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According to the latest Open Doors report from the Institute on International Education, from 2020 to 2021, the number of students from foreign nations studying in the United States decreased significantly due to the COIVD-19 pandemic. Two years ago...
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Recently, the Rhodes Trust announced the 32 American winners of Rhodes Scholarships for graduate study at Oxford University in England. Rhodes Scholarships provide all expenses for two or three years of study at the University of Oxford in England an...
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A new survey from CollegeIQ has documented how the opinions of high school students on various local and state policies affect their decisions on where to apply to and attend college. Over 600 high school juniors and seniors from diverse geographic,...
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After taking a sudden leave of absence on October 18, Helen Gayle, president of Spelman College, has officially stepped down from her role. Dr. Gayle was appointed as the eleventh president of Spelman College, a historically Black women’s colle...
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Redlining — a longstanding banking practice that blocked people of color from getting mortgages — was officially abolished in 1968, but its legacy continues to harm communities of color. Prior studies have found that living in these historically redl...
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Ebonee Dendy has been named dean of students at the University of North Georgia’s Oconee Campus in Watkinsville, Georgia. Previously, Dendy served as the CARE case manger at Lander University in Greenwood, South Carolina. Her career has been de...
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Spelman College, a historically Black women’s college in Atlanta, has received a $2.5 million grant from the Office of the Director of National Intelligence to establish the Spelman Strategic and Security Studies Center. As an affiliate of the...
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John Thabiti Willis has been named the inaugural Kesho Scott Endowed Chair in African Diaspora Studies at Grinnell College in Iowa. He comes to his new role from Carleton College in Northfield, Minnesota, where he is an associate professor of history...
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Simmons College of Kentucky, one of two HBCUs in Kentucky, is the latest institution to join the University Press of Kentucky consortium. The consortium is a nonprofit scholarly publisher that focuses on the humanities and social sciences, as well as...
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Danielle Speller, assistant professor in the William H. Miller III Department of Physics and Astronomy in the Krieger School of Arts and Sciences at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, has received the Joseph A. Johnson Award for Excellence from t...
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Albany State University, a historically Black educational institution in Georgia, has launched a new master’s degree program in integrated biotechnology. The program will be available beginning in the Spring 2025 semester. The innovative STEM d...
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Norris “EJ” Edney III has been appointed associate dean of students for belonging and communities at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee. He comes to his new role from Talladega College in Alabama, where he served as vice presid...
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Nathan Howard Cook, longtime professor and administrator at historically Black Lincoln University in Jefferson City, Missouri, passed away on November 1. He was 85 years old. Dr. Cook began his career in education with teaching appointments at Oklaho...
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The Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law at Arizona State University has named Ellen Johnson Sirleaf as the tenth recipient of the O’Connor Justice Prize. Established in honor of the late United States Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day OR...
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In partnership with the National Science Foundation, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s Minority University Research and Education Project (MUREP) has recently awarded a total of $7.2 million in grant funding to six minority-se...
