- 6 months ago
Sherwin E. James has been named director of the Student Success Advising Center at Georgia Gwinnett College in Lawrenceville. Prior to his new appointment, he spent five years as director of the Center for Advising and Retention at Clayton State Univ...
- 6 months ago
James Morris Lawson Jr., a pivotal figure in the history of the civil rights movement and nonviolence education, passed away on June 9. He was 95 years old. Lawson enrolled at the Vanderbilt Divinity School in 1958. While he was a student, he helped...
- 6 months ago
Monica M. Smith has been appointed vice president for inclusion and belonging at the University of Richmond. Currently, she serves as the associate vice president for equity, diversity, inclusion, and belonging for the University of Wisconsin System....
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The United Census Bureau has released a new report on the demographic profile of households and living arrangements in the United States over the past 50 years. The report found that the share of households made up of married-couple families has sign...
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Karrie Dixon has been appointed as the thirteenth chancellor of historically Black North Carolina Central University in Durham. She will assume her new role on July 1. North Carolina Central University enrolls about 5,600 undergraduate and 2,000 grad...
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The United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has recently released a study investigating the rate of drowning deaths in the United States. Since 2019, deaths from drowning have increased by 500 deaths in each year from 2020-2022...
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Said Sewell has been named the eleventh president of Morris College. He will assume his presidency on July 1. Morris College is a historically Black college in Sumter, South Carolina. The college enrolls just under 400 undergraduate students, 93 perc...
- 6 months ago
A new study from researchers at Rutgers University in New Jersey has discovered a link between exposure to gun violence and increased rates of disability among Black Americans. Using a nationally representative sample, the authors surveyed 3,015 Blac...
- 6 months ago
Aashir Nasim has been appointed provost and senior vice president for academic affairs at Prairie View A&M University, a historically Black university in Texas. Dr. Nasim has spent the past 15 years with Virginia Commonwealth University, holding...
- 6 months ago
Sabrina Kizzie, a doctoral lecturer in the dsepartment of communications studies at Baruch College in New York City, was recently inducted into the American Marketing Association’s (AMA) Marketing Hall of Fame and was honored with the AMA NYC C...
- 6 months ago
The mayor of San Francisco, London N. Breed, has announced her plans to bring a historically Black college or university satellite campus to the Californian city. The proposal, Black 2 San Francisco, is part of Mayor Breed’s 30 by 30 initiative...
- 6 months ago
Elizabeth Hordge-Freeman has been named an associate professor in the Center of African and African American Studies and the department of sociology at Rice University in Houston, Texas. She comes to her new position from the University of South Flor...
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The North Carolina Office of the State Auditor has recently completed an investigation into historically Black Fayetteville State University and substantiated allegations regarding the making of unallowable purchases by former employees via universit...
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Samuel Dagogo-Jack, chief of the division of endocrinology, metabolism, and diabetes at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center in Memphis, has received the 2024 Outstanding Achievement in Clinical Diabetes Research Award from the American...
- 6 months ago
Historically Black Tuskegee University in Alabama is the latest institution to join the Center for Research on Programmable Plant Systems (CROPPS), a National Science Foundation-funded research initiative led by Cornell University. The other partneri...
