Category : Education

UCLA Study Finds That There Is a Large Racial Gap in the Urban Wage Premium

Researchers who study cities have long documented an “urban wage premium,” whereby workers in denser, larger cities tend to have higher wage and salary incomes. But a new study is providing fresh insight into how growing population density in urban a...

Online Articles That May Be of Interest to JBHE Readers

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...

Same Sex Couples Are Far More Likely to Be Interracial Than Opposite-Sex Couples

A new report from the U.S. Census Bureau finds that in 2022, there were about 1.3 million same-sex couple households in the United States. Roughly 740,000 were married and 540,000 unmarried. About 31 percent of married same-sex couples were interra...

Spelman College – Empowering Women Toward More Civic Engagement

Marybeth Gasman, associate dean for research and the Samuel DeWitt Proctor Endowed Chair in Education and a Distinguished Professor at Rutgers University in New Jersey, shows how Spelman College in Atlanta is making a significant effort to boost comm...

The New Dean of Architecture and Engineering Techonology at Florida A&M University

Andrew Chin is the new dean of the School of Architecture + Engineering Technology at Florida A&M University. Chin is a tenured associate professor who has 32 years of experience in higher education. He has held several leadership roles within th...

Students at Three HBCUs in New Orleans to Participate in Power of Prosperity Initiative

Xavier University, Dillard University, and Southern University New Orleans all historically Black educational institutions in Louisiana join Entergy’s new initiative, The Power of Prosperity. The program is a partnership with Single Stop and Stack...

Yale University Scholar Wins Early Career Physics Award

Charles D. Brown II, an assistant professor of physics at Yale University, has been selected as the winner the Joseph A. Johnson Award for Excellence from the American Institute of Physics and the National Society of Black Physicists. The Johnson Awa...

Florida A&M University Enters Partnership With the U.S. Coast Guard

Historically Black Florida A&M University signed a partnership agreement with the U.S. Coast Guard to facilitate training and recruitment for USCG members. The College Student Pre-Commissioning Initiative Scholarship is designed for high-performi...

Three African Americans Appointed to New Administrative Posts at Universities

Arthur Lumzy Jr. is the new director of student career preparedness at Texas A&M University–Commerce. Most recently, Lumzy served as a director of career services at the University of North Texas at Dallas. Lumzy graduated from the University of...

North Carolina A&T State University to Debut New Graduate Programs in Criminal Justice

North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University’s College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences will soon be home to new criminal justice master’s and doctoral degree programs. The university plans to begin accepting students into the pr...

Coalition of Feminist Scholars in the History of Rhetoric & Composition Honors Gwendolyn Pough

Gwendolyn D. Pough, dean’s professor of the humanities and professor in the department of women’s and gender studies at Syracuse University in New York, is the latest recipient of the 2023 Ede Mentoring Award from the Coalition of Feminist Scholars i...

Four African American Women Named to Diversity Positions in Higher Education

Jamila Lee-Johnson is the inaugural assistant dean of inclusive excellence for the Graduate School at the University of Notre Dame in Indiana. Most recently, she served as the equity, diversity, and inclusion manager for the University of Wisconsin S...

American Students Studying Abroad in Sub-Saharan Africa

As we reported last week, according to the latest Open Doors report from the Institute on International Education, the number of international students studying at U.S. colleges and universities increased from 948,519 to 1,057,188, an increase of 11....

Marcus L. Thompson Named the Thirteenth President of Jackson State University

The board of trustees of State Institutions of Higher Learning in Mississippi has selected Marcus L. Thompson as the thirteenth president of Jackson State University. Dr. Thompson has more than 20 years of leadership experience in early childhood, K-...

U.S. Public Schools Remain Separate and Unequal

A new report from the U.S. Department of Education provides a wealth of data regarding the civil rights of students in K-12 education during the 2020-21 school year while the nation was dealing with the COVID-19 pandemic. Among the key findings are:...