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April 28, 2008
College news
Dorothy Cowser Yancy CHARLOTTE, NC — The National Association of Negro Business and Professional Women’s Clubs, Inc. and the Levine Museum of the New South recently inducted Johnson C. Smith University President Dorothy Cowser Yancy into its Women’s History Hall of Fame. Yancy was inducted on March 28 along with six other women who represent a cross-section of Charlotte/Mecklenburg women in politics, business, entrepreneurship, religion, community activism, education and health and wellness. The JCSU alum is credited with helping the university become one of the top historically black institutions in the nation. During Yancy’s tenure at JCSU, students contribute thousands of hours each year to the local community and beyond. JCSU has been recognized two years in a row for distinguished community service by the President’s Higher Education Community Service program. Yancy, in her 14th year of leading JCSU, will leave the presidency on June 30 to pursue other interests.
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SAVANNAH, GA — The Association of Presbyterian Colleges and Universities (APCU) held its annual meeting here April 5 and elected the following officers for 2008-2009: Dr. Lorna Duphiney Edmundson, president of Wilson College in Chambersburg, PA, as chair. Dr. Jerry Greiner, president of Arcadia University in Glenside, PA as vice chair. Dr. Walter B. Roettger, president of Lyon College in Batesville, AR as treasurer. The APCU is a voluntary association of colleges and universities that have an historic relationship with the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.). The association has 62 member colleges and universities in 32 states and Puerto Rico. It exists to promote these schools and to assist the presidents and their staffs in strengthening their institutions.
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Leland Melvin DANVILLE, KY— NASA astronaut Leland Melvin will be the speaker for Centre College’s 185th commencement ceremony on May 18. Melvin will also be presented with an honorary degree. Melvin began working at NASA in 1989, specializing in fiber optic research, and in 1998 he began training for flight missions. He flew his first shuttle mission on the Atlantis in February, a flight that marked the 24th shuttle mission to the International Space Station. Leland also has been co-manager of NASA's Educator Astronaut Program, traveling across the country to engage thousands of students and teachers in the excitement of space exploration and to inspire them to pursue careers in science, technology, engineering and mathematics.
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STERLING, KS — Sterling College recently partnered with the Enrollment and Retention Services Division of EducationDynamics of Hoboken, NJ, to create an advanced Web-based platform to improve communication with prospective students and cultivate higher enrollment levels. The interactive Web site — http://www.sterling.edu — is designed to meet the needs of an increasingly tech-savvy generation of learners at the school’s entry point, its Web site. The new site was generated based on research conducted by EducationDynamics on Sterling College’s various constituencies, including students — current and prospective — family, alumni, faculty and staff. Preferences and expectations of these groups were investigated and the collected input served as the foundation of the site’s redesign. EducationDynamics, a portfolio company of Halyard Capital, is a marketing and information services company dedicated to helping higher education institutions find, enroll and retain students.
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ST. PETERSBURG, FL — Eckerd College professor Cynthia Totten has received a Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival (Region IV) Meritorious Achievement Award for Excellence in Direction 2007. The award, which Totten received for directing A Midsummer Night’s Dream, signifies Region IV recognition for Eckerd College’s Theatre program by the Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival. The national professional theater organization, based in Washington, DC, involves 18,000 students from 600 colleges and universities nationwide. Totten’s version of the Shakespeare classic was re-imagined with swing, hip hop, Latin, and line dancing. Totten has been at Eckerd since 1992, teaching acting, movement and directing.
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