Category : Education

Five Black Leaders Appointed to Administrative Positions

Tania D. Mitchell has been named the inaugural associate provost for community engagement at the University of Maryland. Dr. Mitchell currently serves as the Rodney Wallace Professor for the Advancement of Teaching and Learning and chair of the depar...

North Carolina A&T University Establishes Research Partnership with Collins Aerospace

The College of Engineering at North Carolina A&T State University has partnered with Collins Aerospace to provide collaborative aerospace technology research opportunIties between the two institutions. “There are direct relations to the research...

Andre Johnson Honored for Distinguished Service in Africana Communication

Andre E. Johnson, the Benjamin W. Rawlings Jr. professor of rhetoric and media studies in the department of communication and film at the University of Memphis in Tennessee, has received the 2023 Orlando L. Taylor Distinguished Scholarship Award in A...

Jackson State University Chosen to Participate in Battery Workforce Challenge Program

Jackson State University in Mississippi has been chosen to participate in the Battery Workforce Challenge Program, established in October 2023 by the United States Department of Energy in partnership with Stellantis, a global automotive manufacturer....

Black Film Project and Film Studies Fellowships Established at Harvard University

The department of art, film, and visual studies and the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research at Harvard University have partnered to create a new initiative, the Black Film Project, to support narrative and documentary films cent...

Yale Library Acquires Digital Collection of Langston Hughes Papers

In December 2023, the Yale University Library added 5800 new images to their digital library collections. Included in this upload was a collection of digitized personal correspondence and papers from Langston Hughes, a Black writer and poet from the...

Academic Fields Where Blacks Earned Few or No Doctoral Degrees in 2022

The National Science Foundation recently released its annual data on doctoral degree recipients in the United States. Data for the annual Survey of Earned Doctorates shows that 2,647 African Americans earned doctorates from U.S. universities in 2022....

Historically Black Central State University Appoints Morakinyo Kuti as President

Morakinyo A.O. Kuti has been selected as the next president of Central State University, a historically Black university in Wilberforce, Ohio. Central State University enrolls just over 5,400 undergraduate students, as well as roughly 30 graduate stu...

University of Alabama Creates Database Relating to History of Slavery on Campus

A group of researchers at the University of Alabama have established a new website compiling historical records of enslaved people who labored on the university’s campus before the start of the Civil War. The University of Alabama project is pa...

Manya Whitaker Will Be the New Leader of Colorado College

Manya Whitaker, executive vice president and chief of staff at Colorado College, has been selected to serve as the college’s interim president for the next two years. Dr. Whitaker’s selection follows the resignation of former president, L...

United Negro College Fund Outlines Best Practices for Teacher Education at HBCUs

The United Negro College Fund has released a new report outlining best practices for educating future teachers attending historically Black colleges and universities. The report was created in partnership with Huston-Tillotson University in Texas, Al...

Jackie Alexander is the First Black Woman President of the College Media Association

Jackie Alexander, director of student media at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, has been named president of the College Media Association. Her appointment makes her the association’s first president of color. Alexander has been a member...

Study Finds Young Black Women Are Six Times More Likely to Be Murdered Than White Women

A new study, led by Bernadine Waller, a researcher fellow at Columbia University, has found that on average, Black women under age 45 in the United States are six times more likely to be murdered than White women of the same age group. To investigate...

Two African American Women Appointed to Deanships

Aherial Polite has been named dean of the School of Arts and Sciences at Augusta Technical College in Georgia. She previously served as chair of the chemistry, physics, and nuclear technology department at Aiken Technical College in South Carolina. &...