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North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University, a historically Black educational institution in East Greensboro, has announced that it will offer a new master’s degree program in health psychology through the College of Health a...
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Nwando Achebe, the Jack and Margaret Sweet Endowed Professor of History at Michigan State University, has been assigned the additional duties of associate dean for diversity, equity, and inclusion for the College of Social Science. She is the author...
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Melissa J. Holloway, general counsel for legal affairs at North Carolina A&T State University in East Greensboro, has received the 2019-20 Distinguished Service Award from the National Association of College and University Attorneys (NACUA). The...
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Claflin University, a historically Black educational institution in Orangeburg, South Carolina, has announced it has entered into a partnership with Zoom Video that encompasses internships, scholarships and curricula development. The partnership will...
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Michael Snowden has been selected to serve as vice president for diversity and inclusion at Northwestern State University in Natchitoches, Louisiana. Since 2001, he has served as chief diversity officer, ADA coordinator, Title IX coordinator, and dir...
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Ronald “Black Horse” Chavers, a philosopher and professor of cultural and symbolic studies, affiliated with the Intercultural Open University, died on July 5 in Utrecht in the Netherlands. He was 89 years old and had been in declining hea...
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American colleges and universities raise funds by issuing bonds. In the first half of the year, more than $27 billion was raised in this manner. But, according to data compiled by Pensions & Investments, Howard University is the only historically...
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The archive of the renowned architect Paul Revere Williams (1894–1980) has been jointly acquired by the University of Southern California School of Architecture and the Getty Research Institute. The archive has been meticulously cared for by Karen E...
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Roanoke College in Salem, Virginia, has established an academic center dedicated to the study of historical and contemporary issues dealing with race and the legacies of slavery in modern American society. The Center for Studying Structures of Race w...
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Georgia State University’s College of Arts & Sciences has established the Center for Studies on Africa and its Diaspora, a multidisciplinary hub for the exchange of cultural, scientific, economic, policy and humanities knowledge within the univer...
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Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, North Carolina has published a new report with several essays concerning the educational institution’s ties to slavery. The university was founded on the grounds of an old plantation near Raleigh in 1834...
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The West Virginia State University board of governors has chosen Nicole Pride to become the 12th president of the university. Dr. Pride will be the first woman president of the university. West Virginia State University in Institute, West Virginia, e...
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A new study led by researchers at Auburn University in Alabama has found that very few scientists of color are referred to in popular biology textbooks. The research team, which included scholars from Michigan State University, the University of Sout...
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Stephen Kolison, Jr. has been named the fourteenth president of the State University of New York at Fredonia. He is scheduled to take office on August 17. SUNY Fredonia, in far western New York State near the shores of Lake Erie, enrolls about 4,400...
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A new working paper published by the Washington Center for Equitable Growth finds a significant racial gap in property tax rates. The paper was authored by Carlos Avenancio-León of Indiana of University, Bloomington and Troup Howard of the University...
