Category : Education

The Dwindling Number of Black Tenured and Tenure Track Faculty at Penn State

A new study by Gary King, a professor of biobehavioral health, and Darryl Thomas, an associate professor of African American studies, examines the status of African Americans on the faculty of Pennsylvania State University. The report notes that̶...

Condoleezza Rice Appointed Director of the Hoover Institution at Stanford University

Condoleezza Rice, the Denning Professor in Global Business at the Graduate School of Business and the Thomas and Barbara Stephenson Senior Fellow on public policy at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, was named the Tad and Dianne Taube Di...

Report Finds That a Lack of Trust Impacts Retention Rates of Black Teachers

A new study by researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, examined the racial disparity in the teacher workforce in Wisconsin and discovers possible reasons why these disparities persist. The report shows that 9 percent of all Wisconsin sc...

The First African American Woman to Serve as Athletic Director in the Southeastern Conference

Candice Storey Lee has been named interim vice chancellor for athletics and university affairs and interim athletic director at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee. Dr. Lee is Vanderbilt’s first woman athletic director. She is also the firs...

Study Finds Prosecutor Bias May Not Be a Major Factor in Criminal Justice Inequities

It is widely known that the prison populations of most states are disproportionately Black. Previous studies have suggested that a major factor in the disparity is prosecutors’ bias in pursuing cases against Black defendants while going easier...

Adrien Bennings Is the First African American President of Kellogg Community College

Adrien L. Bennings has been chosen to serve as the sixth president of Kellogg Community College in Battle Creek, Michigan. She is the first woman and the first African American to hold the position. Kellogg Community College enrolls just over 4,200 s...

Bethune-Cookman University President Pleads for Help From Alumni

In a letter to alumni, E. LaBrent Chrite, president of Bethune-Cookman University in Daytona Beach, Florida, declared that the university needed their help in order to secure the future of the university. In the letter, President Chrite stated that “...

Five African American Scholars Who Are Taking on New Assignments

Jacqueline Jones LaMon, a professor and an associate dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, has been given the additional duties of vice president of diversity and inclusion at Adelphi University in Garden City, New York. Previous roles she has se...

The Amistad Murals Come Home to Talladega College

Talladega College in Alabama recently opened the Dr. William R. Harvey Museum of Art, the new permanent home for the world-renowned Amistad Murals. Dr. Harvey, a Talladega College alumnus and now president of Hampton University, contributed $1.3 mill...

Suzanne L. Weekes Received Teaching Award From the Mathematical Association of America

Suzanne L. Weekes, a professor in the mathematical sciences department at Worcester Polytechnic Institute in Massachusetts, has received the prestigious Deborah and Franklin Tepper Haimo Award for Distinguished College or University Teaching of Mathe...

Eight HBCUs Participate in the Honda Battle of the Bands in Atlanta

The 17th Honda Battle of the Bands was held recently in Atlanta. Marching bands from eight historically Black colleges and universities participated in the showcase before a crowd of nearly 60,000 fans. This year’s Honda Battle of the Bands Invitatio...

Colleges and Universities Appoint Eight African Americans to Administrative Posts

Piper Mitchell has been appointed assistant university legal counsel for North Carolina Central University in Durham. She was associate general counsel for Events DC, the official convention and sports authority for the District of Columbia. Earlier,...

Texas Southern University’s Board of Regents Ousts President Austin Lane

Last month, Austin A. Lane, the president of Texas Southern University in Houston was placed on administrative leave with pay. Now the university has terminated his contract. The board of regents alleges that President Lane knew of irregularities in...

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...