P age 11 P o r tla n d O b s e rv e r M a y 11, 1989
SOUTHERN
UNIVERSITY--
PNL INK JOINT
RESEARCH
AGREEMENT
HOWARD
BUSINESS
SCHOOL
ACCREDITATION
RENEWED
RICHLAND, Washington- An agree
ment designed to enhance scientific
research, development and curriculum
at Southern University in Louisiana has
been signed by the university and the
US Department o f Encrgy.s Pacific
Northwest Laboratory. The laboratory
is operated for the federal government
by Battelle Memorial Institute.
The “ Memorandum o f Understand
ing” provides for activities such as col
laborative research,scientist equipment.
A t the signing ceremony in Baton
Rouge, Pacific Northwest Laboratory
Director, Dr. W illia m R. W iley, also
presented the institution with a check
for $14,500. The funds w ill be used to
assist the university's Engineering
Summer Institute, which is designed to
introduce m inority ju n io r and senior
high school students to science and
engineering careers, and the Student
Retention Program which provides
engineering students w ith tutors once
they enroll in the university.
The Memorandum o f Understand
ing is the fifth between PNL and a His
torically Black College and University.
Previously, Memorandums o f Under
standing were signed w ith North Caro
lina A & T State University, Florida A & M
University and the Carver Research
Foundation o f Tuskegee University.
Southern University, w ith 14,500 stu
dents is the largest HBCU in the United
States. The university operates cam
puses in Baton Rouge, New Orleans
and Shreveport, Louisiana.
Southern U niversity is one o f more
than 100 H istorically Black Colleges
and Universities. Located prim arily in
the eastern and southern United States,
H BC U ’s were organized by churches
and philanthropic organizations or were
established by state legislatures as land
grant colleges for the education o f blacks.
The Pacific Northwest Laboratory at
The Howard University School o f
Business and Public Administration has
achieved continuing accreditation o f its
bachelor's and master’ s business ad
ministration programs and in itia l ac
creditation o f its BB A accounting pro
gram.
The accreditation was announced by
the Accreditation Council o f the A m eri
can Assembly o f Collegiate Schools o f
Business during special ceremonies held
at the AACSB annual meeting in M on
treal A p ril 16-19.
The AASCB is recognized by the
US Department o f Education and the
Council on Postsecondary Accredita
tion as the sole accrediting agency for
bachelor’s and master’s degree programs
in business administration and account
ing.
Approximately 1,200 colleges and
universities in the United States offer
undergraduate business degrees, but less
than 267 are accredited by A A S C B .O f
the more than 600 master’ s programs,
approximately 234 are AASCB ac
credited. In accounting, only about 78
schools have received accreditation at
various degree levels.
To achieve accreditation, a business
school must meet a wide range o f qual
ity standards relating to curriculum,
faculty resources, admissions, degree
requirements, library and computer fa
cilities, financial resources and intel
lectual climate.
During the accreditation process, the
Howard school was visited and evalu
ated by business school deans, account
ing educators and corporate representa-
tives with detailed knowledge o f man
agement education, applying standards
widely accepted in the educational
community.
Dr. M ilto n W ilson, dean o f school,
said, “ Thisaccomplishmentrepresents
o n e e ffo rto f the School o f Business and
Richland,Washington,is a national multi
program laboratory operated for the US
Department o f Energy by Battelle
Memorial Institute. Battelle, the world’ s
largest independent research institute,
has major research facilities located in
Richland: Columbus, Ohio; Frankfurt,
West Germany; and Geneva, Switzer
land.
IN SEARCH OF HILL
MAN COLLEGE-
The crisis for black stu
dents on campus
by Charles R. Richardson
Director of Minority Admissions
DePauw University
Dexter King to Head MLK Jr Center
Corporate and Business leaders offer support for Dexter King as new
president o f King Center — Corporate and business leaders from across the
county came to Atlanta recently to offer support and congratulations to
Dexter King follow ing his installation as president o f the Martin Luther
King Jr. Center for Non-Violent Social Change. King, the youngest son o f
slain c iv il rights leader The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., w ill direct the
Center’ s programs on Dr. K in g ’ s philosophy o f non-violence. Among those
offering best wishes to King and his mother, Coretta Scott King, are (le ft to
right), Wayman F. Smith III, Vice president o f corporate affairs for
Anheuser-Busch Companies; Motown founder and record industry execu
tive, Barry Gordy; and C. Delores Tucker, a steering committee member o f
the recent A frican American Summit in New Orleans.
Public Administration to provide qual
ity, competitive education for manage
ment to its students.”
AASCB is a not-for-profit organiza
tion consisting o f more than 800 educa
tional organizations and corporations
devoted to the improvement o f higher
education in business administration and
management. It is headquartered in St.
Louis.
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There has been an influx o f black
students into America's best colleges in
the past tw o years. Colleges have de
voted a great deal o f money for recruit
ment programs, and they have been
uncommonly successful in attracting a
record number o f black applicants.
Applicants to my university from top
black students have increased 300 per
cent over two years ago.
Neither black students nor the col
leges fu lly realized they were creating a
situation that very quickly would reach
a crisis point. We are at that point now.
Both groups are discovering that they
must live up to the ideals they have set
for each other.
I t ’ s easy for colleges to get black stu
dents to their campus i f the colleges
provide the right kind o f financ ial pack
ages. Offered these opportunities, black
students have naturally drifted toward
the best colleges, whether predominantly
white or black. Despite the increased
numbers o f black students, several black
colleges have closed
These black students have been on
campus for a couple years, and now
they are starting to wonder i f they are
really wanted on the campuses. C ol
leges spent money to get them there;
are they now going to allocate money to
keep them on campus? As a result,
there seems to be a leveling o ff o f black
applicants to college.
Colleges and their black students
haven’ t done anything wrong, really. It
was bound to happen; the roots o f the
problem existed before any o f the cur
rent crop o f black students even set foot
on their campuses. I have seen the be
ginning o f it at virtually every college
recruitment fair 1 have attended.
A t college fairs there invariably are
the few bright, young black prospective
students who enthusiastically ask where
they can find the booth with informa-
lion about H illm an College. These stu
dents begin their college search with
the idea o f Hillm an as the perfect place
for them to get an education and de
velop as individuals. O f course, H ill
man, the fictional college from televi
sion’ s Cosby Show, does not exist.
Neiiher does the perfect college, whether
predominantly white or black.
Even though Hillm an docs not exist,
blacks are trying to mold themselves to
it. As a result, 1 see black students trans
ferring in their first or second year to
seek the experience o f the black col
lege. Yet, otherblack students are trans
ferring from black institutions to pre
dominantly white ones. These students
don’ t find their perfect college at cither
kind o f institution.
In lieu o f Hillman, both sides must
consider their goals carefully. Blacks
must focus more clearly on what they
want out o f the college experience. Pre
dominantly white, but changing, insti
tutions must demonstrate in substantive
ways their commitment to programs
that support black students and other
minorities.
Some colleges are doing a belter job
than others at demonstrating this com
mitment. Fortunately, black students
are also becoming more sophisticated
about how they select a college. Pro
spective students are starting to ask the
hard questions about the institution’ s
retention rate for blacks, percentage o f
blacks receiving financial aid, number
o f black faculty members as role mod
els, and whether the college offers aca
demic majors in black studies or other
ethnocentric disciplines.
I f black students and their colleges
o f choice are able to traverse success
fu lly the crossroads at which they cur
rently find themselves, there is an op
portunity for a great milestone.
Black students have always consid
ered integration o f a campus to mean
that they should be accepted for their
differences. Predominantly white insti
tutions, on the other hand, have tended
to expect black students to adapt to
their traditions. Now w ith a record
number o f black students moving into
their junior and senior years, they should
establish their own traditions.
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