Category : Education

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....

Marcus L. Thompson Named the Thirteenth President of Jackson State University

The board of trustees of State Institutions of Higher Learning in Mississippi has selected Marcus L. Thompson as the thirteenth president of Jackson State University. Dr. Thompson has more than 20 years of leadership experience in early childhood, K-...

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:...

Deborah Dyett Desir Is the New President of the American College of Rheumatology

Deborah Dyett Desir, the medical director of the Yale rheumatology clinic in Hamden, Connecticut, and a faculty member at Yale Medical School, recently became president of the American College of Rheumatology. She is the first African American presid...

Hospitals That Serve Mostly Black Patients Are Less Likely to Have Core Resources to Battle Cancer

Among the nation’s hospitals, those that serve high numbers of Black and Hispanic patients are far less likely to have advanced medical equipment and critical services that have been shown to boost the quality and effectiveness of cancer care, accord...

Virginia State University to Be the First HBCU to Host a 2024 Presidential Debate

Virginia State University has announced that it has been chosen by the Commission on Presidential Debates to host a 2024 Presidential Debate. Virginia State University is the first historically Black college or university ever selected to host a gene...

Clayborne Carson Wins the 2023 Freedom Award From the National Civil Rights Museum

Clayborne Carson, the Martin Luther King, Jr., Centennial Professor and professor of history, emeritus, at Stanford’s School of Humanities and Sciences at Stanford University, has been named a recipient of the 2023 Freedom Award presented by the Nat...

Lincoln University President Brenda Allen Gets Seven-Year Contract Extension

The board of trustees of Lincoln University in Pennsylvania has extended the contract of President Brenda Allen for seven years. President Allen will now lead the university until 2030. Board chair Gerald W. Bruce stated: “I have seen President Allen...

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....

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&#...

University of Mississippi’s Viola Acoff Honored for Her Policymaking Role in Materials Engineering

Viola L. Acoff, dean of the University of Mississippi School of Engineering, has been presented with a Distinguished Lectureship in Materials and Society Award from The Minerals, Metals and Materials Society and ASM International, formerly known as t...

Meharry Medical College in Nashville Creates the School of Global Health

Meharry Medical College in Nashville has announced the establishment of The School of Global Health. The new school aims to foster collaboration among emerging health leaders, allowing them to strategize beyond conventional boundaries to protect vuln...

Three African Americans in New Administrative Roles in Higher Education

Monique D’Almeida was appointed the Deknatel Curatorial Fellow in Japanese Works on Paper at the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center on the campus of Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, New York. She most recently served as the Margaret R. Mainwaring Curatori...

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...

Bipartisan Group of U.S. Senators Introduce the HBCU Africa Partnerships Act

A bipartisan group of U.S. senators recently introduced the HBCU Africa Partnerships Act to encourage the growth of research partnerships between historically Black colleges and universities and federal agencies with the aim to advance development in...