Category : Education

California Higher Education Gets A Budget Increase in Exchange for Agreement on Equity Goals

Governor Gavin Newsom of California recently unveiled his 2022-23 state budget proposal – the California Blueprint. The budget proposes total funding of $39.6 billion for the University of California System, the California State University System, an...

National Endowment for the Humanities Funds Research Projects at HBCUs

The National Endowment for the Humanities has announced $24.7 million in grants for 208 humanities projects across the country. These grants support humanities initiatives at college campuses, innovative digital resources, conservation, research, and...

The Teacher Workforce Is Becoming More Diverse But Is Not Keeping Up With Student Diversity

The racial and ethnic diversity of the nation’s 6.6 million teachers has increased since 1990 but has not caught up with the diversity of their students, according to a U.S. Census Bureau analysis of employment and population data. About one quarter...

Marlon Hall Appointed to Lead Fresno City College in California

The State Center Community College District in California has announced the appointment of Marlon Hall as interim president of Fresno City College.Fresno City College enrolls slightly more than 22,000 students, according to the most recent data avail...

Study Finds Black Students Are Underrepresented in Dual Enrollment Programs

Dual enrollment is an opportunity that allows high school students to take college courses for credit and has the potential to be a powerful lever for the success of high school and postsecondary students. Depending on the program, dual enrollment co...

Anthony Ponder Selected to Be the Next Provost at Sinclair Community College in Dayton, Ohio

Sinclair Community College in Dayton, Ohio, has selected Anthony Ponder as its next provost. Dr. Ponder will assume his new duties on February 1.Sinclair Community College enrolls nearly 19,000 students, according to the most recent statistics availa...

How School Choice Contibutes to Persistent Racial Segregation

A new study by Chantal Hailey, an assistant professor of sociology at the University of Texas at Austin, finds that White, Asian and Latino parents in New York City all express strong racial/ethnic preferences in where to send their kids to high scho...

Alena Allen Is the New Leader of the University of Arkansas School of Law

Alena Allen, associate dean for research and faculty development and professor of law, has been named interim dean of the School of Law at the University of Arkansas. Before joining the University of Arkansas last year, Professor Allen spent 10 years...

Four African American Scholars Who Have Been Appointed to New Positions

Royel M. Johnson is a new associate professor in the Rossier School of Education at the University of Southern California. He will also serve as the inaugural Director of Student Engagement for the Race and Equity Center at the university and as a fa...

Gene Wade to Lead the Propel Center, a Hub for HBCU Innovation and Learning

The Propel Center, a first-of-its-kind global innovation and learning hub for historically Black colleges and universities, was created this past summer to support HBCU students and faculty through a robust virtual platform, a physical campus in the...

Three African Americans Who Are Taking on New University Administrative Duties

Erick Harper is the new director of athletics at the University of Nevada Las Vegas. He has served as interim athletics director since August. Earlier, he served for nine years as senior associate athletics director for development at the university....

Spelman College Announces a New Initiative to Prepare Students for the Workplace

Historically Black Spelman College in Atlanta announced a new, innovative partnership with Braven, a national nonprofit helping promising college students on a path to economic mobility, as part of its Spelman Pathways: Creating Your Path to Life and...

Kimberlé Crenshaw Receives the Top Honor From the Association of American Law Schools

Kimberlé W. Crenshaw, the Promise Institute Professor of Human Rights at the School of Law at the University of California, Los Angeles and the Isidor and Seville Sulzbacher Professor of Law at Columbia University, was recently presented with the Tri...

Three HBCU Medical Schools Participation Effort to Boost Diversity in Artificial Intelligence Research

Historically Black Meharry Medical College, the Morehouse School of Medicine, and Howard University have joined the leadership core for a new two-year, $100 million award funded by the National Institutes of Health to participate in the Coordinating...

Penn State Dickinson Law School Is Establishing an Antiracist Development Institute

The Pennsylvania State University Dickinson Law School in Carlisle is creating an Antiracist Development Institute, a program offering organizations across the country systems design-based approaches to implementing antiracist practices, processes, a...