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by Henry A. Stanford As a society, we celebrate the success of the most popular Black male student-athletes (BMSA). Their success deserves our attention. Similarly, the Black male student-athletes who are not successful need our full attention as wel...
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JacQuene Rainey has been named president of the Tennessee College of Applied Technology Jackson. Her presidency officially began on October 1. Tennessee College of Applied Technology (TCAT) is a community college system with several campuses across t...
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Two programs from the United States Department of Education have awarded over $2.7 million in funding to eight historically Black college and universities to increase diversity among America’s education and STEM workforce. The Augustus F. Hawki...
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The U.S. Census Bureau recently released its annual report on poverty in the United States. Nearly 37 million Americans were poor in 2023, 11.1 percent of the total population. In 2022 poverty rate rate was the lowest on record for Black Americans at...
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U.S. News and World Report recently issued its annual rankings of the best colleges and universities in the United States. In addition to its rankings of the best national universities and liberal arts colleges, the magazine ranks regional colleges a...
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Although Black Americans have seen record-breaking economic gains in recent years, a new report from the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies and the Center for Economic and Policy Research has outlined the persisting economic inequalities...
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In the United States, individuals with a graduate degree experience higher rates of employment and financial benefits. However, a new report from the Center on Education and the Workforce at Georgetown University has uncovered a racial gap in the rep...
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Obadiah M. Njue has been selected to serve as interim dean and director for the School of Agriculture, Fisheries, and Human Sciences at the University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff. In 2005, Dr. Njue joined the UAPB community as an extension horticulture...
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The College of Engineering at the University of Delaware has recently welcomed its first cohort of students from Delaware State University to participate in the Summer Engineering Research Experience, a program within the two institutions’ dual...
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Elisa A. Mitchell has joined the Swarthmore College faculty as an assistant professor of history. Prior to her new appointment she served as a visiting scholar at the University of Pennsylvania and as a Presidential Postdoctoral Fellow at Princeton U...
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Lincoln University of Missouri, a historically Black institution in Jefferson City, has recently announced the termination of its formal partnership with the Lincoln University of Missouri Alumni Association (LUAA). For more than two years, Lincoln U...
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Gilda A. Barabino, president of Olin College of Engineering in Needham, Massachusetts, has been awarded the 2024 Dickson Prize in Science from Carnegie Mellon University. The annual award recognizes an individual who has made outstanding progress in...
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South Carolina State University, a historically Black university in Orangeburg, has been placed on probation by the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) for various non-compliance violations. In the fall of 2022, administrators from South...
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Photo by Latemplanza, CC BY-SA 4.0 | Illustration by JBHE by Dr. Alan Turley While loved by their constituents and students, a question hangs over HBCUs in America and that is, “Are they taken seriously in the academic world?” Specifically, is the sc...
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Bradley Craig has joined the Boston University faculty as an assistant professor of history. Prior to his new appointment, he served as an assistant professor of history at Concordia University in Quebec and as a Bora Postdoctoral Fellow for Early Am...
