Diverse Issues in Higher Education: New Orleans' Dillard University Gets New President

November 2, 2011


NEW ORLEANS — Dillard University on Tuesday named a new president, Walter Kimbrough, to take over the helm of the historically black college in New Orleans.


Kimbrough, as president of Philander Smith College in Little Rock, Ark., is scheduled to start his new job on July 1, 2012.


Dillard's board of trustees picked Kimbrough to replace Marvalene Hughes, who announced in February that she would be leaving the post.


Kimbrough has served as president of Philander Smith College for seven years. Before that, he served as vice president for student affairs at Albany State University in Albany, Ga., for four years.


According to Dr. Michael L. Lomax, president and CEO of the United Negro College Fund, Kimbrough raised freshmen retention rates from 51 percent to 77 percent in his first five years at Philander Smith. “He has given special attention to the challenges that face Black male students, raising the Black male graduation rate by over 70 percent,” said Lomax.


Joyce Roche, who heads Dillard's board of trustees, said Kimbrough, 44, is one of the nation's youngest college presidents and is known for using social media to stay connected with students.


“We are thrilled to bring such an energetic, visionary leader to Dillard,” Roche said in a statement. “Dr. Kimbrough is uniquely well-suited to help the university build on its strengths and chart a strategic course for the future.”


Kimbrough will be Dillard's seventh president. Hughes became Dillard's president in July 2005, a month before Hurricane Katrina struck and flooded the college along with roughly 80 percent of New Orleans.


Kimbrough has an undergraduate degree from the University of Georgia, a master's degree from Miami University and a doctorate from Georgia State University.

Diverse Issues in Higher Education: New Orleans' Dillard University Gets New President

Academia.edu Center for Teaching Excellence Director at Endicott College, Dr. Dakin Burdick

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Dr. Burdick is the Director of the Center for Teaching Excellence at Endicott College and has worked in faculty development since 2000. He has consulted with hundreds of instructors in higher education on the topics of instructional design, civility, critical thinking, test design, and interpretation of student evaluations, among other topics. He is the official historian of the Professional and Organizational Development (POD) Network in Higher Education, and has given several presentations on the history of faculty development. He has also conducted a number of oral history interviews with leading faculty developers. Although he currently works primarily in faculty development, Dr. Burdick has a Ph.D. in U.S. History and American Studies, and has taught U.S. history at four different universities. He also practiced martial arts for twenty five years, and taught several courses on the subject in higher education, including taekwondo, hapkido, judo, jujutsu, self-defense, and two lecture courses on the cultural aspects of the arts. He was also an Associate Editor of the quarterly Journal of Asian Martial Arts for ten years, and contributed numerous articles on the martial arts to the Encyclopaedia Britannica database.



Dakin Burdick's area of expertise includes: Instructional design, faculty development, online education, blended learning, Japanese-American history, martial arts (karate, judo, etc.).

Academia.edu Center for Teaching Excellence Director at Endicott College, Dr. Dakin Burdick

Derek Bruff Author of Teaching with Classroom Response Systems

Welcome to my home page. I’m Derek Bruff, author of Teaching with Classroom Response Systems: Creating Active Learning Environments (Jossey-Bass, 2009). I’m also acting director at the Vanderbilt University Center for Teaching and a senior lecturer in the Vanderbilt University Department of Mathematics. The views and opinions expressed here are my own and not necessarily those of Vanderbilt University.

Derek Bruff Author of Teaching with Classroom Response Systems

University Business: A Better Community Starts With Better Education (Opinion)

College isn’t worth it. That was the message from a Pew Research Center study this year that reported 57 percent of Americans think the higher education system doesn’t give students a good value for the thousands of dollars in tuition and expenses they spend. Seventy-five percent said college is too expensive, and two-thirds of respondents who didn’t continue their education beyond high school cited financial reasons for leaving the classroom.


This is good and bad news for the valley. If you think of cities that were once struggling but are now thriving, such as Pittsburgh, Boston or Seattle, all of them are anchored by outstanding universities. UNLV, meanwhile, has faced budget cuts of $73 million and staffing cuts of 700, while its students have confronted tuition increases of 73 percent in the past four years. Professors have had their salaries and benefits cut. Programs have been eliminated and professors lost to competing universities. Morale is flagging.


But American higher education’s significant weaknesses give UNLV an opportunity to distinguish itself. To begin with, relative to the Cal system or private schools, UNLV is cheap.


A less obvious but more powerful opportunity for distinction: Be sure our graduates are well-educated.


Las Vegas Sun

University Business: A Better Community Starts With Better Education (Opinion)

The Times Picayune: Dillard University Names Its 7th President

 
Dillard University announced the appointment Tuesday of Walter M. Kimbrough, president of Philander Smith College in Little Rock, as Dillard's seventh president. The school's trustees said he would succeed Marvalene Hughes on July 1, at the close of the current academic year.



Hughes, who oversaw Dillard's recovery from the devastation of Hurricane Katrina, resigned in February. A trustee, James Lyons, has served as interim president since July 1.


The university said Kimbrough is a trained educator, having served for four years as the vice president for student affairs at Albany State University in Albany, Ga. before taking the leadership job at Philander Smith, which he has held for the past seven years.


He also served as director of student activities and leadership at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Va., and held administrative posts at Georgia State University and Emory University.


The Times-Picayune

The Times Picayune: Dillard University Names Its 7th President

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Campus Technology: NCWIT Trying To Increase Number of Women in Technology Field

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A program by the National Center for Women & Information Technology (NCWIT) is looking to graduate 1,000 additional women with information technology-related degrees by next year. MORE

Campus Technology: NCWIT Trying To Increase Number of Women in Technology Field

2011-2012 Digital Commons Community Webinar Series

Welcome to the third season of our regular DC community webinar series! Presented by members of the Digital Commons community and free to DC subscribers and selected institutions who are interested in learning more about Digital Commons, these webinars aim to share how individual Digital Commons subscribers are successfully addressing a variety of topics related to institutional repositories. In the past, webinars have covered topics such as journal publishing and conference management in Digital Commons, staffing, usage reports, and archiving law reviews. If you missed them, you can view them here: http://digitalcommons.bepress.com/webinars/


This season, the series will address topics of faculty engagement, service provision, attaining IR buy-in, and copyright and authors’ rights. We will continue to post information and registration links here as the series progresses. We hope you’ll be able to join us!


Thursday, October 13, 2011, 11am Pacific


Title: Building Content by Building Community: Engaging Faculty at Cornell’s ILR School


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Capturing Unique Collections in Digital Commons: A Service to Campus and Community, Ann Taylor, bepress, http://digitalcommons.bepress.com/toolkits/8  (password “scholarship”)


Thursday, November 10, 2011, 11am Pacific


Title: Serving Campus Needs Through the IR: CommonKnowledge and the College of Health Professions at Pacific University


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Digital Commons is a suite of tools and services that enable institutions to manage, display, and publish scholarship to the web in a beautiful, highly visible showcase.


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Dillard University Appoints Dr. Walter Kimbrough as University's Seventh President

Dillard University’s board of trustees has chosen Walter M. Kimbrough, Ph.D., to lead the university as its seventh president. Dr. Kimbrough will assume the post on July 1, 2012.



“We are thrilled to bring such an energetic, visionary leader to Dillard,” says board chair Joyce M. Roché. “Dr. Kimbrough is uniquely well-suited to help the university build on its strengths and chart a strategic course for the future.”


Kimbrough joins Dillard after serving for seven years as president of Philander Smith College in Little Rock, Ark., where he orchestrated a remarkable revitalization effort. Under his leadership, the college dramatically increased student recruitment and graduation rate. The university also adopted a new mission and greatly raised its stature by focusing on its core values and history as an HBCU and a charter member of the United Negro College Fund.


Kimbrough, who is among the youngest college presidents in the nation, is known for his active use of social media to engage and stay connected with students. “The depth of Dr. Kimbrough’s dedication to students is inspiring,” says Dr. Roché. “He is successful because he puts students’ success above all else.”


Prior to beginning his tenure at Philander Smith, Kimbrough served for four years as the vice president for student affairs at Albany State University in Albany, Ga. He also served as director of student activities and leadership at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Va., and held administrative posts at Georgia State University and Emory University.


Kimbrough received a bachelor of science in agriculture with a major in biology from the University of Georgia. He earned a master of science in college student personnel services from Miami University and a doctor of philosophy in higher education from Georgia State University.


Kimbrough has written widely on the role of fraternities and sororities in education, particularly in the educational experiences of students of color. His book, Black Greek 101: The Culture, Customs, and Challenges of Black Fraternities and Sororities, has won popular acclaim and is now in its tenth printing. He has also been recognized for his extensive research and writing on African-American men in college. “The Black Male Initiative” he created at Philander Smith College has become a model for similar programs nationwide.


Kimbrough has received numerous honors and awards. He was selected as a 2001 Nissan-ETS HBCU Fellow and a 2002 participant in the Millennium Leadership Initiative sponsored by the American Association of State Colleges and Universities. In 2009, he was named by Diverse Issues in Higher Education as one of “25 To Watch.” And in 2010, he made the coveted Ebony Magazine Power list of the 100 doers and influencers in the African-American community, joining the likes of President and Mrs. Obama, Jay-Z, Richard Parsons, Tyler Perry, Debra Lee, Michael Jordan, and Tom Joyner.


Dr. Kimbrough and his wife Adria Nobles Kimbrough, associate general counsel with the University of Arkansas System, are the proud parents of two children: Lydia Nicole, 5, and Benjamin Barack, 2.

Dillard University Appoints Dr. Walter Kimbrough as University's Seventh President

EDUCAUSE Security Professionals Conference 2012 May 15-17, 2012 • Indianapolis and Online

Security Everywhere: Exploring the Expanding World of Security

As the breadth of technology expands globally, so do the boundaries of information security. The 10th annual Security Professionals Conference, May 15-17, at the JW Marriott Indianapolis and online, will attempt to recalibrate security during a paradigm shift. Our institutional data resides in environments where borders continue to dissolve. Constant accessibility and portability have become commonplace for employees and students. This means that:
•Individuals and their choices are essential in preserving security and privacy
•Data resides on a diverse array of personal and enterprise devices
•Global and instantaneous information sharing are readily available
•Attacks and malware now focus on every facet of our environment


Our goal as information security professionals is to support our constituents’ ability to take advantage of modern computing in safe and secure ways. As the definition of “security” grows to include privacy, identity management, physical security, information assurance, and more, it is imperative to share information and experiences with peers. Share your expertise and answer the call to propose at the Security Professionals Conference.

The call for proposals (CFP) for the the Security Professionals Conference is open. CFP deadline is December 16.


The 2012 Security Professionals Conference is brought to you by the EDUCAUSE and Internet2 Higher Education Information Security Council (HEISC) and the Research and Education Networking Information Sharing and Analysis Center (REN-ISAC).

Participate as a Presenter

Play an active part in a leading higher education IT conference by submitting a presentation proposal for the EDUCAUSE Security Professionals Conference. Help create an innovative and informative program, make valuable contacts, and gain recognition for yourself and your institution's achievements. The deadline for submissions is December 16.

Who Should Attend?
The Security Professionals Conference is for security staff, IT staff, privacy officers, and others from the higher education community with an interest in security or privacy.



The face-to-face conference will be held May 15-17. Pre-conference seminars begin the morning of Tuesday, May 15, with the full conference program May 16-17.


The online conference will be held May 15-17. We encourage you to participate as a team. Team participation can help your institution advance a current or upcoming project or encourage cross-disciplinary collaboration. Our Event Planning Kit provides helpful information for hosting or facilitating an event on your campus-including an event planning checklist, a discussion facilitation guide, and more.


The General Session and morning concurrent sessions on Thursday, May 17, will be combined with the Enterprise IT Leadership Conference to encourage IT leaders onsite and online to network and convene on enterprise security issues.

Program Committee
View the list of the Security Professionals Conference 2012 Program Committee members.

EDUCAUSE Security Professionals Conference 2012 May 15-17, 2012 • Indianapolis and Online