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Faculty & Staff

The tough sell – James Hill, University of Texas – Cover Story

With the appointment of its first African American vice president, the University of Texas tries to overcome its legacy of minority exclusion

July 14, 2007

The Broken Pledges of Greek Life

Videoconference searches for ways to end fraternity and sorority hazing

July 14, 2007

Faculty & Staff

Central State Must Ante-Up for Faculty

Wilberforce, Ohio The administration claimed at a fiscal and political crisis left it with no choice but to take the actions it did. However, the Central State University (CSU) faculty union has won a series of legal victories over the past few weeks that could pose new financial problems for the state’s only historically Black institution of higher education.

July 14, 2007

Sudarkasa’s epilogue – Niara Sudarkasa, Lincoln University – Interview

After nearly twelve years at the helm of one of the nation’s oldest historically Black institutions, Lincoln University, Dr. Niara Sudarkasa resigned last month under a cloud of controversy (see news story pg 14). The former Gloria A. Marshall has enjoyed a more than thirty-year career in higher education, punctuated by achievements that have garnered her both esteem — such as her celebrated work as a professor of anthropology, and her visionary expansion of Lincoln’s already prestigious ties to African nations — and ridicule — her 1991 testimony on behalf of then Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas, and the current allegations of malfeasance. The following are excerpts from an interview conducted by Black Issues executive editor Cheryl D. Fields only moments after the much revered and maligned president announced her resignation.

July 14, 2007

Counting on accuracy – Census Bureau looks to minority higher education community for help

Now that the court has ruled against the use of statistical sampling, the U.S. Census Bureau looks to the minority higher education community for assistance

July 14, 2007

Giant steps on the road to renewal – Central State University

Central State University has accreditation renewed and is released from U.S. Department of Education penalty

July 13, 2007

HBCUs get wired for fall – historically Black colleges and universities

Summer is the season many colleges and universities schedule construction and renovation projects on their campuses because it is when such activity is least disruptive for faculty, administrators, and students.

July 13, 2007

The networking imperative – investment in high-technology information infrastructure – includes related article

The high cost of building and maintaining the infrastructure necessary to support information is nowhere near the price schools will play if they do not develop this strategic asset.

July 13, 2007

Faculty & Staff

Blues for blacks at Bluefield State: African Americans awkwardly strive to regain a presence at the nation’s whitest HBCU – historically black colleges and universities

More than one hundred years after the founding of Bluefield State College, the main campus remains poised high upon a hill above railroad tracks and overlooking the town’s business district. For generations, the children of Black families living largely in southern West Virginia earned college degrees from this small teacher’s college.

July 12, 2007

Leadership & Policy

Type casting for women presidents – of jobs and institutions

The just-released American Council on Education report, The American College President, found that there were no gains in the number of presidencies for African Americans. Research that I conducted in the spring of 1996 on data collected from African American and White women who were college presidents demonstrate, to some degree, why this is particularly true for African American women while women in general — clearly, White women — are experiencing progress.

July 12, 2007

Leadership & Policy

Scholars say basta to Chicano/Latino president shortage – enough

Efforts are underway to create a new pipeline to reverse shrinking representation

July 12, 2007

Leadership & Policy

Climbing to the top – African American community college presidents

Rising to the helm of two-year institutions continues to be a challenge for aspiring African American college presidents

July 12, 2007

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