Category : Education

Rutgers University Newark’s John Keene Wins National Book Award for Poetry

John Keene, a Distinguished Professor and chair of Africana studies at Rutgers University Newark, received the National Book Award for Poetry. He was honored for his 234-page collection entitled Punks: New & Selected Poems (Song Cave, 2021). The...

North Carolina A&T State University Fined for Enrolling Too Many Out-of-State Students

State universities in North Carolina are restricted in the number of students they can enroll who live outside the state. The general limit is to cap out-of-state enrollment at 18 percent. A year ago, the five historically Black state universities in...

Blacks Student Athletes Have Made Gains in Graduation Rates, But a Racial Gap Persists

Data submitted to the U.S. Department of Education and compiled by the National Collegiate Athletic Association shows graduation rates for all students who entered college between 2012 and 2015 and earned their degrees within six years at the same in...

Emmett Griswold Is the New President of Albany Technical College in Georgia

Emmett Griswold has been appointed president of Albany Technical College in Georgia. He has served as interim president since June. Albany Technical College enrolls just under 2,400 students, according to the most recent data from the U.S. Department...

Students From Sub-Saharan African Nations at U.S. Colleges and Universities, 2021-22

According to the Institute of International Education’s latest annual Open Doors report, which provides detailed information on foreign students who come to U.S. colleges and universities, the level of foreign students coming to the United States has...

Allyson Watson to Serve as Provost at Florida A&M University

Allyson L. Watson will assume the role of interim provost and vice president for academic affairs at Florida A&M University. She will be responsible for overseeing all matters pertaining to the University’s academic programs, activities, and supp...

Study Finds That After 40 Years the Stillbirth Rate for Blacks Remains Double the Rate for Whites

A new study led by Cande Ananth, chief of epidemiology and biostatistics in the department of obstetrics, gynecology and reproductive sciences at Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, finds that the decades-long effort to lower the stillbirth r...

Two Black Scholars Who Have Been Appointed Deans at Historically Black Universities

Paul B. Tchounwou was appointed the new dean of the School of Computer, Mathematical and Natural Sciences at Morgan State University in Baltimore, effective January 1, 2023. Dr. Tchounwou has been serving as a Presidential Distinguished Professor an...

New Titles or Roles at Universities for a Trio of Black Faculty Members

Juanita Johnson-Bailey was named the first recipient of the Centennial Professorship, an endowed professorship for a women’s studies faculty member at the University of Georgia in recognition of the centennial anniversary of co-education at the unive...

A New Center for Agroecology Established at Florida A&M University

It is estimated that the number of Black farmers in the United States has been reduced by about 98 percent over the past century. As a result, Historically Black Florida A&M University and the National Black Food & Justice Alliance (NBFJA) ha...

Three Black Women Who Have Been Named to Administrative Posts in Higher Education

Alexis Travis is an assistant provost and executive director of the Health and Wellbeing Division at Michigan State University. She had served as senior deputy director for public health administration with the Michigan Department of Health and Human...

Tuskegee University Forms Partnership With Auburn University to Address Healthcare Inequality

Historically Black Tuskegee University and Auburn University in Alabama announced an agreement to expand partnerships between the universities and collaborate on community outreach. The agreement calls for a commitment to blend resources and intellec...

Daphne Brooks of Yale University Honored by the American Musicology Society

Daphne Brooks, the William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of African American Studies, American Studies, Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, and Music at Yale University, was presented with the Music in American Culture Award from the American Musicologi...

Shaw University Files a Civil Rights Complaint With the U.S. Department of Justice

On October 5, 18 student scholars and two staff advisors from historically Black Shaw University were traveling from Raleigh, North Carolina, to attend the Center for Financial Advancement Conference in Atlanta, Georgia. Traveling by contract bus, So...

A Pair of African Americans Who Have Been Named Chief Diversity Officers

Randi Congleton was appointed chief diversity and inclusion officer at Baldwin Wallace University in Berea, Ohio. She has been serving as assistant vice chancellor for equity and inclusion at the University of Pittsburgh. Prior to that appointment, s...