Diverse StaffHBCUsXavier graduate may create new possibilities for HBCUs – Historically Black colleges and universitiesAlexis M. Herman nominated by President Clinton to become the first African American (woman to head the Department of Labor, will be one of three Black members of Clinton’s second-term cabinet.July 4, 2007HomeJeffords plans to eliminate education sucommittee – Washington UpdateSen. James Jeffords (R-Vt.), a moderate Republican expected to chair a powerful Senate committee, is taking no chances in his quest to oversee reauthorization of the Higher Education Act (HEA).July 4, 2007Faculty & StaffBerklee College of Music’s New Mission Statement Reflects African Contributions to Contemporary MusicBOSTON In what Berklee College of Music President Roger Brown calls a “psychological victory for the institution,” the board of trustees recently adopted an amended mission statement for the college that acknowledges the historical contributions that African descendants have made to the development of the contemporary American musical genres on which Berklee’s curriculum and training are based.July 4, 2007HomeProfessional AppointmentsDr. Kim Bottomly has been named the 13th president of Wellesley College (Mass.). She had most recently served as deputy provost at Yale University. Bottomly earned her bachelor’s and doctorate from the University of Washington. Dr. Kim Bobby has been appointed chief diversity officer at the University of Puget Sound (Wash.). She had served as […]June 27, 2007HomeGrants & GiftsThe American Council of Education’s Center for Lifelong Learning has received a two-year, $400,000 grant from the MetLife Foundation to study the educational needs and goals of adult students between the ages of 55 to 79. Colby College (Maine) has received a private art collection valued at $100 million. The collection, which features 500 pieces […]June 27, 2007Leadership & PolicyUniversity of the District of Columbia: truncated, but still alive – huge cuts proposed to save the universityIn order to survive, the University of the District of Columbia — which has already had furloughs and delays in opening — faces the loss of more than one hundred faculty members and serious cuts in its programs.June 26, 2007HomeMalveaux Names George Mason U Administrator to Bennett Provost PostDr. Marilyn Sanders Mobley, the associate provost for educational programs at George Mason University, has been appointed provost at historically Black Bennett College for Women in Greensboro, N.CJune 26, 2007HomeUC-Berkeley, Tulane Produce Damning Report on Uganda War CrimesBERKELEY, Calif. A report released by the University of California, Berkeley, and Tulane University has found that as many as 38,000 children and 37,000 adults have been abducted by the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) since 1986. The rebel group has been accused of kidnapping tens of thousands of women and children to serve as soldiers, servants or sex slaves in northern Uganda.June 24, 2007HomeCall Centers Serving U.S. Clients Mostly at Home, Says StudyContrary to what many people think, most call centers serving U.S. customers – service centers in remote locations that handle telephone and Web-based inquiries – are operated in the United States, not in India or other overseas locations.June 24, 2007HealthIn appreciation: Joan P. Cerstvik – special report: health sciences – includes excerpt from Wisdom and Hindsight: Render Brown’s Goals ‘Incomplete’ – ObituaryMany of you who have been in contact with us since we began publishing Black Issues In Higher Education in 1984 have had the god fortune of speaking and working with Joan Cerstvik, our longtime Operations Manager and our first retiree.June 23, 2007Previous PagePage 107 of 115Next Page
