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Keith Elder has been named the twenty-second president of Saint Xavier University in Chicago, Illinois. He will assume his presidency on March 1, 2024. Saint Xavier University enrolls roughly 2,400 undergraduate students and 600 graduate students. Bl...
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A study led by researchers at Northwestern University in Chicago have found disparities in the health care of children of color compared to that of White children. The study compiled data from other recent studies regarding children’s health ca...
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Nicholas Holmes has been named the next president of the University of California San Francisco Benioff Children’s Hospital and senior vice president of the University of California San Francisco Health Children’s Services. Dr. Holmes is...
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Maurice Cox has been named the 2024 laureate of the Henry Hope Reed Award at the University of Notre Dame, which entails $50,000 granted by the Dreihaus Trust of Chicago in the name of Richard H. Driehaus. The prize honors Cox’s contributions t...
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A case claiming the state of Florida discriminated against historically Black Florida A&M University has been dismissed by United States District Judge Robert Hinkle. The lawsuit was filed by six students from the university who allege the state...
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Ernest Pierre-Louis was promoted to associate director of the Black Male Initiative and financial operations at the City University of New York. He has been serving as an executive assistant to the vice president of student affairs. Pierre-Louis is a...
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Meharry Medical College, a historically Black educational institution in Nashville, Tennessee, has signed a memorandum of understanding with Kaohsiung Medical University in Taiwan. The agreement will allow both institutions the opportunity to coopera...
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Oscar Barton, professor and dean of the Clarence M. Mitchell Jr. School of Engineering at historically Black Morgan State University in Baltimore, has received the Edwin F. Church Medal from the American Society of Mechanical Engineers. The medal is...
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The presidential search committee for Grambling State University in Louisiana has narrowed down its search for the university’s next president to six semi-finalists. The committee plans to make their final selection on February 22. “I am please...
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Sharod L. Tomlinson was recently been named assistant vice president for equity and inclusion/student belonging at St. John’s University in Queens, New York. Dr. Tomlinson has been on the staff at the university since 2016. He previously was th...
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Orlando L. Taylor, distinguished senior advisor to the president of Fielding Graduate University in California, passed away on January 16, 2024 at the age of 87. Dr. Taylor was born in Chattanooga, Tennessee, on August 9, 1936. He earned his bachelor...
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Morgan State University in Baltimore, Maryland has received a large collection of belongings from the estate of the late Congressman Elijah E. Cummings. The donation includes a personal collection of Cummings’ belongings and work including vari...
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The University of Massachusetts Amherst has received a three-year $2.65 million grant from the Mellon Foundation to enhance the Slavery North Initiative. The initiative is led by provost professor of art history, Charamaine A. Nelson, who serves as t...
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A new report from the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center finds that undergraduate enrollment grew by 176,000 students. or 1.2 percent, in fall 2023. This was the first increase since the pandemic. Among the three largest sectors, growth w...
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Rhea Ballard-Thrower of the University of Illinois Chicago has been selected as the 2024 vice president and president-elect of the Association of Research Libraries. She will step into the role of president effective January 1st, 2025. The Associatio...
