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“Our Media Is the means of liberation, an instrument of clarification, information, education and mobilization.” Kwame Nkrumah Dr. Elias Blake, Jr. Clark’s New President Dr. Elias Blake, Jr. Dr. Elias Blake, Jr., a lative Georgia, lias been lected by tile Board of Trustees of Clark College to become its 19th president, commencing August 1, 1977. The president elect leaves the position of president, Institute for Services to Education, based in Washington, D.C., in order to accept the Clark presidency. Dr. Blake received his B.A. degree from Paine College in 1951; his master’s from Howard University in 1954; and his doctorate from the University of Illinois in 1960. Nationally known in education circles, he has served on the Board of Higher Education, District of Columbia (Federal City College, District of Columbia Teachers College); and the American Council on Education. He serves on the Board of Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching; the Board of Visitors, George Mason University; the Board of Graduate Advocates, Meharry Medical College; the National Advisory Board, Institute for the Study of Educational Policy; the Editorial Policy; the Editorial Board, Journal of Negro Education, and the Journal of Law and Education. , His consultant activities have included: Developing Institutions Program, USOE; Office of Student Special Services, USOE; National Institue of Education; Fund for the Improvement of Post- Secondary Education, USOE; the John Hay Whitney Foun dation; the Ford Foundation; the Lilly Foundation; and the Pennsylvania Department of Higher Education on Planning for Desegregation. A noted Author, his most recent publications include, ’ “Minority Colleges as Outposts of Institutional Redirection,” New Colleges for New Schools; “Future Leadership Roles for Predominantly Black Colleges in American Higher Education,” Daedalus; Degrees Granted and Enrollment Trends in Historically Black Colleges: An Eight-Year Study; and an Eassy Book Review of Thomas Sowell’s Black Education: Myths and tragedies, Chronicle on Higher Education. Selected papers include, “Higher Education for Black Americans: Issues in Achieving SGA Seeks Student Involvement By Althea Hickson “I can not hide my failures or my inactions, I am not at tempting to do that nor to justify anything,” said Clark College’s Student Government Association (SGA) President in an interview Friday. Michael Poole gave his reasons for the SGA’s lack of activities so far this year. According to Poole the duty of the SGA is to coordinate activities, but the im plementation of those activities should be carried out by the Student Council. The Student Council is composed of Presidents from all student organizations on campus. (With the exception of class officers). Poole also said that other organizations conflicts with the SGA’s activities. “The SGA has to compete with greek organizations, which are the big activity givers on campus,” he said. There is little co-operation between the SGA and these organizations.” “The SGA and other organizations can provide good activities only if they combine their resources, Poole ex plained.” Poole went on to say that the SGA is comprised of everyone enrolled in Clark College. He also said that students should support all phases of school activities. Poole felt that some students had the right to complain and some do not. “If you did not vote, then do not complain,” he said. “Only 540 people have the right to complain, those who voted for me or my opponent.” When asked about the performance of his vice president all other officers. Poole replied, “No comment.” More than Just Equal Opportunity,” National Policy Conference on Education for Blacks of the Congressional Black Caucus;” “Black Graduates or Black Dropouts: Will the Academic Needs of Black Students Be Met?,*’ American Association of Higher Education; and, “The Impact of History on Meritocracy and the Need for Affirmative Action,” National Human Affairs Conference, Florida State University. Dr. Blake has also been extensively involved in activities relating to desegregation, organizing the first conference on, “The Role of Predominantly Black Public Colleges in Statewide Systems of Higher Education, which was held in Washington, D.C., and the emergency follow-up conference on Pending Litigation at Appeals Court level in, Adams vs. Richardson, March, 1973. During his tenure as president at ISE, which began in 1969, the non-profit organization has moved from being primarily involved in curriculum reform and development with a staff of 20, to a multiple-purpose agency dealing with research on Equal Opportunity and Technical Assistance in Program Development, Information Systems, Planning and Management in Higher Education, with a staff of 70 - the largest of its kind in the country. Michael Poole The 47-year-old Dr. Blake has been the foremost developer of basic research, defining in quantitative terms, the con tribution of historically Black colleges to equal opportunity in America. He did some seminal work in defining how all Black colleges, public and private, make major contributions to the participation of Black Americans in the professional, managerial, and technical sectors of the society. Out of his work, he has been one of the more effective advocates for continuing to increase support for historically Black colleges. At the Institute, he was one of those instrumental in the organizing of the National Association for Equal Oppor tunity in Higher Education, an association of public and private Black colleges. Later, he helped create a Technical Associate Consortium, now called TACTICS, to pool the expertise of several organizations in assisting historically Black colleges. “Though the work ok ISE is important to all the Black colleges and must continue, I feel that after 11 years, it is important to face the challenge of helping a particular in stitution deal with the same issues. I will continue to be interested in the work of ISE because, as the head of a college , I will need its help. “Clark College represents a very important institution in an important multiple in stitution center. I am honored to have been asked to served. I look forward to the new challenges.” Dr. Blake will succeed the late Dr. Vivian W. Henderson, who died January 28,1976, after serving the college since 1965. Dr. Henderson, one of the nation’s most respected educators and i economists, succumbed during heart surgery. Dr. Charles L. Knight, Vice President, has served as Acting President since February 3, of last year. Clark College is a four- year, coeducational college, one of four undergraduate colleges and two graduate schools that comprise the Atlanta University Center. This group of in stitutions form the largest private Black consortium of higher education in the world.