- 4 months ago
Tashni-Ann Dubroy, chief operating officer of Howard University, has been named chair of the board of directors for the National Association of College and University Business Officers. Her appointment makes her the first Black woman to serve in the...
- 4 months ago
Buprenorphine is a prescription drug that can help treat symptoms associated with opioid withdrawal, as well as reduce the risk of a fatal overdose. However, a new study published in the journal Drug and Alcohol Dependence Reports has found pharmacie...
- 4 months ago
Alanka Brown has been appointed chief executive officer and dean of California College of Arizona State University. The college, formerly known as Columbia College of Hollywood, is a nonprofit affiliate of Arizona State University that prepares stude...
- 4 months ago
The board of trustees of Benedict College in Columbia, South Carolina, has recently approved a seven-year contract extension for President Roslyn Clark Artis, extending her presidency through June 30, 2031. In June 2017, Dr. Artis became the fourteen...
- 4 months ago
Charles Bell has been granted tenure and promoted to associate professor in the department of criminal justice sciences at Illinois State University. His research explores how out-of-school suspension, seclusion, restraint, and school safety measures...
- 4 months ago
The months between the beginning of the fall semester and Thanksgiving break, known as The Red Zone, are when sexual assault cases on college campuses are at their highest. To provide its students with the utmost support during this historically dang...
- 4 months ago
Beverly Henry Wheeler, interim director of admission at Hendrix College in Conway, Arkansas, has received the inaugural Beverly Henry Wheeler Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Association for College Admissions Counseling (NACAC). The new...
- 4 months ago
North Carolina Central University, a historically Black institution in Durham, has established a new bachelor’s degree program in formulations and packaging science. The new degree program will teach students about formulating quality products...
- 4 months ago
Alyse Jordan has been appointed executive director of library services and university librarian for the Cunningham Memorial Library at Indiana State University. She has decades of experience in library and research positions within higher education....
- 4 months ago
Daarel Burnette has been selected to serve as senior advisor and interim executive vice president. A retired Lieutenant Colonel from the United States Air Force, he has served as a financial advisor to several HBCUs, including Jackson State Universit...
- 4 months ago
Anita Thomas, president of North Central College in Naperville, Illinois, has stepped down from her role during a leave of absence. Her resignation was effective July 30, about one year after she took office on July 1, 2023. When she assumed her pres...
- 4 months ago
The COVID-19 pandemic worsened the already existing disparity in life expectancy between Black and White Americans. While Black Americans were significantly more likely to die from the virus, a new study from the University of Wisconsin-Madison has f...
- 4 months ago
This is the first admissions cycle completed after the Supreme Court banned the consideration of race in college and university admissions in June 2023. Most of the nation’s leading colleges and universities have been tight-lipped on the racial...
- 4 months ago
A new report from scholars at the University at Albany and the Thomas B. Fordham Institute has examined the most influential socioeconomic factors that lead to racial disparities in educational achievement among elementary students, as well as dispa...
- 4 months ago
Victor Brown has been named provost and vice president for academic affairs at Husson University in Bangor, Maine. He will assume his new position on September 9. Dr. Brown brings over two decades of experience in research and academic settings to hi...
