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Jackie Alexander, director of student media at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, has been named president of the College Media Association. Her appointment makes her the association’s first president of color. Alexander has been a member...
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A new study, led by Bernadine Waller, a researcher fellow at Columbia University, has found that on average, Black women under age 45 in the United States are six times more likely to be murdered than White women of the same age group. To investigate...
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Aherial Polite has been named dean of the School of Arts and Sciences at Augusta Technical College in Georgia. She previously served as chair of the chemistry, physics, and nuclear technology department at Aiken Technical College in South Carolina. &...
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Scotty Barnhart, associate professor of jazz trumpet at the Florida State University College of Music and director of the Count Basie Orchestra, has won this year’s Grammy for “Best Large Jazz Ensemble Album” for Count Basie Orchest...
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The Student Freedom Initiative, a nonprofit organization supporting historically Black colleges and universities through debt relief and investments, has partnered with the Steinbridge Group to develop affordable housing on or near HBCUs’ and o...
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Lydia Sermons has been appointed vice president and chief communications office at Howard University in the District of Columbia. She has served as vice president of strategic communications and marketing at Spelman College in Atlanta, Georgia, for t...
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The College of Engineering and Technology at historically Black Virginia State University will offer a new bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering starting in the Fall 2024 semester after recently receiving official approval from the State...
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The United States Department of Agriculture in partnership with the Association of Public and Land-Grant Universities has honored Ozzie Abaye, professor of crop and soil environmental sciences at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, w...
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Michigan State University has partnered with two historically Black institutions, Alabama A&M University and Winston-Salem State University in North Carolina, to introduce their newly created Crafting Engaging Science Environments curriculum for...
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Jeremi London has been named assistant provost of academic opportunity and belonging in the Office of Undergraduate Education at Vanderbilt University in Tennessee. In this role, Dr. London will lead programs that broaden undergraduate students’...
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Jesse Henry Hurst II, longtime educator and football coach at historically black Texas Southern University, passed away January 26, 2024 at the age of 82. An alumnus of Texas Southern University, Dr. Hurst served the school and its athletic programs...
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The Vanderbilt University Press has established the Global Black Writers in Translation trade series beginning in 2025. The new series will translate texts by authors of African descent from their original source language into English. By publishing...
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Cleon F. Thompson, former chancellor of historically Black Winston-Salem State University in North Carolina, passed away on January 27. He was 92 years old. Dr. Thompson served as chancellor of Winston-Salem State University for 10 years. Some of Dr....
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The National Science Foundation recently released its annual data on doctoral degree recipients in the United States. Data for the annual Survey of Earned Doctorates shows that universities in the United States conferred 57,596, doctorates in 2022, u...
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Cecil Howard, the recently appointed associate provost for the College of Law at historically Black Florida A&M University, will be the temporary acting dean of the college following the resignation of current dean, Deidre Keller, who retains her...
