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We reported last week on a significant increase in the number of students from sub-Saharan Africa who were studying in the United States during the 2023-24 academic year. What about U.S. students studying abroad in sub-Saharan African nations? Accord...
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After five months of service as acting president, Kimo Ah Yun has been named the twenty-fifth president of Marquette University in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He is the first person of color to lead the university in its 143-year history. According to the...
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Three decades ago, women and men between 24 and 35 years old were just as likely to have completed an undergraduate education, with about a quarter of each group holding bachelor’s degrees in 1995. Today, the share of young women in the United...
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Darrin Martin has been appointed as the seventeenth president of historically Black Bluefield State University in West Virginia. He has served as the university’s interim president for the past year. According to the Department of EducationR...
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While heart disease is the leading cause of death for all Americans, Black adults in the United States are significantly more likely than other racial groups to experience cardiovascular disorders and less likely to receive quality healthcare for hea...
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Harold L. Martin, Sr., chancellor emeritus at North Carolina A&T State University, has been awarded the Peter McPherson Lifetime Achievement Award from the Association of Public and Land-Grant Universities (APLU). The prize recognizes individuals...
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Morgan State University in Baltimore has recorded its fourth consecutive year of record first-year student growth and overall student enrollment. Morgan’s current reported student enrollment stands at 10,739, a 9.4 percent increase over the previous...
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Albany State University, a historically Black educational institution in Georgia, has recently announced the establishment of ASURams Global, a new strategic unit that will oversee the HBCU’s online learning and continuing education programming...
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The department of head and neck surgery and communication sciences at Duke University School of Medicine has recently received funding from the National Institutes of Health’s National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders to...
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Herman Taylor, professor and director of the Cardiovascular Research Institute at Morehouse School of Medicine in Atlanta, has been awarded the 2024 Clinical Research Prize from the American Heart Association. Throughout his career, Dr. Taylor has co...
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Morgan State University, a historically Black educational institution in Baltimore, has received a $5 million grant from the National Nuclear Security Administration to launch the Scholarly Partnership in Nuclear Engineering (SPINE) program, a five-y...
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Aundrea Self has been appointed director of outreach and engagement for the College of Business. She comes to her new role after nearly three decades with WCBI-TV, a Columbus, Mississippi-based television channel. Throughout her long tenure with the...
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by Michael Davis and Olajiwon K. McCadney Nationally, men of color face disparities in educational attainment and employment outcomes compared to their peers. Community colleges, often serving as a gateway to higher education for underserved populati...
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The Tom & Ethel Bradley Center at California State University, Northridge, has acquired a collection of photographs taken by Vera Jackson to add to the university’s existing archive of materials regarding African American photojournalists....
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Margaree S. Crosby, the first tenured African American woman professor in the College of Education at Clemson University in South Carolina, passed away on November 8. She was 82 years old. Years before her career in higher education, Dr. Crosby was a...
