Category : Education

Vanderbilt University Launches Digital Collection of Papers From Rev. James M. Lawson

The Jean and Alexander Heard Libraries at Vanderbilt University has recently digitized a collection of papers from Rev. James M. Lawson, a pioneer of the civil rights movement and advocate for nonviolent activism. Housed in the libraries’ Speci...

Study Finds Black Americans Experience the Highest Levels of Mortality From Air Pollution

Earlier this year, a Gallup poll found Black Americans are significantly more concerned about environmental pollution compared to other Americans. A new report led by scholars from Stanford University has found good cause for this concern. According...

Michael Bailey Will Be the First Black President of the American Veterinary Medical Association

Michael Bailey has been selected as the first-ever Black president-elect of the American Veterinary Medical Association. He will serve as the association’s president-elect for the 2024-2025 academic year, and will assume the presidency of the...

Diversity Among Ophthalmology Faculty Has Slowly Progressed Over the Past Fifty Years

A new study published in JAMA Ophthalmology has examined the change in demographics among United States academic ophthalmology faculty since the 1960s. The study found Black faculty members and other scholars from historically underrepresented backgr...

New Provost Appointments for Two African Americans in Higher Education

Regina Stovall Robinson has been selected to serve as interim provost and vice president for academic affairs at Jarvis Christian University in Texas. With over four decades of higher education experience, Dr. Robinson has spent the past 16 months as...

Census Bureau Report Finds Black Americans Represent Notable Share of Older Adults Living in Poverty

The United States Census Bureau has recently released a new report analyzing the demographic differences of older Americans who were living in poverty in 2021. According to the report, the share of elder Black Americans over the age of 65 was signifi...

Florida A&M University Appoints Two African American Scholars to Dean Positions

Shannon Smith has been appointed dean of the School of Nursing at Florida A&M University. Dr. Smith comes to her new role from Claflin University in South Carolina, where she has served as associate dean of nursing for the past eight years. In th...

Saint Augustine’s University Maintains Its Accreditation

In December 2023, the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges (SACSCOC) placed Saint Augustine’s University the historically Black institution in Raleigh, North Carolina, on probation. Saint Augustine’s Univers...

Five Black Scholars Selected for New Faculty Appointments

Ishion Hutchinson has been named the W.E.B. DuBois Professor in the Humanities at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York. He serves as a professor in the university’s department of English language and literature, centering his academic pursuit...

Fayetteville State University Launches Bachelor’s Degree in Supply Chain Management and Technology

Fayetteville State University, a historically Black university in North Carolina, has launched a new bachelor’s degree program in supply chain management and technology. Housed within the Broadwell College of Business and Economics, the bachelo...

Ruby Perry Honored for Lifetime Achievement by the American Veterinary Medical Association

Ruby Perry, dean of the College of Veterinary Medicine at historically Black Tuskegee University in Alabama, has received the American Veterinary Medical Association’s Lifetime Achievement Award. A full professor of veterinary radiology, Dr. Pe...

Tuskegee University Students Travel to UC Santa Barbara for Screenwriting Scholars Program

The University of California, Santa Barbara and Tuskegee University, a historically Black educational institution in Alabama, have launched a new summer scholars program aimed at uplifting Black representation in television screenwriting. Ten student...

Six African Americans Selected for Administrative Roles in Higher Education

L. Angela Webb has been appointed president of the International Association of Campus Law Enforcement Administrators. She currently serves as the associate vice president for campus safety at Rhodes College in Memphis, Tennessee. Earlier in her care...

HBCUs and the Olympics: From London 1948 To Paris 2024

One of the most prestigious honors in all of sports is to be a member of an Olympic team, and to compete once every four years representing your country against the best athletic competition in the world. Track and field is the sport, more than any o...

Four HBCUs Receive Funding to Revitalize On-Campus Buildings Designed by Black Architects

The African American Cultural Heritage Action Fund at the National Trust for Historic Preservation has recently awarded $3 million in grant funding to revitalize thirty historical sites that represent Black American culture. Four of these grants were...