Category : Education

American College of Physicians Honors Bruce Ovbiagele for Advancing Diversity in Healthcare

Bruce Ovbiagele, associate dean and professor of neurology at the University of California, San Francisco, has received the W. Lester Henry Award for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion from the American College of Physicians. The award is presented to...

Chevron to Establish STEM Labs at Two Historically Black Universities

Chevron USA, Inc. has partnered with the Fab Foundation. a non-profit organization dedicated to STEM education, to establish “Chevron Fab Labs” at two historically Black institutions, Fort Valley State University in Georgia and Florida A&...

Four Black Professionals Appointed to Administrative Positions

Stanley Bazile has been appointed vice president for student affairs and campus life at Ithaca College in New York. He currently serves as vice president for student affairs and dean of students at St. Francis College in Brooklyn, New York. In additi...

DEI Can Die (or Not), but Let’s Have Something Consistently Dedicated to Black People

by Kenneth Hawkins A friend told the whole world, or at least anyone who knew him through LinkedIn, that he’d support DEI (Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion), no matter what our Florida governor decided. That might get him fired because he was only re...

In Memoriam: Ruth R. Martin, 1930-2024

Ruth R. Martin, professor emerita with the University of Connecticut School of Social Work, passed away on March 24. She was 93 years old. Dr. Martin’s career in higher education began as a professor of social work with University of South Flor...

Africana Studies Faculty File Discrimination Complaint Against UMass Boston Administration

Recently, faculty members from the Africana Studies department at the University of Massachusetts Boston filed a discrimination complaint with the state of Massachusetts alleging prolonged mistreatment from the university’s administration. In t...

In Memoriam: Bertha Maxwell-Roddey, 1930-2024

Bertha Maxwell-Roddey, founding director of the Africana studies department at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, passed away on March 20 at the age of 93. Dr. Maxwell-Roddey’s career in education began in the Charlotte public schoo...

Study Finds Link Between Black Men’s High Rate of Suicide and Early-Childhood Exposure to Racism

A new study from the University of Georgia has examined the high rate of suicide among young Black men and discovered a connection between the frequency of Black men’s suicidal ideation and their exposure to racial discrimination in childhood....

Three Black Women Appointed Deans of University Law Schools

Marcilynn Burke has been appointed dean of the School of Law at Tulane University in New Orleans. She currently serves as the Dave Frohnmayer Chair in Leadership and Law and dean of the University of Oregon School of Law. Earlier in her career, she h...

Research Finds Black Men Less Likely Than Black Women and White Patients to Receive Heart Transplant

Scholars from the Indiana University School of Medicine have recently published a new study in the Journal of the American Medical Association analyzing the differences in heart transplant acceptance rates between Black and White patients. The result...

Marcheta P. Evans Named First Black Woman President of St. Catherine University in Minnesota

St. Catherine University, a women’s university in St. Paul, Minnesota, has selected Marcheta P. Evans to serve as its twelfth president. The appointment makes Dr. Evans the university’s first ever Black woman president. St. Catherine Univ...

Despite Equal Preparedness, Black Students Less Likely Than White Peers to Enroll in AP Math Classes

A new study from researchers at New York University has discovered Black students in public New York city high schools are less likely than their White peers to enroll in AP mathematics courses, even when they have the same level of academic-prepared...

Buffalo State University Rescinds Appointment of Charles Duran as President

In December 2023, Chance Glenn was appointed president of Buffalo State University, a State University of New York campus, effective July 1, 2024. Now, the university announced it has rescinded Dr. Glenn’s appointment. When Dr. Glenn was appoin...

Buffalo State University Rescinds Appointment of Chance Glenn as President

Howard University Launches New Bachelor’s Degree in Human Development

The School of Education at historically Black Howard University has launched a new degree completion program for a bachelor of science in human development. The exclusively online program will be available to students who have completed between 60 an...