Category : Education

In Memoriam: Stanley Lawrence Crouch, 1945-2020

Stanley Crouch, a former faculty member at Pomona College in Claremont, California, poet, as well as a syndicated newspaper columnist, novelist and acclaimed jazz critic died on September 16 in New York City. He was 74 years old. A native of Los Ang...

University of California, Irvine Launches the Black Thriving Initiative

The new Black Thriving Initiative at the University of California, Irvine aims to mobilize the whole university to promote Black student success, degree completion, and advancement in academic programs, with a goal of making the university a first ch...

The Next Chancellor of the Berks Campus of Pennsylvania State University in Reading

George Grant Jr. has been named chancellor of the Berks Campus of Pennsylvania State University in Reading. He will begin his appointment on January 4, 2021. The Penn State Berks campus enrolls about 2,900 students. “I’m excited and honored to be the...

Blacks Are Underrepresented in Georgia’s Merit-Based College Scholarship Programs

The HOPE and Zell Miller Scholarships have made college more accessible and affordable for more than a million college students since Georgia voters approved the creation of the lottery-funded scholarships and grants more than 25 years ago. A new rep...

Parneshia Jones Appointed Director of Northwestern University Press

Parneshia Jones was appointed director of Northwestern University Press. She will be only the second Black woman to lead a university press in the United States. Northwestern University Press publishes works in philosophy, the performing arts, fictio...

Does Exposure to Racism Increase the Likelihood of Activism by Black Adolescents?

A new study from scholars at North Carolina State University and the University of Virginia finds that experiences with racism are associated with increased social consciousness and social justice activism in Black youth. “There are many reasons that...

University of Chicago English Department to Only Accept Grad Students Focused on Black Studies

The English department at the University of Chicago announced that “for the 2020-2021 graduate admissions cycle, the University of Chicago English department is accepting only applicants interested in working in and with Black Studies.” The dep...

Racial Disparities in Food Insecurity and Depression Among College Students During the Pandemic

New data from The Student Experience in the Research University Consortium, an academic and policy research collaboration based at the Center for Studies in Higher Education at the University of California, Berkeley, shows racial differences in how c...

Howard University School of Business Names Two Black Women to Assistant Dean Posts

The Howard University School of Business announced the appointment of two African American women to assistant dean positions. Yuvay Meyers Ferguson will serve as assistant dean of impact and engagement. She is an associate professor of marketing in t...

IBM Announces a $100 Million Commitment to HBCUs

The technology giant IBM has announced the establishment of the quantum education and research initiative for historically Black colleges and universities (HBCU), aimed at driving a diverse and inclusive quantum workforce. Led by Howard University an...

U.S. News and World Report Offers Its Picks for the Nation’s Best HBCUs

The magazine U.S. News and World Report recently issued its annual rankings of the best colleges and universities in the United States. In addition to its rankings of the best national universities and liberal arts colleges, the magazine ranks region...

Four African Americans Taking on New Faculty Assignments

C. Vanessa White is the new associate director of the master’s degree program in theology in the Institute for Black Catholic Studies at Xavier University in New Orleans. Dr. White is an associate professor of spirituality and ministry at the u...

Howard University’s Kehbuma Langmia Honored by the National Communication Association

Kehbuma Langmia, professor and chair of the department of strategic, legal and management communications at Howard University in Washington, D.C., is the 2020 recipient of the Orlando L. Taylor Distinguished Scholarship Award in Africana Communicatio...

Some HBCUs Are Bucking the Trend in Higher Education Enrollment Declines

At a time when many colleges and universities are struggling to maintain enrollments at levels of the past several years, many historically Black colleges and universities are seeing increases in enrollments with some schools achieving all-time recor...

Colleges and Universities Announces the Hiring of Seven African Americans to Administrative Posts

Travis Johnson was named chief information officer at South Carolina State University. He is the former director of information technology at Denmark Technical College and CIO at Benedict College and Newberry College. Johnson is a graduate of Claflin...