Category : Education

- 21 hours ago

American Students Studying Abroad in Sub-Saharan Africa

As we reported last week, according to the latest Open Doors report from the Institute on International Education, the number of international students studying at U.S. colleges and universities increased from 948,519 to 1,057,188, an increase of 11....

- 23 hours ago

U.S. Public Schools Remain Separate and Unequal

A new report from the U.S. Department of Education provides a wealth of data regarding the civil rights of students in K-12 education during the 2020-21 school year while the nation was dealing with the COVID-19 pandemic. Among the key findings are:...

- 3 days ago

A Trio of Black Scholars Who Have Been Appointed to New Positions

Darian Longmire is a new assistant professor in the department of art practice at the University of California, Berkeley. He has combined his print-based work, which explores physics, philosophy, and outer space with wider ideas about time and space....

- 3 days ago

Southern University to Reorganize Its Leadership Structure

For the past eight years, the president of the Southern University System and the chancellor of the flagship campus of the system in Baton Rouge has been the same person. The positions were combined due to severe financial constraints on the system&#...

- 4 days ago

In Memoriam: Willard R. Johnson, 1935-2023

Willard R. Johnson, a professor emeritus in the department of political science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology who focused his scholarly research on the political development of Africa, died in late October. He was 87 years old. Proefss...