Category : Education

UCLA Teams Up With Morgan State University in a Student Exchange Program

The University of California, Los Angeles has entered into a partnership agreement with Morgan State University, a historically Black educational institution in Baltimore. The program will primarily be carried out through an exchange student opportun...

Nneka Dennie Receives National Book Prize for Outstanding Bibliographical Scholarship

Nneka Dennie, assistant professor of history at Washington and Lee University in Lexington, Virginia, has been named the fourteenth recipient of the Modern Language Association of America Prize for Bibliographical or Archival Scholarship for her book...

Voorhees University Launches the Charter Institute of Learning

Historically Black Voorhees University in Denmark, South Carolina, has announced the establishment of the Charter Institute of Learning, a pioneering charter school authorizer dedicated to supporting independent charter schools across South Carolina....

Marsha McGriff Recognized for Diversity Work by the Not Alone Foundation

Marsha McGriff, vice chancellor for equity and inclusion at the University of Masssachusetts Amherst, has been selected to receive the 2025 Diamond Award for Excellence in Diversity and Inclusion Leadership from the Atlanta-based Not Alone Foundation...

In Memoriam: Travis E. Overton, 1982-2024

Travis E. Overton, the vice president for executive initiatives, dean of students, and chief of staff at Coastal Carolina University in Conway, South Carolina, died unexpectedly on December 31, 2024. He was 42 years old. Overton was from Nashville. H...

University of Texas Acquires Collection of Papers From Black Performer Ethel Waters

The Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas at Austin has recently acquired a collection of materials on Ethel Waters, a pioneering twentieth-century Black singer and actress. Born in 1896 as a result of the rape of her teenage Black mother Lo...

School Segregation is Widening Racial Achievement Gaps in U.S. Public Schools

As a result of the Brown v Board of Education case over seventy years ago, the U.S. Supreme Court declared that racial segregation in public schools is unconstitutional. Despite this federal ruling, recent studies have found that segregation has cont...

Monique Guillory Named Ninth President of Dillard University

After seven months of service as interim president, Monique Guillory has been officially named the ninth president of Dillard University, a historically Black university in New Orleans, Louisiana. Dillard University enrolls about 1,100 undergraduate...

Report Examines Long-Term Outcomes of State-Level Affirmative Action Bans

Texas, California, Washington, and Florida were the first U.S. States to implement affirmative action bans. A new report from the National Bureau of Economic Research has examined the long-term effects of these bans on the educational attainment and...

Robert Q. Berry III to Lead School of Education at Indiana University

Robert Q. Berry III has been named dean of the School of Education at Indiana University Bloomington. He will begin his new position on April 1, 2025. Currently, Dr. Berry serves as the Paul L. Lindsey and Kathy J. Alexander Chair and dean of the Col...

The Racial Gap in the Homeless Population in the United States

A new report from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development finds that in 2024 there were more than 771,000 homeless people in the United States. Of these, about 320,000 people lived in emergency shelters or transitional housing. But more...

GerShun Avilez Appointed Dean of the College of Liberal Arts at the University of Minnesota

GerShun Avilez has been named the thirteenth dean of the College of Liberal Arts at the University of Minnesota. Dr. Avilez comes to his new role from the University of Maryland, where he served as associate dean for academic affairs in the College o...

Miles College Promotes Four Women Scholars to Senior-Level Faculty Positions

Miles College, a historically Black educational institution in Fairfield, Alabama, has promoted two Black women to full professor and two Black women to associate professor. Loretta Westry has been promoted to full professor of mathematics. Since joi...

Fisk University to Expand Foreign Language and International Business Education

Fisk University, a historically Black educational institutio in Nashville, Tennessee, has recently formed a new partnership with the Japan Foundation, a special legal entity dedicated to the international dissemination of Japanese culture. Through a...

College of Charleston’s Carlos Brown Receives Award for Outstanding Choral Conducting

Carlos Brown, assistant professor of music at the College of Charleston in South Carolina, has received the Dale Warland Award in Choral Conducting fromy the American Prize National Nonprofit Competitions in the Performing Arts. Every year, the organ...