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HPER alumni group at IU aims to increase African American graduate enrollment
Sept. 27, 2000
BLOOMINGTON, Ind. -- A group of prominent alumni from the Indiana University School of Health, Physical Education and Recreation (HPER) will meet in Bloomington this week to plan strategies to recruit more African American graduate students for HPER.
Eight members of the HPER Advanced Leadership Council, led by former IU basketball great Walt Bellamy, will be on the Bloomington campus Thursday through Saturday (Sept. 28-30) for meetings and discussion groups.
"The purpose of this event is to lay the groundwork for the formation of an Advanced Leadership Institute that will focus on the recruitment of minority graduate students at HPER from historically black colleges throughout the South," said David Gallahue, associate dean for academic affairs and research at HPER.
Gallahue and HPER Dean Tony Mobley said the school was a national leader in attracting minority students prior to the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Many of those students were from black colleges in the South and were denied a graduate education at other institutions. "Many of these individuals have become professors, department chairs and deans at these colleges and are now looking forward to helping us educate the leaders of tomorrow," Mobley said.
Bellamy, who operates a consulting business in Atlanta, will be joined at the event by Bill Gunn of Benedict College (S.C.); Mildred Ball, retired from the Indiana High School Athletic Association; Doris Screws of Delaware State University; June Robinson of Hampton University (Va.); Ken Mosely of South Carolina State University; Andrew Kanu of Virginia State University; and Ken Gibson, a school administrator in Lexington, Ky.
Those attending will be briefed on current HPER programs, discuss critical issues in academic leadership, and develop plans for a $1 million endowment for future support of the program.
(Richard Doty, 812-855-0084, rgdoty@indiana.edu)