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United States Senator Katie Britt has announced a $6.7 million investment to launch an aviation program at historically Black Tuskegee University in Alabama. Currently undergoing accreditation approval from the Southern Association of College and Sch...
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Dexter L. Blackman has been named director of African American and African diaspora studies at historically Black Morgan State University in Baltimore, Maryland. He has been with the university for the past six years, serving as an associate professo...
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Virginia State University, the historically Black university in Petersburg, Virginia, has been approved to establish its 14th master’s degree program: a master of science degree in data analytics. The new program will be housed in the universit...
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Samuel Frimpong, professor and vice provost for graduate education at the Missouri University of Science and Technology, has received the 2024 Mineral Industry Education Award from the Society for Mining, Metallurgy, and Exploration. He was recognize...
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Historically Black North Carolina A&T State University has partnered with the University of North Carolina Eshelman School of Pharmacy to create a pathway program for NCAT students to pursue a doctoral degree in pharmacy. The Early Assurance Prog...
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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...
