by Staff - 5 hours ago
Each week, The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education will provide links to online articles that may be of interest to our readers. The links presented direct the reader to articles from many different points of view that deal with issues of African A...
by Staff - 5 hours ago
The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education regularly publishes a list of new books that may be of interest to our readers. The books included are on a wide variety of subjects and present many different points of view. The opinions expressed in these...
by Staff - 1 day ago
Harvard University recently dedicated a plaque in the Harvard Law School plaza to honor the slaves who created the wealth which enabled Isaac Royall Jr. to provide funds for the establishment of the law school in 1817. The Royall family generated wea...
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Here is this week’s news of grants or gifts to historically Black colleges and universities or for programs of particular interest to African Americans in higher education. Washington University in St. Louis received a five-year, $3.4 million grant f...
by Staff - 2 days ago
Zach, Aaron, Nick, and Nigel Wade are quadruplets from Liberty Township, Ohio. The African American brothers applied to and were accepted at many of the nation’s leading universities. All four decided to stick together and are four of the 1,550 enter...
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Fallou Ngom, associate professor of anthropology at Boston University in Massachusetts, was appointed director of the African Studies Center in the university’s Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies. The center was established in 1953. M...
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Johnnetta B. Cole, president emerita of Spelman College in Atlanta and president emerita of Bennett College in Greensboro, North Carolina, is taking on a new assignment. She has been named a senior consulting fellow at the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation...
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Natasha Trethewey, the Board of Trustees Professor of English at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, has been selected to receive the Heinz Award in the Arts and Humanities. The award comes with an unrestricted $250,000 prize. Teresa Heinz...
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The community is invited to the grand opening of JJC’s new Romeoville Campus on Tuesday, Oct. 10, 1125 W. Romeo Road, in Romeoville.
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The Lockport Woman's Club is accepting applications for the annual Sally Korst Memorial Scholarship.
by Staff - 2 days ago
Several recently released college rankings have placed the University of St. Francis (USF) at the top of their lists or among major research institutions in the state.
by Staff - 2 days ago
Joliet Central graduate Andrew Gabl displayed his artwork at the most recent event at the Chicagloand Speedway this week.
by Staff - 3 days ago
A new study by scholars at the University of California, Davis finds that early adolescents’ grades were higher when they socialized with peers from other ethnicities. Researchers noted the lunch companions of 800 sixth grade students in three states...
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James B. Hughes Jr. has been named interim dean of the Emory University School of Law in Atlanta. He replaced Judson Graves who was named interim dean in June. Graves stepped down for “personal reasons.” Dwight A. McBride, provost and exe...
by Staff - 3 days ago
While overt hostile comments and behavior by White college students directed at African American students may have become more infrequent in recent years, a new study led by researchers at the University of Washington found that many White college st...
