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Kobena Mercer was named the Charles P. Stevenson Chair in Art History and the Humanities at Bard College in Annandale-on-Hudson, New York. He will hold a joint appointment in the art history and visual culture program in the undergraduate college and...
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Morgan State University, the historically Black educational institution in Baltimore, has received approval from its board of regents to offer a host of new degree programs. The new programs will be added to the 126 academic programs currently offere...
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Location: Phoenix, Arizona Open Date: February 5, 2021 Description: Thunderbird School of Global Management at Arizona State University seeks to hire several full-time, tenure-track professors (assistant, associate or full rank) in a range of fields...
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Aisha Jackson is the inaugural assistant vice chancellor and assistant vice provost for academic and learning technologies at the University of Colorado Boulder. She joined the staff at the university in 2010 and had been serving as director of acade...
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The University of Maryland Eastern Shore and Salisbury University have renewed an academic partnership allowing students to earn two undergraduate degrees in four and a half years. The dual-degree program in physics and engineering will streamline in...
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Esther Ngumbi, an assistant professor of entomology at the University of Illinois is the 2021 recipient of the Mani L. Bhaumik Award for Public Engagement with Science, an annual award given out by the American Association for the Advancement of Scie...
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The aviation program at historically Black Elizabeth City State Univerity in North Carolina will benefit from a $25 million U.S. Coast Guard grant to fund the restoration of runways at the Elizabeth City Regional Airport. The grant will pay for repai...
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Leon S. John Jr. was appointed executive director of diversity and inclusion at Cedar Crest College in Allentown, Pennsylvania, effective March 1. Dr. John has been serving as director of alumni engagement at East Stroudsburg University in Pennsylvan...
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Edward Crosby, a long-time faculty member at Kent State University in Ohio, died on February 10. He was 88 years old. A native of Cleveland, Dr. Crosby used the GI Bill to earn a bachelor’s degree and a master’s degree in medieval German...
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Josetta Brittain Matthews Six months after Governor George Wallace made his “stand in the schoolhouse door” in a futile attempt to stop the racial integration of the University of Alabama, a similar drama took place when Harold A. Frankli...
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The Colored Conventions Project (CCP) is a scholarly and community research project focused on digitally preserving Black political activism from the 1830s to 1890s. Founded in a graduate class at the University of Delaware, the CCP brings together i...
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The board of visitors at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia, has appointed Brian O. Hemphill as the ninth president of the public university. When he takes office in July, Dr. Hemphill will be Old Dominion’s first African American pre...
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New data from the U.S. Census Bureau offers a look at the college enrollment status of 2019 high school graduates. That year there were 3,185,000 students who graduated from high school. Slightly more than two-thirds of these students were enrolled i...
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Deborah Archer was elected president of the national board of the American Civil Liberties Union. The board, consisting of 69 members, sets matters of organizational policy and substantive civil liberties policies. It also oversees issues related to...
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A new study led by researchers at Harvard Medical School shows that had reparations for slavery been awarded to African Americans prior to the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, the racial disparity in infections, hospitalizations, and death rates due t...
