April 18, 2003

J-Schools at Iowa State and Minnesota Shuffle Chairmen; SUNY-Albany Loses Scholar to Rice U.; Editor of History Journal Heads to Yale

By SCOTT SMALLWOOD and SHARON WALSH

JOURNALISTIC SHUFFLE: A year ago, John Eighmey was briefly stripped of his duties as chairman of Iowa State University's journalism school. Now he's gone for good.

The advertising professor, 58, has taken a named chair at the University of Minnesota's School of Journalism and Mass Communication.

Last May, amid claims of racial tension in Iowa State's Greenlee School of Journalism and Communication, Mr. Eighmey was removed from his leadership post by the provost. He was