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Triumphs and Challenges in Y2K

Triumphs and Challenges in Y2KIt is hard to believe how panicked some of us were around this time last year. As Y2K neared, people expressed emotions of indifference, cautious anxiety and even fears of Armageddon. Fortunately, to the discredit of the doomsayers, the 21st century commenced without incident. For African Americans in higher education, historic […]

December 20, 2000

Women

Cleveland State President to Head Up ACE’s Office of Women in Higher Education

Cleveland State President to Head Up ACE’s Office of Women in Higher EducationWashington The American Council on Education has appointed Dr. Claire Van Ummersen as vice president and director of the Office of Women in Higher Education. Van Ummersen, president of Cleveland State University since 1993, has been involved with women’s development and advancement for […]

December 6, 2000

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ACE Study Examines Gender Enrollment, Achievement Gap

ACE Study Examines Gender Enrollment, Achievement Gap While male students of color lag behind their female peers in educational attainment, the widely publicized “crisis” in male college enrollment is really no crisis, according to a report recently released by the American Council on Education.“Gender Equity in Higher Education: Are Male Students at a Disadvantage?” examines […]

December 6, 2000

International

ACE, Carnegie Corp. Select 8 Schools With Outstanding International Programs

ACE, Carnegie Corp. Select 8 Schools With Outstanding International ProgramsThe American Council on Education and Carnegie Corp. of New York have selected eight colleges and universities known for outstanding achievements in internationalizing their undergraduate programs to participate in a project to highlight promising practices in international education.The Promising Practices: Institutional Models of Comprehensive Internationalization project […]

November 22, 2000

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Center for Equal Opportunity Now Targets State of Maryland

Center for Equal Opportunity Now Targets State of MarylandBy Linda Meggett Brown and the Associated PressBALTIMOREA dmissions practices at Maryland’s public schools and colleges are the latest targets of the Center for Equal Opportunity, which has released a study indicating that Black students are getting in with lower SAT scores than those of White students.The […]

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

Faculty & Staff

The New Academic Year

The  New Academic YearThe short answer to any query about trends in higher education for the upcoming academic year: Ask after the presidential election. The upcoming election may well be the wild card that trumps all others in the deck being dealt to college administrators, faculty and students —  not just for 2000-2001, but for the […]

September 13, 2000

Recruitment & Retention

Putting Our Issues on the Agenda

Putting Our Issues on the AgendaIn an academy ripe with scholarship as mind-boggling and varied as a president’s “to do” list is long, determining what will be the biggest issues to watch this new academic year was difficult, at best. With the higher education world taking on so much — from affirmative action to student […]

September 13, 2000

Students

The Art of Diversity

The Art of Diversity Dr. Arthur E. Levine is in a pretty enviable position. As president of Columbia University’s Teachers College, he sits at the helm of a Harlem, N.Y.-based institution steeped in its legacy of inclusion. Back in the 1940s, ’50s and ’60s, Southern states burdened with the shackles of segregation readily paid for […]

August 30, 2000

Leadership & Policy

Diversity Deferred in AACC Presidential Choice

Diversity Deferred in AACC Presidential ChoiceAfter a nine-month search for the person who will lead community colleges in the new millennium, the American Association of Community Colleges here announced last month that Dr. George R. Boggs had been tapped to fill the organization’s top spot. Boggs, 55, has been a leader in the two-year college […]

August 16, 2000

HBCUs

Washington Briefs

House OKs Record HBCU Spending BillWASHINGTON — Despite partisan bickering on other issues, the House of Representatives mustered enough support for a fiscal 2001 education budget bill with record spending for historically Black colleges and universities.The 217 to 214 vote puts the House on record favoring a $50 million increase above current federal funding for […]

July 19, 2000

International

Events

EVENTSJULYJuly 22-25National Association of College and University Business Officers2000 Annual Meeting“Shaping the New Millennium”ChicagoContact: Maureen McCarthyPhone: (202) 861-2523Fax: (202) 296-1592E-mail: [email protected]: www.nacubo.orgJuly 24-28National Research Center for the Freshman Year Experience and Students in Transition13th Annual International ConferenceRedding, EnglandContact: Nina GlissonPhone: (803) 777-6029Fax: (803) 777-4699E-mail: [email protected] 25-28National Conference of La Raza21st Annual ConferenceHoustonContact: Lizette RosalesPhone: (202) […]

July 19, 2000