Category : Education

National Academies Call for Greater Federal Efforts to Improve Health Equity

To improve health equity in the United States, the president should create a permanent federal body responsible for improving racial, ethnic, and tribal equity across the federal government, according to a new report from the National Academies of Sc...

Claudia V. Schrader Is the New Leader of York College of the City University of New York

Claudia V. Schrader was selected to serve as interim president of York College in Queens, New York, to succeed Dr. Bernecea Johnson Eanes, who will be stepping down to become president of California State University, Los Angeles. York College, a camp...

Some HBCUs May Also Have to Face the Issue of Legacy Admissions

by Al-Tony Gilmore Since the Supreme Court’s affirmative action ruling, the conversation and debates on legacy admissions – the preferential treatment given to the children of alumni in the college admissions process – have moved cl...

Study Presents Data on the Benefits of HBCUs for Black Students

A recent report from the Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University suggests that the type of college where Black students initially enroll could narrow racial disparities in degree completion and influence students’ long-term fina...

Barbara J. Johnson Will Be the Next Dean of Perimeter College at Georgia State University

Barbara J. Johnson has been named the next dean of Perimeter College at Georgia State University, effective February 12. “As a first-generation college graduate, I am honored and excited to join Georgia State University, a national leader in social m...

Discriminatory Managers Negatively Impact Output of All Workers

A recent study by Nicholas Heiserman of Oklahoma State University and Brent Simpson of the University of South Carolina finds that when people work for discriminatory managers, they put in less effort. That’s true both when managers are biased agains...

Monique Guillory Will Be the Next Provost at Dillard University in New Orleans

Monique Guillory was appointed provost and chief academic and enrollment officer at Dillard University in New Orleans, effective April 1, 2024. Most recently, she has been chief of staff and senior vice president for the University of the District of...

Julius B. Fleming, Jr. Selected to Receive the Hooks National Book Award

Julius B. Fleming, Jr., assistant professor of English at the University of Maryland, College Park, is the winner of the Hooks National Book Award from the Benjamin L. Hooks Institute for Social Change at the University of Memphis. Dr. Fleming is bei...

Fayetteville State University’s New Initiative to Boost Energy Efficieny

Historically Black Fayetteville State University in North Carolina is one of nine educational institutions to receive funding from the U.S. Department of Energy to establish a new Build Training and Assessment Center. The Fayetteville-Cumberland Regi...

De’Etra Young Received the U.S. Department of Agriculture National Teaching Award

De’Etra Young, associate dean for academics and land-grant programs at Tennessee State University, received the U.S. Department of Agriculture National Teaching Award. The national award, presented by the Association of Public and Land-grant Universi...

The Revival of Morgan State University’s Wrestling Program

Morgan State University in Baltimore is now the country’s only HBCU with a D-I wrestling program. Morgan State had discontinued its wrestling program 25 years ago. Kenny Monday, an NCAA champion at Oklahoma State University and the first Black wrestl...

Frank X Walker Is the Grand Prize Winner of the 2023 Black Authors Matter Children’s Book Awards.

Frank X Walker, a professor at the University of Kentucky, is the grand prize winner of the 2023 Black Authors Matter Children’s Book Awards. The Black Authors Matter Children’s Book Awards were established to honor excellence in African American lit...

North Carolina A&T State University Participating in a Department of Defense Program

Historically Black North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University has selected 20 student representatives as inaugural cohort members of the Defense Civilian Training Corps (DCTC), a pilot program initiated by the U.S. Department of Defen...

Three Black Men in New Administrative Posts at State Universities

Nathan Cochran was appointed director of athletics at South Carolina State University. He arrives from Walsh University in Canton, Ohio, where he has served as athletics director and vice president for athletics since February 2023. Earlier, he was e...

In Memoriam: Willie Ruff, 1931-2023

Willie Ruff, professor emeritus of music at the Yale School of Music died of December 24 in Killen, Alabama. He was 92 years old. Professor Ruff grew up in Sheffield, Alabama, and joined the Army at 14, forging his father’s signature on the nec...