Category : Education

Three Black Women Appointed to Dean Positions at Universities

Henrika McCoy has been appointed as a professor of social work and the Morris Endowed Dean of the Graduate School of Social Work at the University of Denver. She comes to her new role from the University of Texas at Austin, where she served as an ass...

Howard University to Build New Hospital Facility

Howard University, a historically Black educational institution in Washington, D.C., has announced plans to build a new hospital building directly in front of the existing Howard University Hospital at a cost of $650 million. The new 200-bed facility...

New Faculty Appointments for Four Black Scholars

Harold Dean Trulear has been named director of the Black Congregations Resource Center at the Howard University School of Divinity in Washington, D.C. He has been an associate professor of applied theology at the School of Divinity for nearly two dec...

Florida A&M University to Establish New Center for African and African American Studies

Florida A&M University, a historically Black educational institution in Tallahassee, has recently received $550,000 in donations to establish a new Center for African and African American Studies. Two philanthropic organizations, the Henry Luce F...

Stephanie Asabi Howard Recognized for Lifetime Achievement in Performing Arts

Stephanie Asabi Howard, associate professor and chair of the department of theatre and dance at North Carolina Central University, recently received the inaugural Mabel Robinson Lifetime Achievement Award from the 2024 Artists Celebrating Excellence...

Spelman College Establishes Research and Teaching Partnerships with Three Nigerian Universities

Spelman College, a historically Black women’s college in Atlanta, Georgia, has recently signed a new partnership agreement with three universities in Lagos, Nigeria: the University of Lagos, Lagos State University, and Pan-Atlantic University....

Seven African Americans Taking on New Administrative Roles in Higher Education

Andreia Wardlaw has been appointed as the director of the Walter and Linda Evans Center for African American Studies in the Museum of Art at the Savannah College of Art and Design in Georgia. She previously held teaching roles with the New York Histo...

The Vital Importance of Black Greek Letter Organizations for Young Black Men 

by Hamilton J.B. Raymond In the forever changing landscape of higher education and beyond, young Black men often face unique challenges that can hinder their academic, social, and professional development. Amid these many obstacles, Black Greek lette...

Vanderbilt University Launches Digital Collection of Papers From Rev. James M. Lawson

The Jean and Alexander Heard Libraries at Vanderbilt University has recently digitized a collection of papers from Rev. James M. Lawson, a pioneer of the civil rights movement and advocate for nonviolent activism. Housed in the libraries’ Speci...

Study Finds Black Americans Experience the Highest Levels of Mortality From Air Pollution

Earlier this year, a Gallup poll found Black Americans are significantly more concerned about environmental pollution compared to other Americans. A new report led by scholars from Stanford University has found good cause for this concern. According...

Michael Bailey Will Be the First Black President of the American Veterinary Medical Association

Michael Bailey has been selected as the first-ever Black president-elect of the American Veterinary Medical Association. He will serve as the association’s president-elect for the 2024-2025 academic year, and will assume the presidency of the...

Diversity Among Ophthalmology Faculty Has Slowly Progressed Over the Past Fifty Years

A new study published in JAMA Ophthalmology has examined the change in demographics among United States academic ophthalmology faculty since the 1960s. The study found Black faculty members and other scholars from historically underrepresented backgr...

New Provost Appointments for Two African Americans in Higher Education

Regina Stovall Robinson has been selected to serve as interim provost and vice president for academic affairs at Jarvis Christian University in Texas. With over four decades of higher education experience, Dr. Robinson has spent the past 16 months as...

Census Bureau Report Finds Black Americans Represent Notable Share of Older Adults Living in Poverty

The United States Census Bureau has recently released a new report analyzing the demographic differences of older Americans who were living in poverty in 2021. According to the report, the share of elder Black Americans over the age of 65 was signifi...

Florida A&M University Appoints Two African American Scholars to Dean Positions

Shannon Smith has been appointed dean of the School of Nursing at Florida A&M University. Dr. Smith comes to her new role from Claflin University in South Carolina, where she has served as associate dean of nursing for the past eight years. In th...