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Travon Robinson was appointed inclusion, diversity, equity, and anti-racism officer at Butte College in Oroville, California. He has been serving as director of the Office of Diversity and Inclusion at California State Univerity, Chico. Robinson has...
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Carolyn Williams, former professor and president of Bronx Community College in New York City, died late last month at her home in Detroit, Michigan. She was 81 years old. Dr. Williams was named president of Bronx Community College in 1996. She was th...
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Dr. Al-Tony Gilmore, a Distinguished Historian Emeritus of the National Education Association, has researched, lectured, and published widely on the intersection of sports and society, including his seminal book, Bad Nigger: The National Impact of J...
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The University of Arkansas at Little Rock has established a collection of digitized material integrated into a map-based website that tracks how urban renewal changed the city of Little Rock in the decades following the Central High School desegregat...
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The Georgia African American Male Experience (GAAME) started in 2014 as a two-day transition program for Black males accepted into the University of Georgia. The program has grown into a multifaceted initiative that centers on the needs of Black male...
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The Louisiana State University board of supervisors has selected William Tate IV as the next president of the university and CEO of the Louisiana State Univerity System. When he takes office on July 1, he will be the first African American to serve a...
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Hiram C. Powell has been named interim president of Bethune-Cookman University in Daytona Beach, Florida, effective June 1. He was appointed to lead the university after E. LaBrent Chrite was named the ninth president of Bentley University in Waltham...
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A new report from the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center finds that in the first three months of the 2021 spring semester undergraduate enrollments are in their steepest declines so far since the pandemic began. Community college enrollme...
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The University of Oklahoma announced the appointment of AndreĢ-Denis Wright as senior vice president and provost for its flagship campus in Norman. He will begin his new duties on July 1. Dr. Wright currently serves as dean of the College of Agricult...
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A new report from the National Education Association presents a snapshot of faculty in higher education and their compensation just prior to the onset of the global COVID-19 pandemic. Once the pandemic hit, colleges and universities announced furloug...
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LaVonda N. Reed has been named dean of the College of Law at Georgia State University. She will be the college’s seventh dean and the first African American to hold the position. Professor Reed has been serving as associate provost for faculty...
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In 2012, when President Obama was locked in what was thought to be a very close election contest with Mitt Romney, Black voters went to the polls in record numbers. For the first time in American history, the voting rate for African Americans was hig...
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Miriam Delphin-Rittmon has been nominated by President Joe Biden to serve as Assistant Secretary for Mental Health and Substance Use with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. If confirmed she will lead the Substance Abuse and Mental Heal...
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Grambling State University and Northshore Technical Community College in Lacombe, Louisiana, are establishing a transferable pathway for community college students to become eligible for direct admission into Grambling. This pathway provides communit...
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Tammy Kernodle, professor of musicology, has been awarded the title of University Distinguished Professor by the board of trustees of Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, effective July 1. Dr. Kernodle is the author of the biography Soul on Soul: The Li...
