Category : Education

Study Finds That Large Cities Foster Socioeconomic Segregation

A new study led by researchers at Stanford University finds that there is very little interaction between people in different socioeconomic groups in the nation’s largest cities. Big cities may be more socioeconomically segregated than small ci...

Amid Accreditation Crisis, a Change in Leadership at St. Augustine’s University in Raleigh, North Carolina

Two days after the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges voted to strip historically Black St. Augustine’s University of its accreditation, president Christine McPhail was fired. The Southern Association of College...

Scholars From Sub-Saharan African Nations Teaching at U.S. Colleges and Universities

According to the latest Open Doors report from the Institute on International Education, in the 2021-22 academic year, there were 90,891 scholars from foreign nations teaching at colleges and universities in the United States. More than a third of th...

Cynthia Nance Once Again Named Dean of the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville School of Law

Cynthia Nance, who has been serving as interim dean of the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville School of Law since last summer, will continue to lead the law school as permanent dean through June 2026. Professor Nance first joined the University o...

Cheyney University of Pennsylvania Placed on Accreditation Probation

The Middle States Commission on Higher Education has placed Cheyney University of Pennsylvania on accreditation probation. In a letter to Aaron Walton, president of Cheyney University, the commission warned that the “institution’s accreditation is...

Two Black Women Scholars Who Are Taking on New Assignments in Higher Education

Penelope Andrews was appointed the John Marshall Harlan II Professor of Law at New York Law School. Professor Andrews joined New York Law School in January 2019 and teaches constitutional law, torts, professional responsibility, and race and the law....

Tuskegee University Partners With Intel to Boost Black Presence in the Semiconductor Industry

Tuskegee University, the historically Black educational institution in Atlanta has announced a groundbreaking partnership with Intel Corporation, a global technology leader, to bolster education in semiconductor manufacturing technologies. The collab...

K.C. Mmeje Honored by the National Association of Student Personnel Administrators (NASPA) Foundation

K.C. Mmeje, vice president for student affairs at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, has been named a recipient of the 2024 Pillars of the Profession Award by the National Association of Student Personnel Administrators (NASPA) Foundation. The...

Morehouse School Of Medicine To Check The Mental Health Of Prison Inmates Prior To Their Release

Historically Black Morehouse School of Medicine in Atlanta is participting in a new initiative established by Fani Willis, district attorney of Fulton County, Georgia, to help prison inmates transition to life outside, so they do not end up back behi...

Morehouse School of Medicine to Assess Mental Health of Prison Inmates Prior to Their Release

A Trio of African Americans Taking on New Administrative Duties at Universities

Curtis Reynolds will join Baylor University in Waco, Texas, as vice president of business and finance and chief financial officer, effective March 1, 2024. He is the vice president for business affairs at the University of Florida. Earlier, Reynolds...

In Memoriam: Julius Wesley Becton Jr., 1926-2023

Julius W. Becton Jr., who had a 40-year career in the U.S. military and later served as president of historically Black Prairie View A&M University in Texas, died late last month at a retirement community in Fort Belvoir, Virginia. He was 97 year...

Recent Books of Interest to African American Scholars

The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education regularly publishes a list of new books that may be of interest to our readers. The books included are on a wide variety of subjects and present many different points of view. The opinions expressed in these...

North Carolina A&T State University Mounts Effort to Educate Heirs Property Owners

Cooperative Extension at historically Black North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University in partnership with North Carolina State University will lead a new effort to help property owners protect and preserve land in North Carolina...

Higher Education Grants or Gifts of Interest to African Americans

Here is this week’s news of grants or gifts to historically Black colleges and universities or for programs of particular interest to African Americans in higher education. Graham Hodges, the George Dorland Langdon Jr. Professor of History at Colgat...