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Leadership & Policy

The New Era of Diversity

Molly Corbett Broad, president of the American Council on Education, weighs in on the prospects for diversity in the Obama years.

January 21, 2009

Leadership & Policy

Battle of Wills, Part I

Seth Harp is a Southern Republican who wants to close down two Georgia schools; but not ones you might think

January 13, 2009

Leadership & Policy

Perspectives: Ascending the Hierarchy of Success

Whether you’re an emerging scholar or experienced administrator, it’s never too early to start preparing to ascend to a college presidency.

January 8, 2009

Leadership & Policy

SACS Warns S.C. State

South Carolina State University has been placed on warning for 12 months by its accrediting body, the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools, for failure to comply with the commission’s core requirements.

January 6, 2009

Leadership & Policy

Perspectives: Former Morris Brown Provost Sets Record Straight on School’s Problems

As former Provost of Morris Brown College (1999 to 2002) I am compelled to reply to The Chronicle of Higher Education article (Dec 22, 2008) on the tragic story of Morris Brown College.

January 5, 2009

Leadership & Policy

IN MEMORIAM

What an exciting and traumatic year 2008 has been. A historic presidential campaign that ended with the election of an African-American to the U.S. presidency. An economic meltdown not seen since the Great Depression of the 1930s.

December 29, 2008

Leadership & Policy

IN MEMORIAM

Johnnie Carr: Carr joined childhood friend Rosa Parks in the historic Montgomery bus boycott and succeeded the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. as president of the Montgomery Improvement Association in 1967. It was the newly formed association that led the boycott of city buses in the Alabama capital. She was 97. Dr. Michael DeBakey: DeBakey […]

December 24, 2008

Leadership & Policy

UT Regents name Cigarroa as chancellor finalist.

Francisco Cigarroa, president of the UT Health Science Center, has been named the sole finalist for chancellor of the University of Texas System, the state’s largest and most prestigious network of colleges.

December 21, 2008

Leadership & Policy

Catholic Educators Want More Latinos in Schools

A task force at the University of Notre Dame will look for strategies to get more Latino children into Catholic schools.

December 16, 2008

Leadership & Policy

Panel Sets College Completion Goals

A blue-ribbon panel of educators called Wednesday for a national effort to raise college completion rates among younger Americans, particularly students of color, to reverse a downward trend that is leaving the United States far behind other industrialized nations.

December 10, 2008

Leadership & Policy

Apology Long Overdue

Bob Jones University has apologized for racist policies, including a one-time ban on interracial dating that wasn’t lifted until nine years ago and its unwillingness to admit Black students until 1971.

December 10, 2008

Students

‘Highly Educated Paupers’

For many young scholars, exorbitant student loan debt can mean a lifetime of hardship.

December 10, 2008