Category : Education

Miles College Signs Agreement to Purchase Birmingham-Southern College Campus

At the conclusion of the 2023-2024 academic year, Birmingham-Southern College in Alabama ceased its operations 168 years after its founding. Recently, representatives from Miles College, an Alabama-based HBCU, have signed a purchase agreement to acqu...

Albany State University Partners With Department of Labor to Provide Employment Support to Veterans and Military Families

Albany State University, a historically Black institution in Georgia, has recently signed a memorandum of understanding with the United States Department of Labor that will provide new career development and employment opportunities to veterans and m...

Edmund W. Gordon Honored for Lifetime Achievement in Pre-K-12 Education

Edmund W. Gordon, professor emeritus at both Columbia University and Yale University, has been named one of three recipients of the 2024 Harold W. McGraw, Jr. Prize in Education. Presented by the McGraw Family Foundation and the University of Pennsyl...

Alabama State University and Faulker University Establish Accelerated Law Degree Program

Alabama State University, a historically Black institution, has recently partnered with Faulkner University in Montgomery, Alabama, to provide a new opportunity for undergraduate students to pursue a law degree. The recent agreement between the two u...

Five Black Leaders Appointed to Administrative Roles at Colleges and Universities

Jennifer Wiggins has been named the inaugural director of the Office of Sexual Violence and Prevention and Education at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. Previously, she served as associate dean of students and the inaugural direct...

Leadership Support for the Mental Health of Black Male Student Athletes

by Henry A. Stanford As a society, we celebrate the success of the most popular Black male student-athletes (BMSA). Their success deserves our attention. Similarly, the Black male student-athletes who are not successful need our full attention as wel...

JacQuene Rainey Appointed President of the Tennessee College of Applied Technology Jackson

JacQuene Rainey has been named president of the Tennessee College of Applied Technology Jackson. Her presidency officially began on October 1. Tennessee College of Applied Technology (TCAT) is a community college system with several campuses across t...

Eight HBCUs Receive Federal Grants to Advance Diversity in Education and STEM Workforce

Two programs from the United States Department of Education have awarded over $2.7 million in funding to eight historically Black college and universities to increase diversity among America’s education and STEM workforce. The Augustus F. Hawki...

The Poverty Rate Among Black Americans Increased in 2023

The U.S. Census Bureau recently released its annual report on poverty in the United States. Nearly 37 million Americans were poor in 2023, 11.1 percent of the total population. In 2022 poverty rate rate was the lowest on record for Black Americans at...

U.S. News and World Report Names Spelman College the Top HBCU in the Nation

U.S. News and World Report recently issued its annual rankings of the best colleges and universities in the United States. In addition to its rankings of the best national universities and liberal arts colleges, the magazine ranks regional colleges a...

Despite Recent Gains, Racial Inequalities Persist in Household Income and Wealth

Although Black Americans have seen record-breaking economic gains in recent years, a new report from the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies and the Center for Economic and Policy Research has outlined the persisting economic inequalities...

Georgetown University Examines Racial Gap in Graduate Degree Attainment in the United States

In the United States, individuals with a graduate degree experience higher rates of employment and financial benefits. However, a new report from the Center on Education and the Workforce at Georgetown University has uncovered a racial gap in the rep...

Two Scholars Selected for Dean Appointments at HBCUs

Obadiah M. Njue has been selected to serve as interim dean and director for the School of Agriculture, Fisheries, and Human Sciences at the University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff. In 2005, Dr. Njue joined the UAPB community as an extension horticulture...

University of Delaware Brings HBCU Students to Campus for Summer Engineering Research Program

The College of Engineering at the University of Delaware has recently welcomed its first cohort of students from Delaware State University to participate in the Summer Engineering Research Experience, a program within the two institutions’ dual...

New Faculty Appointments for Seven Black Professors

Elisa A. Mitchell has joined the Swarthmore College faculty as an assistant professor of history. Prior to her new appointment she served as a visiting scholar at the University of Pennsylvania and as a Presidential Postdoctoral Fellow at Princeton U...