Thursday, March 26, 2009

the history of SIUC



Glenn Poshard is the president of SIUC and he is the fifth of five children who grew up on a family farm, Glenn Poshard is a native of White County, Illinois. He graduated from Carmi Township High School in 1962 and after graduation served in the United States Army in Korea, where he received a commendation for outstanding service.In August 1984, Dr. Poshard was appointed to the Illinois State Senate. He was successfully elected later that year and was re-elected in 1986. Based on his success in the State Senate, the citizens of southern Illinois sent him to the United States Congress in 1989 to represent the 22nd Congressional District. He set a limit of ten years on his service in Congress and in 1998 won the Democratic nomination for Governor of the State of Illinois but lost in the general election. During his years in the Illinois Legislature and in the U.S. Congress, he advocated for campaign finance reform, clean coal research, the Shawnee National Forest, tourism, economic development, transportation, and higher education. Dr. Poshard limited individual donations to his campaign and refused to accept donations from political action committees. In 1999, Dr. Poshard and his wife, Jo, founded the Poshard Foundation, which raises money to fund care for abused, neglected, and abandoned children. The Foundation has been a leader in efforts to prevent child abuse throughout southern Illinois, including helping to build a new $600,000 women's shelter in Cairo in December 2003. Presently, the Foundation is building a new shelter in West Frankfort, Illinois.In 1999, Dr. Poshard was appointed Vice Chancellor for Administration for the Carbondale campus of Southern Illinois University, a post he held until July 2003. Governor Rod Blagojevich appointed him to the Board of Trustees of Southern Illinois University in January 2004. Later that year, he was elected Chair of the Board of Trustees, a position he held until declaring his candidacy for President of the University system.

Friday, March 20, 2009

The History of Tuskegee University




The history of Booker T Washington Has landed in Tuskegee university because he is one of the donators and founding fathers of this university but Booker T Washington was born in 1856 on the burroughs tobacco farm which despites it's small size. His mother was a cook and his father was a white man from a nearby farm. As one of the most influential black men of his time. Dr. Washington, a highly skilled organizer and fund-raiser, was counsel to American presidents, a strong advocate of negro business, and instrumental in the developement of educational institution throughout the south. He maintain a lifelong devotion to his institution and to his home- The south. Dr. Washington is buried on the campus of Tuskegee university Chapel. At the time of Washington's death there were 1'500 students and more has made some endorsement to the university because they wanted to show there respects to the death of Dr. Booker T Washington. But Washington believed that if one gave to the community in which they resides, then the community would give back to them tenfold. Since Washington knew the south and was aware that the South's primary base was in agriculture, he believed that the blacks in the south should make themselves indispensable to the land. Booker T Washington had a good life because he had achieved many things before he had past away and the things he did b he became famous and also it made him one of the founding fathers of Tuskegee University and it made history in the making to have a black man that was raised on a plantation to be one of donators of tuskegee university and he made it one of the top historical black college/university that has the most percent of black males and females that goes to college and try to make something of there lives.

Tuesday, March 17, 2009

Credibile vs. Non-credible




The Credible vs Non-Crebdible of every college in the United States of America






The crediblity of this websites shows thats many people have their own opinion about how they think or know how college life is.


























the non-crediblity of this websites shows that many people do not kno what they is talking about










Wednesday, March 11, 2009

the differences between Tuskegee and SIUC

The College Life between Tuskegee and SIUC is mostly different because SIUC has a bigger campus and its more things that happen there then it do at Tuskegee University. The differences between these two colleges they have a lot of different issues and different types of environment that people sometimes gets us to. The main reason for finding the differences for these two colleges was so I can find out what’s best for seniors in high school because some students doesn't know whether any schools is good for them. But the most things that these two school that doesn't have in common is that Tuskegee university only accepts blacks and a few whites but SIUC accepts every body meaning they do not care about there color or there race and they might have a lot more majors on there campus then Tuskegee. Especially between everybody that tries to sign up for those schools. Between these two schools I think Tuskegee is the best school for African American students because it's a smaller school and plus you can get more one on one time with the professor and s/he can help you more then the ones at SIUC because at SIUC theres more people and a bigger campus you won't be able to because it's going to be other people trying to do the same thing. The other thing about these two schools is that they have a lot of things going on campus that you can get in to so you wont have to sit around and do nothing. SIUC has a lot more activities then Tuskegee does because it’s a bigger colleges and it has more fraternities and sororities then Tuskegee. But I think Tuskegee is still the best chose for students that wants to go to a HBCU or a smaller University.