Category : Education

University of Georgia to Rename Its College of Education to Honor Its First Black Graduate

The University of Georgia’s College of Education will be renamed next year to honor the school’s first African American graduate, Mary Frances Early. Charlayne Hunter and Hamilton Holmes were the first African American students to enroll...

Five African Americans Who Are Taking on New Administrative Roles in Higher Education

Earl Brown was appointed executive director of academic partnerships and community relations for Berkeley College, which operates several campuses in the New York City metropolitan area. He was the campus operating officer for Berkeley College’...

Online Articles That May Be of Interest to JBHE Readers

Each week, The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education will provide links to online articles that may be of interest to our readers. The links presented direct the reader to articles from many different points of view that deal with issues of African A...

Recent Books of Interest to African American Scholars

The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education regularly publishes a list of new books that may be of interest to our readers. The books included are on a wide variety of subjects and present many different points of view. The opinions expressed in these...

Wake Forest University in North Carolina Is Examining Its Ties to Slavery

Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, has undertaken a major initiative to examine its ties to slavery. The university has joined Universities Studying Slavery (USS), a consortium of colleges and universities that are examining the...

Two American Universities Join Consortium to Improve Neonatal Care in Africa

The Newborn Essential Solutions and Technologies (NEST360°) initiative is an international group led primarily by female engineers, physicians, health experts and entrepreneurs from the United States, the United Kingdom, and Malawi. Its goal is t...

Higher Education Grants or Gifts of Interest to African Americans

Here is this week’s news of grants or gifts to historically Black colleges and universities or for programs of particular interest to African Americans in higher education. The University of Wisconsin-Madison is the lead institution in a three-year,...

Buffalo State Hires Three Faculty Members to Staff Its New Africana Studies Major

Buffalo State University is using funds from the State University of New York’s Promoting Recruitment, Opportunity, Diversity, Inclusion and Growth (PRODI-G) initiative to hire new faculty members to strengthen the university’s Black stud...

Black Students Respond to Racist Incident on the Campus of the University of Colorado at Boulder

Two Black students at the University of Colorado at Boulder were verbally abused by a White woman who is not affiliated with the university. After the incident, the Black Student Alliance issued a set of demands asking the campus to adhere to and add...

The University of Florida Has the Most Black Women Faculty in Engineering

At the flagship campus of the University of Florida in Gainesville, African Americans make up just 6 percent of the 35,000-member undergraduate student body, according to the latest data supplied to the U.S. Department of Education. African Americans...

Dwight A. McBride Named President of The New School in New Yok City

The New School in New York City has announced the appointment of Dwight A. McBride as the educational institution’s ninth president. When he takes office next spring, he will be the first person of color to lead The New School. The New School,...

New Report Offers Statistics on Pell Grant Recipients by Racial and Ethnic Group

Federal Pell grants are financial awards provided to undergraduate students who demonstrate significant financial need. Congress authorized the Pell Grant Program in 1972 with the passage of the Basic Educational Opportunity Grant Program. Federal Pe...

The New Provost at Worcester Polytechnic Institute in Massachusetts

Winston Oluwole Soboyejo has been appointed provost and senior vice president at Worcester Polytechnic Institute in Massachusetts. Worcester Polytechnic enrolls more than 4,600 undergraduate students and 2,200 graduate students, according to the late...

Study Finds That HBCUs Pay A Premium to Underwrite Tax-Exempt Bonds

A recent study led by Casey Dougal, an assistant professor of finance at Drexel University in Philadelphia, found that historically Black colleges and universities pay higher fees to underwriters than other colleges and universities to secure tax-exe...

A Trio of African Americans Who Have Been Appointed to Dean Positions

Dawn Brown McNair was appointed dean of mathematics and sciences at Livingstone College in Salisbury, Maryland. She was an associate professor of mathematics at Johnson C. Smith University in Charlotte, North Carolina. Dr. McNair is a graduate of the...