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...nation's 120 Negro colleges, most are in the South and most have traditionally had ministers as presidents-often men of intellectual distinction but with no training as educators. However bombastic in the pulpit, they made a point of being obliging to white authority. They demanded little, and they got little. The result was what Sociologists David Riesman and Christopher Jencks have denounced as "an illfinanced, ill-staffed caricature of white higher education." Lately, reflecting both the new pride and the new competence of the U.S.'s black community, a number of more militant Negro college presidents have...
When Cheek took over in 1963, the Baptist university was virtually bankrupt. He mounted an emergency fund-raising campaign that eventually allowed him to double faculty salaries. Full professors now earn up to $14,000, which is in line with faculty salaries at most private white colleges. Following his conviction that Negro applicants who score low on white-oriented aptitude tests are not necessarily unfit for college, he has relaxed entrance requirements, abandoned rigid grading and allowed students to proceed at their own pace, graduating in anywhere from three to six years. When critics suggest that he is indulging...
...major problem, as Henderson sees it, is the lingering timidity of his trustees, half of whom are white, and he says he solves it by acting first and telling the board about it later. "I'm the sort of guy who doesn't like to ask people whether I can do something or not. I like to move," he says. Henderson is not so cavalier with the students, the most militant of whom see his finesse with foundations as evidence of Uncle Tomism. Indeed, when students recently challenged the school's rules, he quickly agreed to eliminate...
Last June he became Xavier's president, a job that throughout the school's 43-year history had been held by white nuns who fully shared lay-Catholic Francis' own concern for improving educational opportunities for blacks. Francis' declared aim is "to steer students into the mainstream of American life," and he has very little patience for the radical Negroes who would rather go it alone. Students must be taught pride, he admits, but they must also be taught the tools with which to compete. "Math is math," he says. "It's not black math...
Much of U.S. Steel's recent activity bears the imprint of Ed Gott, who helped launch the modernization drive and has pressed for diversification. In replacing Blough, who will become a partner in the Manhattan law firm of White & Case, where he worked before joining U.S. Steel in 1942, Gott is naturally careful to give his predecessor proper credit. "We're only trying to complete what Blough started," he says. One of Gott's goals is to lift the company's share of the steel market back up to 30% within the next several years...