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Lincoln University of Missouri, a historically Black institution in Jefferson City, has recently announced the termination of its formal partnership with the Lincoln University of Missouri Alumni Association (LUAA). For more than two years, Lincoln U...
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Gilda A. Barabino, president of Olin College of Engineering in Needham, Massachusetts, has been awarded the 2024 Dickson Prize in Science from Carnegie Mellon University. The annual award recognizes an individual who has made outstanding progress in...
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South Carolina State University, a historically Black university in Orangeburg, has been placed on probation by the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) for various non-compliance violations. In the fall of 2022, administrators from South...
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Photo by Latemplanza, CC BY-SA 4.0 | Illustration by JBHE by Dr. Alan Turley While loved by their constituents and students, a question hangs over HBCUs in America and that is, “Are they taken seriously in the academic world?” Specifically, is the sc...
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Bradley Craig has joined the Boston University faculty as an assistant professor of history. Prior to his new appointment, he served as an assistant professor of history at Concordia University in Quebec and as a Bora Postdoctoral Fellow for Early Am...
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The National Science Foundation has recently awarded Enabling Partnerships to Increase Innovation Capacity (EPIIC) grants to 48 higher education institutions across the United States. The grant program aims to help colleges and universities expand th...
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The University of California, Berkeley has recently established The Edley Center on Law & Democracy, named for the late Christopher Edley, Jr., dean of Berkeley Law from 2004 to 2013. Professor Edley passed away on May 10 of this year at the age...
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The U.S. Census Bureau has released its annual report on income in the United States. According to data in the report, the median income of Black households in the United States in 2023 was $56,490. The median income figure shows the point where half...
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Every year, Forbes magazine ranks the top 500 higher education institutions in America based on each school’s educational, financial, and career outcomes for its students. This year, six historically Black colleges and universities made the lis...
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According to a new study published in the journal Research in Social Stratification and Mobility, exposure to a large local police force during adolescence and young adulthood is associated with lower economic mobility for Black men in America. In th...
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Jonathan Holloway, the first Black president of Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey, has announced his intent to step down at the conclusion of this academic year and return to a full-time faculty position. He plans to take a sabbatical f...
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Since 2000, the overall population of California’s exposure to PM2.5 pollution has dropped by a staggering 65 percent, thanks to policies such as the federal Clean Air Act. However, despite these impressive improvements in California’s ai...
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Seth Ablordeppey has been selected to serve as interim dean of the College of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences and Institute of Public Health at Florida A&M University. Former dean Johnnie Early II has stepped down from his role and returned...
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Alabama A&M University, a historically Black institution, has recently signed a memorandum of understanding with Université Peleforo Gon Coulibaly (UPGC) in Côte d’Ivoire in West Africa. Over the next five years, Alabama A&M and UPGC wi...
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Jude Sandy has been named an assistant professor of theater at Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania. He has taught at Swarthmore for the past year as a visiting assistant professor. Earlier in his career, he was a visiting assistant professor of theate...
