Category : Education

Six Black Scholars Who Are Taking on New Faculty Assignments

Bevlee Watford, professor of engineering education and associate dean for academic affairs at the College of Engineering at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, is taking on a new role as associate dean of equity and engagement for th...

U.S. News and World Report Lists Its Choices as the Nation’s Best HBCUs

The magazine U.S. News and World Report recently issued its annual rankings of the best colleges and universities in the United States. In addition to its rankings of the best national universities and liberal arts colleges, the magazine ranks region...

Johnnie Hamilton-Mason to Receive the 2019 Feminist Scholar Award

Johnnie Hamilton-Mason, a professor of social work at Simmons University in Boston, has been selected to receive the 2019 Feminist Scholar Award from the Women’s Council of the Council on Social Work Education. The award is presented to a schol...

Bowie State University Is the First HBCU in Maryland to Team Up With the U.S. Coast Guard

Bowie State University is Maryland’s first historically black university to enter into a partnership agreement with the U.S. Coast Guard. Under the new agreement, Bowie State University students and graduates will have expanded access to scholars...

Eight African Americans Who Are Taking on New Administrative Duties in Higher Education

Robert “Danny” Flanigan Jr. was appointed chief investment officer at Spelman College in Atlanta. He will continue in his role as treasurer at the college. He joined the college in 1970 as the assistant to the business manager and for the...

Fayetteville State University Partners With Rowan-Cabarrus Community College

Fayetteville State University, the historically Black educational institution in North Carolina, has entered into a partnership with Rowan-Cabarrus Community College in Salisbury, North Carolina. Under the agreement, students who successfully complet...

Three Black Women Join the Faculty at Wesleyan University in Connecticut as Assistant Professors

Wesleyan University, the highly rated liberal arts educational institution in Middletown Connecticut, has announced that there are 16 new tenure or tenure-track faculty on campus this fall. Three of the new faculty members are Black women. Kaisha Est...

Virginia Theological Seminary Establishes a Slavery Reparations Endowment Fund

Virginia Theological Seminary in Alexandria has announced that it has set aside $1.7 million for a slavery reparations endowment fund. Historians have documented that at least one building on the seminary’s campus was built with slave labor. In...

Boston College Now Offering a Major in African and African Diaspora Studies

Boston College in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts, has announced that it is now offering a bachelor’s degree program in African and African diaspora studies. Black studies was established a half century ago at Boston College, but until now there h...

Three African American Scholars Who Have Stepped Down From Their University Posts

Kofi Agawu, the Hughes-Professor of Music at Princeton University, has been conferred the title of professor emeritus. He first joined the Princeton faculty in 1998. He briefly left the university during the 2006-2007 academic year to teach at Harvar...

A Check-Up on Trends in Black Applicants and Matriculants at U.S. Medical Schools

A new study led by researchers at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia tracks the progress of students from underrepresented groups in medical school enrollments. The study found that the number of applicants and matriculants from underrepr...

WIlma Mishoe Will Step Down From the Presidency of Delaware State University

Wilma Mishoe announced her intention to retire as president of Delaware State University, effective December 31, 2019. Dr. Mishoe made the announcement on her 70th birthday. Her 40-year career in higher education will end where it started. Dr. Mishoe...

New Report Focuses on Disparities in School Discipline Faced by Black Girls

In recent years there has been several studies on racially disproportionate punishment in the nation’s schools. Now a new report from the African American Policy Forum and the Center for Intersectionality and Social Policy Studies at Columbia L...

Sherine Obare to Lead the the Joint School of Nanoscience and Nanoengineering in Greensboro

Sherine Obare, a recognized leader in nanoscience and materials chemistry research and STEM education, has been selected to lead the Joint School of Nanoscience and Nanoengineering, a prestigious academic collaboration between the University of North...

Gender and Race Both Have a Major Impact on Black Women’s Inequality in the Workforce

A new report from the Center for American Progress finds that both racism and sexism play a role in inequality faced by Black women in the nation’s workforce. According to the report, in 2017 Black women earned 61 cents for every dollar earned...