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THE INDIANAPOLIS RECORDER

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Most fund-raising duties land on school presidents, along with their other jobs of representing the school, maintaining academic standards, hiring staff and recruiting students, said Marybeth Gasm in, a Georgia State University professor who studies Black colleges. If the endownu it goes down, trustees blame the president. Black colleges generally rely on corporate donors instead of alumni for funding. Microsoft Corp. recently gave $25 million to the United Negro College Fund to upgrade technology at its 39 member institutions. Other funding has come from celebrities, such as Oprah Winfrey, who donated $ I million in scholarships to Morehouse in 1997. Radio star Tom Joyner is helping with his syndicated show, which travels to 30cities each year to raise money for Black schools. When endowments go down, it becomes tougher to pay for top faculty, new technology or construction and renovation. Some experts say the recent changes have simply been cyclical. William Harvey, who directs the Office of Minorities in Higher Education for the American Council on Education in Washington, said the average tenure of any college president is five to seven years. And many of the new presidents are highly qualified, said Gasman. Besides Johnetta Cole coming to Bennett. Beverly Daniel Tatum, the acting president of Mount Holyoke College in Massachusetts, became Spelman’s president this fall. Walter Broadnax, an American University dean, took over at Clark Atlanta and Henry Ponder, former president of Rsk University and Benedict College, is tiie new president of Talladega College in Alabama. "There’s a really good class of presidents with past experience, lots of fund-raising experience." Gasman said "I see this as actually being a good thing for Black colleges."

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