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Dear BI Career Consultants:

Dear BI Career Consultants:As a dean, how do I get my faculty and the academic vice provost/provost to buy into our diversity agenda?Dr. James AndersonVice Provost and Dean of Undergraduate StudiesNorth Carolina State UniversityTo promote any campus initiative, successful deans understand what the faculty value, how academic business gets done and how to facilitate the […]

October 13, 1999

Students

BI What’s New

The City University of New York’s City College has launched two new scholarship programs, including one funded by the former head of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Gen. Colin L. Powell.Named in honor of Powell’s parents, the Maud and Luther Powell America’s Promise Scholarship will pay full tuition for up to four years at the […]

October 13, 1999

African-American

Two Miami University College Students Acquitted in RaceCase

Two Miami University College Students Acquitted in RaceCaseDefense points finger at Black administrator, both sides still smarting OXFORD, Ohio — The acquittal earlier this month of two former African American students accused of faking a racist hate crime at Miami University here has left faculty, staff and students split in their interpretations of the decision. […]

September 29, 1999

HBCUs

Washington Briefs

HBCUs to Get $2.1 Million from Human Services AgencyWASHINGTON — Black colleges and universities will get a share of more than $20 million in new federal funding to help improve the economic outlook of low-income neighborhoods nationwide, officials here say.At least $2.1 million in the Urban and Rural Community Economic Development program will go to […]

September 29, 1999

Leadership & Policy

A Gatekeeper Relinquishes the Keys

A Gatekeeper Relinquishes the KeysDr. Luther Williams, lauded director of the National Science Foundation’s minority programs, steps down.WASHINGTON — Dr. Luther S. Williams has stepped down as head of the National Science Foundation’s education division after nine years as the chief architect of a wide range of NSF programs aimed at creating opportunities for African […]

September 1, 1999

Sports

Low Score for Collegiate Sports

Low Score for Collegiate SportsLatest report shows colleges and universities are among the worst when it comes to hiring and promoting women and people of color in the coaching and managerial ranks of sports.WASHINGTON — College sports departments scarcely received a passing grade when it came to the hiring and promotion of minorities and women, […]

September 1, 1999

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Allen Wrenched

Allen  WrenchedConservative head of Virginia’s higher education council abruptly resigns for very personal ‘professional reasons’ RICHMOND, Va. — William B. Allen’s sudden departure from Virginia’s State Council of Higher Education last month mirrored his flamboyant arrival just a year earlier: both came amidst controversy and headlines.Allen, who launched his directorship by questioning Virginia’s continued financing […]

August 18, 1999

Students

Louisiana Lightning Rod

Louisiana Lightning RodBaton Rouge Community College Chancellor Marion Bonaparte was at the center of a racially charged storm that led to his ouster, and is expected to hurt enrollment at the new state institutionBATON ROUGE, La. — Marion Bonaparte, Baton Rouge Community College’s chancellor, who was placed on paid leave after reports surfaced regarding missing […]

August 18, 1999

Faculty & Staff

Why I’m Leaving UT-Brownsville

Why I’m Leaving UT-Brownsville This is, I assure everyone, a true story. Unfolding right now in 1999 and not 100 years ago. I offer it in order to illustrate race relations at the end of the millennium, lest anyone think everything is just fine. The place is Brownsville, Texas. The same place where 93 years ago […]

August 4, 1999

African-American

“Wrighting”History’s Wrongs

“Wrighting”History’s Wrongs By Kendra HamiltonWhen Dianne Swann Wright was hired as director of special programming at the Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation, she became the first African American in a senior staff position at the organization that owns and operates Monticello, the Charlottesville, Va., historical site that was the home of the nation’s third president. Swann-Wright’s […]

August 4, 1999

International

Professional Apointments

AcademicDr. Tony Atwater has been appointed dean of the college of professional studies at Northern Kentucky University. Previously, he was associate vice president for academic affairs at the University of Toledo. Atwater earned a bachelor’s degree in mass media arts from Hampton University; and a doctorate in mass media research at Michigan State University. He […]

June 23, 1999

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The Hidden Blessings of Y2K

The Hidden Blessings of Y2KAs chairman of Spelman College’s Y2K campus taskforce, Adrian Evans worries most about the potential for off-campus technology mishaps, such as a regional power outage, hitting the college on Jan. 1, 2000. But, in his capacity as the senior technical officer for the Atlanta-based women’s college, Evans will be certain the […]

June 23, 1999