ADVISORY/2003 Nissan-ETS HBCU Summer Institute to Focus on Black Colleges & Universities Financial Futures.Business Editors/Education Writers ADVISORY...for Monday (July 21) DALLAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 20, 2003 Business and Education Leaders Meet to Assess Challenges and Foster Partnerships and Solutions at Las Colinas Las Colinas is a developed area in the Dallas suburb of Irving, Texas. Due to its central location between Dallas and Fort Worth and its proximity to DFW Airport, Las Colinas has been a viable place in the Metroplex for corporate and business relocation. The 2003 Nissan-ETS Historically Black Colleges & Universities (HBCU HBCU Historically Black Colleges and Universities ) Summer Institute will bring together business leaders and chief financial officers from 49 HBCUs around the nation for an unprecedented meeting to assess the financial challenges facing HBCUs and to work toward solutions. The purpose of the 15th Annual Nissan-ETS HBCU Summer Institute is to ensure that HBCUs thrive in the 21st century, at a time when all higher education higher education Study beyond the level of secondary education. Institutions of higher education include not only colleges and universities but also professional schools in such fields as law, theology, medicine, business, music, and art. institutions are facing economic challenges. The Institute will serve as a resource that will present HBCUs with the necessary tools to assess viability in the competitive marketplace. Texas is home to nine HBCUs, making Texas home to one of the nation's largest contingency of HBCU students in the country. In fact, HBCU graduates make up one third of African American African American Multiculture A person having origins in any of the black racial groups of Africa. See Race. college graduates in the country. Dallas' Paul Quinn College Paul Quinn College is the oldest African-American liberal arts college in Texas. It was founded in 1872 in Austin, Texas, and was named after William Paul Quinn (1788-1873), the fourth bishop of the African Methodist Episcopal Church. The College is affiliated with the AME church. serves 880 students. Nearby Jarvis Christian College This article or section needs sources or references that appear in reliable, third-party publications. Alone, primary sources and sources affiliated with the subject of this article are not sufficient for an accurate encyclopedia article. (Hawkins) serves 565 students and their president, Sebetha Jenkins, serves as a member of the Institute Steering Committee steer·ing committee n. A committee that sets agendas and schedules of business, as for a legislative body or other assemblage. steering committee Noun . Dallas is not only playing host to the Summer Institute, but Dallas' own Tom Luce, Chairman of the National Center for Educational Accountability, serves on the Institute Steering Committee.
Who: Jim Morton, Senior Vice President, Nissan North America, Inc.
Kurt Landgraf, President & CEO, ETS
James Renick, Chancellor, North Carolina A&T State University
What: 2003 Nissan-ETS HBCU Summer Institute
Stewardship PLUS Entrepreneurial Leadership:
The New Imperative and Role for HBCU CFOs
When: Monday, July 21, 2003
8:30 a.m. - 10:45 a.m.
Where: Four Seasons Resort & Club Dallas at Las Colinas (Irving, TX)
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