the college’s faculty and administrative staff, is stepping down […]

April 10, 2002

Leadership & Policy

NAFEO Ends Conference With Tribute to HBCU Presidents

NAFEO Ends Conference With Tribute to HBCU PresidentsWashingtonThe National Association for Equal Opportunity in Higher Education (NAFEO) ended its 27th annual conference last month in Washington with a tribute to some of higher education’s most deserving leaders. More than 20 former and current Black college presidents and chancellors were honored for their outstanding leadership and […]

April 10, 2002

Leadership & Policy

Events

EVENTSAPRILApril 15-17Third Annual Presidents’ Summit & Leadership Conference Thurgood Marshall Scholarship Fund Inc.Indianapolis University Place Conference CenterContact: Thurgood Marshall Scholarship FundPhone: (212) 573-8888April 18-19New York City Louis Stokes AllianceFor Minority Participation in Science, Mathematics, Engineering and Technology 5th Annual Urban University ConferenceCity College of New YorkContact: NYC Louis Stokes AlliancePhone: (212) 650-8854E-mail: [email protected] 18HBCU Pre-Session […]

March 27, 2002

Leadership & Policy

Howard University Student Crowned Miss USA

Howard University Student Crowned Miss USAGARY, Ind.Howard University broadcast communications major Shauntay Hinton, 23, was crowned Miss USA earlier this month. The Starkville, Miss., native’s knees buckled when she was declared the winner at the pageant held in Gary, Ind. “It took all of my strength to lift myself back up,” she says. “It’s just […]

March 27, 2002

Leadership & Policy

Professional Appointments

Professional AppointmentsDr. Minnie Holmes-McNary has been named assistant professor in the department of human nutrition at Ohio State University. Holmes-McNary has held positions at  the University of Illinois School of Veterinary Medicine. She earned dual bachelor’s degrees from the University of Illinois at Springfield and a doctorate from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Dr. […]

March 13, 2002

Leadership & Policy

Howard University School Of Law Dean Resigns

Howard University School Of Law Dean Resigns WASHINGTONHoward University School of Law Dean Alice Gresham Bullock announced last month she would resign from her position, effective June 30.Following a yearlong sabbatical, she will return to a faculty position at the law school. Bullock, an alumna of the law school, a tax lawyer and a member […]

March 13, 2002

Leadership & Policy

Morris Brown President to Resign in June

Morris Brown President to Resign in JuneATLANTADr. Dolores Cross, who has been president at Morris Brown College since 1999, announced plans to resign effective June 30. Cross was the first female president at the private liberal arts and historically Black college that now serves more than 2,700 students. The college is affiliated with the African […]

March 13, 2002

Leadership & Policy

Gates Ponders Move to Princeton; Chicago Scholar Joins Harvard’s Ranks

Gates Ponders Move to Princeton; Chicago Scholar Joins Harvard’s RanksNEWARK, N.J.The head of Harvard’s Afro-American studies program, Dr. Henry Louis Gates Jr., says he will decide this summer whether he will follow his colleague Dr. Anthony Appiah to Princeton University. Last month, Princeton appointed Appiah as a full professor in the university’s philosophy department (see […]

February 27, 2002

Leadership & Policy

ABCC: An Idea Born Out of Frustration

ABCC: An Idea Born Out of FrustrationDr. Fred Hord, founder of the Association of Black Culture Centers (ABCC), like many of his mentors, has spent almost his entire life advocating racial justice in the streets and Black intellectual prowess in the classroom.So no one was particularly surprised when in 1987, Hord, then the director of […]

February 13, 2002

Faculty & Staff

LeMoyne-Owen, S.C. State Presidents to Step Down

LeMoyne-Owen, S.C. State Presidents to Step DownMEMPHIS, Tenn.LeMoyne-Owen College president Dr. George R. Johnson Jr. says, “it’s time to do something else,” and plans to step down this summer. Johnson, who didn’t elaborate on what he’ll do, has been at the helm of the private, historically Black college for six years. Lucille V. Smith, chairwoman […]

February 13, 2002

Leadership & Policy

Opening the Schoolhouse Door

Opening the Schoolhouse DoorThere has been a great deal of discussion over the past decade about the recruitment and retention of African American students. The intensity, if not the frequency, of these conversations has been increased by the national debate on affirmative action and recent attacks on the use of affirmative action in college admissions. […]

January 30, 2002

Leadership & Policy

Anthropologist Searches for Site of Escaped Slave Settlement

Anthropologist Searches for Site of Escaped Slave SettlementKALAMAZOO, Mich.A Western Michigan University anthropologist has begun a search to pinpoint the site of a large settlement of escaped slaves near Vandalia, Mich. The settlement disappeared more than a century ago.Armed with a $21,000 grant from the state of Michigan and the Michigan Historical Center, Dr. Michael […]

January 30, 2002