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A new study led by scholars from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and the University of Minnesota has linked historic racial discrimination in property ownership to disparities in heat exposure in Minneapolis, Minnesota, neighborhoods. The...
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Tracy M. Cook has been named the twenty-first president of Alcorn State University in Mississippi. He has served as interim president for the past eight months. Alcorn State University is a historically Black educational inatitution that enrolls abou...
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YouScience, a technology provider for solving skill gaps in students and employers, in partnership with the nonprofit organization Black Girls Do STEM, have released the 2024 Black Students and STEM Report, which outlines Black students’ aptitu...
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The Urbana Arts and Culture Program has appointed Ruby Mendenhall, the Kathryn Lee Baynes Dallenbach Professor in Liberal Arts and Sciences at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, as Poet Laureate for the city of Urbana, Illinois. Dr. Mendenh...
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Gloria Jackson, former president of St. Philip’s College in Texas, passed away on March 23, 2024. She was 92 years old. Dr. Jackson had a career in higher education that spanned five decades. Her professional academic career began at historical...
- 3 weeks ago
Historically Black Saint Augustine’s University in Raleigh, North Carolina, is transitioning to full remote-learning in April. The university has asked all students to move out by April 3. The move to online-learning comes in the midst of an ac...
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Crystal Fleming has been appointed professor of Africana studies with tenure at Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts. She currently serves as a professor of sociology and Africana Studies at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. She...
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Following the suicide of Antoinette Candia-Bailey, vice president for student affairs at Lincoln University in Jefferson City, Missouri, a third-party investigation was launched to review her claims of mistreatment and bullying by Lincoln University...
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Shawna Patterson-Stephens, vice president for inclusive excellence and belonging at Central Michigan University, has been honored with the 2024 Bobby E. Leach Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion award from the National Association of Student Personnel A...
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Morgan State University, a historically Black university in Baltimore, Maryland, received 13 patents in 2023, the highest number of patents ever received by an HBCU in a calendar year. Patents awarded to students and faculty of Morgan State Universit...
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Donald R. Pearsall has been appointed interim assistant vice president of auxiliary enterprise at historically Black Alabama A&M University. He has an extensive career in auxiliary services, most recently serving as associate vice president for f...
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Shani Tahir Mott, a lecturer in the department of history and Center for Africana Studies at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, passed away on March 12. She was 47 years old. Dr. Mott first joined the faculty at Johns Hopkins University in 2008....
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Recently, California State University, Sacramento established a first of its kind Black Honors College which will support students from all backgrounds who study Black history, life, and culture. Starting in the fall 2024 semester, students who have...
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Norman B. Anderson, assistant vice president for research and academic affairs at Florida State University, passed away on March 1. He was 68 years old. Dr. Anderson’s career began with Duke University in 1983, where he started as a postdoctora...
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Two professors from Georgia State University, Anu Bourgeois and Nannette Napier, have established a new program that supports Black women students interested in computing and technical fields. The initiative was funded through a $500,000 grant from t...
