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wmm 3A NEWS/Vie CtatUtU $ot Thursday, October 20, 2005 JCSU a full-time mission for president Yancy Continued from page 1A quality and caliber of stu dents here, which we’ve done,” she said. “The stu dents that are coming in are brighter than ever. We’ve not changed the mix in terms of first generation and second generation students, that’s the same as it’s ever been. We didn’t go out and try to find aU upper middle class students. We stuck to the university’s mission I want ed to improve the fadlities on this campus and make them competitive with any university black or white.” Yancy also improved the faculty Seventy-five percent of JCSU professors have doc torates and terminal degrees. She wanted JCSU to be known for technology and in 2000, that happened. JCSU became the first historically black college to offer laptops to aU of its students. That next year, the university was ranked by Yahoo Internet Life Magazine as one of the top 50 most wired small col leges in the nation. Yancy said that JCSU was the only historically black college on that list. Getting Smith ranked nationally was one of her goals. In the last 11 years, JCSU has been ranked in US News and World Report for five years. The national publication ranked JCSU 45(h out of the 106 colleges in the South as a Tbp Tier Institution among comprehensive colleges that offer bachelor’s degrees. ‘T always believed Johnson C. Smith was one of the best kept secrets in this country and I think now a lot of peo ple know about our secret,” she said. And those people don’t mind donating. Dining Yancy’s tenure, the university endowment more than tripled fiom $13 mUlion to $45 million It exceeded the $50 million goal of the Campaign of the ‘90s and raised $63,8 million, solidify ing her reputation as one of the nation’s best fund rais- Yancy said she has a pas sion for fund raising, educa tion and Johnson C. Smith. “T truly believe we have a product to sell. When we explain what we do at Johnson C. Smith, and where our students come from and where they go and what they contribute to this society it’s hard for you to decide not to give us any money,” she said. Alumni think that the last 11 years under Yancy has lifted the university to high er heights. JCSU alum Matthew Holland, Class of 1972, said Yancy has done a tremen dous job of advancing the university ‘You will not find a more dynamic leader,” he said. “She is always marketing Johnson C. Smith University” He added that because JCSU has so many partner ships with business lead^ and the community. Smith doesn’t have the struggles that some other smaller HBCUs have. “Smith has a tight budget like everybody else,” Yancy said. “I have to manage every penny I hear people telling me what we should be doing, what we should be buying, what type of pro grams we should have. But we try to live within our means. That means we can’t have everything. We can have some things, but you have to make prudent busi ness decisions. This is a busi ness.” She, however, hasn’t been without her critics. JCSU graduate Ken Koontz, Class of ‘72, said some people may not always like Yancy’s decisions, but she pyts the students’ and the university’s best inter ests in the forefront. “Nothing is ever perfect, it’s not a perfect world,” he said. “But at the end of the PHOTO/CALVIN FERGUSON Johnson C. Smith University President Dorothy Yancy, iead- ing a staff meeting on campus Monday, has seen the schooi's endowment soar from $13 miilion to $45 miilion. Yancy also raised $68 million for the school, solidifying her reputation as one of the nation’s top fund raisers. Documentary, dialogue on black experience in Charlotte-Mecklenburg By Herbert L. White herb.white^theckarloaepostrom A November documentary will chronicle the black experience in Charlotte finm slavery to the future. ■ The second installment of “Hometown Stories; African- Americans’ Journey in Chariotte-Mecklenburgproduced by WTVI (channel 42) will examine those issues Nov. 2 at 8 pm on and again at 10 pm on Nov. 22. Tie documentary delves into Charlotte-Mecklenburg’s African-American community’s culture and history, from slav ery to today Included are interviews of individuals who partici pated in the (Divil Ri^ts Movement; whose gram^arents lived free during Reconstruction and whose great-grandparents worked the tields as slaves. Ihe documentary will include the rise and fall of Charlotte’s Brooklyn neig^iborhood and life in the late 19th century for African-Americans. Tie homes, churches, businesses ahd social events of African- Americans, past and present, will be remembered throu^ first person interviews, photographs and video WTVI developed the “Hometown Stories” series as a way to reflect the history and life of ethnic communities. WTVI will ^so lead a community town hall meeting in which viewers can talk about the film and dialc^ue on how race affects Chaiiotte-Mecklenburg. Tie fcaum is scheduled for Nov. 29 at 5:30 p.m at the Levine Museum of the New South day when Dorothy Yancy goes home and lays down at night she is very satisfied that she has done everything in her powers that’s in the best interest of Johnson C. Smith University and its students.” Yancy said she knows what some people say, but she doesn’t focus on it, because the business of the universi ty and providing for the stu dents is the most important thing. Senior Shani Provost said she’s worked with Yancy on various projects, the latest one being the development of an academic calendar to be distributed to all 1,404 stu dents at the school. “Dr. Yancy is very person able,” Provost said. “She knows many of the students and she listens to you and takes an interest in what you say And knowing that Yancy is the first woman to ever lead JCSU is an inspiration to Provost. “She’s already set a standard,” she said. Tie Johnson C. Smith that Yancy runs isn’t anything like the one she graduated fiom. “Women had no posi tion here (when she was a student). There were no women here and they reminded you that the school was founded for men and we had sort of gotten here,” she said. But the day she was elect ed president, Yancy said an. older alum of Smith let her know that things had changed and her leadership was welcomed. “He said, young lady, you’re going to do good. Tie ’ older alumni will support you and the young alumni will support you,” she recalled. Yancy’s classmate and president of the Charleston, S.C., chapter of the JCSU Alumni Association, Pamela Middleton Robinson, said she has an extra sense of pride because Yancy is presi dent. “I think she’s done a great job,” said Robinson, Class of ‘66. “She’s made the univer- aty grow in several different directions and gotten the alumni more connected.” Yancy plans to leave JCSU better than it was when she arrived so that the next pres ident can continue to move the university forward. “I plan to move through the SACS process, we’re going through our review now and we should be fin ished with that in June, 2007 and I would like to see us start some graduate pro grams. We now have the infrastructure to develop some very good programs,” she said. “We’re getting a certain notoriety and that’s very positive.” “I think Johnson C. 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