Faculty and Staff Awards & Achievements

ELI Executive Director Johnetta Boseman Hardy Honored

During the recent African-American Empowerment Weekend (AAEW), Johnetta Boseman Hardy received the Legacy in Entrepreneurship Education Award for her outstanding and exemplary work as the executive director of the Howard University Institute of Entrepreneurship Leadership and Innovation (ELI) program.

A recognized force in the business world, Hardy has over 20 years experience.  Before joining the E.L.I. institute, she served as deputy executive director of the National Association of Black Accountants.  Prior to that position, Hardy worked with a number of organizations including the U.S. Small Business Administration, the Howard University Small Business Development Center and Big Brothers of the National Capital Area.

A well-known repository for information vital to the growth and development of minority business enterprises, the E.L.I. Institute was created in 2003.  The Institute seeks to transform the way entrepreneurship is taught and experienced, in an effort to provide individuals the opportunity to participate. 

The African American Empowerment Weekend took place Oct. 17- 20, 2007 in Washington D.C. The three-day event focuses on empowering small African-American businesses.

CEACS Dean Guest Lecturer at Iowa State 

James Johnson, Ph.D., dean of the CEACS, fields questions from students and faculty at Iowa State University following a recent lecture.

James H. Johnson, Ph.D., dean of the College of Engineering, Architecture and Computer Sciences was the guest lecturer at the Iowa State University College of Engineering tackling issues of diversity in the field and the benefits of pursing degrees in engineering. The lecture series is sponsored by Diversity in the Worlds of Math, Science and Engineering.

Johnson encouraged students to explore careers in science, technology, engineering and math classified as STEM. He also addressed the deficit of minorities in these fields.

However, the problem according to Dean Johnson begins long before college. In fact, Johnson underscored that only 4 percent of minority high school graduates are eligible to obtain an engineering education based on their grades, and only half of those who are eligible actually go on to obtain the necessary education.

Johnson is the 2005 recipient of the National Society of Black Engineers Lifetime Achievement Award in Academia.

For more on Dean Johnson’s lecture read the Iowa State Daily’s recap “Engineering, other fields lack diversity”

WHUR 96.3 FM Receives Prestigious NAB Award 

The National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) presented Howard’s own WHUR 96.3 FM with the Urban Station of the Year Award at the NAB Marconi Radio Awards on Sept. 27, 2007 in Charlotte, NC during their annual Awards Dinner and Show.

WHUR-FM 96.3 is owned and operated by Howard University and serves as a training ground for undergraduate students in the School of Communications. WHUR serves as a preparation tool for students for the broadcasting industry after graduating.

The NAB Marconi Award recognizes outstanding radio personalities and stations in 21 categories. The National Association of Broadcasters is a trade association that advocates on behalf of the 8,300 plus free, local radio and television stations and broadcast networks.

WHUR's Triscina Grey receives NAACP Award

Howard University Radio WHUR 96.3 FM personality Triscina Grey was honored at the Prince George’s County NAACP’s 20th Annual Freedom Fund Dinner which recognized “Women Who are Making a Difference”.

More than 500 people attended the dinner where “Women of Honor” distinctions were bestowed upon a dynamic group of awardees, which included clergy members, elected officials, and community leaders.

In addition to hosting Cafe 96 on WHUR 96.3 FM for the past 15 years, Triscina is active in the community with Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc., the United Negro College Fund (UNCF), and the Minority Organ Tissue Transplant Education Program (MOTTEP) to name a few.

Best Book of 2007: “Legacy: Treasures of Black History”

Legacy: Treasures of Black History,” edited by Thomas C. Battle, Ph.D., director of the Moorland-Spingarn Research Center (MSRC) at Howard University, and Donna M. Wells, curator of Prints and Photographs, MSRC, is the recipient of the Mid-Atlantic Regional Archives Conference’s (MARAC) Arline Custer Award for the best book of 2007.  The award was presented during MARAC’s Nov. 3 meeting in Williamsburg, VA.

Nationally acclaimed “Legacy” represents a major contribution to African-American history and a riveting exploration of the Black experience and its impact on the nation’s culture and character.  In twelve chapters, the book chronicles ancient Africa and the slave trade to such key eras as the Civil War, Emancipation, and Reconstruction; the Harlem Renaissance and the Jim Crow Era; and the modern Civil Rights and Black Power/Black Arts movements.  It includes expert insights from more than two dozen Black scholars and activists, complete with an introduction by the distinguished Dr. John Hope Franklin, James B. Duke Professor Emeritus of History.

The book features more than 150 historic items including documents, letters, images, and artifacts from Howard’s very own Moorland-Spingarn Research Center, many never before published:  18th-century maps of Africa; the pincushion of Elizabeth Keckley, Mrs. (Abraham) Lincoln’s seamstress; a Langston Hughes letter in which he first shares his famous poem I, Too, Sing America; a unique daguerreotype of Frederick Douglass in profile; a bell belonging to Sally Hemmings, Thomas Jefferson’s slave and companion; and NAACP membership buttons from the 1960s. 

CETLA Wins National Recognition for Its Syllabus Database

(Pittsburgh, PA) - On Saturday, October 27, the Professional and Organizational Development (POD) Network honored Howard University’s Center for Excellence in Teaching, Learning, and Assessment (CETLA) for developing an innovative syllabus database. The database earned the faculty development center a certificate for becoming a finalist in the national competition for POD’s Innovation Award. CETLA designed the syllabus database to help faculty exchange teaching ideas, students select courses, administrators review the curriculum, and accrediting bodies assess programs. At the same time, the database protects intellectual property and provides convenient access via Banner, Howard’s course registration system.


Designed in 2004, CETLA’s database is one of the first university-wide syllabus databases in the United States. It is unique because it allows users to search not only by dates, names, numbers, course titles, and other standard identifiers but also by a range of years and instructional methodology (e.g., problem-based learning or writing across the curriculum). It interfaces with Banner for security, standardization, and ease of use as well as convenience. Moreover, it protects intellectual property not only by password-protecting posting and searching, but also by preventing the downloading, copying, editing, printing, emailing, and even “screen capturing” of syllabi without the authors’ permission.

To post syllabi in the database, faculty simply copy and paste their syllabi. (For illustrated instructions, see http://www.cetla.howard.edu/announcements/tutorials/syllabus/post_ur_syllabus.html#instructions.) This process is fast and easy since Banner automatically fills in most of the fields. Since CETLA “rolled out” the database to the campus in Fall 2005, faculty have voluntarily posted more than 1,000 syllabi. In the long run, if most faculty post their syllabi, the database will save the University time and money because no one will have to store and search through hundreds of paper syllabi. The database can also reduce costly duplication of courses.

Recently, more and more accrediting bodies have expressed an interest in databases like CETLA’s since such databases can facilitate the work of self-study committees and accrediting agencies. In fact, Howard’s accrediting body, the Middle States Commission on Higher Education (MSCHE), invited CETLA to exhibit its database at MSCHE’s annual conference in 2005.



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