Category : Education

Lena Hill Will Be the Next Provost at Washington and Lee University in Lexington, Virginia

Lena Hill has been appointed to be the next provost at Washington and Lee University in Lexington, Virginia, beginning July 1, 2021. Dr. Hill currently serves as dean of the College and professor of English and Africana studies at the university. She...

Does the FBI’s Hate Crime Data Present A True Vision of Reality?

The Federal Bureau of Investigation has issued its annual study of reported hate crimes in the United States. In 2019, there 7,314 hate crime incidents reported to the federal agency by local law enforcement agencies. Of the reported hate crime incid...

West Liberty University in West Virginia Names Its First Black President in Its 183-Year History

The board of governors of West Liberty University in West Virginia has named W. Franklin Evans the university’s 37th president. When he takes office on January 1, Dr. Evans will be the first African-American president in the university’s 183-year his...

Three Black Women Who Have Been Appointed Deans at State Universities

Doneka Scott will be the next vice chancellor and dean of the Division of Academic and Student Affairs at North Carolina State University. She has been serving as vice provost for undergraduate education and student success at the University of Orego...

Danielle Phillips-Cunningham Honored by the National Women’s Studies Association

Danielle Phillips-Cunningham, an associate professor of multicultural women’s and gender studies at Texas Woman’s University, is the recipient of a 2020 National Women’s Studies Association’s Sara A. Whaley Book Prize. The Sar...

Emery Brown Awarded the Swartz Prize for Theoretical and Computational Neuroscience

Emery N. Brown, the Edward Hood Taplin Professor of Medical Engineering and Computational Neuroscience at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, received the Swartz Prize for Theoretical and Computational Neuroscience from the Society for Neurosc...

Augusta National Creates Scholarships and Funds New Women’s Golf Program at Paine College

Historically Black Paine College in Augusta, Georgia, and the Augusta National Golf Club, the home of the Masters Tournament, one of professional golf’s four majors, have entered into a partnership that will set up an endowed scholarship fund n...

Four African American Scholars Who Have Been Hired or Promoted to New Positions

Reuben A. Buford May is the new Florian Znaniecki Professorial Scholar and professor of sociology in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at the University of Illinois. He had been a member of the faculty at Texas A&M University. Professor Ma...

Morgan State University in Baltimore to Expand Its STEM Degree Offerings

The Morgan State Univerity Board of Regents voted unanimously to add several multidisciplinary programs in STEM fields. The university announced plans to offer a bachelor’s degree program in mechatronics engineering. Morgan State will be the th...

Professor Claude Steele Honored for a Lifetime of Work in Social Psychology

Claude Steele, professor emeritus in the social sciences at Stanford University, has received the Legacy Award from the Society of Personality and Social Psychology. The Legacy Award honors figures whose career contributions have shaped the field. Th...

North Carolina A&T Enters Into a Partnership With Arch Mortgage Insurance Company

Arch Mortgage Insurance Company has entered into a partnership with North Carolina A&T State University, the largest historically Black colleges and universities in the nation, to create a scholarship program designed to provide financial sup...

Center for Women, Gender and Global Leadership Established at Howard University

Historically Black Howard University in Washington, D.C., announced that it is establishing the Center for Women, Gender and Global Leadership. The new center will be an interdisciplinary, student-centered, faculty-led institute that works with profe...

Oklahoma State University Bestows Additional Honors on Its First Black Student

In 1949, Nancy Randolph Davis became the first African-American student to enroll at what was then Oklahoma A&M College, now Oklahoma State University. A year earlier, she received her bachelor’s degree in home economics from historically Black L...

Racist Caller Leaves Offensive Voice Mail Messages at Simmons College of Kentucky

Administrators at Historically Black Simmons College of Kentucky in Louisville received at least two racially offensive voice mails following the presidential election. One caller left a message that said: “”Boy ya know, a few, me and a f...

Higher Education Grants or Gifts of Interest to African Americans

Here is this week’s news of grants or gifts to historically Black colleges and universities or for programs of particular interest to African Americans in higher education. The Black Women’s Health Imperative has announced that it will launch the SEE...