The five African Americans taking on new administrative duties are Kimberly D. Whitehead at Medgar Evers College in Brooklyn, New York, Cleo Rucker at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Kimberly Shiner at Pitzer College in Claremont, California, Kenneth Strother Jr. at Princeton University in New Jersey, and Brian Gibson at the University of Utah.
Each week, JBHE will provide links to online articles that may be of interest to our readers. Here are this week’s selections.
Dr. Oliver is a professor of sociology and executive dean of the College of Letters and Science at the University of California at Santa Barbara. From 1978 to 1996, Dr. Oliver taught sociology at the University of California, Los Angeles.
Here is this week’s news of grants to historically Black colleges and universities or for programs of particular interest to African Americans in higher education.
At Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton, 71 percent of the Pell Grant students entering college in 2005 went on to earn their degree within six years. The overall graduation rate for 2005 entering students at FAU was 43 percent.
She has been serving as division director for human resource development at the National Science Foundation. Previously, she had served on the faculty at Howard University for more than 20 years.
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