Category : Education

Yale Library Acquires Digital Collection of Langston Hughes Papers

In December 2023, the Yale University Library added 5800 new images to their digital library collections. Included in this upload was a collection of digitized personal correspondence and papers from Langston Hughes, a Black writer and poet from the...

Academic Fields Where Blacks Earned Few or No Doctoral Degrees in 2022

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 2,647 African Americans earned doctorates from U.S. universities in 2022....

Historically Black Central State University Appoints Morakinyo Kuti as President

Morakinyo A.O. Kuti has been selected as the next president of Central State University, a historically Black university in Wilberforce, Ohio. Central State University enrolls just over 5,400 undergraduate students, as well as roughly 30 graduate stu...

University of Alabama Creates Database Relating to History of Slavery on Campus

A group of researchers at the University of Alabama have established a new website compiling historical records of enslaved people who labored on the university’s campus before the start of the Civil War. The University of Alabama project is pa...

Manya Whitaker Will Be the New Leader of Colorado College

Manya Whitaker, executive vice president and chief of staff at Colorado College, has been selected to serve as the college’s interim president for the next two years. Dr. Whitaker’s selection follows the resignation of former president, L...

United Negro College Fund Outlines Best Practices for Teacher Education at HBCUs

The United Negro College Fund has released a new report outlining best practices for educating future teachers attending historically Black colleges and universities. The report was created in partnership with Huston-Tillotson University in Texas, Al...

Jackie Alexander is the First Black Woman President of the College Media Association

Jackie Alexander, director of student media at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, has been named president of the College Media Association. Her appointment makes her the association’s first president of color. Alexander has been a member...

Study Finds Young Black Women Are Six Times More Likely to Be Murdered Than White Women

A new study, led by Bernadine Waller, a researcher fellow at Columbia University, has found that on average, Black women under age 45 in the United States are six times more likely to be murdered than White women of the same age group. To investigate...

Two African American Women Appointed to Deanships

Aherial Polite has been named dean of the School of Arts and Sciences at Augusta Technical College in Georgia. She previously served as chair of the chemistry, physics, and nuclear technology department at Aiken Technical College in South Carolina. &...

Florida State University Professor Scotty Barnhart Wins His Third Grammy Award

Scotty Barnhart, associate professor of jazz trumpet at the Florida State University College of Music and director of the Count Basie Orchestra, has won this year’s Grammy for “Best Large Jazz Ensemble Album” for Count Basie Orchest...

Student Freedom Initiative and Steinberg Group Partner on $100 Million Project to Develop Affordable Housing at HBCUs

The Student Freedom Initiative, a nonprofit organization supporting historically Black colleges and universities through debt relief and investments, has partnered with the Steinbridge Group to develop affordable housing on or near HBCUs’ and o...

Four Black Professionals Appointed to Administrative Leadership Positions

Lydia Sermons has been appointed vice president and chief communications office at Howard University in the District of Columbia. She has served as vice president of strategic communications and marketing at Spelman College in Atlanta, Georgia, for t...

Virginia State University to Offer New Undergraduate Degree in Mechanical Engineering

The College of Engineering and Technology at historically Black Virginia State University will offer a new bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering starting in the Fall 2024 semester after recently receiving official approval from the State...

United States Department of Agriculture Honors Ozzie Abaye for Excellence in Teaching

The United States Department of Agriculture in partnership with the Association of Public and Land-Grant Universities has honored Ozzie Abaye, professor of crop and soil environmental sciences at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, w...

Two HBCUs Partner With Michigan State to Improve High School Science Education in the South

Michigan State University has partnered with two historically Black institutions, Alabama A&M University and Winston-Salem State University in North Carolina, to introduce their newly created Crafting Engaging Science Environments curriculum for...