Category : Education

Racist Video of College of Charleston Students Circulated Online

A racist video of College of Charleston students was circulated on social media. The video shows three male students in the back of a pick-up truck in the Francis Marion National Forest in South Carolina. One of the students on the video can be heard...

Sharp Drop in Black Enrollments at Public Colleges and Universities in Illinois

The Illinois Board of Higher Education has reported that the number of African-American students enrolled at public colleges and universities in Illinois has fallen nearly 25.9 percent during the five-year period from 2013 to 2017. The decline in Bla...

Race-Related Arson on the Campus of the University of La Verne in California

Threats were made on social media against Black and Hispanic students at the University of La Verne in California. A photo was posted of university students who were protesting against racism. The caption read, “Every single one in this photo w...

In Memoriam: Jean Fairfax, 1920-2019

Jean Fairfax, former dean of women at two historically Black institutions, passed away on February 12, 2019. She was 98 years old. A native of Cleveland, Ohio, Fairfax served as dean of women at Kentucky State College (now University) in Frankfort an...

Two African American Women Announce They Are Leaving Their Posts

Jacqueline Royster, dean of the Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts and the Ivan Allen Jr. Dean’s Chair in Liberal Arts and Technology at the Georgia Institute of Technology, has announced she will step down from her position on August 31, 2019....

Helen Benjamin Selected to Lead Santa Barbara City College in California

Helen Benjamin has been named interim superintendent/president of Santa Barbara City College in California. The college enrolls over 16,000 students. African Americans are 3 percent of the student body. In 1991, Dr. Benjamin was hired by the Contra C...

The Racial Gap in Educational Attainment in the United States

New data from the U.S. Census Bureau shows the extent of the racial gap in higher educational attainments in the United States. The study found that 93.4 percent of non-Hispanic White Americans over the age of 18 had graduated from high school. For A...

Why Are Black Students More Likely Than Whites to Leave STEM Majors in College?

A new study led by Catherine Riegle-Crumb, an associate professor in the department of curriculum and instruction at the University of Texas at Austin, shows that young Black students have a high interest in STEM fields but switch to other majors or...

Clarence Lang Named Dean of the College of Liberal Arts at Pennsylvania State University

Clarence Lang has been name dean of the College of the Liberal Arts at Pennsylvania State University. He will assume his new duties on July 1, 2019. Currently, Dr. Lang serves as the interim dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at the Uni...

African Americans Making Little Progress in College Sports Administration and Coaching

The Institute for Diversity and Ethics in Sport (TIDES) at the University of Central Florida recently released its annual report on racial equality in college athletics. The scorecard gave a grade of B- for racial diversity in college’s sport program...

Roger W. Davis Appointed President of the Community College of Beaver County

Roger W. Davis has been named the ninth president of the Community College of Beaver County in Monaca, Pennsylvania. The college enrolls about 2,500 students, 7 percent of whom are Black. Dr. Davis has served as interim president since May 2018 and h...

University of Tennessee Students Post Racist Photo on Social Media

Recently, students from the University of Tennessee posted a screenshot of a racist Snapchat image to Twitter. The photo included four university students, two of whom had donned charcoal face masks. The photo’s caption read, “We for raci...

Delaware State University Appoints Four African Americans to New Administrative Posts

Cleon L. Cauley, Sr. has been named the university’s general counsel. Prior to his appointment, he founded and operated The Cauley Firm LLC, where he represented clients in criminal and civil matters. Cauley is a graduate of Immaculata College...

Alabama State University Establishes Partnership with Trenholm State Community College

Historically Black Alabama State University has partnered with Trenholm State Community College to provide Trenholm students with the opportunity to participate in concurrent enrollment, allowing students to take classes at Trenholm and Alabama State...

Two Black Women Scholars Taking on New Duties at State Universities

Melynda J. Price has been named the first woman and first African-American director of the John R. Gaines Center for Humanities at the University of Kentucky. She will also hold the John R. Gaines Endowed Chair in the Humanities at the university. Dr...