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Women Redefining Leadership

In honor of Women’s History Month, Diverse talks with nine recently appointed college and association presidents, who discuss the challenges unique to their own institutions, those facing higher education in general, and more. Today, we feature Molly C. Broad, president-elect of the American Council on Education.

March 16, 2008

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Minorities and Whites Have Differing Views of Health Care

Minorities are more likely than White patients to rate their health care as fair or poor, a view that is particularly true among Chinese Americans, Blacks born in Africa and Vietnamese Americans.

March 12, 2008

Latinx

Mexico Initiates English Classes Throughout U.S. at Consular Offices

Mexico will use its network of 48 consular offices in the United States to offer courses in English- as-a-Second-Language (ESL), diplomatic officials have announced.

March 11, 2008

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Another Historic Appointment at Harvard

Officials at Harvard University have announced that Dr. Evelynn Hammonds, the university’s senior vice provost for faculty development and diversity, will soon become the new dean of Harvard College, making her the first woman and Black to hold the position.

March 6, 2008

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Professional Appointments

Dr. Nancy S. Dye has been appointed the first vice chancellor and president of the Asian University for Women (Chittagong, Bangladesh. Formerly, she served as President Emerita of Oberlin College. She received a bachelor’s fromVassar College, and amaster’s and doctorate from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.   DR. ZENEBE ABEBE has been appointed the first vice […]

March 4, 2008

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University of Rochester Students Demand More Faculty Diversity

Students at the University of Rochester are demanding that university officials hire more faculty members from underrepresented groups, insisting that the administrators spend less time strategizing about diversity and make it a reality.

March 3, 2008

Students

Babson College Meets Changing Needs With Diversity Officer

Dr. Elizabeth Thornton, Babson College’s newly appointed chief diversity officer, wasn’t hired to mitigate a highly charged climate of racial violence or vandalism or to appease student and faculty complaints on multiculturalism.

March 2, 2008

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Study: Rap Music Brings Out, But Doesn’t Cause, Sexism

Exposure to ambivalent sexism may increase a person’s likelihood to be sexist, but it doesn’t create it, according to a recently published study.

February 26, 2008

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2 Ex-officials Charged in Federal Education Grant Scam

TALLAHASSEE Fla. Two former officials with Florida A&M University and Franklin County’s literacy program were arrested Thursday on charges of scamming a federal grant program. A 21-count federal indictment charged Patricia Walker McGill, 60, of Tallahassee, and Bonnie Segree, 68, of Eastpoint, with conspiracy, theft and mail fraud. Both were released on bond after making […]

February 21, 2008

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Professional Appointments

Dr. Ronald L. Carter has been appointed president of Johnson C. Smith University (N.C.) effective July 1. Currently, he is provost and dean of faculty at Coker College (S.C.). He earned a bachelor’s from Morehouse College and a master’s and doctorate from Boston University.       CATHIE CAROTHERS has been named director of the […]

February 19, 2008

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University of Colorado Presidential Selection Upsets Campus

The man nominated to lead the state’s flagship university is an oilman, not an academic. In a sea of Ph.D.s, he has only a bachelor’s degree. But he does offer this: A reputation as a formidable fundraiser.

February 14, 2008

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Colo. University Selection Upsets Campus

BOULDER Colo. The man nominated to lead the state’s flagship university is an oilman, not an academic. In a sea of Ph.Ds, he has only a bachelor’s degree. But he does offer this: A reputation as a formidable fundraiser. Bruce Benson’s nomination may be bitterly dividing this 52,000-student, three-campus institution, but it is a sign […]

February 13, 2008