Task force recommends changes to save historic Cheyney University
In its fight for survival, Cheyney University should streamline its academic offerings and establish an Institute for the Contemporary African-American Experience in hopes of creating a "niche" that will lift the university to national prominence, a task force recommends.
The Cheyney University task force presented its highly anticipated report of recommendations for reinventing Cheyney this morning at Pennsylvania's State System of Higher Education board of governors' meeting.
Cheyney, the nation's first higher education institution for African-American students, has faced several hurdles over the years, from unstable finances, to a notoriously low graduation rate, to the threat of loss of accreditation by the Middle States Commission on Higher Education, to the probation of their athletics. The task force, formed in March, was created in an attempt to solve these issues.
The task force recommendations are being handed over to Cheyney administrators, who will follow through on those recommendations as they see fit.
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