2. Located in Washington, D.C. Established in 1867, Four-year
coeducational.
HBCU (Historically Black Colleges)
“Research I” private research university by the Carnegie Foundation
for the Advancement of Teaching.
Howard’s campus includes many historical landmarks as well as a
radio station that broadcasts throughout DC in high definition.
Howard is home to the largest repository on Africa and the African
Diaspora
Seeks to preserve important historical artifacts of the black
experience.
Required courses include English composition and an African-
American studies course.
Notable alumni include Supreme Court justice Thurgood Marshall
and author Toni Morrison
4. Low enrollment in Undergraduate and graduate
program
School facilities and many buildings should be repaired and
build more
Administrative issues were critical for resolve the problems.
-Top-down culture of paying high for administrative
while starving the faculty and academic programs
is.
-Inefficiency in handling funds, endowment
5. October 20, 2010
Sidney A. Ribeau, Ph.D., President Positioning
Howard University for the Future to Enrich
Humanity Through Research, Knowledge,
Leadership and Service
“With respect to delivering undergraduate
majors, the working group will evalute program
qulality; prioritize programs based on the agreed
evaluation framework. And make
recommendations regarding the reallocation of
approximately 25% of the funding of all
programs from the least central to the remainder.
--from “overview of the Academic Process”, p.3
6. • Revise the general education and core curriculum
for undergraduate education
• Revise the model for delivering graduate
education
• Increase focus on doctoral level academic
programs
• Create new STEM and Health Sciences focused
research centers
• Create a university Think Tank to conduct
research and distribute information concerning
national and international public policy issues
• Create an interdisciplinary Africana Studies
program
7. Presidential Recommendations Undergraduate,
Graduate and Professional Program Changes
Eliminating Selected Programs in an Environment
of Enhanced Institutional Effectiveness
The University community has until December 1,
2010 to review the presidential
recommendations and provide feedback or offer
comments and alternative recommendations
8. Board of Trustees
Administration
Faculty
•Authoritarian, dictatorial,
“top-down”
•Sectarian, esoteric, :silo-
basedd”
•Ecision-making discourages
dialogue and transparency
•Resource-driven, not
visionary
•Obscures “Key stakeholder”
theory
•Hierarchy obscures Shared
Governance
•Faculty input obscured by
unidirectional hierarchy
9.
10. Faculty Senate made a request for he result of
Final Written Report by the elections audition
firm the completed General Counsel’s Report
of its investigation.
Dr. Mercedes V. Tibbits wrote “Will the Board
of Trustees report be ethical and impartical?
At this point, it does not look like it would
be.” (The Senate Communicator, Fall Issue,
2008)
11. The deans’ report to the Academic
Excellence Committee of the Board of
Trustees “On Strategic Planning at HOWARD
University” views lack of shared governance w
ith the upper administration as a problem.
12. June 8, 2008
The chairman of the Board of Trustees denied
to give budget information concerning
eduational affairs at the University.
The board of Trustee does not need the
consent of the faculty, it should seek that
consent and carefully explain its reasons for
dissent when necessary.
13. Meredith Rizzo/NPR
Students walk by Founders Library on Howard University campus in
Washington, D.C.
Meredith Rizzo/NPR
Howard University, one of the country's most prominent historically
black schools, has hit a rough patch in recent months.
The school's Faculty Senate recently voted no confidence in leaders of
the school's Board of Trustees. That vote came just weeks after Howard's
president announced a surprise early retirement and Moody's Investors
Service downgraded the university's credit rating, as my Code Switch
teammate Gene Demby has reported.
Professor Gregory Jenkins has been tracking the developments out of
Howard.
"All of the negative news has not been good for [the morale of faculty
and staff]," says Jenkins, who teaches in the physics and astronomy
department at the private university
14. DMLL == DWLC
Foreign Language courses of today are not
your courses of 20 years ago!
-Cultural Proficiency: What do you know
about the culture? How is it different?
-Communicative objectives: What you can
do with the language learning?
15. Deal James Donaldson’s vision supported new
faculty-led study abroad programs.
Dr. Janne Madox Toungara chairs the COAS
Task Force on International Affairs and gives
workshops at other schools on developing
international programs.
Dr. Orlanddo Taylor presented his research
on Engineering graduate education geared
toward a new generation of interculturally
competent faculty.
16. President Sydney Ribeau : Visionary leader.
Often showed lack of political leadership skill.
-caused conflict between Board of Trustees
and Senate Faculty
Not a inspiring leader: He had a great vision
and idea but failed to inspire faculties for the
need of change.
Resign in the middle processing of
Restructuring –Lack of Responsibility:
17. University officials have consistently denied
that anything is amiss, but it's clear that
Howard is not on the same footing it once
was as one of the premier historically black
colleges in the country.
More changes are likely ahead for Howard;
now we know that Ribeau won't be the one to
spearhead them.
18. The Senate Communicator, Fall ssue/Nov.2009
www.howard.edu/faculty/senate
www.forbes.com/colleges/howard-university
www.howard.edu/msche/restricted/selfstudy/Front
Matter.htm
The Huffington Post | By Tyler Kingkade
Posted: 10/02/2013
