Category : Education

Five Black Leaders Appointed to Administrative Positions in Higher Education

Ashton Cleveland has been named chief operating officer for historically Black Lincoln University of Missouri. He comes to his new position from historically Black Shaw University in North Carolina, where he served as vice president for student affai...

Protests of a Different Color: HBCUs and the Student Protest Movements Against the War in the Middle East

by Al-Tony Gilmore The 2023-24 college academic year was one which witnessed the most widespread social and political student protest movements of the twenty-first century, and one – following the summer hiatus – which may extend into the...

African Literature and Culture Society Honors Duriel Harris for Outstanding Achievement in Poetry

Duriel Harris, professor of poetry and poetics at Illinois State University, has received the Stephen E. Henderson Award for Outstanding Achievement in Poetry from the African Literature and Culture Society. Dr. Harris first joined the faculty at Ill...

In Memoriam: Nathan Hare, 1933-2024

Nathan Hare, founder of the first Black studies program in the United States, passed away on June 10. He was 91 years old. Dr. Hare was very involved in the civil rights movement throughout the 1960s and was a strong advocate for equal educational op...

Census Bureau Finds White Households Were Ten Times Wealthier Than Black Households in 2021

According to the United States Census Bureau’s Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP), households with a White householder where 10 times more wealthy than households with a Black householder in 2021. The survey authors define a hous...

Bonita Brown Named Fourteenth Chancellor of Winston-Salem State University

Bonita J. Brown has been named the fourteenth chancellor of Winston-Salem State University, a historically Black university in North Carolina. She will assume her new role on July 1. Winston-Salem State University enrolls about 4,500 undergraduate st...

Study Debunks Popular Theory that Incarceration Leads to Safer Communities for Black Americans

Historically, incarceration has been thought to reduce community violence as it takes individuals convicted of crimes off the street. However, a new Boston University study has challenged this assumption and found mass incarceration among Black commu...

Jonathan Jefferson Appointed President of Roxbury Community College in Boston

Jonathan K. Jefferson has been appointed as the eighteenth president of Roxbury Community College in Boston, Massachusetts. He will begin his new position on July 1. Roxbury Community College enrolls about 1,200 students. Black students represent nea...

Study Reveals Link Between Community Stress and Mental Health Outcomes for Black Women

A recent study led by August Jenkins, a postdoctoral associate at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, has examined how stress from living in a low-quality neighborhood affects the mental health of Black Americans, as well as how these experi...

John Nunes Selected to Lead California Lutheran University

John Nunes has been selected to serve a two-year term as interim president of California Lutheran University in Thousand Oaks. He began his interim presidency on June 1. California Lutheran College enrolls roughly 2,500 undergraduate students and 1,1...

Alcorn State University Announces Unique STEM-Focused MBA Degree Program

Historically Black Alcorn State University in Mississippi has established a new STEM MBA program, the first of its kind in the state. The graduate degree was established in part through a $152,000 federal grant. Offered through the School of Business...

Five Black Women Who Have Been Appointed to Dean Positions at Universities Across the United States

Maria del Guadalupe Davidson has been appointed dean of the College of Humanities and Fine Arts at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. She has been with West Virginia University for the past five years, currently serving as associate dean for fa...

PNC Partners With Howard University to Empower Black Entrepreneurship

PNC, a prominent American banking and financial services company, has partnered with Howard University to establish the Howard University and PNC National Center for Entrepreneurship. The collaborative center, housed on the Howard University campus,...

Saida Grundy Wins Race, Gender, and Class Book Award From the American Sociology Association

Saida Grundy, associate professor of sociology and African American and Black diaspora studies at Boston University, has been awarded the 2024 Race, Gender, and Class Book Award from the American Sociological Association for her book, Respectable: Po...

Clark Atlanta University Relaunches Its Undergraduate Major in Music Education

After a nearly two decades-long hiatus, historically Black Clark Atlanta University has announced the relaunch of its undergraduate major in music education. In 2005, the university discontinued its music education degree program. Housed in the depar...