Category : Education

Tennessee State and Meharry Medical College Debut an Accelerated Degree Program

Tennessee State University and Meharry Medical College, two historically Black academic institutions in Nashville, have announced a new partnership focused on establishing a pipeline of African-American doctors and dentists who will provide essential...

Yale University’s Hazel Carby Wins Book Award From the British Academy

Hazel V. Carby, the Charles C. & Dorathea S. Dilley Professor Emerita of African American Studies & American Studies at Yale University, has been selected as the winner of the Nayef Al-Rodhan Prize for Global Cultural Understanding from the B...

The Rhode Island School of Design Aims to Diversify Its Faculty

According to a recent analysis by the American Institute of Graphic Arts, only 3 percent of the professionals in the design industry are African Americans. The Rhode Island School of Design (RISD), one of the nation’s most prestigious educatio...

Vanderbilt Univerity Acquires the Photographic Collection of Rev. James Lawson

Rare photographs of and by the Rev. James M. Lawson Jr., a pivotal figure in the history of the civil rights movement, have been acquired by the Jean and Alexander Heard Libraries at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee. Lawson enrolled at t...

California State University, Fullerton Establishes the Institute for Black Intellectual Innovation

California State University, Fullerton has announced the creation of the Institute of Black Intellectual Innovation. The institute will support students and faculty, campuswide, by institutionalizing the support and inclusion of Black people and Blac...

Two African Americans Appointed to Dean Positions at State Universities

LaKeisha L. Harris has been appointed dean of the School of Graduate Studies and Research at the University of Maryland Eastern Shore in Princess Anne. Dr. Harris joined the department of rehabilitation faculty in 2006. In 2018 she was appointed inte...

The Racial Disparity in Fatal Police Shootings Has Not Improved in Five Years

Over the past five years, there has been no reduction in the racial disparity in fatal police shooting victims despite increased use of body cameras and closer media scrutiny, according to a new report by researchers at Yale University and the Univer...

Timothy Sams Will Be the Next President of SUNY Old Westbury

The State University of New York Board of Trustees has announced that Timothy E. Sams will be the next president of SUNY Old Westbury. He will take office on January 11. SUNY Old Westbury enrolls just over 4,800 undergraduate students and about 300 g...

Why Hospital Desegregation Did Little to Close the Black-White Infant Mortality Rate Gap

A new study by scholars at Yale University, the Univesity of Colorado at Denver, and Montana State University finds that the federal government’s extensive efforts to desegregate hospitals in the American South in the 1960s did not significantl...

The Dawn of a New Day for Historically Black Paine College in Augusta, Georgia

Paine College, the historically Black educational institution in Augusta, Georgia, has been in almost a decade-long battle to hold on to its status as an accredited institution of higher learning. But it appears that finally, the college has weathere...

How Mental Health Practitioners Failed Former Enslaved African Americans

Victoria Robinson, a senior at Dillard University in New Orleans who is majoring in psychology, has published a new study on the mental health of enslaved African Americans after they were emancipated following the Civil War. Robertson’s research unc...

Francine Conway Is the New Provost at Rutgers University in New Jersey

Francine Conway, a child psychologist, has been named provost and executive vice chancellor of academic affairs at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey. A native of Guyana, Dr. Conway had been serving as dean of the Graduate School of Appl...

A Trio of African American Faculty Members Who Have Been Assigned New Roles

Keith McGee has been appointed to serve as the inaugural associate provost for research, innovation, and graduate education at Alcorn State University in Mississippi. Dr. McGee recently served as the interim provost and executive vice president for a...

Claflin Univerity to Offer a 4+1 Dual Degree Program With the University of South Carolina

Claflin University, a historically Black educational institution in Orangeburg, South Carolina and the University of South Carolina have signed aa agreement to establish a five-year, 4+1 dual degree program. The agreement will allow undergraduate stu...

Four Universities Appoint African Americans to New Administrative Offices

Delonte J. LeFlore has been appointed interim assistant vice provost for admission at the University of Cincinnati. In 2018, Delonte joined the Office of Admissions as the assistant director for access & diversity and in 2019 was promoted to the...