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Leadership & Policy

Howard University Housing Project Launches With Urban Computer Network

Howard University Housing Project Launches With Urban Computer NetworkWashingtonHoward University and Verizon Washington, a major telephone company in the District of Columbia, announced the launch of a community Web site , a resource for neighborhood residents providing them with information on local activities, businesses, restaurants and churches. The launch of the Web site coincided with […]

January 3, 2001

Leadership & Policy

Year 2000: A Retrospective

Year 2000: A RetrospectiveT he year 2000 brought with it plenty of news and many “firsts,” such as Dr. Ruth Simmons being named the first African American to lead Brown University, an Ivy League institution, and Dr. James Walker who became the first African American president of Southern Illinois University. Lawsuits against universities for using […]

December 20, 2000

Leadership & Policy

Events

EventsJANUARY 2001Jan. 4-7Linguistic Society of America75th Annual ConferenceGrand Hyatt HotelWashington, D.C.Phone: (202) 835-1714Fax: (202) 835-1717E-mail: [email protected]: www.lsadc.orgJan. 4-72001 President InstituteMarco Island Marriott Resort& Golf ClubMarco Island, Fla.Contact: Steve PelletierPhone: (202) 466-7230Fax: (202) 466-7283E-mail: [email protected]: www.cic.edu/conferencesJan. 6-92001 NCAA Annual ConventionWalt Disney Swan and Dolphin Lake Buena Vista, Fla.Contact: Crystal ReimerPhone: (317) 917-6222,Ext. 6436Fax: (317) 917-6983E-mail: [email protected]: […]

December 6, 2000

Leadership & Policy

Professional Appointments

Professional AppointmentsDr. Leon Wright Bey has been promoted to dean of the school of liberal arts and education at Virginia State University in Petersburg. Bey has been an employee of Virginia State for 22 years, serving most recently as chair of the health, physical education and recreation department. Bey received a bachelor’s at VSU; a […]

December 6, 2000

Leadership & Policy

Shalala Named President of University of Miami

Shalala Named President of University of MiamiCoral Gables, Fla.Dr. Donna E. Shalala, secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services in the Clinton administration, will become the fifth president of the University of Miami next June, it was announced late last month.Shalala, 59, who has overseen health and welfare policy for the government […]

December 6, 2000

Leadership & Policy

Howard University Awards Honorary Doctorate to Oracle CEO and Founder Ellison

Howard University Awards Honorary Doctorate to Oracle CEO and Founder EllisonWASHINGTON Just months after pledging a $2 million gift of 4,000 network computers and printers to be installed in Howard University’s 12 undergraduate dormitories, Larry J. Ellison, CEO and founder of the Oracle Corp., was awarded an honorary doctoral degree by the Washington, D.C.-based university.Howard […]

November 22, 2000

Leadership & Policy

HBCUs Strategize on Ways to Close Digital Divide on Their Campuses

HBCUs Strategize on Ways to Close Digital Divide on Their CampusesSlow adoption of technology by faculty seen as barrierATLANTA With Black colleges positioning their institutions to tackle the digital divide, officials with Tennessee State University and Clark Atlanta University highlighted an array of issues and strategies aimed at reducing the information technology gap between the […]

November 22, 2000

Leadership & Policy

Using Power to Solve the Diversity Dilemma

Using Power to Solve the Diversity DilemmaI n Dorothy Winbush Riley’s 1995 edition of My Soul Looks Back, ‘Less I forget: A Collection of Quotations by People of Color, the Iroquois are credited with having this to say about power:“Power means authority, the authority of law and custom, backed by such force as necessary to […]

November 8, 2000

Leadership & Policy

Universities Refuse to Block Napster Access

Universities Refuse to Block Napster AccessMADISON, Wis. Officials at nearly a dozen universities across the country say they won’t block students from using the embattled online music-sharing software Napster, despite a demand from a lawyer for two musicians. Howard King, attorney for Dr. Dre and Metallica, sent letters to several university officials last month demanding […]

October 25, 2000

Leadership & Policy

Harvard Law School Honors Black Graduates, Brown Vs. Board of Education Lawyers

Harvard Law School Honors Black Graduates, Brown Vs. Board of Education LawyersLast month, the Harvard University Law School honored its Black alumni and the Brown vs. Board of Education litigation team, many of whom were Harvard Law grads. Ever since George Ruffin graduated in 1869, more than 1,600 African Americans have earned law degrees from […]

October 25, 2000

Students

University of Idaho, Auburn U. Also Report Incidents of Doctored Photos

University of Idaho, Auburn U.  Also Report Incidents of Doctored PhotosMOSCOW, Idaho The University of Idaho has pulled a picture of nine students from the top of its Internet site after discovering that it had been altered to replace the heads of two White students with those of two minority students. University President Dr. Robert […]

October 25, 2000

Leadership & Policy

ACE President Ikenberry Announces Resignation

ACE President Ikenberry Announces ResignationD r. Stanley O. Ikenberry, president of the American Council on Education, announced late last month that he will be stepping down from the post he has held for four years. “If there ever can be an ideal time for a transition, 2001 may be it,” Ikenberry says in a letter […]

October 25, 2000