- 8 months ago
Yale University has announced it will commit $10 million to expand its partnerships with historically Black colleges and universities. The announcement follows the university’s recent formal apology regarding its historical ties to slavery. The...
- 8 months ago
Gallup and the Lumina Foundation have recently released data from their 2023 survey on the experiences with and attitudes towards higher education among adults in the United States. The study surveyed a mix of currently enrolled students, adults who...
- 8 months ago
Nadine Barnett Cosby has been named dean of the School of Communications at Quinnipiac University in Connecticut. Her appointment makes her the university’s first-ever Black dean. She will assume her new position on June 15. Currently, Dr. Barn...
- 8 months ago
The National Urban League has published their “State of Black America” report for 2024. Six decades after the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the report identifies sectors where inequality persists, areas of progress, and the actions President...
- 8 months ago
James Griffin has been appointed president of medical staff at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center’s Parkland Memorial Hospital. In 1958, Dr. Griffin was born at Parkland Memorial Hospital while the delivery ward was still segre...
- 8 months ago
Morgan State University, a historically Black university in Baltimore, Maryland, has established the new Center for Urban and Coastal Climate Science Research. The center is funded by the state of Maryland, which has allocated $3 million of annual fu...
- 8 months ago
Tonya Mitchell-Spradlin has been named the Agnes Scollins Carey Memorial Early Career Professor in the Arts for the Pennsylvania State University College of Arts and Architecture. Her new role will fund her travel and research in Ghana for her projec...
- 8 months ago
The Growing Research Access for Nationally Transformative Equity and Diversity initiative of the National Science Foundation has awarded a $14 million grant to Spelman College in collaboration with Morehouse College, Morehouse School of Medicine, and...
- 8 months ago
Cecelia Valrie has received the Award for Interdisciplinary Collaboration from the National Institute of Health’s Helping to End Addiction Long-term (HEAL) Initiative. The initiative presented Dr. Valrie with the award in recognition of her pro...
- 8 months ago
Xavier University of Louisiana, a historically Black university in New Orleans, has unveiled a statue of alumnus and president emeritus Norman Francis in the the university’s Convocation Center. Francis began his career with Xavier University a...
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Robert L. Palmer, former vice president for student affairs at California State University Fullerton, passed away on January 29. He was 80 years old. Dr. Palmer spent over three decades in student affairs leadership positions. He joined the State Uni...
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Elizabeth Miller Rawlins, a longtime professor of education at Simmons College, passed away on February 3 at the age of 96. Dr. Rawlins began her career in education as an elementary school teacher at various public and private schools in Massachuset...
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Loretta Parham, chief executive officer and director of the Robert W. Woodruff Library of the Atlanta University Center, has announced her retirement at the end of this academic year after 19 years of service. The Atlanta University Center is the lar...
- 8 months ago
An ongoing project at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis is documenting the travels and public speeches of Frederick Douglass in a new interactive digital map. The mapping project stems from the Frederick Douglass Papers research unit...
- 8 months ago
A new study from researchers at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and the University of California, Santa Barbara has examined how White people respond when encountering racists posts on social media and how likely they are to challenge hat...
