Category : Education

- 1 month ago

Five Black Leaders Appointed to Administrative Positions

Tania D. Mitchell has been named the inaugural associate provost for community engagement at the University of Maryland. Dr. Mitchell currently serves as the Rodney Wallace Professor for the Advancement of Teaching and Learning and chair of the depar...

- 1 month ago

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...

- 1 month ago

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...

- 1 month ago

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. &...