Category : Education

Black In-State Applicants to the University of California System Are Down Slightly

The University of California System has announced application totals from California students for its nine undergraduate campuses for the class that will enter this coming fall. Systemwide 132,226 students from California applied to at least one of t...

Williams College in Massachusetts to Offer an African Studies Major

Williams College, the highly selective liberal arts college in Williamstown, Massachusetts, has announced that it will begin to offer an Africana studies major this coming fall. Africana studies will be the 37th major available to students at the col...

University of Iowa Agrees to $4.2 Million Settlement of Racial Bias Lawsuit Filed by Football Players

The University of Iowa has agreed to a $4,175,000 settlement of a lawsuit filed by a group of African Americans who played football at the university. The former players allege that they were demeaned with racial slurs, forced to abandon Black hairst...

Research Published in the Journal of the National Medical Association Is Largely Ignored

A recent study by researchers at Northeastern University in Boston and Emory University in Atlanta finds that opinion pieces published in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), routinely ignore research published in the Journal of th...

Sean Edmund Rogers Named Dean of the College of Business at the University of Rhode Island

Sean Edmund Rogers has been appointed dean of the College of Business at the University of Rhode Island, effective June 4. He will also hold the Alfred J. Verrecchia-Hasbro Inc. Leadership Chair in Business. “The College of Business is uniquely posit...

Many Black Americans Have a Very Dim View of Capitalism

A new study from the Pew Research Center finds that most Black adults say the U.S. economic system does not treat Black people fairly and they are increasingly dissatisfied with capitalism. In an August 2022 survey, 54 percent of Black adults said th...

Ruth Simmons to Take on New Role as Senior Adviser to the President of Harvard University

Ruth Simmons, who recently stepped down as president of Prairie View A&M University in Texas, will serve as a senior adviser to the president of Harvard University on engagement with historically Black colleges and universities. In this role,...

New Study May Help Reduce the Vast Racial Disparity in Prostate Cancer

Prostate cancer takes a greater toll on Black men than on men of other races. In the United States, one in six Black men will get prostate cancer in their lifetime, compared to one in eight men overall. Black men are also more than twice as likel...

Edward Thomas Appointed Dean of the College of Sciences and Mathematics at Auburn University

Edward Thomas Jr. was appointed dean of the College of Sciences and Mathematics at Auburn University in Alabama. He is the first dean of the college that also holds a doctorate from Auburn University. Dr. Thomas has been serving as interim dean since...

Harris-Stowe State University in St. Louis Names Its Inaugural Regents’ Distinguished Professor

Kelvin Adams was appointed Regents’ Distinguished Professor in the College of Education at Harris-Stowe State University in St. Louis, effective April 5. He will also serve as associate dean of the College of Education. A Regents’ Distinguish...

Howard University Teams Up With Columbia University Press for a New Book Series

Columbia University in New York City and historically Black Howard University in Washington, D.C. are jointly launching a new book series entitled Black Lives in the Diaspora: Past/Present/Future. Books in the new series will be published by Columbia...

Five African Americans Who Are Taking on New Administrative Roles in Higher Education

Rico Munn was named chief of staff to the president of Colorado State University, effective July 1. Since 2013, he has served as superintendent of the public school systems in Aurora, Colorado. Munn is the former executive director of the Colorado De...

Fayetteville State University to Create the Institute for Ethics and Leadership

The College of Humanities and Social Sciences at historically Black Fayetteville State University in North Carolina has announced the establishment of the Gillis-Jones Institute for Ethics and Leadership. William J. Gillis, of Fayetteville, North Car...

Princeton University’s Ludovic Tangpi Wins an American Mathematical Society Fellowship

Ludovic Tangpi, an assistant professor in the department of operations research and financial engineering at Princeton University in New Jersey, has been awarded the Claytor-Gilmer Fellowship from the American Mathematical Society. The year-long fell...

Harvard University Launches Major Effort to Help HBCUs Digitize Their Library Collections

The HBCU Library Alliance and Harvard Library announced a project to sustain and deepen capacity for the digitization, discovery, and preservation of African American history collections held in HBCU libraries and archives across the country. The fou...