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Courtney Phillips has been appointed vice president of health affairs and chief health officer at Louisiana State University. She has held numerous leadership positions in the healthcare field, including secretary of the Louisiana Department of Healt...
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Faith Ringgold, visual artist, activist, and long-time professor with the University of California, San Diego, passed away on April 12. She was 93 years old. Ringgold’s career as an artist spanned nearly six decades. She was a mixed media artis...
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Roscoe Hightower Jr., professor of marketing at historically Black Florida A&M University, passed away unexpectedly on April 4. He was 58 years old. Dr. Hightower’s career in academia began in 1997 as an assistant professor of marketing wit...
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O. Jerome Green, president of Shorter College, passed away unexpectedly on April 8 at the age of 69. In 2012, Green became the forty-fifthth president of Shorter College, a private, faith-based, historically Black two-year college in North Little Roc...
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A recent report from the United States Government Accountability Office has documented a large underrepresentation of Black faculty members in higher education. The same report also revealed a frequent delay by the Department of Education when referr...
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Christopher Span has been appointed dean of the Graduate School of Education at Rutgers University in New Jersey, effective July 1. Dr. Span currently serves as a professor of education policy, organization, and leadership at the University of Illino...
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A new study led by Xiaolong Hou, a graduate student at the University of Georgia, has examined the uptake of COVID-19 vaccines among Black and White communities across the United States in an effort to further analyze health disparities between the t...
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Corrie Fountain, associate provost for faculty affairs at Georgia State University, has been selected to serve as interim provost and vice president for academic affairs at Clayton State University in Morrow, Georgia. She will join the Clayton State...
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A new report from the Consumer Federation of America has found over six million Americans own uninsured homes, approximately 7.4 percent of all United States homeowners. Black homeowners are disproportionately impacted by the lack of housing insuranc...
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Lawrence P. Ward has been selected to serve as the seventh president of the University of Hartford in Connecticut starting on July 1. The University of Hartford enrolls roughly 4,000 undergraduate and 1,800 graduate students. African Americans repres...
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Virginia State University has been approved to offer a new master of business administration degree program starting in the fall 2024 semester. Once the program is launched, the university will be first public historically Black college or university...
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Erica Armstrong Dunbar has been named professor in the department of African American studies at Emory University in Atlanta. Since 2017, she has served as the Charles and Mary Beard Distinguished Professor of History at Rutgers University in New Jer...
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Historically Black Delaware State University has signed a memorandum of understanding with Endeavor Air to join the airline’s Students to Endeavor Pilots (STEP) program. The new initiative will provide students in the university’s profess...
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Bruce Ovbiagele, associate dean and professor of neurology at the University of California, San Francisco, has received the W. Lester Henry Award for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion from the American College of Physicians. The award is presented to...
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Chevron USA, Inc. has partnered with the Fab Foundation. a non-profit organization dedicated to STEM education, to establish “Chevron Fab Labs” at two historically Black institutions, Fort Valley State University in Georgia and Florida A&...
