Category : Education

Two Black Women Executives in Diversity and Inclusion Are Leaving Their Posts

Evelynn Ellis, vice president of institutional diversity and equity at Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire, has announced she will retire on July 1. She joined the staff at Dartmouth 12 years ago. Earlier she was senior director of the Office...

Black Faculty, Staff, and Administration Group at Michigan State Opposes Pick for Provost

On April 27, Michigan State University announced the appointment of Teresa Woodruff to serve as provost. Dr. Woodruff has been serving as the Thomas J. Watkins Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology, dean of the Graduate School and associate provost...

A Brief Intervention on Belonging for Blacks Entering College Can Have Lifetime Benefits

A new study led by Shannon Brady, an assistant professor of psychology at Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, has found that the benefits of a brief “social belonging” exercise completed by Black students in their first year of c...

Mitchell College in Connecticut Names Tracy Epsy as its Eighth President

The board of trustees of Mitchell College in New London, Connecticut, has named Tracy Epsy as the educational institution’s eighth president. When she takes office on July 1, Dr. Epsy will be the first African American woman to lead the college...

Harvard Scholars Present Research on How Racism Affects Public Health

A group of scholars affiliated with the Project on Race & Gender in Science & Medicine at the Hutchins Center for African & African American Research at Harvard University have produced a webinar series entitled “Epidemics and the Effects...

Which HBCUs Got the Most Money From the COVID-19 Stimulus Package?

The U.S. Department of Education announced that it has released $1.4 billion in funding to help minority-serving institutions manage the financial crisis brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic. This funding is part of the Higher Education Emergency Reli...

The Huge Racial Gap in Homeownership Rates in the United States

The U.S. Bureau of the Census recently released a new report on homeownership rates in the United States. The report shows that in the first quarter of 2020, 65.3 percent of all Americans owned their home. This was up a full percentage point from the...

The New Dean of the School of Government and Public Affairs at Virginia Commonwealth

Susan T. Gooden has been named dean of the L. Douglas Wilder School of Government and Public Affairs at Virginia Commonwealth University. Dr. Gooden has served as interim dean at the Wilder School since May 2018. “I am honored to continue my service...

National Park Service Funds Historical Preservation Projects at HBCUs

The National Park Service announced more than $14 million in African American Civil Rights Historic Preservation Fund grants to fund 51 projects across 20 states and the District of Columbia that will preserve sites and history related to the African...

West Virginia University Surgeon Appointed as a Special Advisor to the Federal Government

Jeremiah Hayanga, associate professor of cardiovascular and thoracic surgery and program director of extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) at the Heart and Vascular Institute at West Virginia University, has been appointed as a special advisor b...

HBCUs Securing Laptop Computers for All New Students

Online education has become an essential tool for colleges and universities to continue instruction during the COVID-19 pandemic. But many students at historically Black colleges and universities who were forced to return home when campuses closed di...

Melvin Terrell Honored by NASPA – Student Affairs Administrators in Higher Education

Melvin C. Terrell, vice president emeritus at Northeastern Illinois University, was selected as the recipient of the 2020 Bobby E. Leach Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion Award presented by NASPA – Student Affairs Administrators in Higher Educat...

Tuskegee University Donates Personal Protection Equipment to Healthcare Workers

While Alabama has not been as impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic as many other states, as of May 1 there have been more than 7,000 cases and 272 deaths. Tuskegee University, the historically Black educational institution in Alabama is doing its part t...

A Trio of African Americans Who Have Been Named to New Administrative Posts in Academia

Artanya Wesley was appointed vice chancellor for student affairs at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater. She was served in the role on an interim basis since last July. Dr. Wesley joined the university in July 2016 as dean of students. Earlier, sh...

Brown University Students Explore the History of a Local African American Cemetery

Three graduate students in archaeology at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, worked with the Historic Cemetery Advisory Commission in Newport, Rhode Island, to create an interactive map of God’s Little Acre, one of the oldest African and A...