Tag: Historically Black Colleges & Universities: Page 9

Leadership & Policy

Pogue Retires from Cheyney University, Ready for Next Challenge

A successful veteran higher-education executive who has been characterized by peers as among a group of “presidents-for-rent” has retired for the fifth time, saying he already has plans to continue working in higher ed.

May 31, 2017

Leadership & Policy

Bynum Named Jackson State President Despite Opposition

JACKSON, Miss. — College Board trustees are naming William Bynum as the next president of Jackson State University despite opposition from some students and alumni. The board had already named Bynum, now president of Mississippi Valley State University, as its preferred candidate last week. Bynum says he can lead Jackson State out of financial difficulties, […]

May 31, 2017

Students

Advocates View HBCUs’ Future Warily

TMCF President Johnny C. Taylor, Jr. suggested that HBCUs and their advocates need to begin planning what the institutions need to look like 50 years from now, to ensure they are keeping up with the constant changes in the generations to come.

May 29, 2017

Leadership & Policy

Tuskegee University Fires President Johnson

Tuskegee University — the private Alabama institution founded by Booker T. Washington — has fired its current president.

May 29, 2017

Leadership & Policy

Middleton Named Interim President of Lincoln University

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — The former interim president of the University of Missouri system will take on the same role at Lincoln University in Jefferson City. Lincoln University’s governing board announced Thursday that Mike Middleton will start next Thursday as the interim president at Lincoln until a permanent successor to Kevin Rome is named. After […]

May 25, 2017

Faculty & Staff

Wilberforce University Announces Layoffs, Pay Cuts to Handle Debt

WILBERFORCE, Ohio — One of the country’s oldest historically Black private colleges is laying off workers and imposing steep pay cuts in an ongoing struggle to survive. Wilberforce University cut $750,000 from its payroll last year, but the president of the small Ohio school says that’s not enough to deal with large debts that threaten […]

May 24, 2017

Students

Why Betsy DeVos Will Never be the HBCUs’ ‘Boo’

What the Betsy DeVos debacle at Bethune-Cookman University provides is an opportunity for critical reflection and a “teachable moment.”

May 22, 2017

Sports

Study: Tech Workforce’s Lack of Diversity Goes Deeper than Pipeline

A recent study suggests that the top reasons for the technology sector’s racial homogeneity isn’t the absence of a diverse pipeline but young graduates’ lack of industry contacts and an information gap about job prospects.

May 22, 2017

Leadership & Policy

Current Head of Mississippi Valley is Pick for Jackson State

JACKSON, Miss. — The College Board is choosing the head of Mississippi Valley State University as its preferred candidate to lead Jackson State University. Trustee C.D. Smith announced the choice Monday. William Bynum Jr. became president of Mississippi Valley, the smallest of Mississippi’s eight public universities, in 2013. He will meet with members of the […]

May 22, 2017

Students

Swygert: Loan Servicing Change Could Rock HBCUs

Any wrong turn, albeit well intentioned, could further jeopardize the fragile state of HBCUs, Dr. H. Patrick Sywgert warned a crowd of several hundred attendees this weekend at “The Grand Boule Forum on HBCUs.”

May 21, 2017

Leadership & Policy

Search for New Jackson State President Continues

JACKSON, Miss. — Trustees are still looking for a new president for Jackson State University. After hours of closed debate Thursday, College Board President C.D. Smith said trustees haven’t reached a consensus, and are now broadening their search beyond the three unnamed finalists they have been considering. Smith says it’s wrong to say the search […]

May 18, 2017

Students

Leaders of Minority-Serving Institutions Ask Congress to Bolster Pell Grant

The presidents and chancellors of 10 minority-serving institutions called on members of Congress to strengthen federal investment in the Pell program, in a letter released on Wednesday afternoon.

May 17, 2017