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Jeremi London has been named assistant provost of academic opportunity and belonging in the Office of Undergraduate Education at Vanderbilt University in Tennessee. In this role, Dr. London will lead programs that broaden undergraduate students’...
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Jesse Henry Hurst II, longtime educator and football coach at historically black Texas Southern University, passed away January 26, 2024 at the age of 82. An alumnus of Texas Southern University, Dr. Hurst served the school and its athletic programs...
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The Vanderbilt University Press has established the Global Black Writers in Translation trade series beginning in 2025. The new series will translate texts by authors of African descent from their original source language into English. By publishing...
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Cleon F. Thompson, former chancellor of historically Black Winston-Salem State University in North Carolina, passed away on January 27. He was 92 years old. Dr. Thompson served as chancellor of Winston-Salem State University for 10 years. Some of Dr....
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The National Science Foundation recently released its annual data on doctoral degree recipients in the United States. Data for the annual Survey of Earned Doctorates shows that universities in the United States conferred 57,596, doctorates in 2022, u...
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Cecil Howard, the recently appointed associate provost for the College of Law at historically Black Florida A&M University, will be the temporary acting dean of the college following the resignation of current dean, Deidre Keller, who retains her...
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A new study led by researchers at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign has found White public high school teachers tend to avoid conversations surrounding race with their Black students and colleagues due to a sense that their identity, both p...
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Keith Elder has been named the twenty-second president of Saint Xavier University in Chicago, Illinois. He will assume his presidency on March 1, 2024. Saint Xavier University enrolls roughly 2,400 undergraduate students and 600 graduate students. Bl...
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A study led by researchers at Northwestern University in Chicago have found disparities in the health care of children of color compared to that of White children. The study compiled data from other recent studies regarding children’s health ca...
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Nicholas Holmes has been named the next president of the University of California San Francisco Benioff Children’s Hospital and senior vice president of the University of California San Francisco Health Children’s Services. Dr. Holmes is...
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Maurice Cox has been named the 2024 laureate of the Henry Hope Reed Award at the University of Notre Dame, which entails $50,000 granted by the Dreihaus Trust of Chicago in the name of Richard H. Driehaus. The prize honors Cox’s contributions t...
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A case claiming the state of Florida discriminated against historically Black Florida A&M University has been dismissed by United States District Judge Robert Hinkle. The lawsuit was filed by six students from the university who allege the state...
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Ernest Pierre-Louis was promoted to associate director of the Black Male Initiative and financial operations at the City University of New York. He has been serving as an executive assistant to the vice president of student affairs. Pierre-Louis is a...
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Meharry Medical College, a historically Black educational institution in Nashville, Tennessee, has signed a memorandum of understanding with Kaohsiung Medical University in Taiwan. The agreement will allow both institutions the opportunity to coopera...
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Oscar Barton, professor and dean of the Clarence M. Mitchell Jr. School of Engineering at historically Black Morgan State University in Baltimore, has received the Edwin F. Church Medal from the American Society of Mechanical Engineers. The medal is...
