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Friday, April 3, 1987
BENNETT COLLEGE, GREENSBORO, N. 0.
Vol. XLVIIl, No. 5
Black College Advantage
Scott to succeed Miller: New president-elect Dr. Gloria Dean Randle Scott
looks forward to new position with positive energy, (photo by Publications
Office)
New president
Dr. Gloria Dean Randle
Scott — a distinguished pro
fessor, scholar, consultant
and leader—will become the
11th president of Bennett
College.
The second woman to head
the college in its 113-year
history, she will replace Dr.
Isaac H. Miller Jr., who re
tires in June. Scott will be the
fourth president Bennett has
had since it was designated
all-female in 1926. She is leav
ing Grambling State Univer
sity where she serves as a
professor of education.
Her selection was an
nounced by Robert S. Chiles
Sr., chairman of the Board of
Trustees, March 17.
Scott has held key positions
at several institutions. She
has been the vice-president of
Clark College and an assistant
to the president of Texas
Southern University. Her
background includes six years
at A&T where she taught,
worked as the director of
institutional research and
planning and became a spe
cial assistant to the chancel
lor She has also held posts
at Knoxville College where
she spent two years as
the dean of students, Marian
College and the Indiana Uni
versity Medical Center.
Scott, who took three de
grees at Indiana University,
has won honorary degrees
from her alma mater and
Fairleigh Dickinson Univer
sity. A native of Houston, she
belongs to 10 professional or
ganizations, has made pre
sentations to more than 40
organizations and has pub
lished 16 articles.
During a three-year term
as national president of the
Girl Scouts of America, she
gained increased attention to
and appreciation of her or
ganization. She is known as
effective advocate of women
and education.
The new president, who has
been a guest lecturer at num
erous institutions across
America, has worked as a
consultant to the Ford Foun
dation, the U.S. Office of
Civil Rights, the National
Institute of Education and
the U.S. Department of De
fense’s office of manpower.
Her varied background in
serving on commissions and
committees includes respon
sibilities on behalf of the
State Board of Higher Edu
cation of North Carolina and
the National Urban Coalition,
and she received a presiden
tial appointment to the Na
tional Commission on the Ob
servance of International
Women’s Year.
In 1985, Dr. Scott served
as a workshop facilitator and
presenter at the United Na
tions End of Decade Interna
tional Forum in Nairobi,
Kenya. She was a panelist on
post-secondary education for
The White House’s “Tuesday
at the White House.”
A member of Delta Sigma
Theta, Inc., Dr. Scott is mar
ried to Will Braxton Scott,
Ed. D.
by Carla Bannister
The author of Blacks in Col
lege substantiated the superiority
of black colleges over white insti
tutions for black students during
a Black History Month address.
Dr, Jacqueline Fleming said
that “Black students do better at
black colleges.”
“Attending an all-black insti
tution, blacks have a greater in
tellectual ability than the blacks
that attend a predominately white
college or university and that is
due to the fact that in black
collegics blacks are given a greater
opportunity to excel,” the adjunct
professor at Barnard College said.
Dr. Fleming’s book is the first
comprehensive study of black stu
dents’ success in black and white
institutions.
Black colleges offer four advan
tages that allow their students to
have twice as much intellectual
development as black students at
predominately white colleges. The
first advantage is that “blacks
have closer friends and more of
them.” The second is that the
relationships with teachers are
better. “The black student is
known by the teacher as a indivi
dual and not as a number,” said
Fleming. The better the teacher
knows a student, then the more
the student wants to excel in her
studies. This student-teacher re
lationship often leads the stu
dent to contacts within the busi
ness world.
The third advantage is that
students have more incentive and
energy to compete and join in
extra-curricular activities, fulfill
ing a student’s need for involve
ment and pride because the stu
dent learns to be more self-effi
cient, self-confident and assertive.
The fourth advantage was that
black institutions teach blacks to
take on leadership roles that are
not available to them in predomi
nately white colleges.
Fleming added that being at a
all-black, women’s college teaches
black women how to take control
of their own lives. They learn
how to be effective, outstanding
leaders and how to be aggressive
and self-assured because there are
positive black female role models
around and students are not com
peting with men. Dr. Fleming al
so pointed out that when a black
woman attends an all-female black
school she is more likely to be
come famous than if she goes to
a co-ed school.
Dr. Fleming’s research and ex
periences disclosed many shocking
facts. She found that black women
have the same leadership poten
tial, aggressiveness, creativity and
assertiveness as white males. She
also said that there is twice as
much intellectual growth in blacks
that attend black colleges than
blacks that attend predominately
white colleges. This fact was
backed up by the evidence studied
in grade point averages, grades
on standardized tests and com
petence in mathematical skills.
Belle likes deejaying
by Tammy Reed
Some people would say
she’s got a natural “rap.” She
speaks with a beat and she
likes to be out-front.
The extroverted persona
lity of senior De’Janiera Little
is very well suited to being
a dee jay. She loves to talk
and she’s been doing that for
two years at A&T radio sta
tion WNAA.
“When I am in the lime
light, I am able to explode
with the music,” said Little,
a Belle majoring in communi
cations.
Little gets this sensational
feeling because the music is
a reflection of the rhythms
of her life.
Two formative influences
on Little’s desire to pursue a
career in radio were deejay
Jerry Wells of WDSA in Phi
ladelphia, Little’s hometown,
and her friend and Bennett
alumna Susan Smith.
Little started out as a news
broadcaster at WNAA. Now
she is production manager,
news writer, broadcast jour
nalist and assistant with lab
students. You could say she’s
thrown herself into radio.
“I received my Federal
Communications Commission
license for a radio operator,”
she says proudly.
Ever since her childhood,
she has wanted her talents
to be recognized by people,
and now she finds she’s
created a coterie.
“I love being a disc jockey
because I have lots of secret
admirers,” she explains.
“Even though I have not
met any of the guys, I re
ceived lots of flowers,” she
says.
Little is self-propelled, and
her enthusiasm and hard
work will help her attain her
dreams.
“My future goals are to
attend grad school or work
part-time at a radio station,”
said Little. She wants to own
her radio station in Charlotte,
a major metropolitan area in
the Sunbelt where demands
for quality radio are likely to
increase.
She patterns her life after
WNAA general manager
Tony Welbome. Little feels
that he pushes her harder be
cause she is the youngest an
nouncer at the station.
“With this determination
nothing can stop me,” said
Little.
Her tenacity is attested to
by English instructor Michael
Gaspeny. “Once I taught Dee
a course in which she had
little interest. But despite this
drawback, she stayed longer
and worked harder than the
(See Page 3)
Student leader reflects
a column
by Vicky Dunn
Usually, the SGA President
uses her school newspaper as
a voicebox for information
and education. Perhaps the
fact that my tenure has only
recently allowed me time to
write should say something
about the multiplicity of my
responsibilities. If I was de
nied the time to write, I cer
tainly compensated for it in
speaking opportunities. These,
without a doubt, were among
the richest of my experiences.
So what is the most im
portant lesson I have learned
this term? How to choose a
qualified college president?
How to manage human re
sources? How to juggle con
ferences, luncheons and oc
casionally a class or two?
How to plan successful insti
tutional mutinies?
Almost all of the above are
at least partially true. None
of them, however, rivals the
experience of Expressions
101, a crash course in public
relations. Perhaps I brought
the gift of gab with me, but
was it gracious gall, the right
way of saying difficult things,
that became my forte?
Unable to recall a true epip
hany, a moment when the
proverbial lightbulb went on
and true rhetorical greatness
was realized, I simply have to
settle for readily available
memories. In the presence of
such political greats as the
Honorable Terry Sanford,
there was the inclination for
brevity. I can recall, however,
many long conversations with
disheartened Belles over ac
creditation, excellence and the
ever-elusive black male. As
I recall, the mere presence of
Rev. Jesse Jackson rendered
me speechless while a quick
“hello” in the quadrangle
often turned into a brief con
ference.
The significance of this is
that my most important mo
ments as SGA president
weren’t in the heat of a spot
light; they were in the heat
of a muggy office whose
windows would not budge. It
was not the flash of cameras
that impressed me most, but
the multiplied flicker of hope
I saw reflected in your eyes.
And it was not in the pre
sence of dignitaries that I de
livered my best oratories, but
on the sidewalks of this cam
pus, where I delivered living
ones. And they say talk is
cheap-huh!!
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