Category : Education

Three Alabama HBCUs Participating in Industrial Hemp Research Project

Historically Black Tuskegee University, Alabama State University, Alabama A&M University, along with two other state universities in Alabama, have been selected by the state of Alabama to grow and study industrial hemp, a non-intoxicating cannabi...

Nine African Americans Who Were Appointed to Administrative Posts in Higher Education

John B. Wilson has been appointed vice president and chief information officer at Spelman College in Atlanta. He was the director of enterprise information systems at the Georgia Institute of Technology. Earlier. Wilson served for 17 years as a senio...

New UCLA Online Video Archive Devoted to Former Los Angeles Mayor Tom Bradley

The University of California, Los Angeles Film & Television Archive is the world’s largest university-based moving image archive. It recently announced the creation of the new online archive devoted to news footage of former Los Angeles mayor and...

New Boise State University President Pressured to End Diversity and Inclusion Programs

Earlier this month, Marlene Tromp assumed the duties of president of Boise State University in Idaho. She is the first woman to lead the university. Soon after taking office, President Tromp received a letter from 28 GOP members of the Idaho House of...

Three Black Academics Who Have Stepped Down From Their University Posts

Hazel V. Carby, the Charles C. & Dorathea S. Dilley Professor Emerita of African American Studies & American Studies at Yale University, retired from full-time teaching this spring after serving 30 years on the Yale faculty. As a world-renown...

Three African Americans Appointed to Positions as Deans

Stevie Watson is the inaugural dean of the School of Agriculture, Business & Technology at the State University of New York at Morrisville. He was dean of the School of Business at Edgewood College in Madison, Wisconsin. Earlier, Dr. Watson was c...

Andrea Jackson Is the New Dean of the Howard University College of Dentistry

Andrea D. Jackson was appointed dean of the College of Dentistry at Howard University in Washington, D.C. The college is the fifth oldest dental school in the United States and one of only two dental schools at historically Black educational institut...

Racial Differences in College Persistence and Retention Rates

A new report from the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center finds that college student persistence and retention rates are on the rise. The “persistence rate” is measured by the percentage of first-time, entering students who return to colle...

Peggy Valentine Appointed to Lead Fayetteville State University in North Carolina

The University of North Carolina System has announced the appointment of Peggy Valentine as interim chancellor of Fayetteville State University. She will take office on August 7. The university enrolls nearly 5,400 undergraduate students and more tha...

Does Rising Neighborhood Diversity Lead to a Drop in Social Capital?

A new study led by Willie Belton, an associate professor of economics at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, examined 15 years of county-level U.S. Census data with details on Black, Latino, White, and Asian population. The researchers al...

Angela Peters Appointed Provost at Albany State University in Georgia

Angela Peters was appointed provost and vice president of academic affairs at Albany State University in Georgia. She will assume her new duties on August 5. In accepting the appointment, Dr. Peters stated: “I am honored and humbled to join the leade...

New Report Finds Residential Segregation Remains Rampant in the United States

A new report from the Center for American Progress shows that significant disparities still exist between African Americans and non-Hispanic Whites in terms of access to homeownership. This, in turn, hinders the ability of African American families t...

The New Leader of the International Association of Sickle Cell Nurses and Professional Associates

Dora Clayton-Jones has been named president of the International Association of Sickle Cell Nurses and Professional Associates. The organization provides a platform for nurses, nurse practitioners, physician assistants, social workers, sickle cell a...

Emory University’s Vanessa Siddle Walker to Receive the Lilliam Smith Book Award

The Southern Regional Council in conjunction with the University of Georgia, Piedmont College, and the Georgia Center for the Book have announced three winners of the 2019 Lillian Smith Book Awards. The three winners will be honored on September 1 at...

A New Degree in Health Services Management at North Carolina A&T State University

North Carolina A&T State University, the historically Black educational institution in Greensboro, has announced that it is establishing a new bachelor’s degree program in health services management in the College of Health and Human Scienc...