How to Best Recruit Board Members Outside of Your Industry
The value of a panel of experts that fill in the gaps in your existing company knowledge from outside your industry cannot be understated – here's why
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Five Cities Receive Half-a-Million-Dollar Grants to Boost Spending with Black Businesses
The program, funded by the non-profit agencies of Living Cities and the Citi Foundation, was started four years ago to spur economic development activities.
The HBCU Debate: Are Black Colleges & Universities Still Needed?
Critics have called them a race-based anachronism. Others have said worse: They’re inferior, they’re in need of a new mission, or should be managed by for-profit entities. Yet, the data show that historically black colleges and universities contribute significantly to the black middle class and the nation’s economy, and with fewer resources graduate impressive numbers of majors in education and in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). Although most have a majority black student body, the faculty at many HBCUs is strikingly diverse, sometimes more than 50% nonblack. Moreover, these institutions have never discriminated on the basis of race. But, in an age of increasing racial and ethnic diversity in the U.S., do we still need HBCUs?
International Speedway Corp. Appoints New Advertising and Marketing Leaders to Board
Larry D. Woodard and Sonia Maria Green are latest leaders of color to be appointed to International Speedway Corp. board.